Blogging Commenting – 4 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Leaving a Comment
Blog commenting is a really important marketing strategy online for small businesses. It can be an incredible way to build relationships with other industry bloggers and a amazing way to get super targeted traffic as long as you do it ‘right’. Ask yourself these 4 questions before leaving a comment somewhere online. Ditto with forums.
Comment Guidelines:
- Do I have anything intelligent to say?
- Is this blog relevant to my industry?
- Does this blog reach my potential audience?
- Does this blog get any traffic?
Try not to make your comments only a couple sentences. Write a solid response.
Track Important Blogs
You also may want to make sure you subscribe via RSS to high trafficed blogs in your industry and make sure you get pinged when they write a new post via email so you can zip over there and write a relevant comment ASAP end up as the first commenter.
Be First With Your Comments!
As they say, “The early bird gets the worm!” By being the first commenter it’s often the first comment listed under the post. Readers will see this comment and if you write something interesting or useful then many of their blog readers will click on your name in the comments going back to whatever url you left as your source. Some of my best traffic is from writing strong comments that add to conversation on other people’s blogs or forums.
Leverage The Search Engines With Your Blog Commenting
You may also want to search your top keywords and FAQ’s online and see what sites pop up in the first two pages. If there are web properties that are not yours listed and their content offers commenting then go in and make a comment. This way you are leveraging other people’s strong rankings in the SERP’s (search engine results pages). Don’t forget to do it for all 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, & Bing) as they list different results.
How do you use blog commenting as marketing tool?
