I'm going to answer the question that "Barack Obama" (not the real one, of course) left as a comment on my article about Backlink Building with DoFollow Blogs and the CommentLuv WordPress Plugin, "So how does allowing dofollow backlinks help your blog?", by referencing other articles and comments.
The Value of Comments in Search Engines
As you can see from the subheader, which I made into a link to an existing article, I've already written about the value of comments. Since the time I wrote the first article I mentioned, Stephen Cronin of More Than Scratch the Surface created the KeywordLuv plugin to give you another option for your comment header — a plugin I use on this blog.
The Key is in the Keywords
In the comments of that second article, Hari of Hari's Corner stated:
I've found that I get very few legit comments on old posts on my own blog, but nevertheless a lot of irrelevant search results have ended up on my blog thanks to comments or certain combinations of keywords found therein.
Also sometimes comments tend to become a separate thread of discussion so might not always improve the keyword richness of the article in question.
Not that I'm complaining though.
Later, Lin of Telling It Like It Is said:
I learned awhile back about the benefits brought from comments that include a variety of keywords. I first noticed it when I noticed the description text and I knew it wasn't part of my post, and then it dawned on me, Oh Yeah! so-and-so left a comment with those words. I think it's fabulous that comments can help in that way. 'Course, truth be told…, I tend to help it in the comments too ever since I discovered how that works.
Do I need to say anything more?
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