Recently, I discovered that Akismet banned one of my sites.
I’ve used blog commenting as a means to build back links for years. Through all the updates to Google’s ranking algorithms and quality filters, dropping a URL in a blog comment has always produced great results; it’s the one strategy that I trust and depend on.
And let me be clear — when I comment, I always produce a well-written, on-topic blurb that is often like a mini-article in and of itself. I put in the time and effort to give something of value back to the high quality blogs that I comment on. These are the kinds of blogs that have high PR value and offer do follow links.
Well, blog commenting worked great until Akismet labelled me a comment spammer!
