Blogging Tips – Making Comments on Other Blogs

By Bruce · Monday, August 9th, 2010

Making comments of other blogs is one of the most successful ways to drive traffic to your own blog. You are beginning to realize the responsibility you have once you start a blog. If you train your mindset to tend to your blog at least once a day like you check your email, you will have great success with your blog.

I have several blog clients that maintain their blog on an inconsistent basis, which in the long run, hurts your blog. You need to get on a schedule, even if it is once a week, to add a post. You really should post to your blog no less than two posts a week. This will give enough notifications to the search engines that your blog is still active. Search engines tend to “visit” your blog more often if you make changes to your blog more often. This is key if you want to move up the search engine ranking for your blog.

There are several different philosophies of making comments to other blogs. The reason we make comments to other blogs is twofold. First, it is to generate one way links back to your blog, and consequently add “juice” to get higher rankings with the search engines. Second, it helps grow your reputation and participation in the blogosphere. Since you have chosen to enter the world wide web community, you might as well get connected with other like minded people.

How important is it to have “one way” links? When we say one way links, we mean some other website or blog that has a link to your site. You do not have a link back out to their site. Now search engine giant, “Google” sets the rules for favorable page rank and this is one of them. In a nutshell, the more backlinks you have to your blog or website without you linking back out to them is going to get you ranked far higher than “crosslinks” or links that goes out and in from the same sites. The reasoning behind this is that the more sites linking to your site signals to “Google” that your site is truly an “authority” site. In other words, a site that is a valuable reference to people who want a relevant search to find an answer or solution to.

If you link back out to those same sites, “Google” will suspect that you made an “agreement” with those sites to swap links and values those less. Actually, consider one way links to your site as a complement to you that you have valuable content to be shared with others.

So, when making comments to other blogs or websites, contribute something of value to the reader. You don’t want too short a comment with saying, “come to my blog” in it. Make it relevant and your comment will be looked at and visitors will click through your comment to go to your blog or website to read more about your valuable content.

In our next post, we are going to cover over something controversial…making comments on “unrelated niche” websites.