Smart Commenting Makes All the Difference
By eb.arts • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Internet Marketing
If you are a blogger, a niche business owner, or anyone who has a website that is niche related, then you ought to be active on other blogs and social networks in your niche or area of expertise. If your not your missing out.
Becoming active on others’s blogs in your niche is nothing new and certainly not a new idea when it comes to marketing. But being the 718th commenter or leaving comments like, “Great post!”, just don’t cut it.
The first thing you need to be doing to be a smart commenter is start using Google Alerts. This allows you to get updates from across the web on topics you decide on based on keywords; and you can get them as they happen. Using alerts like these allows you to be frequently first in the commenting on sites. And being first gets you noticed.
If you’re missing the point on why commenting is such a big deal, think about the fact that most blogs give you the opportunity to leave a URL when you comment. Your name, when displayed, will then link back to your site.
Smart Commenting
So now you have you a way to get in first on the comments of blogs in your niche. But again, cheesy comments like the aforementioned won’t do you much good. On a highly trafficked blog, you will see probably 500 of these at least. Commenting is your chance to show others’ readers that you are an authority on the topic also.
Therefore, your comments should be commentary on the topic at hand. This can include opinion, fact, reference to information, additional information not touched on in the post, and more. But it should always be topic oriented.
The Results
Many people, for whatever reason, still do not see the benefit of niche related commenting, so I am going to show you!
I put a WordPress blog about three months ago, did some posting to it for the first two months sporadically, had no ping list, and virtually no other marketing or SEO, and then let it sit. I would get maybe 2-5 visits a day (not new visits, total). I did this to get a base line.
Yesterday I began using Google Alerts and commented on every blog post that came into my email, frequently first. This is the only thing I have done differently. Below you can see the results:
Now I know these results are not great by any means, but all I did was leave 10-15 comments and they weren’t on super, highly trafficked sites. With a little good research, the proper search terms, and hitting the big sites in a niche, just this tactic can have insane results!
eb.arts is a band of cyber ninjas. Actually, I am just a guy who works from home as a writer, artist, web marketer, and designer. I gather my inspiration from a variety of places in life: reading, movies, the outdoors, and frequently my pets. I run two websites:
www.eb-arts.com and
www.everythingartanddesign.com
which are both about to undergo major changes.
They end up being more of a testing ground than anything.
Some of the sites I work for currently are www.FreeArticulator.com where I edit for the Creativity Desk,
www.InformedNetworker.com where I post stories and articles,
www.TrenchMice.com where I write news scoops on business matters,
and I also write for Trafficology, a print publication read by over 80,000 web marketers and developers world-wide and highly rated on the topics of traffic generation and conversions.
In my free time I stay home with my soon to be wife and our pets. I draw, paint, and nap (a lot).
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Rightly said,
When you comment with your profile link or with your url and name link then this link is also submitted to search engines.
If some body is searching you on web then the comments you have made on other blogs would also be there in search.
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