Lately I have been getting a lot of comments on older posts — mostly for my interview with Markus Frind. If you want to give yourself backlinks through comments, here are a few suggestions.

1) I don’t like trackbacks from splogs syndicating my RSS feed (and if you republish anymore than a small excerpt you’ve recieved a C&D.)

2) I don’t like it when people make things up to give themselves backlinks.

3) If you are going to leave a really short comment either don’t include your backlink or make the anchor text your name.

I worked really hard to get this blog to have the link authority it has today. Put in just a little effort and you can benefit. If you want to be lazy then comment spam the blog of someone who doesn’t do this full time or professionally.

Partially related, Quadzilla has made an excellent post at SEO Blackhat that is worth a read for all search engine optimizers.