Comments on: A Blog Link is worth 5X a Comment Link

By: Power of Twitter,WOM and Blogging | Holistic Search Marketing | Internet Marketing Consultants

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:05:35 +0000

[...] I did a post a while back on 10 UK Search Marketers you should be following, and given its been over a month since that post was written, I thought it would be interesting to see the effects of new followers in terms of some of those people included within the piece (as a follow up I guess to Dixon Jones (@receptional – and highly worth following for those that aren’t) piece – A Blog Link is worth 5X a Comment Link. [...]

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Cheap link building services: When does cheap become expensive? | Wiep.net — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:24:13 +0000

[...] never get found by search engines. Blog comments (whether they’re dofollow or nofollow) do not pass the same amount of juice as blog post links and most other FFA links hold little to no value as [...]

By: Chris Angus

Chris Angus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:42:33 +0000

I fell out of love with comment posting for link love, I was not sure that any PageRank was even flowing from the comments. I think it’s too easy for goog to just cast a sweeping ban on blog comments as they have been abused to death.

By: Joe Connor

Joe Connor — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:15:13 +0000

Dixon, you need to make some new years resolutions about this sort of thing and get out more, HNY dude

By: Mel Carson

Mel Carson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:51:15 +0000

And Dixon, thought you were going to enter my new year’s competition?

http://www.melcarson.com/new-year-competition-win-im-a-pc-t-shirt-stickers.html

By: Mel Carson

Mel Carson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:49:57 +0000

I’ve now had 60 more followers since that post – Thanks Pete!

Isn’t it interesting the conversion rate as you go down the list of people in order.

The amount of followers gained is almost exactly the same as the list order which is just like search conversions by rank.

I…..LOVE……THIS…….INDUSTRY!!!!

By: robwatts

robwatts — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:56:31 +0000

Interesting stuff Dixon, thanks for sharing, looks pretty solid, although Pete borked my twitter link so maybe that’s why I only received 6

On a related note, have you checked out twitter-friends.com? pretty cool.

By: Peter Young

Peter Young — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:51:45 +0000

Thanks again for the Sphinn Kev, it seems to have done very well

BTW Congrats on getting in the to the ‘35+ Blogs that are worth your attention‘

By: Andrew Girdwood

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:47:20 +0000

Good spot of research. Thanks!

I was surprised when Pete included me… and let me tell you it feels like a lot more than ~50 new followers! Eeep.

By: James Poole

James Poole — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:33:29 +0000

I posted in the comments over there quite early on and seem to get a big increase

http://www.twitter.com/jp135