Forum Posts Vs Blog Comments - Which is better for Link Building?

Link building is the key objective behind any marketing campaign and therefore the best tool for promoting your web-content (product/service) would be the one that has better visibility and quick traffic leads. Amongst forum posts and blog comments, if none makes use of no-follow tag, there are several parameters worth considering which will help you adjudge what is better.

Initial Direct traffic: If you are planning to go with direct traffic and that too at a sky-scraping rate, then blog comment is certainly not the best option. A forum offers you the liberty to get maximized traffic as each time a new post is made, the threads lead you to the first page and you get the desired boost in the traffic count.

Discussions: The concept of discussions in forums makes them more friendly and inviting. People tend to make friends on these forums and this is good at both personal as well as professional levels. You can get a far interactive response through forum posts. Getting back links through these discussions is pretty easy and effective too.

Customized key phrase: Unlike blog comments, you can tag your forum post with a keyword phrase. This keyword phrase would help you in fetching links and contributing to Google search results. If a person searches a particular domain and it matches your tagged phrase, you would surely benefit from it.

SEO: When it comes to optimization, blog comments are more effective as page ranks are allocated far easily to blogs even if it doesn’t return back to the homepage. A comment on a blog that holds a high page rank from Google is certainly a precious asset. Hence, for SEO purposes, it’s better to go for blog comments. However, in certain cases, you are not permitted to add links to the comment body. This might work against your favor and in such cases forum posts step ahead of blog comments.

Comment Approval: Getting your comment approved in case of blogs depends upon the administrator which is not in the case of forums posts. Forums are more open and distributed. A person can post links without having to wait for the approval. Hence, you can achieve quick link building in forums as compared to the blogs.

Updated: Forums are more updated as compared to blogs and therefore have a mammoth impact on link building. It’s easy to fetch links for a fresh and regularly updated material but in case of blogs, maintenance becomes an issue. Admin intervention is required momentously for making improvements in ranking.

It is therefore fair to conclude that forums are a better option as they can get you both signature links as well as traffic. Forum posts is a quick, easy and cogent way to make your website or page get high number of visits. However, you should select the forums with prudence and deftness. A forum that has high traffic and has content that matches your domain is the most suitable for your marketing prospects.

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UMESH SINGH said on February 24, 2012 at 9:42 AM :

I would like say thanks for this informative post. I am SEO and I guess this post will be very helpful for me.

Sanjay Kumar said on February 24, 2012 at 12:57 PM :

Loved reading this article, could you plz suggest some good forums regarding entertainment and optimization.

anurag said on February 25, 2012 at 11:46 PM :

good information thax..

Pradosh said on February 26, 2012 at 12:38 PM :

I also think blog comments are more effective because forums lacks quality content

Website Development said on February 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM :

Thanks for Information. I was not doing more comment posting, because of approval ratio.

nika said on February 28, 2012 at 2:02 AM :

i think best is blog comments, but if u have forum post it is not bad for your site

Juliana said on March 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM :

Both are giving value on link building.

Up for this post! :) shared this on twitter. :)

Michael said on March 10, 2012 at 7:45 PM :

I would have to go with Forums; although both are essential factors to SEO.

rafi said on March 10, 2012 at 7:59 PM :

you can post live links in many many forums

Maheinfo said on March 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM :

I always go for both to make backlinks look natural in the eye of search engine.

Osho Garg said on March 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM :

Great Info I Already Comment On Other Blogs Now Time To Get Some Links From Forums :)
Very Informative Post :)

Steve@Title Blocks said on March 13, 2012 at 8:10 AM :

Great post, and I've always liked a combination of both. I personally think high pr comments work better but it never hurts to have lots of diversified back links.

Thanks again

SEO Experts USA said on March 14, 2012 at 5:31 PM :

Nice post.I always spent more in blog commenting which is not helpful for my site.Thanks for sharing this useful information with us.

Best PC Games said on March 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM :

I use these both techniques in SEO and both of them are very much helpful to me. Thanks for sharing this informative article.

Garden Blog said on March 15, 2012 at 2:03 PM :

Thanks for the tips, we will be using more of these ideas with our own site in future! Thanks for a great article.

Website design Company said on March 15, 2012 at 6:24 PM :

There is certain basics, yes blog commenting is one of the best links. But if you are talking about all the aspects forum links are really weighted and important in terms of conversion.

rohini kumar d said on March 15, 2012 at 11:17 PM :

thank you...
i vote for forum posting@@@@

Cellphone Diary said on March 19, 2012 at 4:04 AM :

I would say both are valuable in their own little ways. Just make sure the forums participated in are of some relevance to your website.

opregadorfiel.com.br said on March 19, 2012 at 6:24 AM :

Great post, and I've always liked a combination of both.

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SEO Service said on March 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM :

We get oneway links from blogs and forums.

Anne J Goddard said on March 29, 2012 at 4:20 AM :

I know I need a post like this for a long time now. I have done both in the past but was not sure which of these two was more effective. Well, you have just provided the answer! Thank you for sharing

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Unknown said on July 29, 2012 at 9:10 PM :

Blog commenting is the best in terms of seo benefit, when you look at the recent google algorithm it will simply tell you that forum posting is dead. I can not argue much but the point still remain valid due to the fact behind seo and i hope to say google still remain the gaint when it comes to web search. Sometimes when i do comment on blogs i see higher rankings in value compare to getting shitting links from the web, sure blog commenting is effective.
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