How To Write Great Blog Comments For Traffic and SEO Ranking

Whenever you notice a great topic on a certain blog, you sure want to thank the person who wrote it because it proves useful to you. A little word of thanks takes the person to a new height of encouragement, and we can easily do that leaving comments on their blog.

It is a great way of socializing and building up relationships. You never know when the person you thanked mails you in return and expresses his gratitude (and builds relationship in the long run).

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Did you know that Blog Commenting can also be used to generate quality traffic to your site?

Can It help you building quality backlinks that Google cares and ranks your site?

The answer is, yes!

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Does Blog Commenting Work for Ranking?

Well, some people say that blog commenting doesn’t work anymore! Believe me, either they are lying, or they are saying it blindly without even trying. You can check this article to know more about the importance of Blog commenting to rank your site.

You can also check the top-ranked website for mid competitive keywords, analyze the backlink profile using OpenSiteExplorer or Ahrefs. I’m pretty sure you will see a lot of backlinks generated from blog comments. And these sites are in the top!

You Can Also Generate Huge Traffic!

Commenting on Blogs can also be a great source of traffic for your own blog. If you comment on a blog which is related to your own topic, there is a high chance that visitors will check out your blog as well besides reading the one you are commenting on.

Comment for Brand Building – Link Acquisition

Blog commentSometimes the comment you leave on an interesting blog might pique the interests of others. There are instances when a simple comment turns into a discussion topic for people (Check Pat Flynn’s SmartPassiveIncome and Spencer’s NichePursuits as an example!).

It helps building your personal brand on the niche you are working as well as creates a long term link acquisition opportunity (Check out this guideline – how to use blog comments for guest posting)

Things to Keep in Mind For Great Blog Comment

We should take up blog commenting as a part of our regime to drive traffic and to improve our Search Engine Positions keeping these small milestones in mind. However, there are some things you need to keep in mind while doing blog comments for your own benefit.

Let us go over the do’s and the don’ts of blog commenting in the later section of the post.

Use your Real Identity and Name

There are some bloggers who don’t think too much about whether you are a real person or a brand trying to make its way through. But, using your real identity while appreciating others’ work or promoting your own brand or doing both at the same time is vital.

You will be surprised to see how much people value a real person. Using a real identity can be the fact separating you from being a spammer and a respected member of the discussion group. Even if you are someone new to a particular place, people will trust and rely on you more if you use your real name and other credentials.

Using Your Keywords or any other term instead of your real name not only will ruin your reputation but also the efforts will be waste of time as webmasters generally reject such comments.

Learn About The Site You Are Commenting

Let me think that you are in a community where you have never been before. The experience is totally new for you, and you bump into a post that matches your interest in the website.

What would you do?

Would you leap into “Doing your Thing” and commenting straight away?

That would not be the best course of action on this occasion. I advise you to read the previous posts made by the author in the same website. The more you read, the closer you get to the author’s psyche.

You will understand the interests, the ways of thinking and the writing style of the author that will prompt you into commenting on his post in an impactful way.

Study the Comments that People Make

Well, this is another basic of a good blog commenter. An Expert Blog Commenter will read the popular posts of a blog with good comments. If you are new at a certain community, it is a must for you. By reading other people’s comments, you will get to know their tone, their interests and above all, how they present themselves in the community. You can just replica other people’s comment adding something unique and using your own tone!

Always Add Some Value

The topic you have selected to comment on is appealing, no doubt. You have knowledge on the field you are commenting on, great! You have read about the author and the topic, even better!

It has been quite some time for you in this community, Perfect! However, there is still something you need to check. That is, “Has your point already been made?” It is no use bringing up the same issue that one has already brought up. So, pay close attention to that.

The only way to know for sure if your point has already been made by someone is to go through all the comments beneath a certain blog post.

Lengthier than Tweet, Shorter than Blog

Generally, blog commenter fixes their own length of comments. But ideal length is between a long tweet (which is 140 characters) and a short blog post (generally 200 – 300 words). The length should be enough to make a substantial point about the post which improves its quality.

You may express your own opinion and drop a reference link. If you feel the topic need further elaboration, you are welcome to write about it in your own blog.

Who knows?

The author of the blog you are commenting on might edit his post and include your bit of the information along with your blog as a reference link! At any case, refrain from simply dropping links randomly.

Avoid Generic Comments

Always Add Value to Blog Comments

Thinking of writing “Oh! What a great post this is and I am glad I found your post on the topic that I was looking for?” Drop the idea. Writing such a sentence would pose you as a spammer in the eyes of the community members. Even if you are not a spammer, you will be treated as one. It will do you a world of good if you can contribute to the post in an actual manner rather than posting some general messages like the one I’ve shown you.

Get Involved in Conversations

When participating in other people’s discussions through comments, nothing beats the strategy of being a good listener. Trust me when I say, “If you listen to people, they’ll listen to you.” Be interactive. Discuss the issue with others through comments. Take their points into consideration and make your Point Clear to them.

Avoid Excessive Links

If You Decide to Link Your Own Post Into the Comment, Make Sure you Do It only Once! You read it right. If you are commenting on an important issue, you can support your argument or point via reference links as I earlier mentioned. People go for one, two or even three links inside their comments. But it is best for them to have actually one link in the comment section. That link can be any website you are using as reference even your own.

Promote The Post You Commented On

This is another great strategy to get your comment noticed. You found a post interesting and commented on it. So why not promote the post publicly through your social media accounts? This way, more people will know about your post and the comment you made on it.

You can also tag the original blog authors on the social media post; you will surely get some natural link from the site next time!

Last Words…

It has been fun talking to you guys through the post. Feel free to include your suggestions, would love to discuss more about them.

21 thoughts on “How To Write Great Blog Comments For Traffic and SEO Ranking”

  1. I would agree that blog commenting is not dead! I have noticed a ton of traffic to my blog from commenting. We look at our referrals and look at the bounce rates and time on site as an indication of an audience that is interested in our content!

  2. Vaia its really great , we had some confusion about building Backling by blog commenting 🙁 but now its all are clear and specailly thats for that paragraph

    ” Get Involved in Conversations ” its a surprising idea !!!

    Thanks

  3. I was just over on Neil Patel’s blog (Which is how I found yours) and he said that blog commenting will not increase your search ranking. He said they are generally no follow links. Is that not the case? You have found blog commenting increases your search rankings? Or did I just misunderstand?

  4. Hi, Assalamu’alaikum, greeting from Indonesia. The great part about blog commenting is that it help us get to know each other, and support each other too.

    Just one to add one more point, that is mentioning the writer name, it will add a kind of personality and show that you just don’t care about the content, but also the writer. Right, Al-Amin Karim?

  5. Great Post..

    I have read that leaving thoughtful comments on other blogs can drive traffic to your blog, but i never tried it. You have written everything in detail, It is very informational.

    Thanks for sharing..

  6. Assalamoalikum.
    Thanks for your sharing this blog.Many important subject explain this blog.Before today i wrote comment just thanks but at this time i wont do this.I didnt know comment is a important issue for ganarate public.Your topic is most effective for me.I am trying to my best to follow your instraction about comment.Thanks again.

  7. That is a really good post. I’ve got loads of traffic in the past from some informative comments that I posted so this method definitely works. Good stuff Al-Amin!

      • I really appreciate your post about blog comments, I have ranked my site through this and got some high traffic from it. However, I have to keep in mind that this blog comments can also be a risk in seo. So I created questions below and hope you can help me with an answer.

        Do you have any routine on how many blog comments should I do every month to make my site on top?

        How do I include my website on comments? using my keyword or by just using my name as anchor text?

        Do I need to use my personal ip for each comment i make?

        Thanks in advance.

  8. Hi Al-Amin

    that’s a great overview!
    I can confirm to your readers as well blog commenting not only works, it works great! And it even works as the only source of backlinks, too, provided there is plenty of content on the website. Probably these days the dwell time is just as important as backlinks

  9. I didn’t know that commenting on blogs could help your ranking. I really like your tip that comments should add value instead of just commenting to get your link out there. I think asking questions is a great way to start a conversation and add to the discussion. Can you add a backlink to replies that you make on comments? Thanks for all this great information!

  10. I realised late that it is always good to leave a mark. This helps to acknowledge the author for his hardwork and is also good for building backlinks and relations with like minded people.
    I read most of the posts on your blog. My blog belonging to a similar category helps me a lot. Love them.

  11. Hello Kabir,
    you were right about links, i have got many backlinks and Tf for my website by commenting. Your post was very useful. thanks to share.

  12. You know? When I first came online with my blog, I understand that commenting give me backlinks. I love blog commenting, but I did the mistake along the way I commented other’s blog. Many bloggers marked me as spam and I didn’t any of my comment live on the post.

    I learnt related to blog comment after several month with blogging, and then it become my favorite strategy for marketing the business. Comment is a great to interact with other people in area of business, and help you to build relationship with both readers and other bloggers.

    Think… whatever the business you’re currently doing, whether it’s online or offline, the relationship is always benefited your business.

    Oh. By the way, I love what you mentioned about using real and avatar image. You know? I didn’t approve none avatar or keyword people on my blog post.

    Another important you mentioned is involve conversation. Yeah. This is a super super awesome idea to build relationship.

    Thanks for sharing some kind of brilliant post.

  13. Hi Al-Amin. I’ve been trying to be more active and comment on more blogs but I hadn’t thought about my approach until you brought it up. So it’s quite possible that you just saved my life. haha Really really helpful stuff thank you!

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