Thought I’d share something that I’ve been doing. Pardon me if it is obvious or something that you are already doing. By now you 11 readers know that a big part of getting back links is through comments you leave on other blogs. Most of you may be using one of 7,291 tools to get the job done. Personally I like Fast Blog Finder, but that is not the point of this carefully crafted and beautifully written blog post. Nay, what I have been utilizing is Google Alerts. I set up alerts for keywords I am targeting and let Google deliver an email to me daily alerting me (Get it? Alerting. Google Alerts. Clever shit huh?) to blogs that are posting on that keyword. I can then click over and make a comment and leave my anchor text link for backlink glory. Hallelujah brothers and sisters.

So the non believers among you are casting stones at the fact that the blog may be a “do not follow” morass. To that I say, so what? It’s still a link that can be followed by someone. I don’t think you should play this game solely for what you can get out of it. Mayhap it is good Karma to simply be part of the community and expect nothing. Commenting on someones blog helps you and it helps the blogger. Whether Google rolls with it or not it’s a good thing.

I think commenting is a big part of why my WP.com traffic is what it is. I have no idea half the time if the blog is a DNF or not. I simply don’t care. If I do then I use Fast Blog Finder to find those that are not. But lately I haven’t really been taking the time. The Google alerts are current and they are topical. Seems like a good play to me.