When you start a new blog, your first target is to get new readers, traffic and subscriber. Out of all, I always suggest to start with getting more subscribers as they turn into return visitors and increase the trust value of your domain. Though, for a new blog it’s a tough task and in this post, I will share a tip which might be very useful for you to get targeted traffic and most important with your quality content you can turn them into subscribers.
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 next 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 than this.
The approach is, create different folders on your feed reader for different type of blogs which you are targeting to comment and get subscribers. It’s better, that all the blogs should be in same niche. For example, my niche is Blogging and technology, so I would create folders for the same niche and typically my folders are:
- Popular Blogging blogs
- Blogging blogs using top commentator plugin
- Blogging blogs using comment luv plugin
- Dofollow Blog comments on Blogging niche
Now, commenting on Popular blogging blogs willl help me get decent traffic and if content on my blog is compelling and interesting, I can expect good amount of conversion.
2nd and 4th type in the above list will give me SEO advantage and as backlink will be high quality relevent backlink and comment luv plugin enabled blog will help me to showcase my latest article, giving it more exposure. A good article title will do the trick to get more CTR.
Now spare 30 minute a day at least on commenting to these blogs updates. Make sure you add value rather than 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 will always get more traffic and thus his comment will be more beneficial.
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 let’s 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 than spending an hour on writing content?
There are many other Factors 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?
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
your site s awesome n excellent n…..there are no words really to express the greatness of your site dude…:-):-):-)
day by day its improving a lot and this article which you have posted here is extremely useful for my site…..really nice 1
Very good knowing sharing. Will definitely implement it. I liked the comment by Manish Chauhan, “Even if you dont get expected readers , you will get unexpected knowledge. ” Wonderful!!
Did you test it? Did it work for you?
harsh you made it really easy and cool,doing this surely increases time we use to comment on blogs or websites,which will surely increase our traffic and subscribers.
i think today u got this much traffic because of your strategies only..any way nice one will surely work…
Thanks Harsh,
I need to be more organized and targeted. Being involved in the sites I like is something I’ve been meaning to do, but now I have a blog I have even more reasons for doing so!
Thanks Harsh,
I am following your suggestion from your blog. Let’s hope it will work and i will get some traffic.
One question! may you tell which is better Genesis or Thesis. any comparison?
Hey Anand
I hope this will work for you too…. Though if not subscriber, I’m sure this strategy will bring you recognition and people will start knowing you. Just one same avatar all the time..
Meanwhile when we compare Genesis and Thesis both are good… People who are using Genesis says it’s easy to customize but it’s almost the same coz you need to have little bot of CSS knowledge. My recommendation would be Thesis of course.
ohhh…harsh !! this has been the best article i read over your blog..thanx a lot for this mate…
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.