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The Magic Of Finding Blogs To Comment OnThursday, December 18th |
Now, a good way to market the fact you have a blog is by leaving comments on other peoples blogs. This hopefully gains a visit from the blogger whose blog you have posted on, and possibly more visits from anyone that reads the comments. However, finding these blogs is pretty difficult if you don’t know how to do it, or if you are unfamiliar with any other blogs of your type. I personally have found all my blogs by following comment after comment on other blogs that I ‘knew about’. Using this method you can find some good blogs – but they might not be exactly what you need. Well, what if there was an exact way to search google, so that it would show you all the blogs on the topic that you wanted, along with any back links being ‘dofollow’? What if you could even specify to find blogs that currently have no comments on their posts? Well…I actually stumbled across the method.
Tell Me How! Or I’ll Come Find You…
I went to check my google analytics account yesterday, and decided Id see what search engine traffic I have got. Google analytics shows you exact search terms that led the user to your site, allowing you to see exactly how someone may have discovered your ‘trove of wonders’. It was there that I saw a strange search term, which had led the user to my site:
“[make money online]” “powered by wordpress” “leave a comment” -”no comments” -”nofollow”
I realised it as a rather ‘crude’ form of ‘google hacking’; there are certain commands and parenthesis you can enter into google, and it will make google behave a bit differently. For example, if I wanted to find every link on google for this site, I could do a search for inURL:”raceforamillion.co.uk” and it would return every single page that had raceforamillion.co.uk in the URL. This is a similar method – so lets break it down.
What Does It All Mean?! Speak Anglais!
We can see that everything contained in “” is so that google will search for those exact phrases only, and not a combination of them. This means it will look for every page that has ‘make money online’ in it, and well as ‘powered by wordpress’ and ‘leave a comment’. This will return all wordpress powered blogs, that are to do with making money online, and that allow you to leave comments. The final two phrases have minus signs next to them. This means to exclude all results that contain ‘no comments’ and all results that have ‘nofollow’ on them. If you want to find blogs that DO have comments on them already, then you can use the + sign instead of the – sign.
Can I Steal Use It?
You might want to try ‘tweaking’ it for your exact purposes, changing ‘make money online’ to whatever your niche is for example, but this will return a good amount of blogs that should not have ‘nofollow’. I have only performed a search with it myself, but this is something I believe I will be looking a bit deeper into. If I can find anything more about this, I will let you guys know. Until then, I hope it proves of some use to you!
Dan
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Nice tips dude, really easy way to find do-follow blogs in your niche. I never really thought about using the “inURL:” and the “xyz”+”vfg” for this, but you can pull off some cool things using some of these exact methods. (like finding product download pages)
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Hey, thanks. Glad you’ve found it of some use! I’ve used google hacking before to try and find certain things to my advantage, so this looks like it will work very well!
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Great tips. That is awesome!
Thank You.
Giovanna garcia
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No worries Giovanna, glad you liked it!
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Yep and if you want to be even more aggressive in your blogs search, you can search for things like “This website uses Keyworld Luv” or “Top Commentators”, etc!
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Good tips there Ben, cheers for the input!
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lol, Ok your post made me laugh with your titles and just learned something new here. Thanks!
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Haha, good times
Glad you found it useful 
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Love it dude! There are some great little software progs on the market geared towards finding “do-follow” blogs etc, mass comment scripts, but I’ve yet to find a real hardcore program that does everything a blogger needs…
You should have started this post with “Now, THE BEST way to market the fact you have a blog is by leaving comments on other peoples blogs.”
It’s the best way to get traffic to a blog – period!
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Your right, that would have made a better introduction, maybe I’ll run some posts by you to jazz them up for me
Yeah I’m trying to get enough information for one of these ‘all in one’ tools, so that I can try and have a go at building one…
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So, Dan, me boyo, that is where I was going wrong. I was simply lacking that bit of Google magic. You know, I may have to give this bad boy a try one day, but not tonight as it’s nearly time to get my beauty sleep and I’m telling you, this old boy really needs it. Thanks for the post mate.
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No worries Sire, glad it was of some good information to you!
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Worked a charm Dan, so impressed I even did a post on it.
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Wow, cheers Sire
Great to know it worked so well for you!!
Nice article. I’ve never searched for places to comment, I usually focus on just finding new and relevant blogs to read. And like you, I usually find them by looking at other people’s comments. (I have just recently found a new site called BackType.com which makes sifting through comments more efficient.)
But who knows, maybe I should use this approach… In addition to finding relevant sites, I can also improve my visibility in the blogosphere by commenting more.
PS. Why are you date averse. I know that hiding dates makes posts timeless, but want to know when this was written!
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Haha, I’m not really date adverse…there is a certain time stamp on the main page which says how long ago the post was ‘posted’. I rather that than dates – just personal preferance I guess
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I’ve never put a thought finding blogs to comment on as I’m still coping with all the reciprocal commenting. Probably it’s much easier for me to find one in my niche. Anyway, thanks for the ‘magic’, Dan. Have you tried ‘Fast Blog Finder’?
Yan
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I hadn’t heard of fast blog finder actually, I might check it out! Yeah I see the amount of comments you get daily Yan – its very impressive!!
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Dan,
Sire sent me here and I have to say I just learned something useful. I’ve seen it on my blog admin so now I know how to interpret and use it. Thanks.
Peter Lee
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Great to know you found it of some use!! Thanks for stopping by
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Okay, I must be the dumb guy here, because I tried inURL and it won’t work for me. It only came up with one site, and I know I’m in more places than that. No matter; the other part is still fairly sound advice, using the quotation marks for searches on Google.
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inURL will only show up websites that have the text in the URL – so inURL:”raceforamillion.co.uk” will probably only show up my website
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I see a good number of Google searches using terms like “Top Commentator” “Comment Luv” or “Keyword Luv”, perhaps the most popular dofollow plugins. While there are plenty of tools out there to help you find dofollow blogs, often good ole Google does the job just fine.
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Hi Frank, I do believe that neither of those plugs you mentioned actually make your blog a ‘dofollow’ blog although they do actually increase commenting.
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Your right, google does do the job. The truth of the matter is a lot of what you would pay for can normally be found for free, and sometimes is a lot easier! Thanks for visiting Frank
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Definitely some nice Tips. That’s actually how I found your blog. I just followed the yellow brick road err… comments.
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Haha, good to know there are others out there using the same techniques. Welcome to my blog, hope to see you in the future!
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Have enjoyed your site very much and benefited from the information. Thank You.
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Great post, but I wasn’t aware that you could detect the nofollow tag through a Google search query. Are you sure about that one?
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Great post I also did know you could find nofollow with Google, thats cool if you can
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Thanks for the help dude keep it coming!
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I think this post was really a solid start to a potential series of articles about this topic. A lot of writers act like they comprehend what they’re talking about when it comes to this topic and generally, very few people actually get it. You seem to know about it however, so I think you ought to start writing more. Thank you!
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