I have been talking about feeds a lot these days, well I’m sure as a blogger or as a user you know the importance of feeds.
It at least help me to keep track of all the updates which I miss on twitter.
Tip : Follow most of top bloggers and social media person on Twitter to keep track of all the updates in real time.
So how commenting can help you grow your blog to optimum level?
The strategy is simple, you need to spare half an hour a day for the commenting.
Select few major website in your niche. Make sure the target users are the same as yours. Now I hope you keep track of all the feeds using feed-demon. If you do then I hope you manage folder like me or better then this.
I keep a separate entry for the my friends blogs. Another entry for blogs using top commentator plugin. A good option will be keeping track of comment luv plugin enabled blogs.
My strategy is never miss commenting on my friends blog because they are the one who keep motivating you and encourage you.
Top commentator plugin enabled blogs help me to get lots of backlinks and its good for SEO and thus organic traffic.
Now spare 30 minute a day at least on commenting to these blogs updates. Make sure you add value rather then just a comment like Nice Thank you. If you keep track of blogs updates using twitter then you might be the lucky one to be the first one to comment.
First commentator always get noticed and it gives you lots of traffic.
Suppose you be the first one to comment at problogger or mashable, and first day you get 10 hits from the problogger, next day it goes down to 5 and gradually it decreases. But it will keep giving traffic once in a while. Suppose you make 10 such comments in a day.
Now lets do simple calculation for a day.
Out of 10 comment strategy, 6 works for you (Worst case scenario).
So First day you will be getting 6*10= 60 visitors
2nd day 4*10 = 40 visitors.
So you getting 100 visitors within two days from your niche sites. Now show them the best of your content, best way is by using landing page strategy.
So even if you are successfully converting 50% of such visitors to your loyal visitors, you will be getting 50 RSS subscriber within a day.
Worst case scenario, if you are a new blogger and not much content but if you manage to grab 5 RSS subscriber with this strategy, is int it better then spending an hour on writing content?
There are many other factor which will help you here and those are :
# Your Blog theme
# Prominent Feed button
# Ease of navigation
Apart from it most important good and quality content.
Work on the strategy and do share your strategy to increase the number of feed subscriber?
You can follow me on twitter @denharsh for more such tips.
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I don’t think this will work buddy!! conversion rate cannot be 50%. How ever you can grab good traffic to your blog!!
Pro Vamsi
I know looking at my stats you wont believe it. The only thing it I can’t put this into action because of my other projects and work.
Once I will have hell lot of time. You will soon see a great bounce on my Subscriber rate.
Another issue is my theme which is bulky. M moving to another theme and I will show you the stats on realtime.
I will give it a try,i hope it works,but can u suggest any good tool that can automate commenting process?
There are many tools which can enable Automatic commenting but I will never suggest using them because chances of getting caught by AKismet is very high and your comment will always be posted in spam queue after that.
Though I suggest use easy comment firefox plugin http://www.shoutmeloud.com/easy-comment-a-firefox-extension-for-blogger.html
That will help you to get rid of filling Comment form on wordpress powered blogs.
Harsh,
I think this will work. I haven’t tried this. I have to admit that i am bit lazy in going to other blogs and commenting. It is bad. If i want to get good traffic i need to read more and more blogs and comment..
I know this work need great effort..but if you do it wisely for 2 weeks.. the result will be record breaking for u.
It works, but not for all blogs and spending that much time on commenting would never give sudden boost in feed readers.
Btw, have you seen any pro-blogger wasting his/her time on commenting? They would rather prefer to work on their blog.
Harshad the stage at which Dareen is now, he does not need to comment anywhere.
Most of people try to become the first one to comment on his blog because first comment always get noticed.
That’s what I try on his blog and it actually works. I won’t say I get lots of traffic but if my posts are based on SEO or blogging, that attracts the same kind of visitors.
Always try to comment on the niche blog according to latest post which you have posted.
Great post. Never have thought of organizing feeds that way. Honestly I only subscribe through email but now I think I’m going to try your way so I can comment more on specific blogs
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Thanks Michael.
And from my personal experience it works big time. Though it needs lots of dedication for few days (7-10 days ) and if you can spend this much time on a blog with useful comments. You will see the difference in no time.
Hi,
Blog or website commenting will provide quality backlinks. However, I am not sure if it helps in generating feed subscriber.
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Great post. Personally I spend about an hour a day commenting on other people’s blogs, and I must say I think it’s had a big impact on my own blog. I mean, I get around 17 comments per post on average, so I’m really pleased with that
after all, all in one working forumula for new bloggers to understand the traffic metrics and commenting power ..
p.s. any one heard of that Paid Internet Commenters by China ! chinese know power of commenting
There are actually many paid software for this. But no matter what they will never be able to give the personal touch.
If this works, how come you only have 297 subscribers?
Nice point Gary, I have other projects as well. Its hard for me to take out time ti implement this. Once I will have enough time, I will love to implement this tutorial.
Any one can get quality backlinks by commenting also. Dofollow blogs are great for easy backlinks
I am already using all these tricks.And i know it really works.Thanks
This is a good strategy and I am sure it will work. But I think this is for blogs with general niche only. Unfortunately, I don’t have many blogs in my niche to team up with and comment upon.
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This might help me because my blog has less subscribers under 200, I need to improve in commenting not commenting at all these days.
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I have Not even crossed 100!
try try try till i die!
I only comment for get backlink, I do not think that being first on comment list can increase feed subscriber to 1000, but it can help for grow traffic and backlink. afterall your blog is nice.
Well.. I think this is a nice idea .
Another Important point which one body said here was that if you try to give genuine comments , you have to actually read a lot of stuff first and that will help you get some serious knowledge too .. so its a great thing in itself . Even if you dont get expected readers , you will get unexpected knowledge
Manish
I comment for getting backlinks as well traffic and i think chandan is right. Getting backlink is different task, when you get backlinks from the listed link then it doesn’t need to first or second in the list. But make good comment regarding the post.