Most of the time people build links to their websites, they just tend to go to some blog and start commenting on dialy basis. Or they use spam bots, even worse.

In this case there are two options: 1) 50% of your comments get filtered as spam, because they are just “so good”; 2) They get approved but lack (backlink) value, i.e. you didn’t comment on the right blog.

Finding a blog

All you need is a blog with decent search engine rank and visitors. Or is it? Search engines will always count for high quality links, that come from sites related to your topic. So make sure this blog you choose is relevant to your site.

The domain also counts. Getting a mindable amount of backlinks from an .edu domain is always a good thing. Your site will be considered more useful your average competitors.

Building backlinks

Does that blog has a “recent comments” tab? Make sure you’re always there. Comment on dialy basis.

Comment on pages that are keyword-rich, don’t have more than 20 comments, and have, perhaps, a minimum Page Rank of 0. That means it has been already indexed by Google. If the page is located on a popular blog, then it should rank fine in search engines.

Getting traffic

Leave a comment that stands out. Don’t just say “nice” or “great article”! Be constructive. Be relevant. Be interesting. Most visitors follow links under your names, because of curiosity. You have to provoke them into reading and expecting more to read.

How to do that?

A blog that is less relevant to your site, but closer to your interests is a bigger help rather than the other way around. This way you will be able to leave a comment that includes your personal oppinion, experiences, etc.

Smart commenting really works: if you have to build a PR2 page through blog-commenting you will have at least 100 links pointing to your site. That is really good, but imagine now that each one of those links brings you one or two visitors per day!

Comment with those rules in mind.

A lot of people people are blogging nowadays and a lot of people ask themselves the same question – “How the hell am I supposed to get popular?!“. Well, one of the best marketing tools I have recently stumbled upon is Blog Rush.

What is Blog Rush all about?

BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need:
More Readers For Their Blog.

Blog Rush has been created by an internet entrepreneur, John Reese. Blog Rush is the first site, ownership of the Income.com network, which CEO is mr. Reese.

How does it work?

In a similiar way Blog Rush works as an social media. However, the trick is that you don’t have to constantly bookmark your information and distribute it, network with other people, etc. It’s automated. Each registered blog gets it’s own widget (like the one on the left) and it distributes your content over the BR network. For this you need to earn syndication credits. Each credit gives you the right for your latest post to appear on the widget of another user. Technically, you have to send a bit of traffic to get yours back. Each time a visitor from the blog clicks on the widget you earn a credit. Fair enough, for each impression you lead to the Blog Rush network you get your blog content exposed on 10 “generations” of other blogs. Here’s and example: You have a widget and Merry has a widget on her blog, too. When I click-through your widget and go to Merry’s blog you will gain a syndication credit.
Thanks to this credit your latest post will appear on Merry’s widget and then on the widget of her syndicated user and on the widget if his syndicated user and so on, up to 10 generations of other blogs.
So far so good. You get a 10:1 ratio from your traffic. That means that if you reffer 10 people to the BR network you can get up to 100 new visitors from them. By the way, additonaly you will be provided with an affiliate link. I haven’t tried it out yet, but as far as I see it, you can gain traffic to you blog without actually putting on a widget.

Getting into the network

In order for the Blog Rush network to be efficient your blog has to correspond to their strict quality guidelines. So before registering (I’ve left a register link for you on the bottom of the article) let’s check-out those guidelines.

1. The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.
2. The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.
3. The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.
4. The blog’s primary content must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.
5. The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
6. The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
7. The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.
8. BlogRush reserves the right to determine if any blog is suitable for its network or not.

In order to be approved your blog has to comply with all of the guidelines. In the worse case scenario your blog will be refused. It’s not a big deal because you are not banned. You can resubmit your blog after 30 days again. But make sure you have improved you blog before resubmitting.

Get ready for it

I’ve provided a list below with the first few things I could think of, in order to optimize your blog before submission.

• If you have created a new blog don’t be desparate to submit your blog. Wait for it to get indexed, get some visitors through search engines and it’s at least on month old.
• For blogs with more than 20 posts – to some point it’s normal for your first few posts not to look as good as your last ones. In case you have started out with some scraped content and/or videos, they have to go.
• Make sure your last 5 posts are informative/useful and/or provided your personal oppinion or fresh information on your blogs topic.
• If you don’t have a posting schedule, make one. When your blog gets reviewed it must show that it will keep being updated on regular bases in the future.
• Another thing to do is to republish your posts from the last one. Make sure they show dates that say “Yes, I post at least one per week!”.
• Just as one of the golden rules of the internet goes – If you have gained authority and popularity already rules don’t count. So if you are a big fish, submit right away!

Note: don’t follow blindly my recommendations, decide whether these tips apply on your own.

Thanks for reading and good luck joining.

Links

• Blog Rush main page
• Blog Rush terms of service
• Blog Rush sign up page