How to build traffic to your site – Part 1 of 4

by Sean on September 18, 2009

blog commenting to generate traffic

Getting Traffic Through Blog Commenting

Every single website owner has one main goal: to attract visitors. There are numerous methods to get visitors to your site and this update our focus will be on getting visitors through Blog Commenting. Blog Commenting, when done correctly, can increase the visitors to your website exponentially. When you comment on a Blog there are several things that you must take into consideration to optimize the effect of your comments. The first and foremost factor is how the particular blog relates to your website. The rule of thumb is to participate and make comments on blogs that directly relate to your website. For example, if your site’s main focus revolves around pet supplies the best type of blog to find to comment on is one that deals with pets and animals. By specifically choosing a blog that relates to your particular website will have a greater probability of getting a visitor to click on your website link after reading your comment, and that brings us to the next section of successful blog commenting, your actual comments.

Once you have found a blog that directly relates to your site and you are getting ready to comment, think before you post. Your comment should be as specific and as targeted as you can to whatever particular blog post you are commenting on. If you want to comment on a blog post about Pet Fish your comment should relate directly to Pet Fish and provide unique and insightful commentary. By providing something that the end user will actually want to read will increase your chance of getting that reader to click on the link to your site, whereas a generic ‘bottled’ response will likely never generate any clicks. It’s best to focus your comments on something that is worthwhile and will genuinely captivate the reader and provide something new and useful for them to absorb.
By following these simple guidelines to choosing the right blog to submit comments on as well as providing useful comments you will increase your chance of getting users to click your link. Also, many blogs require the blog owner to manually approve the comments; generic comments are usually deleted whereas your quality comment will get approval. After your first quality comment is approved you should definitely revisit the blog and look for other postings and pages to submit your quality comments on, this in turn will help you develop a ‘working relationship’ with the blog owner and elevate your authority as a site owner.

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