This article is reposted by permission from David Adams of FlickerLister. Please visit his blog at http://www.flickerlister.com/blog/
While commenting on blogs is a great way to generate interest in your own blog, you do need to be selective on when and where you comment -
1) Comments must contain some ‘value’ for both the blog owner and the comment reader. In other words if the comment does not contribute to the discussion in some way, it will have a negative impact on your reputation.
2) Not all posts on a site should be commented on - pick and choose which posts you wish to spend time and effort writing a comment about - commenting on every single post can come across as being spam, rather than having something valuable to contribute - even when the comment may be on target and well written. If your name is the first or second commentor on every single post on a site, you start to come across as ‘the creepy guy’.
3) Not all blogs will result in well targeted visitors to your niche site, so be selective on the blogs you comment on, or if you want to participate on a blog that is off topic for your niche do so without linking to your blog.
4) Posting on a number of blogs can become a drain on resource - is an hour spent commenting on a couple of blogs worth the increase in visitors that could have been gained by using that hour to write an informative article, and which one will result in the best long term gain?
Like alot of people who read Problogger.net, I participate in a number of blogs and websites across a wide spectrum of topics. Those related to one of my sites will generally have a site linked via my name, any that have no relevance are done without a site link.
This article is reposted by permission from David Adams of FlickerLister. Please visit his blog at http://www.flickerlister.com/blog/
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