We all know why bloggers should comment on other blogs: For the benefits of backlinks, traffic, and branding.
The difficult part is drawing a line between self-promotion and building a powerful brand. Some of you may know that itchy feeling of dropping a link to your best article and using your keyword name as your commentator name (along with other mistakes new bloggers often make).
Commenting remains one of the easiest ways to drive traffic.
Building backlinks and forming relationships with other bloggers are certainly some key benefits of strong commenting habits. There are, however, people who focus on quantity, perhaps misunderstanding that more comments do not equal more traffic and improved relationships with fellow bloggers.
The only time comments will help is if the comments add value and are meaningful, useful additions to a post.
Always remember, when talking about comments:
- Quality is better than quantity.
And indeed, I have personal experience to back up this statement, as my blog has benefited from good commenting habits, and I have built good relationships with other bloggers by adding useful, meaningful comments onto their blogs.
What kind of blog comments do we hate?
I moderate more than 100 comments every day, and I know what kind of comments make me feel good or give me food for thought, and what kind of comments leave me with a negative feeling or no feeling at all.
For example:
- “Nice info!”
- “Great share!”
- “Useful post”
- “Amazing write-up!”
Such comments may be positive in nature, but they add no value whatsoever to the post. Nobody wants to read a meaningless drivel that simply takes up space. A blog’s commenting feature should only be used to add value to the post.
If you are making the mistake of adding meaningless 2-3 word comments on various blogs, you are wasting your time, and more importantly, you are wasting the time of the other blogger — annoying fellow bloggers is not the point of commenting.
You might add 100 comments on various posts of any blog, but you will never build a good relationship with that blogger, you will never benefit from your meager efforts, and you will be hurting your own brand name.
How can you add value to your comments?
Let’s talk about how to develop a practice of good, strong, meaningful commenting that will benefit you and your fellow bloggers and readers.
First, I suggest that you sign up for Gravatar so that you can add a personal image or brand image to your commenting profile. This is a must-have requisite when looking to brand yourself.
Next, whenever you read a post that you find useful or meaningful in some way, think about how you can add value to that post.
If you read a post that you think is deserving of only a “good info” or “good share”, then you don’t have anything meaningful to add to the post, and don’t comment. But, if you liked the post, you should consider sharing the article to show your appreciation and/or respect.
If you are going to add commentary, state clearly what you liked about the post, or mention how the post has helped or enlightened you as a reader. If you have additional information, add it within the context of your comment.
Have you tweeted the post? If so, mention it in your comment. This will let the blogger know that you respect what he/she has written and that you appreciate and value the great work that he/she does.
For more info on commenting, check out this awesome resource:
Add your thoughts on commenting in the comments section below! But make sure it’s adding value!!
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hey all please let me know if i post a link in the forum discussion then will it be considered as a spam please give me some websites list so that i can backlink for my career related blog.
am a new blogger and I have to say that I started to visit ShoutMeLoud after finding a very interesting post about some info that I was looking for. I have to admit that after receiving some of these great post on my email and reading through them, I have found on this blog a huge source of valuable information that helps me climb to a higher level every day.
Hello harsh, I had a little confusion on where to place the url of my article.ie shall place the my article url in comment area or in the website box?
@Radhika
In the Website box.
Blog Commenting is a very powerful solution to get a backlink from other high quality site.
Blog commenting is one of the best off page SEO techniques. It is a great way to get lots of quality backlinks and targeted traffic.
I stumbled upon your blog a couple of times via google. Kudos for getting ranked in such a competitive niche. I guess I have lots to learn from you! 🙂
Thanks for giving the information it is useful for me.
I am getting lot of comments everyday ,which are spam & nice comments also. & One person is keeping only lot of links with videos. I watched his video telling don’t buy products on my site.
I am getting worried for it . EVERY TIME after an hour i am making him spam but again he is giving it.
I tried to insert akismet plugin also but my cards are not running there . What can i do? Please guide me for it.
Thanks to the handsome and smart Mr. Harsh Agrawal, I am a beginner in blogging, and I am happy to learn from you!
Thanks Harsh for this awesome post.
Personally, leaving meaningful and thought-provoking comments on other blogs has been very helpful to my blogging career. For the past few months I started my business blog, greater number of bloggers who I have come to know for the first time became possible when I commented on other blogs.
Talking about those short-and-positive but meaningless comments, like, “Great post, good info, nice one etc” and other spammy comments, I don’t approve them on my blog.
Before I approve a comment, I don’t fail to check the URL it will directed to.
So far, it has helped me to build backlinks.
Emenike Emmanuel
hi harsh sir, you have described beautifully the concept of blog commenting . i need to know that how frequently we should comment on other blogs. and i think you are also aware of the blog commenting queen harleena singh . i have read comments posted by Harleena mam , and they are marvelous and they add value to the blog really.
Hi harsh,
Can you suggest any effective caching pluginn other than autoptimize. I have tried many leading once but the above fold css javascript gives problem. Even tried cloudflare. Please suggest
I moderate more than 100 comments every day, and I know what kind of comments make me feel good or give me food for thought, and what kind of comments leave me with a negative feeling, or no feeling or sense of inspiration at all.
For example:
“Nice info!”
“Great share!”
“Useful post”
“Amazing write-up!”
Hii, sanjay gautam
Can you suggest any effective caching pluginn other than autoptimize. I have tried many leading once but the above fold css javascript gives problem. Even tried cloudflare. Please suggest
Hey Harsh,
It was really an amazing experience while going through your blog for “How to comment and what not to comment”!!
I found the blog content very useful and informative,I am sure it will really help me a lot in making valuable comments on other blogs.
Your work and passionate efforts are really appreciable as you are also being a mentor to all new bloggers empowering them to build a successful career in blogging.
Thank you for these useful tips and also for suggesting Gravatar!!
Hi Harsh,
Firstly I’d like to tell you honestly that I’m new to the blogging community, and like everyone we all do our researches online. So I looked up the top bloggers in India and randomly clicked on someone.. And believe it or not, it happened to be you. This was about a week back. And now, I’m back here, reading your article! I think I’ve learnt a lot in the past week and would like to thank you for indirectly being a mentor. And now, I make sure to read the blog in full and understand the blogger’s view and message before I comment. Thank you, really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
Hey Sarge,
Thanks for appreciating. I am glad that my work is helpful.
hay,sanjay gautam
It was really an amazing experience while going through your blog for “How to comment and what not to comment”!!
I found the blog content very useful and informative,I am sure it will really help me a lot in making valuable comments on other blogs.
Your work and passionate efforts are really appreciable as you are also being a mentor to all new bloggers empowering them to build a successful career in blogging.
Thank you for these useful tips and also for suggesting Gravatar!
Hey Harsh,
You always share great info. I like to reading your post which solve my query easily.
I have one question regarding this post.
Which email i need to use for commenting on other blogs ? Registered with wordpress.com or wp admin email id ?
☺☺
Hey Amit,
I don’t think it really makes any difference. I like you use the email id which I generally use all the time.
Blog commenting is one of the best off page SEO techniques. It is a great way to get lots of quality backlinks and targeted traffic. But you have to maintain some rules when you comment on others blogs. You have shared all the important tips to comment on blogs. I fully agree with you. Thanks for your article.
Hi Harsh !! This is bharath kumaran I have read your post regard how to comment on others blog.I had learnt new things here.So i am planning to apply this strategy
Is it okay to place hyperlinks in our blog comments? Or should we place the link in our second comment when we get reply from someone?
Hey Naman,
It depends. If the link is relevant there s no harm in placing the link in the first comment. However, if you are placing link just to get a backlink, it is not a good idea.
I’ve been reading up on backlinking strategies because I’ve cofounded a blog, but we are brand new, and even though we produce a decent amount of (really good in my opinion) content, it’s been a tough road getting traffic to visit our website without paid advertising.
Now, I feel like a total newb, but I had no idea that simply leaving a comment on a blog was enough for a back link. I thought you had to post an actual link to your content some how in order for blog commenting as a strategy for getting backlinks to work. I guess I’ve learned some things in the past 30 minutes of scrolling through your articles, so thanks for that 🙂
Nice Post thanks to you for this attractive information
Blog Commenting is a very powerful solution to get a backlink from other high quality site
but i need to know how to get spam from commenting