Are links from blog posts worth the effort?

[watercrazed]

I think your first question has been answered "no follow= no PR effect"

I do not think more content is the answer, it rarely generates external links unless you are in a writer, tech or design field, like the billion bloggers blogging about blogging.

As to what next, one there is a large do follow movement in the blog community, check their comments using one of the browser extension that highlight no follow links. If do follow use them.

Many blogger are open to guest posts with bio and links; might be 2 or 3 times the work of a good comment but I think it can be worth it.

[marcel]

PR can't count on PR. Do it for the targeted traffic and SEO results.

Jut my opinion...

Hmm... I meant to say "You can't count on Google PR"
Google PR it's worth bothering about it.

[Webnauts]

I would do it more like this.

• Create a new orphaned page. Ill make it appear to be an average page - with metas, structured textual content (but with no mention of the blog anchor text) and outward bound links.
• Start dropping comment links with a made up name like "professor van billy winkle" - no results with speech marks.
• Start adding links to forums using that anchor text and see what happens!

Create a new orphaned page? Good way to go into supplementals hell.

Start adding links in forums? I hope the forums will be relevant to your customer's web site theme.

Last tip: Don't be unethical. It is not fair towards your customers.

[MJW]

Create a new orphaned page? Good way to go into supplementals hell.

Do you think that if the links on the orphaned page have nofollow tags, a search engine still sees it as a doorway page and cast it into "supplementals hell"?

Just wondering.

[marcel]

Do you think that if the links on the orphaned page have nofollow tags, a search engine still sees it as a doorway page and cast it into "supplementals hell"?

Just wondering.

The only way to really know is to test it. Opinions hardly matter now. Even SEO facts have to be retested every 6 months. That's why I say, everything other than Adwords is Black Hat. Again, my opinion.

Whatever you do, do it in moderation ( if it's very Black Hat) and make sure it provides a return on your investment.

[MJW]

The only way to really know is to test it. Opinions hardly matter now. Even SEO facts have to be retested every 6 months. That's why I say, everything other than Adwords is Black Hat. Again, my opinion.

With search engine algorithms being secret, opinions from people working in SEO are all the more valuable.
Anything except Adwords is black hat? There are surely more white hat ways to practice SEO than Adwords alone?

I'll do it tonight and let everyone know of developments. Any input welcome!?

Anyway, how is the test coming along Inertia?

[inertia]

Create a new orphaned page? Good way to go into supplementals hell.

Start adding links in forums? I hope the forums will be relevant to your customer's web site theme.

Last tip: Don't be unethical. It is not fair towards your customers.

I think you've confused by what I'm going to do. I'm going to test the capacity of anchor text in no follow links by creating an orphaned page on my own site and linking to it using the obscure anchor text from nofollow comments. Then ill see if it ranks for that phrase thus proving that the anchor text has been noted by G.
The anchor text I'm going to use is so unique a supplemental result will return anyway

Just to clear up... i never post irrelevant forum/article posts for my clients. Ive seen the effects!

[Webnauts]

I think you've confused by what I'm going to do. I'm going to test the capacity of anchor text in no follow links by creating an orphaned page on my own site and linking to it using the obscure anchor text from nofollow comments. Then ill see if it ranks for that phrase thus proving that the anchor text has been noted by G.
The anchor text I'm going to use is so unique a supplemental result will return anyway

Oh, I am sorry buddy. Then I really misunderstood what you are planning.

[inertia]

Just to update.
Ive added an orphaned page to my site and posted 5 posts on various scientific blogs all using the link text "professor van billy winkle". Ill check at the end of the day and let you know what i see!!

This page shows up so far!

[inertia]

2 hours later and one of the blog links has been picked up. This suggests that the orphaned page will appear as well, if Google had followed the link and cached the link text? Its not looking good then!