Blog Commenting Sites List 2026: 111 Blogs That Still Accept Comments

I first published a blog commenting list on this site in 2017. Like everyone else, I kept adding to it and rarely checked the old entries.

This time I checked. I ran my own 100-site list through a small script that opens a recent post on each blog and looks for a working comment form. Only 18 of the 100 were still open.

That was humbling, so I went further. I pulled every site from the six blog commenting lists ranking on Google, 871 unique blogs in all, and checked each one the same way. This page is what survived: 111 active blogs that still accept comments, sorted by niche.

How many blog commenting sites actually still work?

Far fewer than any list admits. Here is what my checker found across all 871 blogs:

Look only at the 488 blogs I could actually test, and just 43% still take comments. More than half of them have quietly switched their comments off.

The famous names are the worst hit. Copyblogger, Smart Blogger and Blog Tyrant all appear on the old lists, mine included, and all three now show "comments are closed". Moz, Ahrefs and HubSpot, which also fill these lists, have no comment form at all.

The list ranking first on Google for "blog commenting sites" fared little better. 26 of its 120 entries still had an open form, and 27 were dead. Its title says 2026, but the page itself was last modified in August 2024.

The lesson is simple: a list that nobody re-checks rots, and most of them are years past checking.

111 blog commenting sites that still accept comments (2026)

A quick guide to the columns:

• Comments via tells you what you are signing up for. WordPress and wpDiscuz take a name and email. Disqus asks you to sign in or post as a guest. Blogger usually wants a Google account.
• Website field tells you whether the form has a box for your site's URL. "No" means your comment carries your name only.

Comment settings can change post by post, so open a recent article and check the form before you write anything.

SEO and digital marketing (9)

Blogging and making money online (10)

WordPress and web design (11)

Technology (6)

Business, leadership and education (7)

Personal finance (9)

Travel (24)

Food and recipes (11)

Health and wellbeing (7)

Lifestyle, parenting, home and books (17)

Your niche not here? Skip ahead to how to find blogs in your own niche. The method takes ten minutes.

Are blog comment links dofollow or nofollow?

Nofollow, almost without exception. This is the claim most lists get wrong, so here is the evidence.

Since WordPress 5.3 in November 2019, WordPress adds rel="nofollow ugc" to every link in a comment and to the commenter's name by default (WordPress core announcement). WordPress runs most of the blogs on this list.

Google asks sites to mark comment links with ugc, and says links marked nofollow, ugc or sponsored "will generally not be followed."

My own data agrees. Of the 104 open blogs that displayed commenter links on the posts I checked, only 2 had any link without nofollow or ugc. That is under 2%.

So what about the "dofollow blog commenting sites" lists? Most of them leaned on a plugin called CommentLuv, which added a link to your latest post under your comment. WordPress.org closed CommentLuv on 7 March 2024 for a security issue. A dofollow list built on CommentLuv is pointing you at blogs running closed, unpatched code.

Does blog commenting still help SEO?

Yes, but not in the way most lists sell it. The link itself carries little or no ranking value. What a good comment does is harder to fake:

• It sends real readers. A useful reply on a busy post gets read by people who care about that topic, and some of them click through.
• It gets you noticed. Authors read their comments, and a regular, useful commenter is the first person they think of for a guest post or a quote.
• It builds your name. Mentions of you and your brand across your niche help people, and increasingly AI search tools, connect you with the topic.

There is also a real downside when it is done badly. Google's spam policies list "forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature" and "using automated programs or services to create links to your site" as link spam.

Treat blog commenting as networking with a link attached, not link building with a comment attached. If your whole link-building strategy rests on comments, that is the real problem to fix.

How do you find blog commenting sites in your niche?

Any list, including this one, goes out of date. So here is how to build your own, the same way I checked mine.

1. Search your topic with a comment phrase. Try "your topic" "leave a reply" or "your topic" "post a comment" in Google. "Leave a Reply" is the default WordPress heading above the comment form.
2. Open a recent post, not the homepage. Many blogs close comments on old posts after a set number of days.
3. Check the form. Look for the Name, Email and Website fields, like the CSS-Tricks form below.
4. Check the last comment date. If the newest approved comment is two years old, the owner has stopped reading them.
5. Check the neighbours. If the existing comments are "Nice post, thanks" with a keyword link, walk away.

A warning about old search footprints. My Search Console data shows people still searching for phrases like "this site uses KeywordLuv" or "powered by BlogEngine.NET". KeywordLuv was closed on WordPress.org in 2018, and BlogEngine.NET's code has not been updated since August 2023. Those footprints now find abandoned blogs full of spam, which is the last place you want your name.

How do you write a blog comment that gets approved?

Most blog comments never get published. Here is how to be one of the few that do.

1. Read the whole post first. Your comment should prove you did. Mention a specific point.
2. Add something new. A different angle, a result from your own work, or a polite correction. "Great post!" is deleted on sight.
3. Use your real name. Not "Best SEO Services". A keyword in the name field is the fastest route to the spam folder, and most owners delete it on sight.
4. Put your homepage in the Website field. Not a money page, and no link inside the comment unless it genuinely helps the reader.
5. Reply when the author replies. That is where the relationship starts.

Keep it to three or four sentences. The best comments read like a message to the author, because that is what they are.

Are instant approval blog commenting sites worth it?

Almost never. "Instant approval" means nobody moderates the comments.

No moderation means the section fills with spam, and your name sits in the middle of it. Many owners eventually notice, then delete the lot or close comments entirely, which takes your comment with it.

My checker could not measure approval speed, so none of the 111 blogs above are sold as "instant approval". Most of them moderate. A blog that reviews comments before publishing is a better neighbour, not a worse one.

As for how many to post, there is no magic daily number. Five thoughtful comments a week on blogs you actually read is plenty. A burst of fifty identical comments in an afternoon is the automated pattern Google calls spam.

More free link-building guides

Blog comments are one small tactic. Here are my other link-building guides:

• Directory submission sites to get your business listed
• Profile creation sites that point back to your site
• Social bookmarking sites to save and share your pages
• Web 2.0 sites where you can publish free blogs
• Article submission sites to republish your writing
• Video submission sites for video that ranks and drives traffic
• Competitor backlink analysis to see where your rivals get their links

Final take

Most blog commenting lists are graveyards. When I checked 871 of their sites, only one in four still had an open comment form I could find. My own old list did no better.

The 111 blogs above were open when I last checked. Pick ten in your niche that you would read anyway, check the form on a recent post, and leave replies worth reading.

Do that for a few months and the value shows up where it always did: readers, relationships, and the invitations that turn into real links through proper link building.