Step 3: Finding Heavily Linked to Blogs

Once you have search results, it’s time to fine tune the search to deliver only the blogs with a lot of links pointing to it already. To do this, we’ll adjust the “authority” level for our search results.

We wish to focus our attention on the blogs with the greatest number of links (as highlighted above). These often have RSS feeds picked up by other blogs meaning a comment posting on one of these may get duplicated several times if the linking blog picks up the feed for comments, too. This is a great way to build links with minimal time investment. This is the foundation of intelligent, “white hat” SEO.

Either make a listing of the blogs you intend to comment on with the highest number of links pointing to them or open a new browser window or tab for each one as you move your way through the search results. It’s often best to have an estimated number of links you wish to build for each session before you begin posting comments. It takes roughly one hour for every 10 comments if you’re taking the commentary serious and truly reading the blog posting before commenting. Some people will be faster or slower, but it’s a good idea to have a time budget in mind prior to starting a link building session.