A few days back, my blogger friend, Abhishek, asked me a question:
“I just learned that you are an active commenter on many blogs. Your comments easily cross 100s within a week. Can you please tell me if there is any profit from commenting like traffic or relationship or SEO or anything else? Or do you comment out of your interest?”
Abhishek answered his own question in part by mentioning several important points related to the benefits of commenting.
To answer his question in detail, instead of replying only to him, I thought it would be best to write a detailed post on the importance of commenting for all bloggers and social media activists.
Backlinks
This is the most important reason to consistently comment on other blogs. If you find yourself complaining that your site is not getting enough traffic from search engines, it may be because your site does not have enough authority with those search engines.
When you comment on blogs, it helps create backlinks, which in turn generates traffic. Most of these links are no-follow links and thus, carry little value; however, the process is still helpful.
For newer blogs, commenting will help in the faster indexing of your blog.
Read more on backlinks:
- What Is A Backlink And How Do I Get Them?
- 7 Ways To Get Quality Backlinks
- 7 Link Building Mistakes To Avoid While Building Backlinks
Traffic
Commenting helps drive traffic to your blog (because of the backlink).
However, it is important to post a valuable comment.Â
Take advantage of threaded WordPress comments. For example, reply to any question asked on any post, whether it is your own blog or someone else’s blog. Anything that adds value will be appreciated by everyone.
Generic comments like “Thanks..nice post!” will do nothing for your blog or your brand.
- As always, value is key.
In order to take maximum advantage of commenting, follow these simple rules:
- Try to be the first to comment.
- Write detailed comments that are informative and valuable to the discussion.
- Make sure you have an image associated with your email address.
- You can use Gravatar.com for assistance.
Commenting with your keyword as a name has a great advantage in terms of SEO, though many bloggers (including me) will see it as a spam and not accept such comments.
But if you comment without self- promotion, and add value to the post, your comments will be gratefully accepted.
Search Engine Optimization
We have long discussed the importance of SEO for bloggers. Comments can further assist you in optimizing your blog for search engines and take your blog to the next level.
By giving quality comments, you will be performing great offsite SEO, increasing your chances of building high-quality backlinks.
- Comment using your keyword as a name (might trigger spam).
- Comment on blogs with do-follow comment policies.
Once again, I cannot stress strongly enough that you need to add comments which add value and meaning to the original post.
Build Relationships
Commenting is the best way to personally connect with any blogger.
While it can take time to create meaningful connections, once you are regularly commenting, you will be noticed by the site’s administrator and your co-bloggers.
The development of these connections can prove to be very helpful to you in the long term.
Summary
Commenting is a must for any blogger, and it will reward you in the form of:
- Backlinks
- Search Engine Optimization
- Traffic
- Relationships/Connections
If you’re wondering why you are not getting high volumes of traffic to your blog despite your high-quality content, give commenting a try and you will see the benefits in real time.
Check out these other articles for more on how commenting can help you:
- How Commenting Can Help You Get 1000+ Feed Subscribers In A Few Days
- How To Integrate DISQUS Commenting System on WordPress
- 5 Blog Commenting Etiquette Tips Every Blogger Should Know
- Comment Fast with Easy Comment Firefox Addon
- What Is Link Building and What Are The Benefits Of Link Building?
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I personally think that commenting is really not that hard to do. Eespecially, if the blog you are commenting on has the exact same theme as yours do. In my case, I’m a mom blogger. So it’s very easy for me to place comments on other mom blogs because I can relate to them. But I also enjoy commenting on helpful blogs like this one, Harsh. Because, although you are obviously a techie, you explain topics in very understandable terms. Thank you for that and I’m sure you are being rewardded with very good karma for all your help to other bloggers. More power to you!
And, commenting actually helps the site you comment on too. It shows true readership, adds unique (user generated!) content and shows the blog gets traffic. So, it helps both the commenter and the page created for the comments! Thanks for the post.
always enjoy reading your blogs, will show this to my daughter who believe it or not was asking me about this today.
Using our keyword as name will helps to build backlinks. But Is all of the webmaster approving those comments… ?
I realized late that it is always good to leave a mark. This helps to acknowledge the author for his hard work and is also good for building back links and relations with like minded people.
I read most of the posts on your blog. My blog belonging to a similar category helps me a lot. Love them.
I realised late that it is always good to leave a mark. This helps to acknowledge the author for his hardwork and is also good for building backlinks and relations with like minded people.
I read most of the posts on your blog. My blog belonging to a similar category helps me a lot. Love them.
I strongly agree with this post. Commenting is really more on being beneficial to both the commentator and the author of the post.
So, I used to do lot of commenting for my blog when i started. now reduce a bit. 5 comments per day.. sitting one hours for commenting is useless.
better write one article for your blog post.
Harsh:
I wanted to say thank you for this extremely interesting blog entry and leave some thoughts.
I think that anyone that depends on comments for seo or website traffic should ensure that the comments being left are of the highest quality.
SEO may also be hurt by commenting on blog posts that aren’t necessarily relevant. For example, my blog is about Computer Programming with a very general linux slant. If I’m commenting constantly on blogs that are related to food, this may hurt my SEO efforts.
I agree that backlinks will help any website owner as long as the content is relevant to the website or any SEO goals.
Harsh, All that you have mentioned is true….
Do you by chance have a system where we can find blogs who have this:
2. Comment on Blogs with Dofollow comment policy
3. Comment on Blog using Top commentator Widget.
Or does this have to found manually through trial and error
Cheers
Sandeep
.-= Curious Little Person ´s last blog ..How to Cloak your Affiliate Links =-.
I started commenting on some blogs I truly liked their content. The idea of getting the backlink and traffic is important but the most important is the quality of comment. the comment should be relevant and should make impression so that the visitor get curious to see your site or blog.
Well, I agree with you in most cases except one thing: the sort of items. The most benefit of commenting is for relationship between bloggers. Most of comment backlinks are nofollow so they don’t help us much in getting PR juice. Then, they just click on those backlinks for their curiosities and the bounce rate is quite high.
A great post need votes and votes here are useful comments. It helps you make friend with the author, then you may have him as a friend on your social network who will vote/retweet/digg/thumb your content.
Phaoloo
with the recent update added by Google engineer, that Google is ignoring nofollow attribute, that’s why you will notice many blogs are removing comment link from their old blog posts.
Commenting on any blog/post topic may not yield the desired SEO advantage though. With the desired keyword and context it may do wonders. If the particular blog that you are commenting on do not allow keywordluv or keywords, use you name instead and link to your about page.
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Hey Harsh,
Thanks a lot for explaining me the concepts.
I would like to add one more point and that is “Diverting other blog users”.
Suppose, you leave a intelligent comment on someone else blog and when his readers read it, they would automatically start following you. Chances are they leave the original blog and subscribe yours. But for that you need to leave intelligent and valuable point what the author has left out.
Bonus: replying comments makes strong bond between author and readers, which eventually turns to permanent readers.
As I’ve said before, blog commenting is the single most important part of running a popular blog. You gain so much by simple writing down your thoughts on a post you’ve already spent time reading.
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Commenting has helped my blog because I get traffic back but also the blog owners comment on my blog. When I comment I always put my name so I can brand and get my name out there. Greg Ellison
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Well said Harsh ! 😉
And my experienced tip is .. always brand your comments ! It drives lot of traffic to your blog. And don’t comment like a robot or something.. be involved in the topic. Cheers and thanks for linking ! 🙂
Very well written post. It is always good to share the direct question to you via post instead of just replying to the person who put a question to you.
It is very much true. from Last 20 days, comments on my blog has reduced by more than 75%. It is purely due to the inactivity of me in commenting on other blogs.
With leaving comments on other blogs, you expose your site for more traffic. Although it is very hard to be the first commentator, it does help in the long run as some will visit your site link.
Commenting plays an important role as you receive more visitors and you could also have the visitor sign up for email updates.
I also visit the users site when they leave a comment as I could find some valuable info or even sign up for their email updates.
really commenting helps a blogger to gain more traffic to his/her blog . . a good makes the visitor curious and makes him to have a look at our site..