Comments on: The Power of Commenting on Blogs

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:30:00 +0000

Thanks for promoting a healthy life style. I think it is so important. Keep up the informative articles. Adrian

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:23:47 +0000

Wow, I just found out about it. I am new into blogging world, so I learn new every day. Thanks for the article, great tips!

By: Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:42:19 +0000

This is a great post and very encouraging for me as a fairly ‘fresh’ (new) blogger. The more I comment the more traffic I get. Considering comments can send you traffic for years to come as you continue to comment the amount of traffic coming your way will increase over time

By: 3magin8.com

3magin8.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:06:28 +0000

leaving comments is essential becuase you also get linkbacks.
but you also have to be sure to leave a worthwhile comment.

By: Ciara Copywriter

Ciara Copywriter — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:01:49 +0000

I will be doing a website traffic increasing trial this month to get from a measly 7 visitors per day to at least 50. Making blog comments will be one of the tactics I will be using, so I will certainly be able to report back soon, in a month, if you will.
So, we know that a good blog comment draws direct traffic from the comment but does it also look better in Google’s books, I wonder? Obviously, you get more inbound links but perhaps so many links on one page gets disregarded by the big G. Anyone know?

By: Jon Griffith

Jon Griffith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:52:27 +0000

As an executive apprentice in the world of promoting a blog, and an intermediate WordPress user, as well as a seasoned Windows Administrator, I would never have thought that the amount of time I would spend on a given task, such as commenting, would actually pay off. Thanks for the insight!

By: TechleMe

TechleMe — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:29:39 +0000

That’s a really interesting post. I’ve used stumble upon before but I’m curious how she’s generating all that traffic from her stumble upon account. Does Caroline have an enormous number of stumble upon friends?

I agree, commenting is important though

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:38:36 +0000

There is a lot of good advice on this site. I am fairly new to blogging and trying to promote my site. I’m going to bookmark your site and try more of these ideas and I’ll try to post regularly to show how they are working.

By: Jon Ward

Jon Ward — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:49:32 +0000

amazingly enough, I’ve had similar luck with comment posting. nowhere near the degree of success that caroline has had but it does prove to me that it can be a fruitful way of getting yourself known. the key is to choose a few good websites with similar content to your own with lots of readers, comment regularly on their posts and become a member of their community, good things will come of it.

By: danae sinclair

danae sinclair — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:36:46 +0000

Hey, interesting article and resource you have here.

I’ve only been blogging since August and find i waste a lot of time commenting on other blogs – mostly because so far I have stuck to a small writers community and have focused on getting some writing on my own two blogs (i have one for journalling and one for some fiction I’m working on). Time is short in my household so cruising the blogosphere (or whatevs its called) is a luxury I don’t often allow… and, to be honest, a lot of the blogs that are part of my ‘community’ don’t really get me worked up enough to leave any time-worthy remarks…and the comments left on my own blog are not the kind of open ended, inviting kind that generate any conversation from me – should I be responding to comments left on my blog? should I go and visit the blogs of the inane commenters? hmmm.

…not to mention that I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of how to find stats about visitors etc – and I’m guessing that it will take a whole lot of clicking to find out!

but – you reap what you sow!

I’d love to increase traffic to my sites so a new strategy would be to chose blog comments wisely – that is, find/write some content that actually inspires some decent commentary (er, like this one??) and join a wider community of like-minded souls – no?

*sigh* there is so much to learn.

By: Breadlegs

Breadlegs — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:04:10 +0000

So how do you guys ensure that the content of your comments is worthwhile and attracts a response ?? Great article by teh way…

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:08 +0000

I’m lucky to get one link back from a comment that I post, nevermind 94 like Caroline, so I think she’s definitely doing somethign write.

By: coldhitz

coldhitz — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:26:20 +0000

I just started my blog at blogger. I’ve been asking my brothers and friends to test it out , for function , as I kept getting an error message , and no responses when I clicked on interacting feilds. This was finally solved , when I stripped every module , and tracked it to my Amazon Unbox player. All the traffic that came to , what I was really happy with , was unable to see all my youtube work , or even comment on my posts. So , I have to say that the traffic will only build by returning to a Vlog , which they can interact with, by commenting on . I am rebuilding it , and will continue to study this great resouce … Thanks to all of you for publishing , and commenting.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:22:09 +0000

Darren you have given me a strong reson to think on my part about the way to comment all around. Even no body likes to have a meaningless spam coments stating nothing usefull stuff other than just passing their URL. Even that frustrates the Author of the blog of that weired responses. And if u find a good response u even dont mind to pass a interrelated link to others blog & even not hold on its approval part.

And as i am new to this world all over i got some interesting facts to come across ur blog and the responses provided by the visitor.. Thanks

By: Glen(Web-Design Blog)

Glen(Web-Design Blog) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:02:53 +0000

That is a very interesting point. When ever I read a comment on a blog I like ,in most cases I go to that persons blog and read the material . This was the same method I used for finding problogger!

By: aritoni

aritoni — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:51:20 +0000

I’ll be a little scepticist. I feel that when commenting to other blogs (especially in a small “market” like Greece) the major number of visitors came from these sites are only bloggers who runs their own blogs.

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:00:15 +0000

whoa. 700 visitors is quite a large number! Well now I get the true importance or commenting on other people’s blogs! Previously i thought it was just a waste of time.

By: Silvia Chauvin

Silvia Chauvin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:58:11 +0000

Nice post Darren thanks!
Just yesterday I came across this plug in to encourage good comments and reward the commenter with a dofollow link.
http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/lucias-linky-love-a-dofollow-plugin-to-foil-human-comment-spammers/

I haven’t installed it yet but it seems very promising.

By: M.S.

M.S. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:14:34 +0000

Commenting on others blogs just for the sake of increasing the traffic on ones own is a turn off and a pain in the neck and nothing but another form of spam. But it seems that a big part of the net commmunity is pleased with this kind of less than superficial “pseudo-communication” and loves to scratch others backs hoping that they in turn will scratch their own = payoff in clicks ->money. This blog seems to be nothing but the same dull place that celebrates the empty “goddess of traffic” as the ultimate goal of acticity.

By: coldhitz

coldhitz — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:41:44 +0000

I am new to blogging, and I only became aware that I was blogging recently. I am a trained pizzaiolo, who recently decide to share my passion for fresh pizza with the world. Now that I’ve got my Youtube channel up and running, I’m starting a blog. I’ve only been commenting on other bloggs , so far, and have seen the interest other’s have shown in my comments. My viewership is steadily increasing , and it’s just from posting videos, and commenting on the other food blogs, mostly bakespace.com.