There are lots of people out there who swear by commenting as their form of advertising and marketing their blogs. They just wait for a new post on a popular blog and bam, their the first to comment and hopefully gain some attraction and traffic back to their blog.
Now as a part-time blogger you may not have all the time in the world to be both commenting and blogging, especially if you don’t know if commenting works. Does it really drive traffic back to you blog?
Yes and no. It all depends on the article, the amount of people that will read the article and the order in which your comment pops up from the top.
Some articles and blogs are better to comment on to get your blog traffic it’s plane and simple. Now I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be active in the blogging community and stop commenting on someones blog just cause it won’t send you traffic. That’s not right, you should comment where you have opinions because comments are really to open up a community like feel and a public dialogue on the bloggers articles.
However, if you are limited in time, you should focus on new articles at popular blogs related to your content. This will get you the most traffic back to your blog and help your SEO out the most (although it’s unsure how much a link in a comment helps, if that person has no-follow disabled). If you stick to similar material blogs you’ll drive the most traffic with commenting because when a reader of that blog passes over your linked text in the comment header and sees that your blogs url as golf in it, if it’s on a golf blog, chances are the reader is looking for golf related sites. But if you’re on a knitting related blog, you might not do as well.
With little time just remember to keep it similar to your blogs topic and go for new posts on high traffic blogs. Those are the most efficient places to comment.
Cool Post
well I posted here so that means I get visit back ? LoL
Nice work !
And… be sure to write something useful in the comment section, so it doesn’t look like 100% spam. Post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links. Your comment will be pending for approval and blog owners are much more likely to approve your comment if it is relevant. Remember, the only cost of your new backlink is a comment. So, take a few moments to write a meaningful comment. Note that you may not insert any links into the text of your comment because you already have a link in your name.