You have a blog and you need traffic. Commenting on other blogs which are related to your blog is a good practice, provided you do it in the right way. Commenting on other blog, exposes your blog URL to others and help you in getting some traffic for your blog, but not back links as most of the comment forms are with “rel=nofollow tag“.

How to write a comment

Select the blog

Select the blogs that you would really like to comment upon. The best way is to subscribe to RSS feeds using at RSS reader like Google Reader. Spend some time to read the posts everyday and using a reader to read the posts is same like reading your emails. You should be aware of the blog, visitors, author of the blog that you regularly read and understand the post well.

Read others comment

Before you comment, just read the other comments posted on the blog post

Comment Uniquely

You should write a comment which should be something different from other comments. Just do not comment something which is already posted by some other visitor. You comment should attract the other visitors and they should react to your comment. Your comment should be something which the author should respond or the other visitors should comment upon. You should have good knowledge of what your are commenting and you should do some research on the topic of the post and if you can find something contradicting or something which is not correct, then that can really make your comment the best comment. If the author or other visitor or cementers reply to your comment, then you should surely reply to them also.

Other important factor that I would like to stress upon is to keep your name consistent in the Name field so that you get noticed and popular

Advantages of commenting on other blog posts

There are many advantages of commenting on other blog posts

1. You get noticed
2. Your Blog get noticed
3. You may get regular visitors or subscribers for your blog
4. You become a part of the blogging community and get popular
5. Your blog posts get more traffic and back links if your posts are worth it

All these are real ethical way of generating traffic and marketing your blog. I do this and I have got good, loyal and returning visitors from this method.

Don’ts

1. Do not just post comment like,very good post
2. Do not post more than 2 links as wordpress by default marks such comments as spam
3. Do not comment something which is not related to the post
4. Do not post bad or de-motivating comments
5. Use correct spelling, grammar
6. Do not just go randomly to some blogs and post a one line comment, very good post, I like the post

I am sure that if you regularly comment keeping these tips in mind, you can surely make use of the commenting feature of the blogging world. After all blogging is interaction and building community.

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