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Using Blog Comments For Backlinks and Traffic
This one’s pretty easy, but does take a bit of time, although it is free and can pull in some pretty good traffic and backlinks, as well as having the potential to build some “authority” in your niche if you get it right…
Leaving comments on other people’s blogs, preferably in the same market as you, can get you a bunch of backlinks and traffic for free.
The standard way to approach Blog Commenting for traffic is to target high “PageRank” and high traffic (low Alexa rank) blogs for your targeted keywords and just leave good comments (that will get accepted if the comments are moderated, which they will be on the better blogs) on as many blogs as possible.
There are software tools to help you search by keywords and find high PR blogs (that don’t have the “nofollow” tag on comments, so you get more “link love”) and I’ll link to a free one towards the bottom of this post, look for “Blog Comment Magic“.
However, I think the best part of this technique is it can raise the profile of you and your blog with other “authority” blogs and blog owners in your niche, and start to get your name/brand out there, but to do so you need to post good quality, interesting, knowledgeable comments, not just crap like “Nice post!”…
It does take more time doing it this way, but the benefits can be somewhat significant.
The trick is to search for the market leaders and authority blogs in your market/niche and actually read the posts so you have an idea of what’s “on topic” and current and can comment with some knowledge on the latest posts. If you need to learn more about the subjects of the posts doing a search on ezinearticles will usually give you more than enough knowledge to know what you’re talking about.
I recommend spending at least a couple of hours once or twice a month doing just this, or even better, if you can spare the time, spend one whole day doing it once a month for 2 or 3 months, as you’ll be surprised just how much you can get done if you focus on it solely for a whole day.
When you leave your comments don’t worry about putting your keywords as your name in the comment form, not for these kind of comments, as you are far less likely to have the comments approved on a up to date, active blog if you do so.
Your main aim is to post comments that other people reading these popular blog posts will find interesting and hopefully decide to come and have a look at your blog because of the quality of the comments you leave.
It’s also better to link back to a relevant/related post on your own site to make it even more likely to be of interest to people.
Not only will this start to get your name noticed by the authority blog owners, their readers will also start to see you as someone who knows what they’re talking about and come to visit your blog, AND you will get a very clear idea of what topics and subjects make for popular blog posts in your niche, so you can write your own posts on the same popular topics…
It’s basically a win/win!
This is also a tactic that you can do for a couple of months, then slow down a bit on, as you will probably end up with a short list of blogs that you find useful to visit regularly and you can just focus on commenting on popular new posts on these, making the process easier, and less time consuming.
That’s pretty much it for Blog Commenting, find good blogs, either using Google or the free tool below, and leave good quality comments so they get approved and read!
Here’s a free tool you can use to find good blogs to leave comments on here: -
**Please make sure you check the “Read Me” txt file if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, as both need a small “tweak” for the software to run without any problems.
As a side topic, to stop people leaving short, “crappy” comments on your own blog there is a plugin you can use to set a minimum comment length: -
Note: Don’t forget to check out the previous posts in the Simple Blog Traffic Action Plan series…
Part 1: -
Part 2: -
Submitting Articles For Traffic
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