How To Use Blog Commenting to Create Free Leads and Drive Traffic.

Blog commenting can be used to increase your blogs SEO and drive traffic to your site.  In this post I’m going to reveal a number of tips on how to use blog commenting to create free leads and drive traffic back to your site.

Blog Commenting can create free leads if you follow the “how to blog commenting guide” I’ve outlined below.

1.  Find Hi Quality, Hi Traffic Blogs in Your Niche It just makes sense that if your trying to create leads by blog commenting that you’d want to comment on high traffic sites where you’ll get more exposure.  Here are a few ways to find relevant hi traffic blogs.

a.  Go to Google, type in “Keyword” or “Name of your Niche” + blog.

b.  Once again go to Google and type in something like “List of Top Article Marketing Blogs”  Just substitute your Niche for Article Marketing.

c.  Once you’ve collected lists of blogs you want to comment on save them as csv files, excel, notepad or bookmark them so you can use them easily each time you want to create leads with blog commenting.

2.  Brand Yourself If you’re going to get the attention of bloggers and other people leaving comments you need to stand out from the crowd.  Nothing looks worse than people who leave comments that have the plain auto generated avatars.  Let people see you and get to know you.  Gravatar is great service that allows you to upload your picture and it automatically posts your picture on your comments.  If you don’t have it yet click Gravatar

3.  Comment Early, Comment Often You will get the best bang for your blog commenting efforts if your the first one to comment.  At the least you want to be in the top 5.  You will get a lot more exposure with more people seeing your comment and link than if you’re commenter #254.  Additionally, if you find blogs that easily accept your blog comments become a frequent commenter to increase your odds of getting traffic back to your site.

4.  Actually Read the Post and Some of the Comments I know, I know, who has the time to read every post all the way through?     But you really need to.  When Blog Commenting to Create Free Leads and Drive Traffic to your site you want to show people that your paying attention, know what your talking about and are contributing to the value of the conversation.

5.  Make Quality Posts This one is closely related to the previous topic.  You want to be sure to leave quality comments, add value establish the fact that your and expert or very knowledgeable on the subject.  Your odds of getting your Blog Comments approved are greatly improved if other people value your comments.

6.  Be Unique Don’t just tacitly agree, like most people do.  Use your own voice and be original.  It doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree, just be yourself and add value.

7.  Don’t Be a Spammer Spam comes in many forms on blogs and is hated by almost all bloggers.  Here is a list of what not to do when using blog commenting to create free leads.

a.  Don’t try to pitch your business, opportunity or product in the post.

b.  Don’t put a link in your post unless, the blog’s commenting rules allow it.

c.  Don’t ever leave posts like these.  “Nice Post”, “Great Post”, “Thanks for the great info”, “Wow, great stuff”.  You might as well just leave this post, “Sorry dude, I’m just leaving this stinking post so I can steal some of your traffic and get them to go to my site.  Later…….”

8.  Humor Be yourself.  Be funny.  Humor is always appreciated.  But don’t just tell jokes, you still have to add valuable quality comments.  Yes you too…

9.  Comment on the Comments One way to show that you paid attention to the post is to comment on the comments.  Once again you can agree or disagree, just add value and don’t argue.  This is a great way to get other people to come check out your blog.

10.  Do Follow vs. No Follow When you’re trying to drive traffic back to your site with Blog Commenting be sure and comment on both type of blogs.  The goal here is not to increase your Page Rank, but to increase the traffic to your blog.  It doesn’t matter if the spiders can’t follow the link, as long as your fellow comenters can.

11.  Super Ninja Tip Go to a blog you want to comment on. Make sure that the blog posts the name of you most recent post in your comment. Find a post topic that you like and then write your own.  Be sure not to copy their post.  Do your research and write it in your own works.  Make the tile of your post similar to theirs, but be sure it’s unique.  After you’ve written the post go leave your blog comment.  This way you’ll improve your odds of people coming to your site to get more info or to find out more about you.

Blog Commenting should be an important part of your Blogging, Marketing and Lead Generation Strategy. For example, here’s a screen capture page of a number 1 ranking for Google for this article.  Look at the number of searches.  If you can learn how to get a number one ranking like this, how many hits do you think you will get?