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I am the founder of Golem Technologies, a website security scanning company (https://www.golemtechnologies.com) and a business blogger on bootstrapping Independence (http://www.bootstrappingindepndence.com). I am especially focused on the needs of small and medium sized business. I have a passion for internet security and related technologies.

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Improve your Blog Page Rank Using CommentLuv - December 28, 2010

You can get your own content published on this site as long as you have CommentLuv installed on your site.

Doing so means you get exposure to thousands and thousands of other CommentLuv users and your posts get sent out to the massive subscriber list.

Google loves this site and indexes it multiple times per day and posts always get lots of comments so you can be sure of some excellent exposure.

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I am always looking for more ways to build blog traffic and gain back links. When I started using CommentLuv, I found a better way to gain back links when commenting. Bloggers who enable plugins such as CommentLuv are more likely to allow DoFollow in their link comments (since they want to reward their readers), and CommentLuv adds a second backlink to your comments, giving a nice double dip effect to your comment backlinks (one link from your name, and another from your recent post)! This has improved my link building tactics when commenting on other blogs in a very promising way.

Once I saw the benefits of commenting on other CommentLuv enabled blogs, I still had to find good blogs in my niche to comment on. Only a couple of the regular blogs I comment on had commentLuv enabled, so I set out to find some new sites to read and comment on regularly. I started by writing a custom search in google to find blogs which allow comments and have commentLuv installed using the following search query:

link:comluv.com +"Powered By WordPress" +"Post Comment" + <keyword>

Let’s break this down. The first section searches for sites which link to comluv.com. This is a good indicator of blogs with the plugin installed. Secondly, I searched for the phrase “Powered by WordPress”, which limits it to wordpress blogs,

and “Post Comment”, which ensures the page being found is a comment page. This won’t remove certain pages which write entire posts about CommentLuv, but will have a pretty high accuracy. Finally, I included the keyword or key words I wanted to find in my niche.

Which blogs are good to comment on?

I usually like to focus my efforts where I will get the most in return, so I installed the SEOMoz Firefox plug-in. In the settings, if you turn on SERP overlay when you search the above query in Google, the plugin will add an information bar along the bottom of each result showing how high the page rank is for each result. The Page Authority bar is a better indicator in this case than the domain authority – this gives you an idea of how much link juice will come through to your links, but domain authority is important too.

Each search result returned multiple good blogs to check out based on relevance and page rank. I filtered the list a bit more by ensuring the blogs also allowed follow in their comment section. To do this, I simply checked to see what other comments had been left. Blogs with spammy comments or rel=nofollow in the link tags were removed from my list. (I use FireBug to check if links are nofollow). If a blog was particularly good, I of course added it to my list regardless!