Business Idea – Do-follow Blog Commenting Service

Every once in a while, I come up with an idea that I’m not able to exploit or utilise for some reason or another. A common reason is that I just don’t have enough time to do everything that I would like. Therefore I’ll put my surplus ideas on PowerDosh so that you can benefit from them. If you do turn any of these ideas into a successful venture, please let me know.

The idea that I’ve got that’s surplus today is offering a Blog Commenting Service. You basically get paid to leave natural and helpful comments on do-follow blogs that build up backlinks to your customers’ websites.

When a user leaves a comment on a blog, they can provide their “name” and their website URL. The name becomes the anchor text for the link that is generated to their website.

Blog Comment Form
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As you know, Google bots are interested in the nofollow attribute on hyperlinks. With a nofollow attribute, the backlinks do not count in the eyes of Google. Without the nofollow attribute, the backlinks do count in Google’s eyes. Naturally, this does not matter for other search engines like MSN and Yahoo, as they don’t take any notice of the nofollow attribute.

The vast majority of Wordpress blogs use the rel=nofollow attribute on the link by default, probably in an attempt to reduce the number of blogs targeted by link spammers. Some blogs have the feature that removes the rel=nofollow tag from the URLs left when a user leaves a comment. These blogs are thus referred to as dofollow blogs, meaning they give valid backlinks to any site placed in the URL field of the blog comment form.

So why not offer a service to put the links of client websites in the URL field of comments you leave on dofollow (and nofollow blogs)? Now this idea is not completely unique, but no-one seems to be doing a good job of it yet. i.e. There’s no well-known service to do it, and the quality of existing services are fairly poor. Current services result in comments that are poorly written, created on blogs of the wrong niche, or have high deletion rates.

You could even offer a broker service in the same way that PayPerPost.com matches up paid bloggers with advertisers. So you earn money by matching up the service providers and the service seekers.

You might want to write a plugin that allows bloggers to charge users to leave a do-follow comment that links to an advertiser website. You would then create a market where blog comments are fee based for advertising-type URLs. Google might have an issue with this though.

Those are my thoughts on the ideas. Have you got any?