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I am currently working on SEO for my <a href=”http://www.pinestatehauling.com”>junk removal business</a> and I have been commenting using the above strategy but not sure if it is working no that I read this. I literally just googled about disqus topic here which is what took me to this web page. I probably won't waster my time randomly commenting on disqus pages. What do you guys think?

Disqus comments probably won't bring much juice with them this is because they are a really common way to get backlinks. But I think they will pass some worth if they're counted but not as much as a backlink from a high-quality news website would. Most people can get their hands on these backlinks. Going for a more unique backlink profile shows you are not just following the everyday norms like most webmasters are.

As Chris Gregory says the comments are likely being rendered into HTML from Javascript which means that the backlink would probably only be counted if it was on a WordPress site using Disqus these are just my personal opinion and I will be doing some more research on this myself.

It is completely ineffective. I tried a number of different approaches to get the do-follow backlink by comments. But nothing seems to work.

I tried the following method:
<a href="https://www.live-qr.com" rel="dofollow">Live QR Code Generator</a>

Yes should be done, there's an article on Neil Patel's blog where he makes a test and sees a difference on rankings. You should check that.

Just don't do random comments on random blogs...

I can't answer for Gary, but I can say  I have yet to see any of my non-wordpress Disqus comments in any of my various link profies.

How did the Disque binge work out for you?

i dont think he needs to mislead, they can just not count them.

Rand recently stated that at a conference, some one asked about their website, and Matt Cutts had a look at it, he said you have about 14,000 links but we are counting only 30 of them.

Matt has said, if just anyone can get a link, then it is proabably not going to pass any value

So I just dont think that comment spam will be counted. If you found a home made comment system, you might have a chace as google may not reconize it as that, but disqus would easaly be reconized by google.

Alan, you didn't think that Matt Cutts is misleads all SEO experts ???

He is main enemy for SEO...

Gary,

I'm doing the same thing you are.  If you have 100 disqus comments out there then are you seeing any of them showing up as backlinks to your site?  Right now I have probably half that amount from a lot of non wordpress websites and I have yet to see one of them linking back to my site.  I don't feel enough time has expired as some of these sites I'm sure it takes Google a while to crawl.  However, one in particular is an NFL site that I'm sure gets crawled several times a week.  None of those links are showing up.

If you aren't an SEOMoz Pro member go to Alexa or Majestic and run a link report to see if you are seeing your comments linking back.

I have just started using Disqus and looking for "on-topic" sites that use it.  None of my posts have been indexed on non-wordpress sites.  I did some research and found that Disqus uses Javascript to render the comments which googlebot won't be able to read.  However, it appears there are plugins in wordpress that renders the comments into HTML that can be seen when you view source.  Thats probably why you see your comments being indexed on wordpress sites and not the others.

I'm still testing this myself and would like to hear from others on this topic -good or bad.

Since disqus comments are now being indexed... I would think they do hold value in the comment links.  I personally think no-follow links do help sites rank organically.  I know they don't pass page rank (green bar juice), but they do count as links.  I would personally never turn down a good no-follow link on an indexed page.

I remember seeing a video where Matt Cutts said they were useless, I think he mentioned articles posting, blog comments and directories. He said that local and niche Directories mixed with a few quaility links still had value, the others were of no value.

honestly, I think you are wasting your time and may even be doing damage.

That's my opinion, too, Sebastian.

There is a pretty cool site called Inline SEO that has a do follow comment-finding-tool-thingy.  You can Google it.  It is a pretty useful tool!

Happy Holidays,

Jared

I see it this way: if the topic is about your webpage and you can add something valuable to the discussion then go for it, but see it as a way to build an audience and not so much links.

Even if the links are nofollowed or not indexed at all: nofollow-links are essential to a "natural" link profile, as most websites do have a number of nofollowed links (and even links from noindexed pages, which google crawls and "sees" nevertheless).

More then likely they are no follow, even if they are not they are very low quality links, more likely no value at all.

I would not waste my time.