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Guys,

How effective does blog commenting and forum posting to increase the SERP's?

Thanks,
Van

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I think that both of them are not so good for SEO because even when they are dofollow they don't appear in relevant content, but as a separate piece of text (signature or the name field in a blog post)

Of course having a few links like that wont harm as it will help your site's crawlability.

They are not the end all be all of SEO but the backlinks from related sites do help a website in the search engines.

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comments and forum posts are very helpful for the site owner, please keep posting fresh content

It increases both your PR and traffic.
Be sure  to post comments on blogs that are relevant to your site.

I have seen relevant and thoughtful comments bring in targetted traffic which as far as I'm concerned is far more important that chasing PR and search engine rankings.

A signature on an active forum, which is fairly regularly indexed is also a great way to get a site indexed quickly.

With my own blog, if a comment is particularly interesting, I might add an update to the entry itself (with a do-follow link) or even create a second post, also potentially with an in-context do-follow link.

i think both ways can help you in getting traffic and increase PR.  Quality blog commenting especially helps to build the reputation and of course traffic. 

Need to make sure you keep it in perspective. Blog and forums should only be a small piece of your overall strategy for marketing your business. If you think about your marketing as a big piece of pie, forum and blog posting really should only take up about one bite.

But yes, there is some benefit.

i think that both have there uses although they will only take you so far is the serps results!

You post on relevant forums and include links in your posts to your site. You also take advantage of the signature feature so that every one of your posts has an optimized anchor text link to your site. And because forums don't have no follow in their user?s generated content very often.-if you start a thread yourself, you can control the title and much of the content of the page your link will sit on, thus ensuring relevancy in the eyes of the search engine.

They are useful,do follow links could make your site have a high pr,and it will show your site at the top of search engines,but i think only your site have enough usefull content,it is the best.

i agree to your comments.. but i have one question though. does anyone experienced any drop in backlinks although you've done comments to related sites?

Another great thing about a blog is that anyone can post on them. They require no coding skills or HTML knowledge, which means they are an inexpensive way to publish, because outside sources are not required to write or code posts for you.

I think that both of them are not so good for SEO because even when they are dofollow they don't appear in relevant content, but as a separate piece of text (signature or the name field in a blog post)

Of course having a few links like that wont harm as it will help your site's crawlability.

 Yeep, Commenting on blogs that hand out no follow links will be ignored by the search engines. They won't help you rank higher. The no follow attribute was introduced as a standard feature of Blogger and WordPress. This took most of the SEO value out of links posted in user comments of blogs.

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