Be a Lean, Mean Comment Machine

Blog commenting is a free, easy and powerful way of driving targeted readers to your blog.

It can also lead to both productive and profitable relationships with other blogger as well. However, for it to be a success, you must do it right and systematically.

The most important key, to succeed with blog commenting, is relevance.

I’m sure that you can see why leaving a comment on Aunt Annie’s gardening blog, with a link to your death metal blog, wouldn’t do you or your ads for T-shirt hell, much good, compared with a link to your bonsai tree blog.

The second key is to get your comments to stand out from the rest.

Dare to be bold, challenging and passionate while you write your comment. Your goal is to be interesting enough, so others want to click on your link, to find out more about you.

Therefore, stay away from measly comments like, “Thanks, for sharing!”, “Great tip!”, “I agree!” etc.

Instead, express what it is, exactly, which makes you like or dislike the post, or add additional information about the topic discussed. These are comments that will make people notice you.

Now, when we have covered the basics of blog commenting, let’s move on to finding the right blogs for your exceptional comments.

Two great sites, to find blogs in almost any niche there is are, blogcatalog.com and technorati.com.

Start browsing through the blogs, listed in the niches that you feel is relevant to yours and chose a number of blogs, that you feel you can leave comments on, on a daily basis. Here is a tip, to keep things organized, create a new folder in your bookmarks, and place your findings there.

Now, all you’ll need to do is visit the blogs on your list, and leave a comment. The trick is to include this into your daily routine and to use the same name, for all your comments. That way you will build an identity around yourself and your blog.

If you follow this routine, every day, you will soon see an increasing number of new readers, finding their way to your blog. Moreover, the blog owners will also notice you and might contact you, which will help you build a very important network of friends.

I will address two things, which always arise, whenever the topic is blog commenting, PR and Nofollow, although, I will be brief, since these two subjects are immense.

First, PR. I have never bothered with tracking down high PR blogs, because PR stands for PageRank and not SiteRank. Often, you will leave comments on new post, which doesn’t have a PR yet, so it doesn’t matter much.

Next, the Nofollow tag. The general rule is that all blogs attach the Nofollow tag to all the links left in their comments. Originally, the idea was to instruct the search engines (read Google) that a link, with the Nofollow tag, should not influence the link target’s ranking in their index.

However, whatever or not the search engines obey the Nofollow tag, is highly debated.

Besides, I don’t see blog commenting as a way of attracting search engine robots; I see it as a way of attracting real people, such who actually reads what I write, spread the buzz around and click on ads.

Nevertheless, I will address these two red-hot topics, in a post of their own, though.

I hope that I have encouraged you to throw yourself out there and start writing comments, and remember, 99% of all blogs out there want comments, just like you, so don’t be afraid to leave yours!