How Blog comments can create traffic and back links.
Similar Forum Marketing, making comments on other people’s Blogs is a a very good way to increase inbound links and at the same time network in your niche.
The first thing you will need to do is to locate other blogs that are on your niche topic. Sound difficult? It's not. It's a piece of cake!
3 links that will take you straight your target audience.
http://search.blogger.com
http://technorati.com
http://blogsearch.google.com
Go to your bookmarks folder and and create a folder and name it Niche Blog Sites.
Once you find some blogs that are on your topic bookmark them to this folder.
Now all you have to do is every once in a while go to this folder, left click and select 'open in tabs'.
It is time to peruse the blogs.
What you don't want to do is to spam the blog! You will only succeed in annoying others and getting you comment deleted and the blog owner may even go so far as to ban your IP address.
What you are looking for is to read over the new blog posts and look for the following comment criteria...
1. Can I add a comment that will enhance the post that was just written, offering similar and valuable information?
2. Is there a question in the blog I can answer?
3. Can I offer my opinion on the subject without coming across as arrogant.
4. Is there an intelligent question I can ask about the bloggers post?
5. Try to offer advice and tips, and only sell your site when it is in a direct answer to someones question.
Generally I just sign my first name with my promo URL underneath like a signature line in an unoffensive manner.
You are not going to get a flood of traffic from just one blog comment and there are not always ideal posts out there for you to comment to in an unoffensive manner. That is why I suggest to find between 20 to 30 blogs in your niche. Open them all in tabs a couple times a week and scan and post to them only when it is most appropriate. Keep your list fresh. Delete from your bookmarks the blogs that are not getting updated and add fresh blogs every time you come across them!
Blog commenting in the long term will get you some very targetted steady traffic and also get your comments and links spidered (looked up and indexed) by the search engines.
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Sunday, July 8, 2007
Blog Comments - I don't mean blog spamming!
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3 comments:
Well then... let me be first to comment regarding commenting :) As a blogger myself I thoroughly enjoy good/appropriate comments... it shows my readers that others are reading. It's not hard to comment appropriately if it is indeed a niche you have some compatability with. On the other hand... I'm much more often spam-commented, and yes, I delete them immediately and they never get to see the light of day... so don't bother being a sleezy salesy commenter... but please do comment when you have something to contribute!!!
Rob... author of
ionlyneed2.com
monaviehealthblog.com
Thanks san_francisco! That was definitely a very good example of a tasteful comment. :)
Thanks for dropping by and come by and comment often!
P.S. dont be afraid to html encode your links after your signiture.
Julie,
You've posted an excellent article. Your points are tasteful, logical and contain far more common sense than the vast majority.
Thank you very much!
Dave
Author of Time and Space Stand Still a spiritual growth memoir.
Published by Chalani Resources.
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