My Day 9 – Getting Backlinks With Comment Marketing

Today we’re going to see if we got indexed by Google and also start telling the rest of the world about our blog article with comment marketing.

If you look back to our article on Day 8.5 and Day Day 8.75 you can see most of the statistics and indexing we’ve already received from Google (some great results I might add).

Most of today we’ll concentrate on marketing and getting the word out on our blog.

Be A Part Of Google Groups

All we need to do here is go to groups.google.com and find some groups related to our keyword phrase “dog adoptions”. I see one group that I’m going to join and focus the majority of my effort on for this section of my comment marketing. rec.pets.dogs.rescue should be a pretty good group to start out.

I wanted to leave some commments in a couple of the threads I found in Google Groups the only problem I’m having is the threads are really old. One that I wanted to comment on was last active in 2004.  Should I comment on a thread that is that old or is it time to search searching for some other groups like search by “dog rescue”, “dog shelter”, etc?

For now I’m not going to leave a comment in the Google Groups area.  I’m sure Ed, Dan, and Guru Bob will have plenty of other ways to garner backlinks in future lessons.

Commenting With Squidoo

First thing we want to do is find all the Squidoo lenses (a lens is basically an article on Squidoo) that are related to our keyword: dog adoptions.

• I went to Google and entered the following phrase: dog adoptions site:squidoo.com
• The results were 101 related articles – remember these are listed in order of importance so the first lens has the most authority according to Google.
• The top Squidoo lens for my search term was a survey. I went ahead and filled out the survey with relevant information and added a comment with my dog adoptions link. Here’s the lens I commented on: Y U Love Your Rescue Dog. Scroll to the bottom and check out my comment!

Are We Indexed?

As we saw in Day 8.5 and 8.75…yes, we have been indexed and in a big way. I’m sure once we get the latest Google Analytics data we’ll see that we are getting some traffic from Google already.

I tried the same technique: site:dogadoptionsrescue.com in Yahoo and MSN and as of now we are not indexed in either search engine.

Google was our main goal, MSN and Yahoo are secondary, but we should push forward and keep up with our comment marketing strategy.