Comments on: Comment Link Strategies for your Blog

By: 4 Ways to Use Your Web Analytics that aren’t a Waste of Time

4 Ways to Use Your Web Analytics that aren’t a Waste of Time — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:16:59 +0000

[...] otherwise be available by looking at your Aweber stats. Wouldn’t you like to know whether it is blog comments, guest posting, or forums that are producing the highest percentage of opt-ins for your [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:09:59 +0000

Wow man. I never realsied that google had tools like this. I’m going to check this out. You have a really good blog here full of really helpful information thats helping me along in my SEO/Linkbuilding. Some of this I did not know.

Keep up the good work

Chris

By: Tobin Crenshaw

Tobin Crenshaw — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:10:25 +0000

I hadn’t thought about linking to a specific page before I read this and will have to consider it. I have always just linked to my homepage, so thanks for the new idea!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:26:29 +0000

Thanks for the great article, you helped clear up a few questions I had.

By: Vrillx

Vrillx — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:22:02 +0000

Interesting ….was looking for some advice on how to get some traffic on my blog . Thanks for the info.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:23:10 +0000

Hi Ruben, not sure why my comments form gave you troubles, I’ll look into it.

But for anywhere that you can’t fit a campaign code in, or the form rejects it, you could just fall back to the other option of linking to a special landing page instead.

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:56:54 +0000

Funny: I set a campaign tracking code for my site URL here… And the wp-comment script hangs. I had to remove it for my last comment to get through :/

Ruben

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:55:43 +0000

When I read this post, specifically the part about Analytics Campaigns I thought “Great! Now I can track where comments are more effective”.

But there is a catch: a lot of people (from what I’ve seen, all WordPress users) have a maximum number character limit in comment box URL’s. Ranging from 80 to 40… You can squeeze a campaign tracking code in 80 characters, but there is no way you can do that in 40. This kind of set me down, as this was a really neat idea (I usually just check referring domains to see ‘odd places’ where I may have commented, but this does not help in the long run.

And I am not keen of using an URL shortener for the URL in a comment box: it can be seen as spammy, fake, or whatever.

Ruben

By: Ramblings of a Woman

Ramblings of a Woman — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:59:44 +0000

This is great information! I am still learning so much abt blogging. Currently on wordpress.com but will be changing over to self-hosted and cannot wait for all the plug-ins options that will open up to me!

By: How to Say Thank You to Your Best Commenters - Blogging Teacher

How to Say Thank You to Your Best Commenters - Blogging Teacher — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:33:26 +0000

[...] If you’re looking for a way to track the effectiveness of your off-site commenting check out these comment link strategies. [...]