Blog Commenting Sites: We Checked 405 Pages

What blog commenting actually is

You leave a comment under someone's blog post, and your name or the comment body carries a link back to your site.

Before 2005 this worked well. Comment links counted the same as links in the body, so people wrote scripts and stuffed them into every comment box on the web. Google's answer was rel="nofollow", a bit of markup that says "the site owner didn't choose this link." Almost every comment form you can find today ships with it by default.

So set your expectations first. This is not how you rank for a keyword. Accept that line, and the rest of this page will make sense.

We wrote a separate piece on what nofollow is still worth, Do nofollow backlinks help SEO, using link data from 495 sites in our own directory. This page only covers two things. What pages with open comments actually look like, and where to find them.

The "High DA blog commenting sites" claim is made up

Search for blog commenting sites and the first page is all the same headline. 500+. 1000+. 1400+. High DA. Instant Approval.

We don't have a thousand. We have 405 pages across 322 domains, and a person opened every one. Here's how they score:

The highest score in the whole set is 48, a Brazilian bar association. Second and third are both 36, a Swedish law firm and an Indian outsourcing shop.

That's the real answer to "High DA blog commenting sites." Nobody's hiding the good ones from you. Pages like this don't have high authority in the first place. Think about it. A site scoring 70 either closed comments years ago or moderates hard enough that you'll never get through. What stays open and unwatched is small sites nobody's fighting over.

So any list handing you a thousand DA 50+ comment sites is doing one of two things. Making up the numbers, or pointing at pages that stopped taking comments a long time ago. Usually both.

How we checked these 405 pages

The method is dumb. Dumb methods are the ones that produce numbers.

Step one, look for a comment box on every page. Open the page, count the textarea elements. Zero means it's out. That one check alone killed a pile of URLs that looked like article pages but turned out to be directory listings and category archives.

Step two, drop what you shouldn't touch. Adult content, gambling, obvious link farms. None of it goes in. Those pages would hurt you even if they handed out dofollow links.

Step three, drop what's useless. Rows with a bare domain and no path are gone, because you can't leave a comment on a home page. Anything returning 404 through 500 is gone. Pages that say "comments are closed" right on them are gone.

Step four, re-check on a schedule. Rows that passed once still die. Twelve pages are currently flipped to archived after a re-check. We don't delete rows, we only change status, so it's always possible to roll one back.

One group we kept, and you should know about it. Thirty-six pages showed no comment box to our script, but the comment section might be rendered by JavaScript where a script can't see it. Those stay in. Open them yourself and confirm.

We won't claim this data is 100% right. Comment sections open and close and nobody sends a notice. What we do claim is that a person looked at every row, instead of copying somebody else's list.

What sites with open comments look like

Splitting by category tells you more than the total does:

Education is a quarter of the set, which makes sense. University blog platforms usually got set up years ago and then nobody touched them again, comments still on. Three domains alone account for 30 pages. A Spanish university blog with 11, a German university with 10, a Spanish research body with 9.

Tech is only 30 pages, with the lowest average authority of any category. That's worth saying out loud. Tech sites were the first to close comments, because they got hit the hardest. If you run a SaaS or a dev tool and you want to comment on sites in your own space, it's mostly not happening. What's open is in other industries.

That also sets the ceiling on this whole tactic. The places you can comment probably have nothing to do with what you do. Low relevance, lower value.

Do dofollow blog commenting sites still exist?

This is the second most common question and the answer isn't fun.

We don't tag comment links dofollow or nofollow, because it isn't worth tagging. Comment boxes have defaulted to nofollow since 2005, and after 2019 some sites switched to rel="ugc", which amounts to the same thing. You'll hit a site now and then that forgot to set it, but that's luck, not a plan. Sites like that are usually already stuffed with junk links, so yours sits in a pile that Google discounts anyway.

Those "dofollow blog commenting sites" lists you find were mostly tested years ago. A site changes one plugin setting and doesn't announce it, and nobody updates the list.

If you actually want dofollow, don't look in comment sections. Go to the free sites or high DR sections of our directory, where link type is checked by hand, one site at a time.

Is commenting worth your time?

Depends on where you are.

Worth it: a new site that isn't indexed yet. This is the one case where comment links genuinely earn their hour. Google finds pages by following links. Get mentioned on a page Google crawls every few days and indexing speeds up a lot. A site that just launched has an existence problem before it has a ranking problem.

Worth it: you were reading the post anyway. You read something, you have an actual thought, you leave it with your link attached. That costs you nothing extra.

Not worth it: commenting to hit a number. Twenty comments an hour, all nofollow, all on small sites in industries unrelated to yours, all of them possibly deleted by a moderator. Spend that same hour picking three live directories from free sites and the return is much better.

Not worth it: paying for it. Somebody sells you a thousand blog comment backlinks for twenty or thirty dollars. That's a script. The links get cleaned up within weeks, or they were never indexed at all.

How to leave a comment that survives

Most comments get deleted, and it's usually not the link. It's that you obviously didn't read the post.

• Open with something specific from the article. Quote a line, name a number, point at something the author skipped. A moderator reads your first sentence and decides.
• Use a real name. Don't sign as "Best SEO Services." A keyword-stuffed name is the single easiest thing to filter on.
• Put the link in the website field, not the body. Comment forms almost always have a separate URL field. That's where it goes. Adding a second one in the text reads as greedy and gets you removed.
• One comment per site. Ten comments on the same domain in a row and the owner clears all of them tomorrow.
• Don't use a template. "Great post, thanks for sharing" has its own rule in every spam filter ever written.

For where the line sits and what gets scored as spam, Do nofollow backlinks help SEO goes deeper.

When it's just spam

There are a few lines. Cross them and this stops being link building.

• Running a tool to submit in bulk.
• Pasting the same paragraph on hundreds of sites.
• Commenting on pages with no connection to you, purely for the link.
• Buying a comment package.
• Dropping a link on a site that says in plain text not to.

The consequence isn't usually a ranking drop. It's wasted time. The link gets deleted or the page was never indexed, and you get nothing back for the hour.

Platforms worth doing before blog comments

If the goal is getting a new site crawled, these move faster than comment sections, and real people see them. DR figures come from our own directory.

• DEV Community: DR 90, write a technical post, links are nofollow but crawlers come by often.
• Hashnode: DR 83, same idea, and the links are dofollow.
• Medium: DR 94, nofollow, but it indexes fast and carries real traffic.
• Substack: DR 93, dofollow, good if you'll keep publishing.
• Indie Hackers: DR 68, nofollow, but the readers are your peers.
• Hacker News: DR 85, the Show HN section, and a front page is thousands of people in a day.
• Reddit: DR 95, nofollow, and the right subreddit sends real traffic.
• Disqus: DR 92, it powers the comment system on a lot of blogs, and your profile takes a link.

To see everything else you can submit to, browse all sites.

Common mistakes

• Treating somebody's list as data. We spot-checked a few of those 1000+ lists. More than half the comment sections were closed.
• Thinking Instant Approval is good news. No moderation means it's already full. Your link sits in a pile of junk and Google likely discounts the page.
• Hammering one domain. One comment per domain is the whole budget. Ten gets all ten removed.
• Keywords in your display name. The fastest way to out yourself.
• Expecting rankings. Once more: nofollow doesn't pass PageRank. The value is getting crawled and getting seen.
• Never re-checking. That comment you left three months ago may have gone away with the whole page.

FAQ

Do blog comment backlinks still work in 2026? For getting a new site indexed, yes. For rankings, basically no. Don't mix the two up.

Why do you only have 405 when other lists have 1000? Because we opened every one. Pick ten rows from one of those thousand-row lists and try them yourself.

Are there dofollow blog commenting sites? A few, and they don't stay that way. Comment boxes default to nofollow. If you want dofollow, go find directories in free sites instead of gambling in comment sections.

How long should one comment take? Ten to fifteen minutes if you actually read the post. Faster than that and it usually gets deleted.

How often is the data updated? We re-check on no fixed schedule. Twelve pages are archived so far. Comment sections close whenever they want, so we don't promise real time.

Can commenting get me penalized? Normal commenting, no. Bulk stuffing, yes, but the usual outcome is that the links don't count, not that your site gets hit.

What to do next

Start at comment backlinks and pick five to ten pages in categories close to what you do. Education and media have the most pages and tend to hold comments the longest.

Then stop there and move on. Comment links are a helper while a site is young, not the main line. The main line is the directories that hand out dofollow links, in free sites and high DR. And if you want the full math on nofollow first, read Do nofollow backlinks help SEO.