It amazes me how short sighted people can be. Every comment that you leave reflects back on you and your business. Leave a useful comment and it just might lead to business. Leave a useless comment and it will never produce business.
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Unfortunately, many link builders and business owners only care about getting to the top of the search rankings. They don't understand that how you get there is as important as getting there.

Let's say a company needs 2000 links to get to the top of the search rankings. Most will only see that they need these links. They fail to realize that this represents 2000 opportunities to promote themselves and there businesses.

It's so sad but so true.
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Thanks for the chuckle. I roared when I read this "It seems that you are fed up with this a lot." Yes, its true. For eight months in 09 I ended every blog post by requesting a 20 word comment to be considered for a link. That request was ignored. So I had a plugin created that requires a 150 character comment to be considered for a link. That didn't work either. Now they simply tell me how wonderful my blog is without ever commenting on the post.

That aside, I believe that I am still in business today because I embraced this concept.
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Good call!

I wonder what the limitations on this system are? Have you found site this does not work as well on? I wonder if high pagerank and value sites, people out of your topic of interest, or unfriendly sites or bloggers will make the process more difficult.

How has it worked for you? My main question would be if you think the comments you've made bring initial traffic, from the site, beyond the benefit of a backlink?


Great concept, thanks for sharing!
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Lots of good questions here. I have benefited in every way imaginable. Since I started promoting Scratch My Back Marketing traffic is up 41% this year. It has sparked new business inquiries and then there is the link development as well.

Let's say I go to a forum that is SEO related. I post a thread about SMBM. Then I comment on a link building thread or two. So while I was marketing SMBM I also picked up a bunch of links as well. The SMBM thread over time will produce a few dozen links as I respond to other commenters.

The concept is so different that people follow the links to check out my site. This eventually leads to inquiries. All the while, the forums and sites that I post on get useful content. And hopefully others will see the light and start adapting this approach, if they do, they will be glad that they did.

I have already seen a half dozen Tweets on Twitter about this approach so it is definitely a plus on many levels.
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Great advice... thanks! It's nice to see another "yank" on here too!


Do you do this on social media as well (FB, Twitter, etc.)?

Have you encountered blogs which allow your comments up until the point where you include one with a link?

Do you suppose larger media sources, like times online or washington post, will apply to this method? Do they even have dofollow links? Will they just ban the comment with a link and allow the rest?



So many questions, such little time...
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I think I might have come across your concept a couple of months ago, or maybe even before - I can't remember where though. The thing I like about it is that it is real and long-term not the spammy, short-term results that alot of marketers seem to be concerned about - they give the industry a bad name
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Yes, they certainly do give the industry a bad name. That is also why this works so well. Website owners appreciate those who make an effort and so do readers. It reminds me of something that mother used to say "you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar." It 's about treating websites not as a tool but as a partner where everyone benefits.
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It's fairly common knowledge that you can't really spam. You have to put some thought to it. 2 years ago, yes we do see a lot of those "great posts!" comments. Thankfully, they're now being moderated.

But I like the name. Scratch my back marketing. That's the first time I heard of it.
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Yeah you're definitely on the right track there. Much better to engage with the blogosphere and exchange useful content, and you can even then participate in guest posts etc.

What's ironic in this thread are the "great post!" posts (see above)

As for social media, yes, good to get there too, as more and more people are trusting their peer's advice over search engines. Which is why google is looking into social search I guess.

Barry
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Since I have over 300 blog posts to work with I prefer web 2.0 social sites. I simple re-write an update these posts as I have done here. This allows me to control the conversation as it is my blog on another site.

This approach works wherever you can find sites that allow user generated content such as blog, forums, and web 2.0 social sites. As long as you add value and represent yourself positively you should do well.
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