There are great possibilities for driving good numbers of traffic to your blog by commenting on high-profile blogs. This article will explain how I got 230+ unique visitors from one comment in less than a week.
On December 26th I posted a comment on ZenHabits which is one of the biggest productivity blogs with over 79,000 RSS subscribers. The article I commented on was How to Press the Reset Button On Your Life. This one comment brought me 239 unique visitors in less than 6 days after it was written.
These 239 visitors were 11% of my total blog traffic in those 6 days. Average time on site from these visitors was 02:57 which was 8% better then the average total time spent on my blog. Visitors viewed 2.35 pages per visit (11% better than total average), and bounce rate was 61% (8% less than the total average).
What to be aware of when blog commenting
There are some things you must keep in mind to optimize your comment ability to drive great number of traffic to your blog.
Optimize exposure for most clicks
- To drive traffic you must comment on a high-profile blog that normally has lots of readers / RSS subscribers / commenters.
- You must comment on the latest post as soon as possible after it is published. If you do that you will expose your comment to thousands of people who are going to read the post
- You must be an early commentator. The earlier you are, more exposure you are going to get. Not many people are going to read 50 comments from the same blog post. Aim to be in top 5 comments or so.
Provide value to grab attention
- Don’t just comment for the sake of it. Only write a comment if you like the post and if you have something relevant and interesting to say.
- Write a quality comment that creates value and grabs the attention of readers. Add something substantial to your comment. Add your thoughts about the post, provide additional information from your personal experience or from a post you have on your blog.
Brand your comments for long-term benefits
- Brand your comment by using same name, same avatar, same URL and same signature. This should be consistent with your social media profiles. Consistent marketing will build relationships to your blog. When people continue seeing your name repeated in comments sections of blogs and your comments are useful and interesting, it will make them wonder who the person writing is and will get them to click over to your blog.
Now imagine if you do this consistently, and on several high-profile blogs at the same time. It could bring serious amount of traffic to your blog. At the moment it is mine 4th biggest traffic referral after StumbleUpon, direct traffic and Twitter. I would definitely recommend it for you to try as well.
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So in a nutshell, how to find the most important blogs, ie the highest profile blogs
Found the information worthy as I had no idea of posting a comment on the blog,.
Thanks !!!!!!
300 visitors till last month. But then I learnt the importance of commenting. And I started to post my comments. Each comment brought me 6 visitors on an average. And in addition, an offer or two for partnering with them, or writing for them.
2500 visitors added in about over a month. One key factor was the comments. I read every word before I wrote my comment.
Your ideas on commenting have added value to my thinking. More than the information, your own comment is the best tutor. Thank you.
Komarraju Venkata Vinay
@Komarraju – Impressive work! Congrats. I am glad my article helped you.
Interestingly StumbleUpon and twitter seem to also be some of my biggest traffic sources. Found the information worthy as I had no idea of posting a comment on the blog,.
Thanks !!!!!!
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hey great it is realy true that if we comment on some big blog then we definitely get more visitors to our blog, But you have to take care at the time of commenting your comment should be meaning full and informative , it should related to blog post,
i also doing this and i am getting good amount of traffic from commenting
What I find funny is how many people who like this post NOT apply it when they comment here
I’ve not yet had 230 unique visitors from a blog comment yet, but it can certainly generate some extra traffic, with the added bonus of building relationships over time.
The only thing to be careful of, is some blogs will filter out links if placed in the actual comment section. I guess I’ll see whether that’s true of this blog in just a few moments…
Paul Hancox
P.S: Seems like it won’t accept them in the comment section!
Yeah, I agree with you. I have no rules on link or not really, I will manually edit your comment if I feel it is too spammy. In your case, Akismet put your comment with link into spam, not sure why, you might want to be careful how you comment on WordPress network as it may start putting all your comments there.
Good advice. I guess it’s working since you have all these commentor. Keep up the good work.
I am starting a niche blogging and also a blog design business. I didn’t realize how important being on top & one of the very first to comment was!
I will start a strategy now of commenting alot more often & to the top as much as possible. Also just checked your “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail “!
Thanks for the fantastic blogging advice.
Great info I will start doing this I really hadn’t thought of that. I am now to this whole thing and am alway looking to learn how to better get my site more in the spot light.
Thanks
Brooks
Hey,
I didn’t know that one could bring such huge amount of traffics through just one comment. Well, just got this brilliant idea from your site. I’m gonna try it for sure. Thanks buddy! But though nowadays, I’ve developed a habit of commenting on good posts and as I liked ur post, that’s why I am commenting you too. It’s a “Happy Commenting’ for me…
This is a great post, something i have been trying with a couple of sites and had moderate success so far. A couple of things in this post that have given me a few ideas to try so thanks for that.
Fantastic article!! It’s always nice to be able to drive traffic to your blog while commenting on somone else’s blog (it’s a win-win situation), but it’s also good etiquette to provide some good solid verbiage to show that you are really interested in that post and not just around to spam the comments. Thanks for the great information. This is for sure going into my bookmarks for future reference!
nice tips..
i know that blog commenting is such a great thing.. not only for backlink but also for increasing visitor..
thanks your sharing buddy,
I found your article and blog through kilroy69 stumble upon favorites and the title of your blog and article grabbed my attention. I currently have my own blog in which I share my friends articles there. I am always looking for helpful tips on how to manage and promote my blog. Thank you for sharing these excellent tips.
Great post. I guess I sort of failed on commenting on this post since I am 80+ comments down. Who knows? Click my link guys!
One of my goals for 2010 is to comment more regularly on blogs both within my niche and outside of it. I’ve been growing my readership organically for the last 3.5 years, and I’ve seen exponential growth, but I’d love to really push it this year above and beyond! I agree that comments are most useful (especially if the point is to get people to follow your comment back to your site) when they add value to the conversation. These kinds of comments take a little longer to think about and make, but they’re worth the time and effort!
I found your site on Google and read a few of your other entires. Nice Stuff. I’m looking forward to reading more from you.
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