Is Blog Commenting A Smart Traffic Strategy?
The whole idea of blog commenting for traffic has been around for a long time, but you don’t hear too many people talk about the effectiveness of this strategy. Maybe that’s because sooo many people do it all wrong.
So, is blog commenting a smart traffic strategy?
Well, it depends on how you do it. Let’s take a look.
Blog Comment Spamming Sucks!
There are A LOT of people out there who are trying to drive traffic to their own sites by posting spammy comments, manually or by using software, on other people’s blogs. If you’re one of those people, stop right now.
First of all, most blogs have “no-follows” scripted into their comments so that you’ll never get any search engine traffic from those postings.
Secondly, there’s not a REAL person on the planet that’s going to follow your link when you post some kind of ridiculous comment that doesn’t make any sense and only promotes your link.
People are smarter than that.
I seriously doubt that you’ll even get any curiosity clicks, so don’t waste your time.
Build Blog Commenting Relationships For Traffic
Now that we’ve gotten that whole spam thing out of the way, let’s talk about how you can use blog commenting to gain traffic. The key to success is to build relationships on any blog that you peruse.
If you’re the blog owner, it’s really a piece of cake to build relationships with your commenters.
But here’s a newsflash — you can build relationships as a commenter too!
Talk directly to the person who wrote the post, talk to other commenters, comment about other comments, and get involved in the blog.
Bloggers Build Community
It’s no secret that many of the people who comment on blogs, especially business oriented blogs, are bloggers themselves. That’s why relationship building on blogs is so important.
When you meaningfully participate in the community aspect of a blog, you’re creating relationships with other people who can send you a significant amount of traffic through blogs and other social media.
In other words, you have to give in order to receive.
Provide great content, post thoughtful and compelling comments, re-tweet posts, make comments about posts on facebook or other social outlets, and bookmark great posts. It all adds up to a lot of interaction with the blog community, gets the attention of the blog owner, and gives you credibility when you post a comment on that blog.
And other bloggers will reciprocate in kind.
That’s the way content REALLY spreads and how you get the kind of traffic that REALLY counts.
It takes time to build traffic this way, but it’s well-worth the effort because it becomes an unstoppable flood of traffic to your site or blog — traffic that converts.
In the end, blog commenting is a REALLY smart traffic strategy if you do it right!
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I recently decided that I would post a useful comment to just one relevant blog per day and one good effect was that one of the blogs I posted to invited me to be their guest blogger and published an original article that I wrote for them. That article got tweeted several times the first day, so, yes, I believe writing good comments can be a positive tool.
Hi Arvada!
Amen on that sister! I get SO tired of having to moderate those spammy comments on my blog! I’m seriously thinking about writing to each of them and telling them how much I do not appreciate it!
However, I’m sure that would take more time than I have….lol!
Your post is very beneficial and full of valuable information. More people certainly need to read it!
I only write comments on the blogs I feel are very valuable, helpful and full of good information, such as yours. I typically like to always thank the blog writer for providing such good and interesting information, plus, I love to connect, build relationships and learn from folks like you.
Thank you for always providing great tips and helpful advice! It is SO appreciated! Make it a great day dear.
Deb