Build Traffic By Commenting On Other Blogs In Your Niche

Posted on October 14th, 2008 by admin in Domain News, Traffic Building | 2 Comments »

Commenting on other blogs in your niche can be an excellent source of traffic but this is not the only reason you should comment on competitors’ blogs.

Quality, thought provoking comments on competitors’ blogs can help with your blog branding efforts. If you are persistent and leave 5 to 10 quality comments a day on various competitors’ blogs over a period of time, you improve the likelihood of people getting to know you and your blog and
linking back to your posts in the future. Additionally, if you comment on do-follow blogs you are increasing search engine rankings and placement.

You can check whether a blog is no-follow or do-follow by right clicking on a blog post that you have commented on and clicking on view source. Once you are viewing source you can hit Ctrl-F to open the search box. Search for your blog link and check whether the attribute rel=”no-follow” is associated with your link anchor.

I find it the very useful to be one of the first people to comment on any new post of a competitor’s blog. A lot of people try and lurk on blogs waiting for a new post to be posted in order to snag the top comment spot – as top comments get the most exposure to reader traffic.

You can avoid lurking and waiting for new posts to be published by your competitors by using a cool little tool called Comment Sniper. Comment Sniper notifies you the moment a new post is published at a blog of your choice via a desktop notification or SMS ( your choice ), allowing you to rush to the blog and leave a comment.