Using Your URL in Comments and Forums
Having your URL written in relevant websites/blogs comment sections or in forums as user signatures can be an effective way to drive some traffic into your website. That is actually true and I suggest you to do it where possible. What I want to write about in this post is a thin line and if you are not interested in ethics in SEO, you won’t be enjoying to read this post. You ‘ve been warned.
Couple of years ago while working in a project, I was checking and moderating when necessary a website’s comments section which was only one of my responsibilities. It was a pretty high trafficed website and there were dozens of comments coming in daily, not bot based but user comments. That was the first time when I felt so sick about people leaving URL addresses with their so-called comments (I will explain the “so-called” part) just for SEO purposes. I was so stucked moderating comments in that project and I realized I was turned into a master of comment filterer, eventually. I was like “Yea yea, just another comment to drop an URL on the page” just after reading the beginning words of the comment.
Don’t want to go down there too deeply, where I am getting at is; This is a way of trying to fool a person for your needs. Sounds low, doesn’t it? Writing cliche sentences with some quotes from the original post or trying to seem thankful with affectational words is nothing but a disrespect.
In this website I am trying to add information and ways for people who are trying to built a worthy content for their websites, but the main aim here is to do it in a good and ethical way. As for the URL using in your comments and forum signatures/posts; do it in a good way and really mean it while doing. Try to add a value to the topic you are participating. Right, it requires more effort than just dropping a standard comment.
Bottom line is; If you leave a comment under a post with useful information or sincerity in it; that URL you use with your comment will be more attractive to the readers.
Think about it.
