Blog Commenting – Good For Traffic & Backlinks?
Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Boyd Norwood in Blogging, Internet - How To
Who knew that simply commenting on blogs would be a great source of traffic to your site and in some cases good for seo value and creating backlinks to your site.
Now that you know this, it is time to really dig in and understand blog commenting and how to use it effectively. If you follow these steps that are layed out for you, you will start to see traffic and a boost in your organic search rankings.
1. Finding Related Blogs
This is important and not important at the same time. There is a phrase in the SEO world that says, "a link is a link". However, if you are commenting on blogs that are related to your niche or industry, you are much more likely to receive qualified buyers coming to your website to buy your products or services. You can also comment on just about any blog and receive traffic, but they are not pre-qualified buyers. Having a nice mix of both related and non-related blogs to comment on is a good idea. You can find industry related blogs by doing a search on Technorati.
2. Using The Proper "Name" When Filling Out The Name Field
This will make or break your blog commenting efforts. Using the proper name will not only help you with SEO link value, but it will help readers of that particular blog know what your website is about. You will want to use your keywords that you are trying to rank for when selecting your name. In addition to that, you will want to select the appropriate page of your website that is related to your keyword to use as your URL> For example, if my website was about Blackberry Cell Phones, I would do the following…
- Name: Blackberry Cell Phones / URL: www.blackberry.com
- Name: Blackberry Bold / URL: http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrybold
- Name: Blackberry Storm / URL: http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrystorm
3. Don’t Spam Comment
This should be common sense, but for most people it is not. They just want to rip out blog comments like nobodies business. This is not how to blog comment! You need to take time to read the post that you are going to comment on and then in the most professional manner, make an educated comment that adds value to the post and adds value to any readers to read your comment. If you get lazy, even once, your comment could be marked as spam, reported to Askimet, and your comments will never see the light of day on any blog currently using the Askimet plugin.
Remember, you are a guest on other people’s blogs. Don’t do anything that would make them mad or that would make them not like you. You want to become friends with them, add value to their blog, and respectifully take their faithful readers and turn them into your customers.
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