Commenting on Blogs-The Right and Wrong Way to Do It
ByOne very good way to get people to visit your website is to comment on other people’s blogs.
However, there’s a right and a wrong way to do this.
Wrong way: Add a general comment that means nothing, just to get a link. Also bad: commenting on blogs that have nothing to do with your topic.
I regularly get comments such as this one, which just came in today: “wow i didn’t think of that! thanks for sharing your knowledge 
” It was in response to the post, “”It’s a New Era in Publishing–Are You Ready?” but the commenter was from the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre and I knew it was just a ploy to get a link. (Or worse. Who can keep up with all the nefarious Web activity out there?)
Fortunately, with Wordpress you can moderate the comments. I called this Spam. He will never get my link!
Right way: Make an intelligent comment (or just a sincerely nice one) on a blog that speaks to the same audience you do. The blog owner will be more than happy to add your comment, and you may get someone visit your site. At the least, you’ll get a relevant link to your site, which will help in the search engine ranking.
If you like this post (or any other here), leave me a good comment, and I’ll be happy to help you get traffic!
6 Comments
June 18th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Diane,
I agree. Generic responses do nothing for the site/blog or the visitor. One way I try to personalize my comments & responses is to comment on a particular bit of information or some interesting lines so that the blogger knows I am actually paying attention to what they’re writing and not just posting to get links!
Patti
June 19th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I agree. Generic, or worse totally irrelevant comments annoy me a lot. These usually end with “Exchange links with me” or “visit my site”. All of them so far are blogs in no way similar to mine. When I comment on blogs I always make reference to the post I read.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:33 pm
That marking feature with Wordpress sounds like a good thing. Thanks for reminding us to be wary of those who comment on our blog, although I haven’t been, shall we say, inundated with comments. (Sigh.)
June 28th, 2010 at 3:38 am
Article Submissions is quite tiring sometimes because of the effort that you have to put in it.-~:
July 17th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I am just a beginner at the blog-comment-link game… or I guess I should call it the Traffic Game.Thanks for putting the whole thing so neatly in a nutshell!
And in response to Florence’s comment that the effort needed for article submission is tiring: that’s true. But much less effort is required for seeking out sites like this one and leaving comments, if your purpose is to drive traffic to your website. And every time you read an article, there’s the possibility that you’ll learn something new and useful. That’s what I find I am enjoying most about this process.
October 7th, 2010 at 2:29 am
article submissions can do great for a newly built site on the internet’*~