So You Think You Can Comment?

Believe it or not, commenting on other people blogs can be a really good way of generating quality traffic and advertising your blog to general public.

Why should you comment?

1) The more comments you leave, the better chance that someone will visit your site.

2) The best part about a comment is that it gives you the ability for someone to link to your post by you just posting a response to a post.

3) As time goes by, you tend to build up a network with other blogs owners. They will in return provide comment on your pages as well. This will in return form a strong bond between these blog owners.

4) Regular readers of a blog or even the owner will eventually remember your name if you start to comment on a regular basis. In a subtle way, it will actually work to your advantage as you are slowly beginning to build your brand.

Where Should you comment?

Remember, you want to send quality traffic to your blog. Therefore the readers of your blog should be interested in your niche. It would not make much sense if you expect readers from a furniture website to visit your blog that is related to ways to make money online.

Therefore it is critical that you should only provide comments on blogs that is related to your niche. Although commenting on other non related niche blogs may send traffic to your blog, but ask yourself this question, will the reader be interested with the contents of your post? The answer is no. That is because what you have written is of not what the reader is looking for.

Provide comment like how you would expect them.

Here are some very simple tips to help you be a better commenter on any blogs:

1) There should be a purpose to a comment and to provide additional value to the post. The comment could be insightful or even base on a personal experience. Regardless it should provide a value to the post.

2) Don’t bid around the bush. There are some readers that love to write comments that are longer than the original post. However if you examine the comments in detail, it can actually be sum up in a couple of sentences. Make your comments short and sweet. It is much easier for people to remember.

3) Spam stinks. Never ever put in your post link in your text comment unless the owner of the blog has already installed a plugin that automatically detects your last blog post. It is not polite to steal someone else spot light by advertising your site.

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4) If you think that a link can be beneficial to the owner of the blog and the other readers out there, then you can it. For example, the blog owner might have written a post about a certain wordpress plugin. However you have read on another website on how to further improve this plugin. You can obviously provide the link to this information in your comment.

Basically it all comes down to common sense. Just ask yourself, how would you like people to comment on your blog? If you do not want certain kind of comments appearing on your blog, you should not expect owners from other blogs to accept that kind of comments as well.

June 5, 2009 | Filed Under Make Money Online, Traffic Tips  |

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22 Responses to “So You Think You Can Comment?”

  1. blinkky on June 5th, 2009

    I agree with you. Comment on other blogs will help to increase your traffic =)

    blinkky’s last blog post..Generate Heatmap For Your Site

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    LithiumMind Reply:
    June 8th, 2009 at 11:17 am

    That is true indeed Blinkky.

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  2. Melvin on June 6th, 2009

    I generally comment for other purposes than receiving traffic in return. It’s not like before that when you comment you get traffic, now its a lil different

    Melvin’s last blog post..Lurking On Forums, Good or Bad?

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    LithiumMind Reply:
    June 8th, 2009 at 11:20 am

    I agree with you Melvin. Commenting on blogs should not be the sole reason of getting traffic to blogs. However for start up blogs (like mine), one way of letting other readers out there know that my blog exist is by providing comments. However that does not always guarantee traffic :)

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  3. Tycoon Blogger on June 6th, 2009

    Great post and I totally agree that commenting on blogs in your niche can be extremely beneficial to your blog. I like the point you make up about building up a network with other blog owners as I feel this is critical for success. Blog commenting is also great for building your blog’s brand. I try to comment on at least 10 blogs per day.

    Tycoon Blogger’s last blog post..Another Twitter Follower Tool

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    LithiumMind Reply:
    June 8th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    I think it’s great to set a target of number of blogs that one should comment each day.

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  4. Ploreogue on June 6th, 2009

    Hi, Congratulations to the site owner for this marvelous work you’ve done. It has lots of useful and interesting data.

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  5. Simon | Teenius on June 6th, 2009

    Personally I comment on around 10 blogs per day and it’s really paid off for me. When I leave comments I always try and not only make my own point about the post, but add something to it. I feel it’s not only important to leave quality comments for traffic purposes (who’s gonna click the link of a crap commentator?), but also to show your appreciation to the blogger.

    Simon | Teenius’s last blog post..4 Small Changes That Can Make A Big Difference To Your Blog

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    LithiumMind Reply:
    June 8th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    @Simon,

    Looks like you and tycoon blogger do set a target for number of blogs that you will comment a day. My target per day is around 15 blogs.

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  6. Curious Little Person on June 7th, 2009

    Commenting is the best form of advertising! Also, as you go on commenting regularly on a blog – you eventually get noticed and develop a long term relationship with the blogger..

    Very well written and informative post

    Keep up the good work!

    Cheers
    Sandeep

    Curious Little Person’s last blog post..How to Fish for Post Ideas!

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    LithiumMind Reply:
    June 8th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    @Sandeep,

    Thanks for the kind comments.

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  7. blacksaga on June 7th, 2009

    ehm. just comment anything. But related with topic. Sometimes, go wild also needed. Hehe..

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  8. Jacob Yap on June 8th, 2009

    Well, we would expect he/she will come to visit our own blogs. =)

    Jacob Yap’s last blog post..How To Get Optimum Performance From Windows

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