How to get the most out of your time with blog commenting
When I market online I like to practice simple but effective principles that I refer to as “smart marketing.” In short, I like to optimize the most out of my time and also implement marketing methods that will give me the best return off of my very important investment of time.
So, when you comment on blogs with the follow attribute I would also recommend commenting on the most popular blogs, or in other words the blogs that are the most trafficked like techcrunch, mashable, shoemoney etc.
There are a couple of key factors that you should be searching for when commenting on blogs:
1. Alexa rank – Generally the lower this number is the more traffic the site is getting. This can be fabricated with a couple of black hat tips so I won’t tell you how to do it but would recommend showing this factor some importance.
2. Page rank – The higher the number this is the better as well. A higher page rank website will usually lead to a fresh 25 website being quickly eaten up (indexed) within the search engines.
3. Number of comments – The above two options can be fabricated a bit, but generally if a blog has a lot of comments then it will be generating a good amount of traffic and they have good community. Also, blogs that have a lot of comments are excellent for search engines because search engines LOVE content. Remember, it is their primary source of nourishment and if they do not get it then they will not be well nourished so they in return will not like the site very much! So in short, a blog with lots of comments should be getting more traffic.
4. How active – I would recommend making a list blogs within your market that contains the follow attribute anywhere which rewards the commentators and sort them out in an excel sheet by their details. This will also make checking for links easier later in the future as well. Usually, highly trafficked blogs will be updated more often so staying up to date with them is a good idea.
You can also check the Google cache of a website to see the last time that the Google bots have visited a site. The more often that the bots visit the sites is another good indicator that it is getting a decent chunk of traffic. In addition it always helps to be the first person to comment on a trafficked blog because your site will be in a better position to gather more presence.
I hope this article will benefit you a lot while commenting on blogs and will let you get a good amount of traffic and backlinks for your blog.
[*Update - Recommendation of Comment Sniper has been removed after it was reported as a trojan by few scanners. Sorry for the inconvenience.]
Article Written By Typhoon
Yo! I am Typhoon a.k.a Sushant, a 17 yrs. old blogger from India and the owner of SmartBloggerz. Here I try to share useful Blogging related articles which would help a blogger to succeed. You can connect to me on Twitter.Typhoon has written 333 superb article(s) on this blog
April 20, 2009
4:55 pm
That’s a very useful article for me. I never thought those things which you mentioned while blog commenting and I think it will really help me now onwards whenever I will comment on blogs.
I also downloaded the toll which you recommended at the last. I will try to know whether it helps or not.
Thanks
December 13, 2009
7:08 pm
Of course, Blog Commenting has been and is the most easy one to get links and following these steps makes this effective.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively
December 14, 2009
5:12 pm
Because it’s the most easiest one, i wonder why people still looking for another way to get link. And sometime, their invest too much budget for single link.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
11:34 am
Yes I love commenting since its easier and we can learn something too. I find its really hard for forum posting as I get banned most of the times
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..7 Questions You Should Answer Before Blogging
December 14, 2009
5:14 pm
Yes it’s useful. You can try to do routin commenting and get link, start from this blog.
Actually when i’m on other reader replying this article just like this one, my investment is back 2 times. First, it’s because of course i’m already get knowledge from the article itself, and second is for exposurement i get on this comment.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
12:13 pm
Agreed. Also when replying u take lesser time than commenting for the first time.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..7 Questions You Should Answer Before Blogging
April 20, 2009
7:02 pm
Nice article… as you say making list of blogs that as dofollow help a lot… I follow it to some extent…
Thanks for the article again…
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April 21, 2009
12:00 am
Thanks for the tips, I tried to have a look at comment sniper (link provided in post), but the page is not found. I’m using FF and don’t know if it’s my browser giving me problems or not.
Please could you look into that as I would like to know more about it.
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April 21, 2009
12:10 am
Hey George,
Glad to see you liked the article.
On your notification I checked the comment sniper URL; It’s working absolutely perfect. You will be redirected to Comment Sniper page and on the right hand side fill in your details to get the the download details to your mail box.
The link again:
http://www.smartbloggerz.com/commentsniper
Hope your problem might have been solved.
April 21, 2009
12:09 am
This one is nice to read. But the crowd now will really go to the top blogs than to the newbie blogs I think.
Content is the king always. So if you like it, then you should comment to say your appreciation.
I am appreciating you man..
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April 21, 2009
6:34 pm
Thanks – I see the link is working for me now.
April 21, 2009
11:19 pm
That’s good
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April 22, 2009
2:11 pm
Ya Thanks for reporting me the problem of Comment Sniper.
April 22, 2009
6:12 am
Great tips for getting the most out of comments. When I was first starting my blog I would only comment on blogs that were do follow. Now that I have achieved a decent page rank, I commnet on blogs that I read and like regardless of if they are do follow or not. I really love blogs with CommentLuv though, I just install it on my blog a month ago and comments doubled in that time frame.
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April 22, 2009
2:04 pm
Dan, Nice to see you on this blog. Thanks for liking this article.
Great to hear that with CommentLuv your comments doubled and I wishing the same too.
April 22, 2009
7:56 pm
@Typhoon,
U r most welcome..
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April 23, 2009
3:48 am
Thanks for a great article. Commenting is a wonderful process, both to recognize good articles and to help with back links. I am working with new baby boomer entrepreneurs who are starting businesses after retiring from their first career. They will find this article and others you have posted on blogging to be a real help in establishing themselves and their reputations whether they have on-line businesses or off.
Shallie Bey
Smarter Small Business Blog
April 23, 2009
7:50 pm
I routinely ignore Alexa ranking because it is a very meaningless statistic— unless you reside in India!!! (LOL)
April 23, 2009
8:17 pm
Ya, Alexa is not sooo much important but having a look at it also doesn’t spoils anything.
But yes I do agree that Alexa rankings can not be believed that much because they are mostly based on If a visitor have an Alexa Toolbar installed in their computer(and then thy calculate something)…
If they have changed their algorithms in their recent website update(as I told on the blog few days back) then we might see proper rankings of websites.
April 24, 2009
6:16 am
Mate Alexa tool bar helps in improving the Alexa Traffic Rank am i right Typhoon
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April 24, 2009
3:08 pm
Ya, you got it right Balaji.
May 17, 2009
5:36 pm
Great Advice. I’m going to check in to TechCrunch, shoemoney, and mashable. It doesn’t look like these follow….is the approach to just comment and get more exposure?
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December 14, 2009
5:11 pm
Actually we should not commenting in a approach for get exposure only. Treat the exposure just a bonus. With this, you will be good commentator and the blog owner will appreciate you.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
July 27, 2009
5:21 am
i spend my time for blog commenting. And i search for a blog which have top commentator widget. And i just comment to become listed there. Sometime, link on top commentator is do follow.
And you know what its mean. Backlink for you
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July 28, 2009
12:14 pm
@akira07, akira commenting for
backlink is not too good because some say dofollow comment is good
but overdo it harm you on google not pagerank wise but on ranking
factor.
July 29, 2009
7:46 am
@rky, But how about if i only commenting on relevant blog and my comment is relevant with the blog post. Will google still think it’s spam/linkfarm?
July 30, 2009
11:37 am
@akira07,
I am not sure on that point but i see that when you comment
on smartbloggerz you leave your blog last post on it everytime .
i think you place your link when your blog post is relevant.
December 14, 2009
1:32 pm
@rky I cant get u correctly. Do u mean placing our last post on commenting is bad and can harm us?
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December 14, 2009
5:08 pm
Blog last post? Do you mean recent/last article on my blog? LOL, it’s automatically given by commenting plug-in used on this blog.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 14, 2009
1:29 pm
@Akira07 no chance. Link farms are different. they have only links and search engines r too clever to find which are link farms and which are not
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively
December 14, 2009
5:09 pm
So, commenting is safe way to get a link? I’m agree about it, but as i said on other article, the “google sandbox” things is for real. Need to learn about it deeply.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 14, 2009
1:27 pm
of course. in all cases over doing it can cause u harm. why not have a habit of dropping a comment of those do follow blogs daily when they release a new post. That makes ur back links increase consistentally and google can do nothing to u
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively
December 14, 2009
5:06 pm
Yes i’m now understand about it, it’s about google sandbox, right? I need to be careful of it. So, how much do you think a limit to be collecting link for commenting?
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 13, 2009
8:20 pm
yeah its a nice idea.. apart from do follow link, we get traffic from that blog also. That site readers too will automatically come and read our article.
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December 14, 2009
1:33 pm
@Deepika Thats called referral traffic and we can comment in nofollow blogs too to get exposure and those kind of referral traffics.
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December 14, 2009
1:25 pm
Cool., I have even have folders on my reader seperating top commentator, comment luv and do follow blogs, the one satisfies all of them is my first blog to be read.
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July 28, 2009
12:11 pm
I am also commenting on many blog but i am not using my blog url on comment on any blog because i think using a blog url on any blog is not good so i only use my blog url on particular blog niche which i want to target.
December 14, 2009
3:40 pm
Really? I wonder, how come it’s no good putting your blog url while commenting?
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December 17, 2009
12:16 pm
You shouldn’t use blog url at all the places but to the places where the blog is related one or else your own comments can harm you if the blog is not a good one or irrelevant one.
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December 14, 2009
5:04 pm
What is the bad about using url on commenting form? Yes, i find you not using link in every of your comment, since in the past.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
12:18 pm
As stated above always use URL in relevant blogs. May be rky doesnt like to link from this ( because of different niche) and at these times we can give link to our twitter profile or facebook profile which can help us in social networking.
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December 9, 2009
11:13 pm
very good article. I just comment on blog when i like the content. I never look about the rankings.. These tips are really helpful. I will follow these in commenting hereafter.
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December 14, 2009
1:23 pm
Sure, I think rankings doesn’t matter. Its all our mindset and what we think about the article is important. Comments are a great place to express our views.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively
December 14, 2009
1:50 pm
yeah comments are helpful for the bloggers to know their readers ideas and it will be an encouragement to the blog owners.
Deepika´s last blog ..My Favourtie Posts@Which I Have Read
December 14, 2009
1:59 pm
Yes the more comments we get the more we proud about our content.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively
December 14, 2009
5:03 pm
Both making article and make a comment is an investment. For commentator, it’s already explained above. And for article creator (blog owner), it’s investment to build reputation, reader base, etc…
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
12:19 pm
But getting comments is not so easy unless ur content is appealing and thought provoking.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..7 Questions You Should Answer Before Blogging
December 17, 2009
4:40 pm
@senthilramesh
you are right…. If we post a good content readers automatically comment to that… So we have to try hard to post a good and effective content in blog.
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December 20, 2009
1:27 pm
@Deepika Yes it all depends on good content.
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December 14, 2009
5:02 pm
That’s the ideal commentator about. You need to keep that habit. Content first, ranking is later. If you place ranking as first thing, people will look you as bad commentator because if the site is drop, you leave it.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
12:20 pm
Agredd Akira., This can again say that u must keep urselves in the shoes of blog owners when u comment.
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December 30, 2009
11:38 pm
@akira07
You are right friend… If a blog provide a great content, we should not hesitate to comment there even if it has low ranking… And also we should present a valuable comment for that article.
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December 13, 2009
7:10 pm
I spend most of the time blog commenting and networking with bloggers. But, I never chk these Google’s cache and all as I know the list of blogs I have selected are often crawled, And yes now you are in my list too.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively
December 14, 2009
5:00 pm
I’m also just aware about google cache thing which can be used for tracking “How worth the blog is, for commenting place”. Yes Senthil, same with you, Smartbloggerz is in a list.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
12:21 pm
Ha ha. The list keeps on increasing and my comments in other blog decreasing due to this competition.
Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..7 Questions You Should Answer Before Blogging
December 14, 2009
4:57 pm
Commenting as investment is unique idea. All we’re talking here is called as blog walking. For now, i’m commenting on some blog included this blog, but i’m not use it for marketing anything yet. Even like that, i still feel the benefit (in other mean, return of investment already reached) such friend, network, etc…
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 17, 2009
12:23 pm
Commenting as investment- good point. it gets u some relation with the bloggers, back links, exposure to others read the article and etc..,
I have even got some new friend requests after started commenting in SB.
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