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I’ve just been reading through the comments submitted to this blog, which are currently under moderation rather than open.I don’t think I am particularly heavy handed with the delete button, but the majority of the comments submitted break all netiquette whilst achieving nothing for your Web PR….
Commenting on blogs is an excellent way to attract traffic to your site, build relationships and get involved in constructive dialogue. Unless you are spamming. In which case, it is a waste of time.
Here are 10 things NOT to do when using comments as a blog marketing tool.
1. Don’t just write “Nice blog”. That is not a positive contribution to any discussion!
2. Don’t write about something totally irrelevant. eg much as I may care that Aaron has pimples all over his body (which I don’t), it is severely off-topic. And spam.
3. Don’t include a blatant link to your website in the comment unless it will lead readers of that blog to VALUABLE information about the subject of the post.
4. Don’t link to affiliate sites.Many bloggers are trying to earn money and stay alive too.
5. Don’t forget that comments are for ..um…COMMENTING on the post. Not to promote your site, sell drugs, or any other similar activity.
6. Don’t fill the name field with every keyword you can think of pertaining to your own product/service. Think of a name. Yes, use your company name or twitter handle if you wish, but keep it sensible.
7. Don’t cut and paste and repeat comments on multiple blogs. Many blogs are interlinked because of subject area and any users who visit multiple sites and read the exact same comment from you over and over again will give you negative PR rather than positive.
8. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak out and remove all doubt.” Abraham Lincoln
9. Don’t be offensive, disrespectful or abusive. Be polite. You are writing on someone else’s blog.
10. Don’t forget where you have posted a comment. Duplicate postings on a comment thread are unnecessary.
It should be simple, but judging by all the comments I have deleted today, for some it is more taxing than it should be.
One of the great ways of getting link juice and promoting your website is to find blogs and forums and comment on the posts, discussions and articles. For maximum effect, you need to post on blogs with a high page rank, and with dofollow tags, but just posting can bring you targeted traffic from those who read the blog and comments.
Obviously, for this, your comments need to be valuable, not just “Great post” or “I agree” or the moderator of the forum or blog will probably just delete it!
Blogsearch from Google is useful for finding blogs that have recent posts, and there are a variety of search terms that can be used within the search engines to track down blogs and forums etc. eg inurl:forum, inurl:chat, intitle:bulletin etc.
However, finding blogs with a decent PR, recent posts, and preferably dofollow comments can be quite a time-consuming process. We have trialled the free version of FastBlogFinder and have now purchased the full version and can recommend it wholeheartedly.
It makes it a doddle to find blogs with a high Page PR as well as site PR, as well as indicating which are nofollow or dofollow. It does occasionally throw up old posts rather than the latest post on a blog but it’s just a matter of looking for a recent post to comment upon. The search facility is pretty sophisticated offering all the usual Boolean terms, plus a few others, which are listed on a cheat sheet in the tutorials, and make it easy to find sites on specific domains, find synonyms for your keyword search, with a certain number of comments or more, and so on.
This is definitely a useful resource for anyone looking to find blogs to help increase backlinks to the site. Try Fast Blog Finder for free today.
