Blog Comments Do Not Count as Recip Links

Every book out there on Designing a Money Making Website says you need Links Back to your Site.

While this is true most go on to suggest commenting on topic related blogs and their individual posts. In the begining I did this religously, no spamming as some people do, but on topic comments directly related to the posts in question.

And Months later no link backs according to the major search engines.

My comments were there, I could go and find them because these were sites I read frequently and had a desire to learn from. And yet my comments were doing nothing for my Page Rank.

So I did a search and came across this:

Yahoo! Search blog: A Defense Against Comment Spam

I'm pleased to announce that Yahoo! Search is one of several organizations in support of a technique that should help combat weblog comment spam. Others involved are: Google/Blogger, MSN Search, Six Apart (TypePad, MovableType, LiveJournal), and WordPress.

By adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted.

So while I will continue to post on blogs of interest I just wont get my hopes up that it will contribute to my overall Page Rank.