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Musings On Blog Comments

By Tim Gross - Internet Business Blog |

Leaving blog comments helps everybody:

Leaving a blog comment lets the writer know that what they wrote was of interest, and can help them decide what to write about in future posts, as well as possibly motivate them to keep blogging :-)

When you post and leave your website URL in the post, you get a link back to your website, which search engines use to help rate your website ranking. (That’s assuming the “No Follow” tag is turned off in the blog. By default in Wordpress, “No Follow” is turned on, which tells search engines not to count the link is a “real link”, so it doesn’t do the commenter any good.

On this blog (and on may others), the No Follow tag is turned off so you benefit by posting. When in doubt, you can look at the HTML of a blog to see if there are No Follow tags in their links. Of course, even if the No Follow tags ARE on, you can still get direct traffic by a reader clicking on your comment link directly, assuming you said something that made them want to click through.

To some degree, it is a numbers game, in the sense that the more comment links there are pointing to your website, the more links there are pointing to your website. (Hmmm, that’s deep…)

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One Response to “Musings On Blog Comments”

  1. Michael Emilio Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Great post - check out my site.

    :)

    Anyway, good point on the comments. Two most important parts of a quality blog comment in my experience are:

    Relevant - Is your comment on-topic? Is your comment addressing something the author has written about. For example, a question the author has posed or your opinion on the blogger’s view.

    Engaging - Does your comment flow with the article? I find I get a good response when it feels like a communication - talking WITH the blogger and audience, not AT them.

    Thanks for the dosh-dosh link Tim - good article.

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