Are you waiting for a personal invitation before you go visiting? The best way to get quality comments in your blog is to leave some of your own in other blogs. The odds are excellent that you’ll be paid a return visit. Even if you don’t, anyone reading your comment has a direct path to find your blog.
The latest post at Blogging Without a Blog is an excellent example of both a popular blog and a post that garnered plenty of comments: 54 so far as I type this. Read Attract Readers – Make Your Blog a Safe Haven to get an idea how to get your own blog to become a magnet for an active community of folks willing to jump right in to your discussions.
Now that you know what is possible, here are some tips on how to maximize the effect of your online visits:
- Bloggers who use CommentLuv create communities of very active commentators and provide link love too. Subscribe to or keep a list of the blogs you like best so you can visit them regularly. The blogs on that page change regularly so you might visit there regularly too. If you like a blog do them a favor and give them a thumbs up on that page.
- When you find a blog that interests you follow the links from the comments there. The odds are good that if you are interested the bloggers who comment there will too – and that they will also use CommentLuv (because bloggers who use it recommend it in their blogs!). If they comment in THAT blog they are likely to comment in yours too! You may want to open them in a new tab so you can explore more posts.
- When you find a blog you like read more than one post! Check out the categories they offer or search for what interests you or move backward through their latest posts – or all three. You may have pertinent comments to make in older posts. Remember that older blog posts are likely to be listed in the search engines and drive traffic. Perhaps you’ve blogged on that subject and want to use your related blog post in the URL field. [NOTE: CommentLuv only allows you to choose one of your last ten posts IF you've claimed your blog AND you use the EXACT URL you used when registering.]
- I’ve made it REALLY EASY for you to get started by seeking out the Great Blog Communities linked below. Just click through to them and start commenting.
- Those who want to skip ahead can use the same strategies while visiting even more blogs from the dofollow lists below.
- Do keep track of the blogs you really enjoy so you can visit them regularly. Leave comments. Share your insights. Invite them to visit you. The friendliest bloggers invite the most visitors.
- I hope you’ll subscribe to GrowMap because I’m working on some contest ideas related to sharing our favorite blogs that will benefit all who participate AND those they recommend.
GREAT BLOG COMMUNITIES:
- Blogging Without a Blog
- Caroline Middlebrook
- DennisEdell.com
- DerekSemmlerDotCom
- DirectSalesMarketingWeb – $100 Cash Prize for Best Review of His Two New Sites
- Easy Cash Contests
- JamieHarropDotCom
- JungleofLife
- PlugInID
- Thou Shall Blog
- Wendy Knits
LISTS OF DOFOLLOW, COMMENTLUV AND KEYWORDLUV BLOGS
- DoFollow Blogs Directory
- Stephan Miller’s Ultimate DoFollow Blog List
- D-List of Blogs that Follow
- DoFollow, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv Blog List
- Do Follow List of Lists by niche
- Do Follow Blog Directory – Register your DoFollow blog free (The process presents a sales page.)
DOFOLLOW SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES:
DOFOLLOW FORUMS:
HIGH QUALITY RECIPROCAL LINKS:
- Membership Site to find targeted blogs interested in Reciprocal Blog Linking and Commenting
UNDERSTANDING DOFOLLOW and NOFOLLOW:
- SEO Tips DoFollow and NoFollow Links Explained
- What is DoFollow, How Search Engines Use NoFollow, DoFollow Lists
DOFOLLOW SEARCH TOOLS:
Wish you knew how to make your blog more comment friendly? See Blogging Best Practices: Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments and Magic Formula to More Comments; Only 3 Ingredients.
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There was definitely a need for a clear and concise guide on how to be a civic blog commenter. Thanks for the great article. I look forwards to returning here (and finding similarly well-written articles
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May 5, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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Hi Gregory. Glad you found us. You’ll probably find other posts that interest you by using our search function or skimming the categories. Both are in the right sidebar.
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I have installed DoFollow on all my blogs hopefully this will attract more visitors and more links for everyone.
- Jack
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April 28, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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Welcome Jack. A faster way to get your new dofollow status to attract more visitors, links and comments is to add yourself to the DoFollow lists and tools we’ve linked to in another of our posts that has always been in the Most Popular list in the right sidebar.
I’ve also linked it to this reply so you can just click on GrowMap above to get there or visit it any time in the Most Popular list. I suspect it will stay there indefinitely.
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Comments were so successful in getting my blog noticed that I had to come up with a way to reward the people that took the time to add to my sites discussion and that’s how Comment luv was born.really its great and amazing post so i would like to say thanks to u and i would appreciate to your efforts.
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April 28, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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CommentLuv is probably my favorite upgrade for a WP blog because it makes it easy to remember regular commentators. Every time they leave a comment I am reminded to revisit their blogs.
Did you see our post on a commenting strategy to greatly increase visitors? When we wrote it traffic was up 54.87% and went up to 76.63%. That post is almost always in the Most Popular list in the right sidebar but just in case I’ve also added the link to the word GrowMap in this reply.
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The art of commenting is all about habit.Great stuff! I’ve learned that this is all so true. If it’s not just about writing, if it’s about building community – and that’s what it is for me – then it is about visiting others, commenting, replying to comments – in short – be active if you want to have activity…
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April 28, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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Absolutely. The trick is figuring out how to stay on top of it all as it does take a lot of time. My apologies for the tardiness of this reply; I missed your comment earlier. We just activated Threaded Comments to make it easier to keep on top of them.
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April 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm
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@John Thank you. Your comment makes me wonder what percentage never comment for that reason. I often mention that there are no dumb questions.
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Great tips on blogging, during my first few years reading blogs I was kind of scared to comment in fear that I would say something stupid. But then realized how nice it was to join in on virtual conversations.
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March 12, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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@Susan Sorry I missed replying to your comment. It was probably trapped by Akismet and popped in between the early comments where I didn’t see it until now. Welcome to GrowMap. I hope you’ll be back.
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March 12, 2009 at 12:25 pm
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@affiliate.solutions I copied your comment above and added it to my contest post. It will get more views there. I’m still getting DNS lookup errors when trying to view that information. I suppose it could be this PC even though I tested it in two browsers.
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I really liked your blog! You have some great content. Check out my blog,
Listen I wanted to tell you about this Huge Birthday bash and give away….
I just got an informed there is a HUGE JV going on right now and its great for everyone. If you haven’t heard about it here is the general idea. One marketer is having every other JV submit a gift ( eBook, software,scripts,etc) which visitors will have the option of downloading (for free). This gives marketers a bunch of exposure and visitors a bunch of free gifts…
If you haven’t heard about it you might want to check it out. Its only lasting for about a week
Either Get Free Gifts or Tons of Traffic..
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February 25, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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@Jasmin The other great thing about leaving comments is it reminds the blog owner who you are and makes it easy for them to get back to your blog. With CommentLuv it also lets us know when your new post is something we’d be interested in.
I know from experience that one of the best ways to get comments in your blog is to leave some in other blogs, related to your topic. You have added some great resources. Thanks!
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February 11, 2009 at 7:05 pm
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@RT Cunningham Thank you.
@Jessica I’ve been focusing on Social Networking lately and am planning to blog more frequently in the near future. I hope you subscribed to my feed so we can keep in touch.
@Hectic When you find really friendly blog communities you won’t be lonely or bored any more. Do visit http://BloggingWithoutABlog.com as that is the friendliest community I’ve ever run across.
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Blogging is my medicine to not be bored in life. Expressing your problems and comments to the other bloggers. This technology is help a allot of being lonely.
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I thought this was a well written and well thought out article. Keep it coming!
Hi, I’m just responding to a comment you left on my df blog list. I’m checking your blog now and I should be adding it to the list shortly.
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January 26, 2009 at 12:20 am
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@Charles Thanks for visiting. I still comment on quality posts wherever I find them; however, if we’re going to go discover new blogs why not start with others that are dofollow?
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Awesome post, thank you. Im checking out that list, good tips as well, to think of the countless hours ive spent contributing to no follow blogs, wow, time to start over – keep up the great work. -charles-
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It’s always great to go out and meet new people by leaving comments on other blogs!
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January 13, 2009 at 10:45 pm
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@Yan Yes, comments are like any other skill; the more we do it the faster and better we become. I popped over to your blog and shared your Theme review at FriendFeed. Do you happen to know the Thesis Theme too? I’d love to read how they compare.
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January 13, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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@Lance You and all the others who have commented in my last few posts are proof that those with an understanding of the importance of building community do so wherever they are made to feel welcome.
Your commenting here shows me that I was correct about your blog belonging in any list of great blog communities.
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