Affiliate marketers are often wondering about alternative ways they increase traffic to their own blogs and websites. In this article I am going to talk about how commenting on other blogs can help increase traffic to your blog , website or affiliate landing page. This month I am going to be focusing on offering tips and advice on different ways you can increase traffic. You might want to check out my previous article titled, How Watching TV Commercials Can Help Increase Traffic.
Blogging is very popular and it continues to increase in popularity day after day. One of the reasons blogging has such an explosive growth is because a blog caters to the people who visit it. A blog allows for the blog author to easily interact with their readers and also allows for readers to easily interact with the blog author. The most common way these interactions take place is within the comment section of each blog post.
Commenting on blog posts is an excellent way to increase traffic to your own blog, website, or even affiliate product landing page. The reason is simple. Please click the links in the comments to see who you are. By commenting on blog posts, at a minimum, two things happen. The first that happens is the blog author will click your link and view your page. The next thing that happens is other people who read the blog will do the same.
My advice to you would be to search the Net and find about 10 to 15 of the most popular blogs related to the product or services you are trying to sell and become very active commenting on these blogs, contributing, and becoming a regular within that little blog niche. You should invest time and get to know the other commenters and even visit their blog and comment on theirs too.
Doing this builds trust within the community niche you are socializing in. Also it helps spread your links within a related community, this is great for search engine rankings. All in all the more activity and more you contribute within these little related niche areas, the more effective your comment campaign will be. Ideally, it would be very helpful if you had a blog yourself, rather than just a landing page that promotes an affiliate based product or service.
Best Regards,
Garry Conn
www.GarryConn.com
February 12th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Whilst I agree that blog commenting can lead to an increase in traffic it all depends on the quality of the comment itself. I doubt very much that comments such a ‘nice post, informative post or wow you have given a lot of useful information etc. will lead to many visitors. On the other hand, your comment is more likely to increase traffic if it is informative and adds to the original post as others are more likely to click your link to see who the great commentator really is.
February 12th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Totally! Your comment on another blog is a direct reflection on the quality of what is to be expected on your own blog. Excellent comment Sire.
February 15th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Hey Garry
Commenting on blog posts can be in the form of an add on comment that enhances the content, or asks a question about a related topic, or may even be a PS to the add on content.
What do you feel is the best of the three ways to build trust within the community?
Sincerely
Leo Hanes
February 19th, 2009 at 4:02 am
@Garry Conn – I suppose the problem with a lot of commentators is that they are really quite lazy. Too lazy to read the post properly. To lazy to see what others have said in their comments and just too damn lazy to take the time to formulate a decent comment of their own and so all they do is whip a few words together and hope for the best. Of course, you also have those who think that by leaving a comment they at least will get a link back to their site, not realizing that the bulk of the blogs use the nofollow attribute and they are therefore wasting their time. If only they did the right thing and left a good quality comment, perhaps things would be different for them. Oh well, their loss.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.
I’ll be watching you .
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 am
You get to the point,I like that, maybe you can comment on mine.thanks