Inbound Link Significance from Blog Comments

On relevant pages only?

[fmfguy]

I'm a pretty frequent reader of blogs and as such, a frequent reader of blog comments by readers. On some blogs, when leaving a comment, you can leave a URL and so what I have seen on multiple occasions is people putting their name down as anchor text and then the url for their website. Effectively creating an inbound link for their site. Is this effective since the PR of some of the these blog pages is high or not effective? Essentially does every little bit count or can you become counter-productive?

[jonrichd]

Unfortunately, blogspam has become a big problem for not only the search engines, but blog owners as well. Black hats learned long ago how to inject comments automatically into blogs without actually having a human visit the pages, and blog owners got tired of seeing comments from 'users' putting in links to their sites.

To combat this, Google came up with the rel=nofollow attribute for links, which essentially means 'don't give this link any credit from my blog'. This attribute is now inserted automatically by most blogging software for any links dropped in comments.

So, to answer your question, I don't think that dropping your link in a blog is going to help you too much, but it's unlikely to hurt you. I just wouldn't be spending a lot of time on it just for the idea that you will get link pop from all these links.

[fmfguy]

ahh.. yes, makes sense.