Getting The Most Out Of Commenting On Other Blogs
December 12, 2007 by Trish Jones
Filed under Website Promotion Strategies
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, about a month ago, I changed my comment strategy and the results have been nothing short of amazing … Not only have 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 has become my brand name, thanks to Alex Mandossian.
Now I’m getting 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 name - one that will get you attention - and see if people don’t notice you.
To your online success,
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Fabulous tip! Thank you for sharing that. I had been using my name and my title and brand.
if I may ask a point of clarification, please…Are you using your name or brand in the Mane field for commanting?
The Story Lady
Hi Ronda,
I use my “brand name” as it were in the name field but in the comment field I just sign off “Trish.” That way, when people contact me they can use my proper name rather than having to refer to me as The Blogging Queen.
All the best,
Trish
Hi Trish, thanks for the tip…
branding is really very important, using one’s own name does not really stand out, not much recall in it, I mean how many other million people out there are similarly named… but if you use a moniker, label, brand name or tag especially one that catches eyeballs and attention.. we get them interested enough to click
Cheers!
Roy
The thing I love about this strategy Roy is the fact that it’s so cheap!! As you say, you just want to grab attention and you can do this without spending thousands on promotional pieces - at least until you’re certain of your brand anyway.
Trish
Trish,
Great tip. Although I really don’t have a brand name yet (I’ll have to come up with something now). Just to let you know I came over from Shermanlive.com. You made a comment on the “Half Hour Huddle” set up video.
So it does work.
Jeff
I’m sure you’ll come up with something compelling Jeff. Even if it’s not perfect, try something and then keep tweaking it until your happy.
Best,
Trish
Hi Trish,
I couldn’t agree with you more. I recently wrote a post about how avatars can be used to attract readers in social networking environments, and I mentioned choosing a compelling username as a component of that. But I didn’t take the advice as far as you did in this post.
Nicely done!
Carla,
The one thing that I’m learning more is that it’s the small changes we make that make the difference. For years, I thought I needed to do the one BIG thing that would get me recognized but I don’t even worry about that any more. I just do what I’m told to do, make small consistent changes and in the process, I’m more likely to hit the ONE big thing that could make a huge difference in the online world.
I’m going to check out your post on avatars.
Best,
Trish