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Depends on what you mean. There are two ways to use them I think:
1) Start your own:
Answer – just in the process of starting one
2) Spam other peoples blogs:
Answer – I plead the fifth!
Blog spamming is like making cold calls on prom night. It might work, but it is a sign of desperation.
LOL Classiscs!
It may be a sign of desperation, but check out the backlinks for some high ranking sites and you will see that more often than not the “bad guy” gets the girl so to speak….
I read in someone’s blog yesterday that if you could get on the first page of google’s results for “online casinos” you could retire in a couple of months. That seemed a little optimistic to me, but…?
Of course, my chances of landing on the top ten in google for obscure terms is usually pretty small.
Funny analogy Classics!
For every time the bad guy gets the girl, there are 100 or more failures. Blog spamming is like every other simplistic tactic, it fails for almost everybody who uses it. Of course, some people end up doing extremely well, for awhile anyway, with the tactic.
In any case, blog spamming is so 2003. The value of signing guestbooks is nearly fully over, and blog stuff is following, though again, it still works for some folks.
Oh, exceptions would be if you are talking about something non-competitive. Blogs or guestbooks would do nothing for “gambling” or “poker”, but they could help for “louisiana casino gambling” or something like that. Then again, they could also hurt. Too many spam signals can cumulatively raise a red flag.
This is a little off-topic, and I should probably ask in another thread, but are there any disadvantages as it relates to SEO to having a domain that ends in .net.nz?
i.e., do the search engines care about the .com or .net when it calculates results?
Definetly interesting even if “2003” I added my first comment to a blog two days ago:
http://makesmeralph.typepad.com/makesmeralph/2004/05/the_sweet_allur.html
It is along the lines of what Classics was talking about. I didn’t look for the blog, it came up on a competitive search “colorado gambling news” or some such thing.
I posted my 2cents and added my URL: http://www.coloradogamblingforum.com
I learned a few things, one was, don’t use your name, use your websites name …. for instance the link to my site if you look on the page has the anchor text “Bernard”
The only thing I really see helping if it helps at all, is that I am discussing the same topic and not just spamming a guest log.
Another thing … the blog owner deleted my post as well as another, but added that “Bernard would like to invite… blah blah”
(basically canned my opinion but was nice enough to leave the link)cheers,B
Interesting concerning about comment about competitive terms not being manipulated by blogs.
Go to yahoo and look up gambling.
Look who comes up number 5.
I know of some google examples but cant think of any right off my head.
Antoine
If you do the same thing on google, click on the #5 slot (coincidence) and then check the backward links you will see how a blog has given this site a leg-up.
The Yahoo example isn’t from blogs. That site is part of an enormous (like 30 million pages) family of spam sites. They generate their own pages and would have no need for blogs.
The Google example (unless I’m looking at a different site) isn’t a “blog”. A large html domain is the source of that mass of links.
Originally posted by Classics
The Yahoo example isn’t from blogs. That site is part of an enormous (like 30 million pages) family of spam sites. They generate their own pages and would have no need for blogs.
For example, besides #5, see results 7 and 8. Notice #5 and #7 has been greybarred by Google. Yahoo just has to catch up to this group.
Originally posted by Randy
I read in someone’s blog yesterday that if you could get on the first page of google’s results for “online casinos” you could retire in a couple of months. That seemed a little optimistic to me, but…?LMAO
Ive been in the top 10 (even #1) for dozens of terms/phrases – several of which are very very good. Im sure not ready to retire … so either what you heard is a MAJOR over exageration or either im really getting shaved bad! heh!
Hmm… want to sell some of your websites?
so you think im getting shave bad huh?
I always thought I was – guess I need to get midevil on them!
