Making Your Blog Comments Effective For Marketing
I check my analytic s all the time. It always amazes me how much traffic I can pull from commenting on other peoples blogs. With all the animal updates google likes to give us. Many bloggers have been more cautious with blog comments.
I can’t blame them I literally get thousands of spam comments every month. I also get lots of those weird comments, you know the ones they kinda go like this:
“Great idea, thanks for the tip I am going to have to use that, I learned so much thank you”
Let’s be honest here:
First nobody is going to care about your blog comments unless you engage the writer or engage another comment with a meaningful opinion. Seriously you don’t have to agree with me to get your comment on my blog. You simply need to actually read what I write or read what someone else commented and take part in the conversation.
Blog Comments don’t = Higher Search Engine Rankings
Maybe blog comments do increase your search engine rankings. But if that is the case your comments needs to be on blogs that are within the same niche that you are in to get any meaningful link juice.SEO isn’t the power of a blog comment. The magic is in the comment itself. You need to really step back and look at the other commentors and also take in the bloggers blog.
The better you can grab a persons attention with your statement the more people that will visit you. I see it all the time on my own stuff. I drop a comment somewhere and keep getting traffic from that comment for months.
The reason is because I don’t write crappy comments. I write thoughtful, insightful and sometimes heart felt comments. The type of comments that compels a person to click on my name.
I know I am going to get some people biting my head off for saying this but I think it needs to be said. Blog comments are only good for your business if they can actually get you traffic.
Get out of your mind that you need lots of backlinks to make money or get more traffic because it’s simply not true. What you need is content that people want. The rest will happen on it’s own.
Blog Comments Is The Doorway Into Another Traffic Stream
Realize that the webmaster of whatever blog you are visiting works very hard to keep traffic coming to their site. If you do your part engage the author, write good comments that are keyword rich then you will be rewarded with more traffic.
If you are low on advertising budget and you want to drive more traffic to your stuff here are some do and don’ts when using blog comments for you
- Don’t use landing pages in your url’s I don’t know any bloggers that like to link to other peoples landing pages
- Do write thoughtful comments, spend 5 to 10 minutes writing your comments
- Don’t comment without your avatar
- Do use gravatar
And please, please don’t outsource blog commenting. Write your own comments. Nobody will represent you as well as you.
Happy New Years!
Some good thoughts Larry. I can see what you mean by value driven comments. Lately I have been doing forum marketing with decent results.
I don’t mind commenting on blogs, my only problem is finding decent blogs to comment on. How do you go about doing that?
I read your last reply to my comment. I’ll have to hit you up on FB in the new year. Perhaps we can touch base 🙂
Hey Randy how you doing bro? You can find a lot of blogs in facebook blog groups…..
Just send me a message 🙂
I found your blog to be very informative. I agree, you need to read the blogs and only post comments to blogs that are in some way related to what you are doing. I am currently working on and am trying to stick with mostly real estate sites. Every so often, I find that a blog site that really hits the mark so I end up posting to it anyway. Again GREAT blog post.
Andrew
Hey Andrew, I know what your saying. There are times I find a blog that I have an opinion on. Even if I am not in the same niche.
Part of commenting is creating a friends so part of me says screw google, as long as what you are saying is relevant I let the comment slide by.
After all at the end of the day it’s not about search engines it’s about people.
Your on point with this article, Many people think that by just copying and pasting comments they will get will get there site ranked instantly. What they dont realize is that there comments are being deleted and considered a spam. there wasting there time and increasing there chances of having there site shut down by google, thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Kevin, thanks for visiting…
Ya I don’t understand it either. Maybe back in 2000 it made some kind of sense. But today with all the google animal updates and such you would think they would know better. Though I don’t know whom is worse the people making the comments or the people paying them to make the comments…
Either way its a bad practice…
Larry – Very informative and well-written blog here. Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks Eric for stopping by. I am glad you enjoy our post.
Hey Larry,
It’s been a while since I’ve been on your blog. Actually i don’t think this was the blog I use to comment on. But anyways, you are definitely right about writing thought provoking, genuine comments. The authors work hard at writing great content, and the least that we can do is actually read and leave a great comment. It doesn’t have to be long, but it does have to pertain to what the author was talking about. It’s great that you expand on it, give genuine compliments, or better yet disagree with the author. Other bloggers will notice what you have to say and this will definitely spark some engagement, shares, and traffic back to your blog!
Great post Larry and I hope your holidays were great! Happy New Year and you have a great one!
Hey Sherman, Happy New Year bro. This is indeed the same place you have visited in the past 🙂 just a different theme.
We are thinking about changing the theme up again and changing it into a magazine style theme. It seems like common sense that a person should post relevant comments. I am still shocked that such a basic concept and people still blindly ignore it.
Hello Sir, /i have read your article and it useful for me. I have fed-up with spam comments showing in my blog thousands of every day. I checked my blog spamming but still its not spam. Its working fine.
I really want to ask a question, Some people using comments as create a backlink for their sit with saying only Nice work, good work, nice information e.t.c. What you think that a comment is more important than content? I have remove comment option from my blog after seeing such comments. I have mentioned last of my blog that “you can mail me if you want to raise a question or want to say something. Through your article i feel that i have to open comment option in my blog. The link showing with this comment is from another blog.
One another question, Please don’t mind! Is this useful to upload Luv comments option in blog where visitors come and comment and leave a link for their own blog? Hope you don’t mind for such long comment. 🙂
Hi Hussain, comments do a few things for you and your blog.
1. It allows you to get feedback on what your readers are thinking.
2. If you get good comments, they will help you get more traffic from the internet.
3. When you do have comments coming in, it’s like you are getting free content added to your site.
It really is a win/win situation assuming you do get good comments. Personally I don’t bother visiting bloggers who turn off their comments.
…With that said,
In some instances having comments doesn’t make sense if you have a strictly business site. But if you have anything that resembles a blog, you should have comments turned on.
Part of making money with your blog, is creating a community among your readers. If you don’t give them a voice then they will loose interest, especially if your new in the game.
Awesome article. It’s very informative, I just started to create a website and this would help me a lot. Thanks for sharing your ideas Larry!
Thanks Ron, Good luck on your new blogging adventure. Just remember if you get frustrated to keep pushing through the obstacles….
Great tips! I do think the part about writing thoughtful comments is quite important. It helps you create a connection with the author.
You’re right about the part where blog commenting can help you get more traffic, I’ve gained a good amount from purely blog commenting.
Thanks Peter, blog commenting can really be helpful, however to many people post worthless comments.
Comments should be well thought out…
@ hello Ron
Very first nobody is going to worry about your site remarks if you take part the article author or maybe take part one more review having a purposeful opinion. Really a person don’t must believe myself for getting your current comment on my web site. Anyone should just actually read what We write or maybe read what somebody else said along with indulge in the talk.
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Hi dear,
Thank you for sharing your views. I agree with you that it’s not the right way to promote or share our view simply by copying and pasting, you know it doesn’t work in that way.
I am getting a lot of spam comments which is really annoying me…Full of software related comments and i don’t know how they got my blog to post all those repeated spam comments.
It’s good that i learned bit from you blog post. May be I will be honest more in the future better than this.
I want to ask a question like how to create a LUV comment box like you have. Can i get it for free?
Sincerely
Rameshramaiah
Your Post is very Used full thanks for Shearing I am really enjoyed this post.
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Yeah! Blog commenting is the doorway of more traffic. It is also a good way to engage your visitors and change them into a regular readers. Here I want to mention that comment should be thoughtful, heartfelt and according to the post so that blog admin, as well as other visitor’s can be engaged in the blog post.
Also, getting spam comments is one of the most common issues of blogging but still you are getting traffic from it. 😉
At last, I would like to thank you for the great post!
Lets be honest advertisers do need blogs with engagements with users where we can attract more advertisers like a Pro
Please help me to how to improve my blog rank. I think that, blog commenting is very helpful to improve blog ranking but someone says, this is spam. So, please help us if blog commenting is spam to get backlinks. Then how can we get a backlinks to our blog…??
Hello Rasheed,
Might I suggest writing content that is worth reading.. Think about the person who is going to actually read your content if the content is good, don’t worry you will get traffic.
Hi There,
Larry Rivera, firstly this a wonderful article which might get attract people who always trying to get traffic for their websites of blog. I am one of those as i can see my website rank on first page for couple of week and them fall back i am very much worried of this, will you suggest me to do blog comment to grow to get traffic and push my site back on to the top.
Thankyou
yes comments play a big role to boost search engine rankings… there is only one post of mine which is ranking on first page of google because it got 87 comments….