This is volume 2 of my link building series. You can view link building volume 1 here.

Last time I talked about building links via article marketing. In this series, I will talk about building links via Web 2.0 commenting.

By Web 2.0 commenting, I mean leaving comments on platforms such as:

• Blogs
• Squidoo pages
• Hubpages
• YouTube videos

These types of Web 2.0 platforms crave comments — it’s this type of interaction between the reader and author that makes it Web 2.0.

So what you do is search for the above platforms in your niche and then leave comments with a link back to your website.

So for example, say your niche is gardening. You could do a search in Google for “gardening Squidoo”. You’ll then get a list of some Squidoo pages that are related to gardening that you can leave comments on.

Some of these platforms will use the “no follow” tag which means you won’t get any link juice passed onto your site, but the link could still generate traffic to your site by people clicking on it.

Two things to keep in mind:

1. The comment must be good — don’t SPAM. Read the person’s blog post, or Squidoo article, etc. and leave a comment that shows you actually read their page.

2. When it comes to leaving comments on blogs, don’t link to your website in the body of your comment. You’ll notice there’s a spot to put your website’s URL — put it there instead because putting the URL in the comment body is spammy.

Now the great thing about this link building method is you can easily outsource it as long as you can trust the person to leave good comments.

But there is also a free piece of software that semi-automates the process for you with some additional bells and whistles — it’s called Comment Kahuna.

I don’t get anything for recommending this to you. I simply use the software and I think it’s good.

Set a goal for 10 per week and after a year you’ll have hundreds of quality links pointing to your website.

So that’s it — pretty easy, right?

If you have any comments — or tips and techniques related to this post that you’d like to share — please comment below.

Cheers,
Ryan

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Tags: Blogging, Hub Pages, Link Building, Squidoo Marketing, Web 2.0, YouTube