SEO - the Value of Comments on Blogs and Forums
It is easy to dismiss blogging and blog comments as nothing more than a passing fad that Google will eliminate as a source of quality in-bound links in due course, however, for the moment it is a valid and useful way to build traffic.
An SEO colleague of mine recently based a successful campaign on comments on other peoples blogs and forums. He did not spam these forums, but instead added small snippets of valuable, relevant content. Everyday he gathered about 10-20 inbound links. Within 2 months his campaign was paying dividends in terms of a 100% increase in traffic and Adsense revenue. Google saw fit to acknowledge the links and list them in it’s Webmaster Tools for the account in question.
By regularly posting on others’ forums and blogs and sticking to this strategy for a few months, it seems that it is indeed possible to dramitically improve your site exposure in the SERP’s (Search Engine Results Page) . Blog and forum comments are not dead yet, so make use of this technique whilst the window is still open.