Previously I have introduced writing comments on relevant blog posts as a good strategy for building awareness of a brand-new blog. This article will explain further and give you 5 simple steps on how to start getting blog traffic today by writing comments on related blogs.
It is important to note that links in comments should not be seen as a way of building inbound links to improve your pagerank and search engine rankings. Search engines have devalued the importance and authority of links from the comment sections of blogs because of comment spam.
Also many bloggers have added nofollow to their blogs comment sections. Nofollow means that when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on links, they will not give any pagerank credit for those links. The nofollow link to your blog will not influence your blog negatively, it is just a way for search engines to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing blog comments.
This does not make links from blog comments useless for a new blog though. Blog comment links are different than a strategy for ranking well in search engines. Links from the comments section of other blogs should be seen as a traffic builder and a relationship builder. It is an opportunity to get traffic from sources other than the search engines.
Search engine rankings are a long-term project so in first few weeks/months you will most probably not be getting a lot of search engine traffic. So while you build your content and your inbound links for SEO purposes, you can write useful blog comments on related blogs to generate some initial traffic and blog awareness.
Here is a 5-step plan to follow after creating a new blog and after writing several original, useful and keyword-rich blog articles:
- Find blogs related to your content. Use Blog Search or Technorati.
- Subscribe to their RSS feed and have a look around their content.
- Contribute to the conversation by sharing your thoughts. Write useful, thoughtful and knowledgeable responses to some of the most recent blog posts and discussions. Include your blog title and the URL in your comment. Always sign your comments in a consistent manner.
- Stay connected to these blogs. Get involved in discussions multiple times, don’t just post one comment and never return. A profile of a blogger with 100 blog comments on 20 different blogs is going to be a lot stronger than the profile of a blogger with 100 blog comment links from 100 different blogs.
- Brand your blog comments and make yourself easily recognizable with a globally recognized blog comment avatar from Gravatar. Also claim your comments at BackType to give your comments a home where they can be discovered, followed and shared.
These five simple steps will set you on the way to getting some initial blog traffic and will get you and your blog introduced to some of the more popular bloggers in your field. Not a bad way to start a brand-new blog. Now go do some commenting!
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Thank you from someone who is new to the blogging world. Will keep these tips in mind!
@Bea, I am glad I could help! Good luck with your blog!
Great articles Marko, found you via problogger and i must say this is one of those blogs that deserve to be on the top, you’ll get there, with each article i kept reading more with the related posts..good job.
This is a comment I’m writing to test the techniques described in this post
I will surely use google blog search more to get more relevant back links. Thanks.
too good…thanks for sharing this info with us
Vicky
http://vickyadvani.blog.co.in
Nice tips for the budding bloggers !
Hello,
Nice tips. I will have all the 5 of them in mind always.
Take care,
Zoran
These tips help you to get tons of traffic to your blogs:
Tip1: Make a good content
This point is very important
Tip 2: Make a brand around your blog
This point is very important because your visitors return to your blog in the future.
Tip 3: Get high quality backlinks
This point is very important because Google is a major search engine.
Tip 4: Promote your site on social websites like facebook, myspace and news aggregators like Digg.
Tip 5: Post frequently
Tip 6: Be patient
This is the most important tip because only with years of hard work you see a good results.
great share i had a much doubt regarding blog commenting. your simple steps had given me a good idea over how to blog comment to enhance the traffic
Thanks for this article and recommending BackType!