I admit, of all the strategies to build traffic to my blog, commenting on other blogs always came bottom for me.

However, I listened to the likes of Dave Taylor, who suggests you should comment on other blogs about four times per week, and some months back decided I would make more effort to post more comments. Now, I’m going to highlight my results …

Initially, the response was poor to say the least. I didn’t really get much traffic and if someone contacted me via my online form, it was to ask me to join their group so they could suck out my brains or, the best one is, they wanted to know whether I built blogs for free! I won’t even comment on this one.

Anyway, some months back, I changed my comment strategy and the results have been nothing short of amazing … Not only did I attracted 3 new clients just from my blog comments, (and I assure you, I’m only doing about 1 a week), I get better quality comments on my own blog.

Basically, these readers are “noticing” my comment on other blogs and then coming over to my site where they invariably leave a comment that doesn’t just say “nice article,” they’re asking questions or adding to the conversation after reading my blog posts.

But, what did I do…?

I actually only made one very small change …

Instead of using my name “Trish Jones” (that’s me!) in the comment form, I used “The Blogging Queen,” which is the name Alex Mandossian dubbed me two years ago.

Once I started using my “screen name,” I started getting more attention! And the people who now come to my blog as a result of reading my comments are more than just browsers who want to see what they can get out of me for free … they’re contributors! And, I’ve been posting comments on some high authority blogs lately and I know that these readers are serious – not necessarily about blogging – but they’re serious about business … in my view a huge difference.

So if you’ve been posting good quality comments to other blogs and not getting noticed, get yourself an online pen or screen name – one that will get you attention – and see if people don’t notice you.  Do however remember that not every blog publisher will appreciate you using screen names but most of all, they won’t like it if you start using “pitch” names such as “Best SEO eBook.”  So the objective is to be creative without pitching.

To your online success,

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