How To Comment on Blogs The Right Way!
Blog commenting can make a pretty big difference in helping you connect to your readers. Apparently, 90% of the newbies relate blog commenting to simply spamming. They go so far as to write a generic, crappy comment on someones blog in order to get a link. It is really surprising to see people developing all these scripts which try to bypass Akismet in order to spammy popular blogs.
The thing which is more interesting is that the links (URLs) in the spammy comments never point to a valid internet resource. Instead, even the link happens to be junk. I tried following them and received a 404 error.
For people who think blog commenting is an easy way to get a backlink and tons of traffic, I have news: IT ISNT. Do not approach this method as a way to get rich quickly. It will not happen.
Blog commenting is used mainly to get your audiences attention in order to portray yourself a leader in your niche. Once you are viewed as the expert in a certain niche, selling to your customers gets a lot easier.
Although blog commenting can be helpful, there is a catch to it: Your comments should be valuable/productive and insightful. If they are not, your comments will not be productive towards your needs. If you post a generic comment such as the one below:
Nice post! I really liked it! I will come back to this website again!
in the hopes of getting links to their websites without a lot of effort, your efforts will not be fruitful. More than 80% of the comments I receive on my blog are similar to the ones above, and I see no reason to accept them.
So if you want other blogs to accept your comments, make sure you do the following:
1. Only comment on blogs related to your niche and target audience.
2. If you have nothing good to say, do not blabber. You do not need to comment on everything.
3. Only provide useful comments, which show that you know at least something about the topic at hand.
4. Leave a link on another person’s blog only when you are sure it makes sense to do so.
And please! Stop with the blog commenting scripts!