How to Find Blogs and Forums to Comment On For Back Links...

You may or have heard that posting on blogs or forums with relevant information can be great for SEO, if you include a link to your website with the comment. Many times when you comment on a blog post, there's a space to enter your name and website. Bingo! A link back to your site--helping your search engine optimization by building your backlinks. In forums, you often create a profile or signature with your name and a brief description, where you can include the link back to your website. Why is it good to do this? Because it takes time and it takes a real human to do it. You can't make stupid, spamm-y posts or comments because the blog owner or the forum moderator will delete them and you won't get a link. So Google sees this type of link--a link from a forum or blog--as a "quality" link because it cannot be authentically automated.  With the recent algorithm shifts with Google, there's MUCH skepticism and rumors about how Google will rank sites. Most of it comes down to the age-old standard: if you have quality content on your website (and add quality content regularly), you're well on your way. If you create quality content regularly and submit it out into various places on the internet (YouTube, eZine Articles, social media networks, forums, blogs...), you're golden. So, if you're going to start working on your search engine optimization and online marketing by commenting, how do you find the forums and blogs related to your niche or keyword to post comments on? By using specific search terms in Google to find them. The following are the phrases to type into Google (with the quotation marks). Replace "your keyword" with your actual keyword. Codes to find WordPress blogs to comment: "powered by wordpress" - "your keyword" "powered by wordpress"  intitle:your keyword "powered by wordpress" inurl:your keyword Codes to find Typepad blogs to comment: "If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account" your keyword Codes to find Blogspot blogs to comment: · site:blogspot.com your keyword Codes to find Forums in your niche to comment: "Powered by SMF" your keyword Phbb your keyword "powered by IPB" your keyword MyBB your keyword "powered by PunBB" your keyword "Powered by Phbbb" your keyword "Powered by vBulletin" your keyword Codes to find Expression Engine blogs Site: .com "powered by expressionengine" "add your keyword" (for .com websites Site: .edu "powered by expressionengine" "add your keyword" (for .edu websites) Here's what to do next: 1. Watch my video demonstrating this process: http://www.techdivamedia.com/video-how-to-use-special-google-search-queries/ 2. If you're confused, visit http://www.techdivamedia.com, go to "Contact" and send me a note and I can help clarify. Warmly, Chelsea  (The Tech Diva)