Blog Commenting – A Great Traffic Strategy
Blog Commenting – A Great Traffic Strategy
by Mike Paetzold – Copyright 2009 – All rights reserved
Blog commenting is a great way to generate traffic and back links to your blog. Though most people know this they tend not to do this because it seems like it may be a bit of that 4 letter word – WORK.
Because of that you see lots of services that will sell you commenting or PLR packages that come with pre-written blog comments. Not some of my favorite things.
Blog commenting does not have to be hard but you do need to provide value to others to generate value for your blog.
There are two ways that blog commenting helps your blog.
The first is the back link from leaving your comment.
The second is from people clicking through on your signature because of the comment you left.
Now there are plugins like do follow and comment luv that can make your comments more powerful. If you find blogs that do follow and use comment luv keep a list of them or add them to your feed reader as they will be more valuable links.
You still can and should add comments to other blogs even if they do not use those plugins. The reason is if you are participating and adding value to other blogs on your topic you will get traffic from your commenting efforts whether they do or do not.
The key is to be adding value and being on topic.
As an example commenting on a blog about horse training and linking to my WordPress blog will probably not get a lot of that blogs readers to be interested and follow to my blog. These are not the targeted readers I am looking to attract. If I had left a comment on another blog that was about blogging it would have much more power and the people clicking through would be my targeted audience.
It is easy to find blogs on your topic. Here is an easy 4 step way to find them.
1. Write a blog post on a specific topic
2. Go to Google news,
3. Search your topic
4. Click on the blog link on the left hand side.
You will see the most recent blog posts on that topic. (It is better to comment on newer posts and you are more likely to be approved.) Go read the post and add your comment.
Do this on a regular basis and you will increase the targeted traffic to your blog.
Mike Paetzold is a long time blogger and WordPress expert who has created 15 Minute Blog Traffic to help you generate more traffic to your blog easily.
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8 comments
Earl Netwal on June 25, 2009 at 11:31 am
Do you follow these same blogs in My Blog Log? or on Google? Do you keep looking for new blogs to comment on or establish a round of regulars?
Joel Osborne on June 25, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Your right on. With the many blogs I see, I get a lot of comment spam from people who just don’t know how to comment properly.
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Doug Champigny on June 25, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Its such a valuable part of your blog traffic generation strategies that it’s best to keep a list of relevant blogs and return regularly to comment on the better posts there.
You make a valuable point in mentioning DoFollow and CommentLuv plugins too – if a blog doesn’t install one of the do-follow plugins I won’t usually bother to comment – each of us only has a limited time each day, so best to use that time posting on those blogs that help your own efforts the most too.
Thanks Mike – keep the great advice coming!
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Andre Arnett on June 25, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Just beginning to understand the value of commenting on others blogs, especially those within your niche. It can be very helpful and will get people to recognize you and comment back on your blog. I like your post.
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Luca on June 26, 2009 at 9:28 am
I find that commenting on blogs is a great way to get backlinks as well but I also learn a lot by visiting these sites in my niche. There are many benefits to commenting but as you say make sure you leave valuable comment.
.-= Luca´s last blog ..How Utility Poster Helped Me Rank On Page One Of Google Search =-.
Fred Lotgering on June 26, 2009 at 10:36 am
Commenting is great way for back linking and getting exposure. It is time consuming. Bu you are giving some great tips to benefit most out of ut en an efficient way. Thanks Mike!.
Fred
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Brett McEllhiney on June 26, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I have over 2,000 incoming links and just noticed that my blog now has a Google PageRank of 2 using these methods.
I am definitely a firm believer in the fact that this does most definitely work!
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Lonnie Minton on June 27, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Not sure I would every want to use pre-written blog comments. To me comments should be personnel – Something that you really want to say about the post. Thanks for the guidance on commenting on blogs. Good for backlinks,
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