Link Building is the base key behind any marketing campaign. Therefore link building is the best way to promote your websites, services and products to get the best web visibility and quick traffic.
There are two most common and effective ways of doing link building – one is “Blog Comments”, and the other is “Forums”. Both can provide you the “do-follow” as well as “no-follow” links. Let us take that both are providing you “do-follow” links then which one will you choose better for doing your link building campaign. To get out of this selection, let’s find out the result.
- Direct traffic
- If you are thinking for initial direct traffic and that too at skyscraping rate, then definitely blog comment will not be the great choice. Forums offer you to get backlinks with the liberty to drive huge amount of traffic with every new post you made and the threads will take you to the first page of that discussion you can increase your traffic count by posting.
- Discussions
- Discussion keeps the topic live and creates a friendly and communicative environment. Most of the people join forums to share their views and get information from various different people. Discussions are good for both personal as well as professional levels as one can make friends of same interest and also able to get backlink of desirable keyword and URL to help to increase website’s rankings and attract huge traffic. While the blog discussions are bit full of complications of approval and one can get only one link if the moderator likes that.
- Desirable Customized keywords tag
- In forums, one can create a huge list of desirable keywords which are useful for your site. One can tag that keyword lists with their forum posts. This keywords tag helps in fetching links while searching on Google which results in contributing to search engine result pages (SERPs). Like forums, blog comments don’t have this option available.
- SEO
- When it comes to SEO, blog comments are more effective then forums. The reason is that the blogs can easily get high rankings and the commented links on that blog will get a huge benefit from the high page rank of that blog. High rankings are yet not so common in case of forums.
- Approval
- Most of the blog comments need the administrator’s approval to show that comment live on the blog. But in forums, there is such condition of approval. The forums thread posts are live as soon as it is posted. So it is not sure that you will definitely get a link if you comment on any blog. But it is sure in case of forums.
- Timely Updates
- Forums are updated more often than blogs. The requirement of this updation is that if you want to get your rankings improved then you must publish fresh, unique and updated content regularly to attract visitors and search engines for your own site’s benefit. Users click those sites which have useful and fresh information which they easily get from forums. As there are lots of users registered in the forums and everyone put some content after every few minutes, so forums get more often updations. Blogs are generally updated twice a week but it should be better if one can update his blog regularly.
So it is now fair to conclude that forums are the right choice to get instant traffic and rankings than blog comments. Forums posts are easy, quick and cogent way of getting higher number of clicks to your site. A forum having high daily traffic and has content matching with your site’s theme will be more suitable for the marketing purpose.