HI,
My question is that when we do blog commenting or forum posting, is it necessary that it should be related to our niche?
Building links with related niche helps in SERPs?
please provide me with an answer.
Thank you,
Alex Ray
If you are participating in forum discussion then it not necessary then link should be theme based but if you are commenting on blogs then choose those blogs which are related to your theme and always comment in realistic ways
If you acquire backlinks from blogs and forums that related to your site/ niche, this way can deliver targeted traffic to your sites.
If you want to build backlinks for SEO purposes only - you can post comments into blogs and postings into forums in any niches. Make sure that there are dofollow.
You can drop your link everywhere and you can gather a huge amount of links in a relatively short time. But, you can also do it the clever way and achieve the same goal with a smaller number of links, from sites that are actually relevant to your topic.
It is not especially necessary but if you get links from related sites then they will hold more weight. Therefore it is more efficient and better use of time to find the related sources than just get links from anywhere. Having said that links from all types of places will promote diversity in your link profile and give it more trust.
I say spend more time actively seeking the relavent sources but if you have spent the time and find that you are at a not so relavent site just post the link anyway.
its a daunting task to find relevant sources if you are working on several niches, i’d say look for high PR domains and post relevant content on them, this way you are communicating ethically and your footprints or links have better chance to get indexed or crawled
Yes, the web page with which you are linking must be relevant to your niche or at least to your page. Irrelevant link does not give you any benefits in term of backlink credit.
With my own experience, I can say that, 1 relevant backlink can outrank 10 irrelevant backlinks.
It’s true that relevance of the site will make little difference to your SEO if you’re commenting on blogs and forums, because the difference between “virtually zero” and “next to nothing” isn’t worth worrying about. Neither of them are effective SEO tactics. As Nick and Zorro have said, links from relevant sites are worth much, much more than links from random sites all over the place.
Forum posting and blog commenting is suggested to be done in relevant niche because it helps in improving the number of targeted traffic but for this you have to participate genuinely by posting relevant and informative replies.
What’s your evidence for this given that SEO heavyweights all over the place are talking about ‘Authority’ now as important if not more important than relevance? It seems that ‘Trust’ is now a more important signal especially given Google’s move toward branding as a way fo sorting out the SERP.
I think it’s fair to say that Google is increasing the importance of the authority/trust of referring sites, but that doesn’t mean that relevancy is no longer important. Think about what gives a site ‘authority’ or ‘trust’. Dmoz is considered a highly authoritative and trustworthy site, because they censor and audit the sites they give links to very carefully; other directories that give links out to any old Joe are not considered in the same light. It’s going to be very difficult to get links from sites that are high-authority but low-relevance, because by their very nature, high-authority sites are going to be picky about who they link to.
The original question was “when we do blog commenting or forum posting, is it necessary that it should be related to our niche?”. How many blog comments pages or forum pages do you know of that accept followable outbound links and would count as “high authority”?
We’re looking at what is achievable, what is of practical use to people. Sure, a link from an editorial page on the BBC or NYT website may be worth its weight in gold, but realistically what are your prospects of getting one for your minor website? On the other hand, you’ve got a much better chance of getting links from reputable and relevant sites. Why try to make things more difficult?
What do you mean, that it is okey to post comments into a any blogs that are not relevant to your site? Could this also gain traffic for your site even it is not relevant?
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Google prefer relevant niche, Now days google consider and Value SERP ranking via Facebook, Twitter, Digg.
If you want to stick to the original question then what we’re discussing is not relevant. To the original question I’d answer ‘it can’t hurt’ and ‘yes I do but I’m not telling you’ and then follow it up with, ‘don’t spam blogs and forums for backlinks, they don’t like it’.
What I wouldn’t do is state categorically that relevant links have ‘more weight’ as if that were always true when actually it’s entirely dependent on the linking site and all links have to be treated individually and then qualify that with an argument about it being true in the context of hypothetical random links when links are never random.
Relevancy is important when you’re creating backlinks to your website, but it doesn’t fall that way every time. You can build backlinks to your website from non niche related sites as long as its a do-follow and consider to be a good site. However it is much better and can get more benefits if you target niche related high PR sites for Blog Comments and Forums.