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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Hi Harsh,
I was really looking for a detailed step by step guide to do this because I was really confused about doing this.
Thanks a lot, buddy.
Keep posting good stuff. Cheers.
Am also a newbie in the blogging field and i find this very helpful. Of course I’ve been hearing about blog commenting but didn’t know how exactly i should do it. Thank you so much for sharing this article!
Blog commenting is still a useful way for building links. This article tells clearly that spam comments don’t work anymore as like as quality and meaningful comments.
I haven’t any idea about how to comment on blogs. But, right after reading this post, I just have a clear view about commenting on blogs.
This article shows how important the comment for each post is.
Great article. Thanks!!!
It has been great for me to read such great information about blogging since I am still a newbie to blogging.
Thanks, Harsh for such an honest tips for commenting. But I have one doubt. Most of the SEO experts says to get the backlink from the respective keyword but here how do we place keyword instead of the name or how do we do the same without keywords? Any tips for it?
@Meenakshi
Few years back it was easy to get backlinks from comment using your desired anchor text but same is not true these days. Commenting helps in many other ways like improved indexing, faster crawling, increasing the backlink density but it won’t help in pulling up keyword rank for any particular keyword. You should consider guest posting or broken backlink building to build links.
Agree, But I want to know. if I am getting backlinks from the same name or fake name its good in term of link building and direct google ranking.
Or in simple word Blog comment is still important as link building technique.
I think commenting is the best method of building quality links to your site. And this guide will help me even more now! Thanks!
Nicely explained. Beside the backlins, you will even maintain a good credibility by adding value on your comments. People will start searching you and follow your updates. You can then be an influencer in your niche.
Another Epic article by SML. I am a huge fan of ShoutmeLoud and I have recently followed this blog. I started my own website and I got knowledge of SEO from SML. But I have one query is “how to calculate DA and PA”..??
Best way to get backlinks and increase your ranking on search engines. Great work
Thank you for the honesty. I am a new blogger and still learning the ropes! I definitely will be using these tips to publish good comments!
Thanks for giving the information it is useful.It is the best way to get backlinks and increase your ranking on search engines i understand
Your blog is surely amazing. But one of my major doubts is that.. where exactly should I insert the name of my website in that comment ? So that viewers will visit my blog.
@Mihir
You should write your name as it would ensure your comment will get approved everywhere. If you want to know why, read this: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/blog-comments-moderation-guide.html
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 am still confuse a little bit. What am I basically suppose to do? I read an article on a blog and I wrote a nice and detailed comment. In the end of the comment, I should leave a link to my blog. Right?
Yes that’s right. Commenting is the best way to get backlinks and increase your ranking on search engines. By the way, I would like to congratulate Harsh because ShoutMeLoud is again back on track with <10k Alexa ranking. 😉
Yes that’s right. Commenting is the best way to get backlinks and increase your ranking on search engines. By the way, I would like to congratulate Harsh because is again back on track with <10k Alexa ranking. 😉
Yes that’s right. Commenting is the best way to get backlinks and increase your ranking on search engines. By the way, I would like to congratulate Harsh because ShoutMeLoud is again back on track with <10k Alexa ranking. 😉
I did like the honest approach in the article accepting that we are all trying to promote our blog or business, we want to promote but at the same time add value. I also think it highlights the difficulty some of us who are probably ‘old school’ about building our brand. I am also conscious that I could spend hours a day commenting on blogs when I should actually be concentrating on my business itself. Blogging is serious business and it’s not easy to get it right. Paul
I think you did a good work with this article. You always share great info, You have rocked it. 🙂 Blog Commenting is a very powerful solution to get a backlink from other high quality site and targeted traffic. I am getting lot of comments everyday 🙂 Blog commenting is one of the best off page SEO techniques.
I have read many articles related to this and you brought something that touched me. I am a beginner in blogging, and I am happy to learn from you!
Awesome articles and i read your all blogs.
I did like the honest approach in the article accepting that we are all trying to promote our blog or business, we want to promote but at the same time add value. I also think it highlights the difficulty some of us who are probably ‘old school’ about building our brand. I am also conscious that I could spend hours a day commenting on blogs when I should actually be concentrating on my business itself. Blogging is serious business and it’s not easy to get it right. Paul
Kuddos HARSH!
I 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.
Keep up the great job!
Thanks for the tips. I now understand how commenting can create value and show other bloggers my blog at the same time.
Thanks again.
All are some decent focuses Harsh when remarking on other blog, well we ought to attempt to manufacture one great connection with other blogger by giving some pleasant remark.