Having to think of original posts to draw in readers can be maddening. Having to actually write down that idea in a way that’s easy to read, while being relevant and informative, is draining. We also have to think of different ways to give the article more visibility, be it for the purposes of increasing your page rank, affiliate marketing, and many more.
So the moment we finish an article, we might end up leaving it as is, letting it accumulate views and comments on its own while we start on another.
As for other people’s posts, we just read what we want and move on. Some of us just don’t have the time to leave coherent and reasonable comments, even if we found the article useful.
By doing so, we are missing out on some things that will not just benefit our readers and other writers but our own sites as well. Here are a few reasons why you should comment on blog posts:
- To give feedback – Communication is crucial to blogging, and it can only get clearer when it’s a dialogue. Giving feedback allows the webmasters to know just what their audience is thinking. Conversely, if our readers give us feedback on the articles we uploaded, we can give them exactly what they want. We can adjust to the varied and ever-changing tastes of our audience.
Discussion can even lead to new ideas, making the process of writing even easier.
- To have complementary content – When the content of a post is being discussed, it’s hard not to have people giving their own takes. Additional tips get thrown around, complex concepts are clarified, and problems are solved.
If we forget something important in our article, we can just mention it in our own comments section, too!
- To build your brand – Being able to answer questions from readers (whether from our own blog or another’s) makes us look like experts in the field. People will go to us for our insights. Chances are, they will even visit our own blogs if they see us commenting on someone else’s.
We also establish bonds between readers and other writers when they see that we care enough to impart our knowledge to them.
- To increase social proof – People can’t help but check out things that other people go crazy for. They’ll think, “There must be something worthwhile in that post when there are a lot of comments in it!”
So if people do leave comments on our posts, we can reply to each one, thereby increasing the number of total comments. When other people search for articles like ours and see the number of comments, they won’t be able to resist clicking on our site.
- To enhance your site’s visibility – It might not be apparent at once, but comments can directly contribute to upping our blogs’ rank on search engines. More often than not, everyone discussing in the comments section will end up using the keywords for that particular post.
Since we’ll be engaging in actual conversation, it won’t be seen as spam. Commenters will be unintentionally helping in increasing our ranks, and they’ll be happy to do so!
So when we write or read articles, we should take the time to say something sensible in the comments section. Posts get better, pages get more views, and readers get happier. Everybody wins.
About Kyle Kam
Commenting on one’s post is necessary, you get to know their feedback and you will be open to their insights to the timely posts that you have. It also increases on the credibility of your post.
Blog commenting is an essential part of taking the websites to new heights.
To advertise my blog, I need to do blog commenting.
Twitter: payable
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I used to comment on blog posts to engage with other bloggers it helps me to build a good blogging network…
Its a very very important article for me. and i think is which i very important to engage a visitors on site, thank for sharing..
I have to agree with the comments that have been posted so far – comments are a great way for the author to get feedback and thoughts of other users about the topics they are interested in and write about. On the other hands the comments author can get his own blog or website noticed.. so its a simple win-win.
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the best way to get refferal traffic and the best combination of visitors is to make advertising, commenting, and sharing regularly…this is my own experience :)
Commenting on blogs is a slow but steady way to increase your readership. When leaving a comment I try to say something worthwhile because this will make people want to find out more about the commentor. :)
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Hey Kyle,
I am so appreciated for your post. I learn more than ever in your article. I hold the view that the comment on posts is just nothing about your blog, the blog itself important.Even when I meet a great post, I don’t leave a comment. I was wrong totally. So, I leave one for you and your post.
Truely
Bonnie
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i think commenting is a very good practice especially from a learning point of view but the problem is spam. There are lot of people who only comment for back links. I don’t think that is bad but one need to maintain ethical level so that the host site’s integrity is not damaged. Comments which are not related doesn’t make any sense.
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You are right akhil. Although commenting is a great way to drive traffic to your blog, it really sucks to spam the other sites with comments. One should make sure that the comment has atleast something useful in it which is worth being read.
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Interesting – I always try to replying to comments, not only is it fun and inspiring to engage with your readers but it’s also great for back links! ;)
Twitter: SantoshSandilya
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Nice post Kyle. I think, commenting on blog posts my get your website plenty of traffic, as well as backlinks. I say commenting is mandatory for new bloggers.
Obviously, commenting is very important to bloggers either you are the one to do it or the other way around. You need to interact and make sure others will notice that you are existing might as well your site is so commenting is one way to tell the whole web that a blog like yours needing some attention to, which means, you are also marketing something that is worth reading for everyone. A blog or site that is not noticeable is like a non-existing blog so better to tell the whole web that they should notice you because you are important too.
Blog Commenting is a necessary activity to get a backlink most of people always leave comment on others blog due to one reason while we comment on anothers blog than comment convert as a link so its a big reason to blog commenting.
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You wrote really interesting article i bookmarked this it tell great things i never thought i would find like this on web
there are times when u suddenly get emails of posts which were made more than a year back but now blog like this help.
handling a blog is great art job & passion you done it thanks 4 sharing
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Hi, I always leave a comment on another persons blog if i have found it interesting or I have gained or learnt something from that blog. Plus it can lead to others leaving entries on your own sites.
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Commenting on other blogs is absolutely necessary if you want to grow your site and gain more knowledge about whichever topic you are reading and commenting about. Every blogger should be doing it and if you aren’t then you are really missing out.
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Commenting on other people’s blog posts is a great way to learn something new and get exposure for your blog at the same time. It can bring a lot of traffic to your site and more people will become your subscribers. Thanks for posting! Great article!
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Yes. It’s also a great way to brand yourself as a blogger. Thanks for dropping by, Elena. :)
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Commenting after each comment is a good practice both for building relationships and for adding more comments. Early in my blogging career on my first blog I did not respond to comments. I don’t know what I was thinking because now I would never avoid commenting. Duh. Thank! Suzanne
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Like you Suzanne, I didn’t give value to comments. I thought commenting was such a waste of time. Hope my post gave you valuable information. Thanks, Suzanne
I think that commenting a blog is one of the best things you can do, to get more power in your own page.
Hi Kyle!
I want the author/blogger to be more inspire when I do blog commenting on their works. In return, I get some traffic for my own site. It’s the best and easiest way so far I know for newbie like me to help my site get ranks.
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I think commenting on other people’s blog makes a lot of sense. As long as they are done ethically for connecting and done in a proper way after reading the post then its a good thing.
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That’s what every blogger should have in mind when they comment on posts. Well said, Shalu. Thanks. :)
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I’d say communication between other bloggers within your niche is as important as the keyword research. I guess the broader the market the more work needs to be done with the communication to get recognised. The smaller the niche, the easier it is to rank higher on google.
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You has got an awesome blog with such source of useful and informative stuff here. It will really help me in building a brilliant website.
Nice article. The article for those who actually submitted blog posts but they didn’t know why should they submit the blog post.
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In order to start a conversation with the audience visiting the website and maintaining a good rapport with them throughout our blogging career, we must comment on the blog posts. When they speak to us via comments, the relation between the blogger and the visitors improves and the site gains additional traffic.
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By commenting on others blog we can get the link form different domains, we get traffic from the different users and different place, our site will also rank high if the visitor increase, and we can also get more comment on our blog also.
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Very useful tips described,thanks for sharing tips
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Regarding the first point, feedback could never always be in agreement with the article or may present a different perspective to it. Commenting is the best way, I think, to get to what your readers are thinking thus sparking conversation.
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Nice list, one of the main reasons to comment I think is also to build relationships with other bloggers. It’s very hard as a blogger to be successful without the help from other bloggers. Commenting is the starting point to reaching out to other bloggers. Down the track you might offer guest posts or you might co-author content or they might mention you in their own posts all of which is great but usually you need a starting point and commenting is a good place to start.
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Blog Commenting helps in gaining loyal visitors. Google and other search engines prefer a website having lots of backlinks. Moreover, it is easier to get new visitors through blog comments. One could also seriously consider forum commenting which also boosts ranking in search engines if it is done properly.
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Commenting ofnblogs is very important especially on the points you mentioned: site’s visibility and building a brand.
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Commenting on other blogs is one of the easiest way ton get a backlink. It also lets you see what other people have to say. I like commenting as much as I can.
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Good article. Commenting is a good way to create some reputation, establish some presence.
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Well yes, comments can directly be effective to boost up the blogs rank in search engines. By doing so commenters are helping themselves to increase their blog ranks, but one should take the time to leave comments that makes sense. Thanks Kyle for this wonderful post on blog commenting :)
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These are great points you have mentioned to comment on blog posts. Communication and conversations are indeed crucial to blogging. Thanks for this share.
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Yes kyle, you are right. We should always comment on blog article. This can help a blogger to create more informative post. We have to inspire them and the only way to do this left a innovative on their blog.
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this is really cool information…now I know what to do to get better positioning and much more targeted traffic for my web…really thanks man:)
great article.
Commenting is a win win situation like you’ve mentioned.
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Blog commenting is just great for SEO, Exposure as well as building in some connections. It also helped my blog getting in some advertising opportunities and sponsored posts too
Nice set of tips, i’ll certainly use them.
I am writing on Someone’s Post to understand some fundamental tricks in blogging. One cannot understand everything on Blogging at one place
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Blog commenting is one of the seo techniques that drives traffic and improve keywords also so we should comment on blog posts.
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commenting on blogs is very important for all the reasons that you have listed….it is also very important to choose quality blogs while commenting…there are many blogs where people spam and their comments get approved more due to auto approval so i think those blogs should be avoided.
“If we forget something important in our article, we can just mention it in our own comments section, too!”
Kyle, that’s the one for me. It speaks to my difficulty with ever feeling a post is finished. I’m a new blogger with correspondingly low traffic and thus don’t get a ton of comments.
But eventually having more comments to respond to would allow me to toss around ideas that may have escaped my original posts.
Thanks for this post.
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I think the better your blog posts, the better your blog comments. There will always be people trying to build up their own presence through comments. If you want a good discussion, post about something discussion worthy. If you post just to keep up the blog schedule and then expect good comments, you’re gonna have a bad time.
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Great insights you shared here, Kyle. Commenting on blog posts does give you the opportunity to market your blog and yourself to like minded people. The key, of course, lies in the quality of the comments that you leave behind. No matter how posts you leave a comment, if you don’t share anything useful to the readers of the blog post, you’re pretty much just wasting your time and effort.
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This a good Tips you just gave out but what if i use other people’s post as a form of Backlinks?
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Beyond anything, I think the main reason to comment on blog posts is to build a relationship with the blog owner and other commentators. Anything else should be secondary – that’s one of the reasons why Mashable became so successful. Pete used to post tons of great comments on TechCrunch!
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well my blog is also a new one, where i comment other blogs to build community and some backlinks. it also gain some good traffic from the links.
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Commenting on blogs is a way to show the poster that you took the time to read the post and you contribute to the discussion by expressing your views on the issue. You also benefit by commenting on blogs by evaluating how people respond to the views expressed in your comments and if your comment generates a big response and debate you can then use the same ideas in your own blog. Oh and ofcourse getting backlinks from comments doesn’t hurt.
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Good post. Most people comment to increase their rank but yes, many also comment to give feedback. I completely agree with what you’ve written.
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Hi Kam,
Very useful tips described by you in this article.One or many comments because it is requirement for both sites.For increasing the traffic of the site and for page ranking by the search engine it is mandatory.
Back linking is the main criteria behind this.But the comments to be in order and meaning full I can say.
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My blog highly depends on referral traffic where I commented on other blogs within my niche and that is why I drop a comment on those blogs. Since the site is still new, it is hard to rank well on search engine and as a result, I find it important to comment and get early traffic.
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Hi Alan Tay,
I am also working on a new site. It is very difficult to get ranked and get good traffic on a new site. I am not getting enough traffic from the blog commenting too. What should I do, I am just stuck into rank 3 and not so visitors.
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Getting into Rank 3 is pretty good but if you are not getting traffic, I think there is no one searching for that term. You might first want to check out your estimated search from Google Adwords.
As for blog commenting, I will be writing a few post soon enough from blog.
Keep in touch.