Hello, Guys, here is my Tip #5.....Raise Your SEO & Get Your Share of Google Juice By Commenting
What Does Your ActiveRain Relationships, & Google Have in Common? What the heck does commenting have to do with my SEO & my Google Juice?
Hang with me here...I know I talked about Building Relationships in my previous Tip, but this is important enough to continue. Guess What? I recently learned something new I wish I had known months earlier when I first started Blogging.
WOW, do I have a gem for you! Remember...our goal is to make at least Ten Comments Each Day, right? Continue to hang here, as hopefully this will make sense. Your comments get you those daily points. Equally or more important is building those relationships, right? Two good benefits to daily commenting, right?
What if you could mess with your SEO and send Google Juice your way at the same time....just through commenting? WOW, this raises the stakes and makes your time spent commenting more important. The reason we are all here in ActiveRain is to make money...increase our business...brand ourselves, right?
If done correctly, your comments can stir up G O O G L E J U I C E for you! Google loves stuff that is interactive. Google loves the commenting back and forth by ActiveRain Bloggers....this is interactive...this awakens the sleeping Google Giant and our SEO is raised and we receive the coveted Google Juice to us locally!
It is important that your comment be long enough, 2 - 8 words is not enough. I try never to make a comment that is less than 10 words, but I consider this minimum and usually do more. Do not do the copy and paste thing that you may have seen. Your comment should be specific and of value. Avoid cookie cutter comments such as "Nice post". You can say that, but add something that adds to the conversation, something of value. Google loves this! I suggest reading the comments made by others...there are some master commenters in ActiveRain.
Here's my gem. Did you know that the line under your picture in the comment section is a live link? This is a "back link".....back to who? YOU! Check out what your line says about you. It should have your name, company, AND IMPORTANT...your service areas. All those comments with the back links are stirring up SEO and sending out the Google Juice. The links do not have to be clicked on to do this...just being there is working.
Ask me how this works...in three words...I Don't Know! You know, I don't know how my car operates, I just know that it does, and I don't care how...I just want it to go when I turn the key! Take my word for it...and Steven Graham's, ActiveRain's Blogging Coach. IT JUST DOES! Best way to completely understand is to take Steven's weekly class on this...an hour well spent...and FREE!
Go to your profile to make changes regarding adding your areas and your specialties to your link. You can look at profiles of other ActiveRain to see where they made changes. Warning: You will find that many profiles will not have these changes - they likely do not know to do this. Check out the address areas...this is where you can add your areas rather than your address. I just changed my profile a couple of weeks ago, so click on my link and go to my profile where you can see where I replaced addresses with areas, etc. This is what gets the Google Juice coming to you locally. Quick fix!
You will find that many bloggers do not have their areas in the line below their picture on the comment section, which is a back link to them. Many do not know this!
BTW - These links are a great way to increase your ActiveRain network. I like to click on the link of everyone who comments on my posts...taking me to their profile page where I click on their blog, and go to one of their posts AND COMMENT ON THEIR POST!
You will be amazed at how quickly you form a relationship with that person. Now, it doesn't matter to me if I have made my 10 comments already...I just do it anyway. Give this a try and you will see a big increase in the comments you receive on your posts. It is worth the few extra minutes it takes to do this when you respond to your comments. Add to your network daily! Stir the Google Juice!
I also like to hit the Facebook "like" button at the start of the posts I read and comment...another way to build your network.
I don't want you to spend your valuable commenting time without making it work to the max! I actually do not have a problem with using more words, my entire life, I have had to cut out the words, make it shorter, now I can offer up my comments without having to state something in 10 words or less.
I suggest you check in with Steven Graham, ActiveRain Coach, attend this class...and grow your Google Juice and SEO through commenting, and back linking....in ActiveRain. You could pay someone to work on your SEO...but this is FREE...and this price works for me!
Guys, thanks for the read. I hope you found it helpful. It is in layman's, actually laywoman's terms, and I don't know a whole lot, but I do know this stuff works.
Use Your Comments to Build Relationships....AND....Stir Up the Google Juice Coming Your Way!
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