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:

1. Targeted traffic
2. More chances of visitors to become your blog subscriber
3. 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:

1. The Niche Of The blog

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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In the previous article on what everybody ought to know about blog commenting, I mentioned that useful comments only get noticed more and will also get clicks. But what makes a comment useful? And do all the good comments get noticed and get clicks? The answer for it is Yes and No. YES, if you had commented in a “Not so very popular” blog. NO, if you had commented in a very popular blog like Problogger, Doshdosh, DailyBlogTips and few more which gets many comments for every post. So what’s the secret to get your comments noticed and get clicks to your blog? There isn’t any big secret actually. It just depends on the way how you do it.

Winners and losers do the same thing. But what winners do at first, losers do at last.

So whatever you do, do it quick and do it in a creative way to that you will get noticed.

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1. Kick Off the Comments

Being first to comment has its own advantages. If you stay at the top of all the commentators, yours will be seen by every other commentator and also by the blog author. When a reader reads the post, he will also look at the comments. He will read the first few comments without missing a single word. He will skim the next few comments and the comments after that won’t get read. If 80 people see your comment, then surely 4 people will come to your blog, assuming there would be a 5% conversion rate. Darren wrote a post on 10 ways to hurt your blog’s brand by commenting where one of the points he mentions is “Always Being First To Comment”. But if you read the point fully, you will see that your blog’s brand will be hurt only if you hurry to make the first comment and post useless info in the comment.

2. Make A Lengthy Comment

This is just to get the attraction of the comment readers. If your comment is big, they will read it thinking that you have something very useful to say. You have to satisfy their expectations. When you make lengthy comments, you should have good info in it. Lengthy comments don’t mean writing an essay or a blog post in the comment. Maybe a couple more lines than normal comments would be best.

3. Make It Easy To Read

If you are going to follow the above point, then you have to make your comment easy to read. Don’t express your views in one single big paragraph. Split it into two or more paragraphs or make a list of points and post it. This will make it easy for others to read your comment. After all they are going to read your comment only if it is readable. One more reason to split the comment into two or more paragraphs is to get 90% people’s attention to your comment.

4. Add Points To The Post

Almost every blogger posts list posts. These posts get huge attention and the comments also get significantly more attention. If you read the post thoroughly, you will be able to add points to the list. Say you read a post titled “10 reasons why you should try blog commenting”, you can add the 11^th, 12^th and so on. Read the comments and see if anyone has already added points to the list. If Yes, continue from the number where they have left. If there isn’t any comment adding points to the post, you kick start it. I have tried this method and yes, it has worked for me.

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5. Humor And Controversy

Using humor and controversies are the one of the best ways to get attention to your comment. But first to get your comment read, use on of the above method. To keep the comment reader to continue reading your comment, you can either add humor or controversy. But I suggest you not to you the later (controversy) unless you know how to do it.

6. Present The Comment With Quotes

Adding quotes to the comments you make can be really worth. While many bloggers advice you to add quotes to the post, adding quotes to comments can be equally good. Read books that have quotes and present it in your comment. If you are good in creating your own, then don’t feel shy and give your quote related to the post. Maybe you will become famous for your quotes in the comments.

7. Unique Avatar

This single tip does not suit for all the blogs but it will produce great result in many blogs. Many popular blogs show your MyBlogLog avatar near your name in the comment. Create a very unique or interesting avatar. Though this may not really get more readers, it is still a good technique. If you have your own picture in the avatar, it is well and good. If you don’t want to have your picture, try to select a funny and interesting avatar. You can also try using an avatar that reads your blog name. This can also be very effective. The reader might type your blog url manually later and visit your blog. If you are not there in MyBlogLog, I suggest you to register there with your blog. This creates a community around your blog, a bunch of regular readers.

One more basic tip is to read the content and then comment. Without reading, please don’t comment because it will show very well that you have not read the post.

I have tried every above technique and have found it to be working. As I said, it is not what you do that matters but how you do matters. Be unique. Be creative. Try your best to come up with new ideas to get your comments noticed. Every click you get from the comments on other blogs has a great conversion rate. You can convert many of those one time visitors to subscribers. Install the What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin and also subscribe remind plugin to have much more conversion rate. What do you do to get your comments noticed by others?

This is the second post in the Blog Commenting Series. To know more about the series, see here.

This is the first post on the “Blog Commenting Series”. To know more about blog commenting series, see here.

Commenting in blogs has its own advantages. It has been used by many bloggers to get things done. Commenting in blogs is not only followed for getting traffic but also for various other reasons which will be discussed in this post. When you go to a blog and read a post, the best way to tell the author what you feel is by using comments. By telling your views, you get traffic and a couple more things. So without any delay, let me take you to the post and explain you what the 5 reasons are to comment in blogs.

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1. Quality Traffic

You get quality traffic when you leave a good comment. When commenting on other blogs, make sure you give your best in the comment. Just don’t say “Good post” unless and other wise you are out of words and yet you want to encourage the author for the post. Add value to the post using the comment. A thought provoking comment or at least a meaningful comment will get you good traffic than the two word comments. Also don’t be controversial when it is not needed, else you will get negative impact. But that doesn’t mean you should not tell your views. Just tell it in a polite way because everyone is going to read it. So make a good valuable comment in a blog post on any blog, be it a famous one or not, you will get quality visitors to your blog and surely at least one of them is to subscribe to your blog.

2. Popularity

When you post a comment, you get your name seen by many other bloggers across the word. You get popularity and your blog gets it too. As I said above, if your comment is very valuable, then the chances of getting popular among other bloggers are more. This is the main reason why I don’t recommend you to comment with a keyword in your name. It doesn’t show the world who you are. Also It is a good idea to comment with new blog urls than you old ones, because it is the new ones which need more exposure.

3. More Comments In Your Blog

When you take the initiative to post valuable comments in your blog, then you will receive valuable comments in your blog. More the number of blogs you comment in, more is the number of comments in your blog. To tell it in a more technical way,

Number of comments you make in other blogs is directly proportional to the number of comments you get in your blog

So try to make more valuable comments in other blog, and you will start to receive comments.

4. Back Links

Few blogs have Top commentators list and this will help you a lot in getting back links. Most blogs refresh the Top commentators list every week. So the chances are more for you to top the Top commentators list. You back links increase easily. You get a higher technorati ranking. Also when you comment with your blog name and get into the top commentators list, you will have more chances of appearing in the front page of Google results for your name. But please don’t spam other blogs which have top commentators list by posting unwanted or unimportant comments. There are also bloggers who link back to their regular commentators every month. So you might be one of them for few blogs and you might get a link back.

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5. Improve Relationship

By commenting on other blogs, you can improve relationship with the author of the blog. By commenting regularly in famous blogs, you can even form good relationship with the A-list bloggers. Though it is a little tough, you can get to know them well by commenting in their posts. As I said before, make thought provoking or useful comments, and the author or the A-list blogger would be happy to reply to your comment and hence form a relationship. Once you get yourself known to the author, then you can send a mail to them saying a HI or appreciating their new post.

Blog commenting can prove to be really worth if you can make valuable comments. It is better to make 5 valuable comments than to make 25 unimportant comments. How do you comment in blogs? Do you add value to the blog post by commenting? Share it in the comments.

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Now I hope you have found what I’m going to tell in this post. Yes, I’m going to start a series of posts on Blog Commenting. As you know, blog commenting is a great way to get traffic(without spamming) and also is a good way to get our name famous. I have tried blog commenting and it has been very helpful for me.

What Is The Main Aim Of This Series?

This series will help you to know how blog commenting can help your blog grow. I will emphasize on how to do the blog commenting efficiently. In this series there will also be other bloggers views. So don’t forget to post your blog commenting experience in the comments of the posts.

When Will You Be Starting It?

I will be kick starting the series by posting the first post tomorrow. The series will go on for a week or 10 days with informative posts(I’ll try to make every post as informative as I can). I will also update this post with the link to the posts in the series as soon it is posted.

Here are the list of posts:

1. What You Ought To Know About Blog Commenting

More Coming….

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