About Commenting on Other Blogs

By Prince John

Do you consider commenting on other blogs is a means of attracting traffic to your blog? You are at wrong end.

I had an email conversation with a fellow blogger, after I saw his post on commenting. My opinion is that commenting is not a worthy tool to generate traffic to your blog. Regular input to other blogs, in the form of some insight, an approval or a different view – all can make your comment valuable.

Other readers, will surely check your blog out, because they see you have something intelligent to tell. You blog can receive traffic via the comment, but it is only a side effect.

There are several commentators, who regularly visit other blogs, only to leave such comments like 'great work dude, keep it up', 'great stuff here, check my blog', etc.

I feel these people keep their comments ready in a text file, even before they start exploring the blogosphere. Their commenting is like grabbing a bunch of darts and throwing them all at once, in the hopes one or more will hit the target. They will throw away their darts, even if they are blindfolded.

Do you think these people attract the kind of response they hope? I thought no.
Every blogger likes to have reader input in their blogs. They also want the input to be something genuine and not some tool for trickery.

Now, do I mean you can't congratulate someone for his or her achievement? No. You should genuinely congratulate a fellow blogger, if you see his or her special achievement from his or her blog. A 'congratulations' or 'good work', or 'greater success awaits you' are OK. If a blogger has announced his or her first $ 100 a day or first million, you can (and should) join the celebration, in the right mood.

If you have a collection of one-size fits all type comment-inventory, delete it.

Qualified Journalist and Web-Content Writer since Sep. 2005, Prince John writes for businesses and provide them with quality articles, product/service descriptions and sales letters to enrich their websites.target="_new" Now on a hobby blogging project, he invites businesses and bloggers check his blog out at http://afpj.blogspot.com/. A get paid to blog and a link exchange invitation for bloggers are also on.

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No Follow And Blogs – The Wrong Marriage

By Prince John

Do you flag outbound links no follow? You are not a good blogger. Blogs by nature is a networking tool, and you point to the people and ideas you think are important. The pointing, you know is in the form of a link.

Flagging a link no follow is like making a disclaimer. If you flag a link with a no follow attribute, what you literally say is –"I don't believe what I say is true". If you do not believe what you say, who will?

With a no follow, what one does is hiding the link from search engines. Websites that have a number of inbound links have higher value in search engine algorithms. By flagging a link with no follow, you hide the link from the search engine.

If the resource you have pointed to is worthwhile, why should you use a disclaimer?

When linking out to other blogs, you have the advantage of receiving traffic by people who does back link searches on their favorite blogs. Go to technorati.com, enter any blog URL and hit search. You will see this in action.

Again, linking to some blog is an indication that you find something interesting is there. If you find it interesting and worthwhile for your readers, there is no reason why should hide the link in any way.

Linking is also a means of networking. By flagging the links, you are actually hiding behind a curtain. The people who flag their outbound links are also the people who want links back to their blog. Hypocrisy, or what?

If you link out to someone, be bold enough to make the link visible to humans as well as search engines. If you fear you lose traffic or the receiver of the link gets higher value in search engines, do not link. It is that simple.

Qualified Journalist and Web-Content Writer since Sep. 2005, Prince John writes for businesses and provide them with quality articles, product/service descriptions and sales letters to enrich their websites.

Now on a hobby blogging project, he invites businesses and bloggers check his blog out at http://afpj.blogspot.com/. A get paid to blog and a link exchange invitation for bloggers are also on.

Copyright © Prince John 2005-2007 You may publish this article in your website, blog or newsletter - provided you agree not make any edits, leave the links in clickable form and leave this notice intact.