3+1 Things Which Determine The Traffic You Will Get From Comments
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Blog commenting can help you get traffic for your blog and you can also become famous in the blogosphere. But the traffic that comes to your blog from the comments you make will not stay in your blog for a long time or they won’t subscribe to your blog unless the blog in which you made comment is related to your niche. There are very less chances for a visitor coming from a health related blog to subscribe to your blog. So before you do any commenting on any blog, you have to take few things into consideration. First let me just list the benefits of commenting in the blogs of your niche:
- Targeted traffic
- More chances of visitors to become your blog subscriber
- Good Impression on you and a lot more.
You can comment in any blog, but to achieve the above three, you will have to choose the best blogs. So here are 5 things that you should keep in mind before you choose blogs for commenting:
You can comment on any niche blog and I suggest you to do so. But considering the main aim of the series, which is to get traffic from comments, you should expect good traffic from the comment in the blog of your niche. The niche of the blog in which you make the comment matters most. The people who come to your blog after reading your comments from the blog, which is your blog’s niche, will tend to take actions like subscribing to your blog, commenting on your blog, or even buy what you sell in your blog. These visitors will be more reactive than any other visitors to your blog. It is better to get 10 visitors from a blog of your niche than 25 from a blog of a different niche.
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2. The Traffic
Second factor which plays a key role is traffic. The more traffic the blog receives, the more people will tend to visit your blog through your comment. If you can make the first comment in a blog post which receives 1000+ visitors, then you can expect good amount of visitors to your blog. When you consider the traffic from that one comment alone, it will be less. But these add up to a big amount when you make more comments. I, once made a comment in a blog post in a popular blog and surprisingly that post made to the front page of Digg. This got me over 30 visitors from that single comment.
3. Number Of Comments
When you make a comment on a blog post which has already received hundreds of comments, then you can’t expect much traffic. Still, I suggest you make the comment if the post is really good because you are commenting to tell your views and you cannot expect traffic every time you comment. You have to enjoy commenting and should not do it for the sake of traffic. If you find a really good post, then go forward and be the first to tell you honest opinion. The first comment on every post gets noticed more. Don’t hurry when commenting and don’t make mistakes. Comment with care.
4. Quality Of The Content
Both big blogs and small blogs come up with top notch content at times. Posts like “A comprehensive guide to StumbleUpon” from DoshDosh, “43 web design mistakes you should avoid” from Daily Blog Tips are few examples of top notch articles. They get visitors everyday and they will receive comments now and then. If you read a post which you think will become popular then make sure you are the first one to comment.
I, once again, tell you that these tips are just to get more traffic from your comments. But I suggest you not to use it in wrong manner and spam the comments or leave the small blogs without commenting. You can easily make a comment in 2 minutes. So make comments in blogs other which don’t qualify the above things because traffic is not all you get from commenting. There are much more valuable things other than traffic to your blog. Read this post on what you can get by commenting on other blogs.
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Ramkarthik, 18 year old blogger and freelance writer.
Chris Estes | January 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pm #
I am enjoying your series. Being a new blogger, or at least having my own blog, I don’t get much traffic and I can say that the bulk of my traffic comes from comments I have made on other blogs. Some people veiw being the new person on the scene as spamming and I have even had good comments voted down into the spam category.
One thing I have noticed about blog commenting is it fits into any traditional style marketing/branding campaign. It is like going to the industry holiday party and being right there handing out business cards. Eventually you will get noticed and people are going to remember you eventually. I am a fan of positive branding for the obvious reasons. But, there is always that one obnoxious business card giver that is always there and people just push aside. Moderation and finding your blog commenting “groove” is important.
Again I am really enjoying your series and look forward to your following post.
Ramkarthik | January 5th, 2008 at 2:55 pm #
Chris, I wonder how long it took you to make this comment, but it is so well written and very nice that I myself want to click on your name and visit your blog. I agree with your points.
Glad you like the ‘blog commenting‘ series.
Thanks for your comment.
Jason | January 6th, 2008 at 6:15 am #
Ramkarthik very god points. I think another thing that would help is if I put the name of my blog but I always just use my name. If I use Success For Your Blog rather than Jason it may intrigue people more. What do you think?
Ramkarthik | January 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am #
Jason, I suggest you to use your name and brand yourself as a blogger. It is not bad to comment with your blog name unless it is a ’single word’ comment or it is one that provides no value. In my opinion, commenting with your name is good and you will be known well by your name in the blogosphere.
kuanhoong | January 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm #
Nicely written. I do agree with you on point no. 4. Good quality content is always very important.
Wayne Liew | January 13th, 2008 at 9:00 am #
Getting traffic from comments might be hard but if the commenting are done based on the four guides that you have given above, I think a considerable amount of traffic will drop by.
Be the first to comment on a blog with high traffic will surely get the link some coverage. However, I see small blogs which are related to my blog as a good target for networking rather than getting traffic.
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Linda R. Moore | January 14th, 2008 at 6:59 pm #
It’s very refreshing to read an article that puts some thought into the commenting issue, since I am used to reading those that say “go find the dofollow blogs and comment on them to get some links back.” In actual fact I have a plugin now that makes the dofollow conditional: a person has to have a set number of comments approved before they get the nofollow tag removed.
In answer to Ramkarthik, above, I hate it when people use a keyword to comment. I’m not that pleased with them using their blog name, either. I use my pen name to brand myself and have more respect for those who use a real name or, at least, a real nickname.
In fact, it’s against my commenting policy and if people do it I replace their name with their real name (from their blog) or, if I can’t find it, some arbitrary name.
Best wishes,
Linda R. Moore
jessie | January 17th, 2008 at 1:09 am #
your tips are very helpful. as a blogger myself, i agree that one should leave a relevant comment, not just to be noticed, but because of the good intent to to contribute to the discussion. some commentators leave behind comments (just like you implied) for the traffic. however, other readers in my view can simply recognize if a commenter is a drive-by commentator or not. a good approach to commenting is perhaps one key why other visitors will click on your link when you leave a comment in a blog post.
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mymytri | January 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pm #
Nice article ramkartik.I agree most of the points you have made.Sometimes i do comments even if the blogs are not in my niche or have more than hundred comments ,when i have something to say or extremely helpful.Thanks for your add in SU
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