I have a question for you here: Why do you comment on other people’s blog?
Be very honest to yourself because you don’t have to write it down here now.
All you need is to tell yourself why you want to comment on other people’s blog.
You don’t have to tell me yours yet but just listen to mine below.
I had been dropping blog comments to build traffic on my site for over the year and here are my misconceptions on blog commenting.
#1 – Be the first
I always think that by being the first to comment, I will get lots of traffic from that particular blog.
That is true but you can’t get a lot of traffic by just being the first.
Being the first to comment is just probably 30% of what it takes to get traffic from blog commenting.
So, don’t think that if you rush to drop the first comments on every blog will win you good traffic.
#2 – Improve SEO
I used to only comment on do-follow enabled blogs and ignore all the no-follow blogs because I think Google care a lot about this relationship when we talk about SEO.
Since I thought I understand Google so well, I ended up building lots of links from comments but in the end, I see no improvement in SERP at all.
Why is it so? Because the PageRank juice of that page is shared among all commentators and the more people comment on the page, the lesser each commentator is going to get.
This is not my definition but you can always refer to the expert, Matt Cutts below:
#3 – More comments = More traffic
Unfortunately, “the more the merrier” does not apply to building more comments for more traffic.
I had tried commenting into 10 different blogs in a day and generate less than 10 visitors to my site.
I had also tried commenting into only one site and it generates more than 10 traffic from that site only.
It is not about the quantity. It is also not only about the quality of your comment.
Your comment matters as much as the site’s quality.
If you comment with the right quality of comment on the right site, then that is the key to a successful blog commenting.
#4 – Appreciate by saying Thank You
I used to drop a lot of ‘thank you’ or ‘great post’ comments last time because I thought it is a proper manner to say thank you when someone do a good job in feeding me the information I need.
But I was wrong and I only realize this after I begin to moderate all the ‘thank you’ and ‘great post’ comments.
You don’t appreciate a content just by saying Thank You because I am sure you have something more to say.
To be very frank with you, it is extremely annoying to reply to those comments.
It is like typing “You are welcome” on my notepad, Ctrl + C (Copy), and keep CTRL + V (Paste) on every reply.
I only manage to do it for two consecutive days and I gave up replying.
I also begin to moderate in the way if there is a Thank You post coming from an anonymous person, I will hit the “Delete Permanently” button.
Sorry for being harsh, but it is really really annoying.
Your myths to blog commenting
So, back to you now.
Do you comment on other people’s blog?
If you do, I’m sure you used to have some myths that you believe in blog commenting before.
Feel free to share with us below.
The post that you are currently reading is one of the Blog Commenting Series.
Blog commenting known as blogwalking is art, art to build good relationship with other blogger, art to spread the idea, art to share with other people around the web and then to emphasize the art of self advertising. right?
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I have to agree, Chris.
To me, it is all about building good relationships
Blog commenting is no longer a good tool for SEO nor for traffic. I comment on both nofollow and dofollow blogs cuz my intention now is merely building relationships with other bloggers and their readers. Or occasionally, I comment simply because I feel like I have something to say.
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Yeps Peter.
I think we think the same. Building relationship is the main purpose of blog commenting if you agree with me as well here
Blog commenting will also bring SEO benefits when we have an option to leave a backlink to our recent blog post. (i.e comment luv)
Blog commenting is not done for SERPs. Business sites or blogs can`t rank for a keyword based upon blog commenting as in comments you are not using keyword. But again if blog is using comment luv then it can be done.
I need thank Alan for using Comment luv!
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Yeps Khaja
That’s how I allow keywords as well in commenting.
I myself have that misconception when I first pursue SEO and blogging. Blog commenting really works for making your site known not much for SEO purposes because bloggers are aware that somehow spam comments can affect their reputation. That video you shared about Matt Cutts talking about is quite a refresher, appreciate that.
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Glad you find the video helpful, Maristella. I wish I knew that earlier as well