Does Blog/Forum Backlinking Ever Work?

**IsaacR** · Oct 10th, 2009, 8:31 am

I have built a few websites till this day and I know a great deal about how backlinks and PR works.

My questions is, does commenting on blogs, forums and article archives to gain backlinks ever work? Firstly, I have searched the web and found a great deal of forums/sites that list 'dofollow' forums and blogs - and i have gone to those forums to check out what goes on there. What happens is one of two things:

1) Either the pages do not even get cached by Google (therefore - no backlink)
2) The pages that might be cached have PR 0 and have 50 backlinks on them - thus making the juice minimal.

So, I decided to check out the websites of those who use these tactics to build backlinks by clicking on their backlinks (leading me to their sites). As I expected, they have absolutely no PR or they have PR 0 - 1.

So, MY QUESTION - for whom do these tactics actually work, ever? And why do people continue using them if they do not yield anything.

**tsdesigns** · Oct 10th, 2009, 9:09 am

Personally I find they work quite well. But that was when I did quite a lot regularly (not for the purposes of link building...just because I liked to comment on blogs and post in forums).

It made the difference for a number of keywords for me - getting me from the 2nd page to the top of the first page (top 3 positions) on at least 10 keywords.

**Sami4u** · Oct 10th, 2009, 7:04 pm

Hi,

I hope they work. I know forum posting has helped with one site for a fact. It's now on page one. If it keep going It will be #1

Blog commenting has brought me people to my site. just don't spam.

Best of Luck

:flower:

Sami

**Webtalx** · Oct 12th, 2009, 3:09 am

If you're tracking results via PR you're not getting enough data.

If you're tracking results in terms of what happens to your own rankings when you post to 100 dofollow forums over the course of a month or so you'll most likely be pleasantly surprised.

Consider the PR of big name forums - some of them reaching PR 7 and 8. Now that's what I call an authority link, it certainly can't hurt getting a link from a domain like that. Forum or not.

**cecille20** · Oct 13th, 2009, 1:19 am

Base on my experience commenting in blog has no assurance. Blog's are moderated by the owner. I did my best commenting in their article and they usually reject it. Especially if your link is related to their site. That's why I decide to focus more on directory submission and in forum posting. Since, they can give you an instant link ..

**grim** · Oct 13th, 2009, 7:52 am

It definitely works

**Sisk** · Oct 13th, 2009, 9:28 am

Originally Posted by grim

It definitely works

can offer you good visitors if you are a strong and trusty member of communities!!!:energetic:

**sm911** · Oct 14th, 2009, 9:28 am

Forums and blogs are really important for getting backlink if they are highly relevant. Forget about PR while doing this. You may just check the PR of the forum (main page) and that's all. Above than PR3 is fine.

**IsaacR** · Oct 14th, 2009, 10:43 am

Originally Posted by sm911

Forums and blogs are really important for getting backlink if they are highly relevant. Forget about PR while doing this. You may just check the PR of the forum (main page) and that's all. Above than PR3 is fine.

The fact that the main page has a PR3 doesn't mean that much. Its not as if all its threads are cached and if that happens, your links in those threads are worthless/useless