Getting Traffic From Blog Comments

You should still comment on blogs that have nofollow enabled. If you write a thought provoking, interesting, or useful comment people are likely to click through to your blog regardless of any SEO benefits.

People sometimes find an increase on the comments on their own blogs when they comment on others blogs.

Most peoples issue is with lack of time to do blog commenting, but once they find it even more enjoyable than writing blog posts it is not such a chore. Don't use it as an excuse to procrastinate and not do work on your own blog. Limit comments on other blogs to no more than 10 a day - 3 a day if you lack time.

For realness only comment on blogs your really enjoy and you can add value to.

There is a great article on problogger on this technique.

Don't leave "nice job", "good posts" type throw away comments - they add no value at all.

Be careful on the comments your leave - it represents you and your brand. It's you mini resume.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/04/25/leave-comments-on-other-blogs/

I particularly want to quote a comment from one of the readers/commenters on this article.

 

Adam Green

 

"I would add that you need a systematic way of finding blogs to comment on. Not all backlinks are of equal value, and even PageRank is not the best indicator. My method is what I call Google Alerts reinforcement. I set up Google Alerts for blogs on the keywords where I want to build up my Google rank. Google Alerts don’t come in for every mention of the keywords. When I do get one, it means that Google values this site highly for that search term, even if the site has a low PageRank overall.

If I think I can add something useful, I then comment on that blog. I also include the keywords that got me there within the comment. If Google sends me an alert on my comment, then I know that this is a good site, and I’ll subscribe to it in Google Reader, so i can be ready to comment again. Over time I’ve built up a regular commenting route that I try to pass through every couple of days."

Interesting Case Study on Johnathan Legder's blog

http://jonathanleger.com/links-from-blog-comments-case-study/

Also some good information here as well:

http://www.commentsniper.com/news/

TIPS

The CommentLuv Wordpress plugin is a neat way to reward comments on your blog - it ads a little footer that lists the commenter’s latest post.