If you have a blog to promote your online business, which you should, you have heard the importance of backlinking. Backlinks are links to your website or blog scattered around the internet for others to find. Think of it as the breadcrumbs in Hansel and Gretel. You want to leave a little trail for your potential clients or customers to find their way home.
One of the methods of backlinking is blog commenting. I was skeptical about its ROI in the beginning. I rarely click on another commenter’s username to find out more about them. I didn’t really expect anyone else to do the same for me either, but I incorporate it into my schedule as part of my marketing schedule. It’s also part of my karma schedule because if I expect people to read my blog and comment on it, I better be doing the same in return.
One day when I was checking my stats to see where my traffic was coming from, I noticed I was getting readers from a link I didn’t recognize. I clicked it and it was another blog I had left a comment on. The difference in this blog was that it was using CommentLuv. If you aren’t familiar with CommentLuv it is a nifty little tool that pulls in the last post from the commenter’s URL and leaves it at the bottom of the comment. I no longer have to allude to my business or blog in a comment without spamming. I get a little link love automatically. Awesome!
I also have installed the CommentLuv plugin on my own blog as it encourages more comments from fellow bloggers. Try commenting on a few blogs with CommentLuv in addition to the traditional method and see if you see a difference in your blog traffic. If your comments are relevant and you use catchy blog titles, you just might!
I have tried to get commentLUV on my site but it’s a blogspot one – -me thinks there may be an issue.
regardless, i got to your blog via Lady Bloggers Society’s Comment Luv…small world!
Danon
Popped over from The Lady Bloggers and I’m glad I did. Some great ideas here. I’ve been thinking about the comment luv plug-in (in fact I’ve already loaded it on my blog, I just haven’t activated it
) – I think you’re post pushed me over the edge.
Thanks. Have a great day!
I love comment love. It does not just leave backlinks but deep backlinks that links directly to posts not just your home page.
.-= Jessica @Riding with Jessica´s last blog ..I Got A New Camera! =-.
I tried using intense debate on my blogger blog because it has comment luv but it kept timing out. I wish it was available for blogger.
Found you through Lady Bloggers.
.-= Adrienne´s last blog ..National Nutrition Month 2010 & Nutrition from the Ground Up =-.
I have been hearing that a lot, Adrienne. Hopefully they will soon.
I have comment luv account but the blog is not active. That way I have comment luv every time I visit a wp blog – great!
I wish blogger will have that too…
Greetings from LB site!
.-= BLOGitse´s last blog ..hackers suck! =-.
Yes – I hope Blogger will get something like this! But then again… I may just have to make that inevitable switch to word press.
.-= Rene W.´s last blog ..Day 5 – Life Balance =-.
I have never used Blogger, but I sure love WordPress!
I found this blog by comments
. Also, I get email updates by subscribing and have the “New” pre-release version on my blog. Andy will be announcing the new version on the WP plugins blog sometime in the future.
I still think there is value to blog commenting. I stopped doing it for awhile, but then like you, I noticed in my stats I was getting traffic from some sites from just a comment. So I still keep it up, but I try now to stay in my niche. When I’m doing research on blogging however, I will comment outside of my niche. I don’t know if that matters but I am learning as I go.