Building Your List By Commenting
Building Your List By Commenting
One of the primary tasks that those involved in internet marketing must accomplish is getting traffic to their blog (web presence). If you are not marketing your blog you are not getting as much traffic as you could be.
Commenting on other people’s blogs is a practice used by most successful bloggers and internet marketers. By posting comments on other blogs you have the potential to let other bloggers know about your blog – and this can be a source of traffic to your blog.
When commenting on blogs there are a few things that you should keep in mind.
1. First and foremost, you want to insure that your comments add to the discussion presented in the post that you are commenting on. You comments should at least leave the impression that you have read the post. You should never just go to the comment area and post something like, “Good post”, or “Great information”, or “Keep making these great posts” or variations of this type.
First, such comments are not useful to anyone and could be considered as spam by the blog owner.
Second, comments like this make it appear that all you are interested in is a link back to your blog. The comment is self-serving and useless to the discussion at hand.
2. Comments help to build you as an internet marketer if you leave relevant comments. As people read your comments they will see that you are interested and that you are contributing to the discussion. By continuing to post good comments you are pitching yourself in an unobtrusive way. You are also demonstrating that you understand the subject and that helps to get you recognized as knowledgeable in the field.
These things just might encourage someone to click on your website link and you will get traffic to your blog as a result.
3. Be courteous. Never run anyone down in your comments. Bad mouthing anyone or anything in your comments should be avoided at all costs.
However, that does not mean that you should not offer constructive criticism. Nor does it mean that you should not disagree with the content of the post or some portion of it. The point is, be respectful when you have a different opinion about something. Disagreeing with your point of view laid out is a good way to add to the discussion. It also shows that you know something about the subject.
Well, this post started off talking about building your list by commenting. How does commenting on other marketer’s blog help you to build your opt-in list?
Every time you make a comment on someone’s blog, you get to provide the URL for your blog and that becomes a part of the comment. If someone clicks on your URL they become traffic to your blog.
Now, if you have the foresight to provide an opt-in box on your blog, some of that traffic will complete and submit the opt-in form. That is list building. You will have added a subscriber to your list. Almost everyone involved in internet marketing uses this method as one of their list building efforts. It’s not the fastest list building method, but over time you will get new subscribers.
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Commenting on blogs can get you higher SEO scores, more listings in the engines, and direct traffic siphoned from the blog you comment on. This is too powerful a traffic source to skip, or to try and scam your way through – take time to read the posts and make helpful, intelligent comments if you intend to try and build your traffic through commenting!
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I always feel that by leaving a comment I am contributing to the conversations going on. To also get a back link to me is something extra. And I learn a few things when I read other peoples comments on the blogs. That one little comment might spark a blog post of my own or at least get me thinking about what they might be saying. A very important post to share with others.
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This is a great idea! I guess another main point here is that you should make sure to have an optin box to build your list on your blog and the other sites you link to. Sure, links back to your site are good, but building your list is better!
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Anything that allows you to interact with others in your niche is a good thing to draw additional traffic to your blog. Having an opt in box and a good offer there is the key to using it for list building.
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This is a great way to not only get some additional traffic to your blog, but by commenting on blogs that are using are using the do-follow attribute, you also get back links to your blog, which will increase it’s rankings in the search engines over time.
And as you have pointed out and are practicing, you should have an opt-in form on your blog to add as many of those visitors to your list as possible.
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Commenting on related blogs gets your site exposure and SEO love but you also start to build a community of like minded people. It’s a win win situation
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Great post, it’s one method that all successful marketers and bloggers use. I have been using this method for years now and it range from 30 – 50+ unique visitors for each comment, depending on how much traffic the blog or how hot the topic is.
As long as you are commenting honestly because you liked the content it’s a good way to go, you don’t want to just comment just for the traffic, interact and share your thoughts in your comment and you’ll find that other people start checking out your linkback to your blog, website etc.
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