1. Comment to Build Conversation
– This is rule no.1 you should follow while commenting on blogs in your
niche and outside your niche. It’s very disappointing for any blog
owner to see comments like “great post”, “great article” and “bookmarked
this post for future use” for their articles. A blog owner puts in
effort to maintain his blog and write articles on a consistent basis
which is mostly done out of passion or a keen interest for things. The
least we can do as commentators is to respect that effort and leave
valuable comments to help build and enhance the conversation. It’s not
always a case where you would be able to add value, just make sure to
leave reasonable comments and it will be approved.
2. Don’t Use Keywords instead of your Name
– This would really depend on the type of blog you’re commenting on.
Most of the blog owners these days have comment policies that you can
refer to before leaving a comment. Then there are bloggers who reward
their commentators by using plugins like KeywordLuv
that allows them to use keywords along with their real name. Here it
would be ok to have your keywords in your name. You can also refer
previous comments on that post and check if commentators have left
keywords as their name, if not – stay away from keywords and use your
real or nick name or it would go into SPAM anyways.
3. Link out to your posts with care
– It’s always good to link out to your posts if you think it’ll be
helpful to the readers of the post and will really add to the
conversation. However, do not go crazy and add link to your posts in
every comment that you make, which will be treated as SPAM by most of
the blog owners.
4. Create Your Own List Of Related Blogs –
When you find that your comment has been approved on a certain blog,
it’s always better the revisit those blogs as there’s a certain amount
of trust built between you and the blog owner. This makes it easier to
comment on their future post and helps carve your own online identity.
It can even lead to a long-term friendship which you ever did not think
of. In fact, isn’t blogging is all about building & maintaining
relationships?
5. Get a Gravatar – If you do not have a Gravatar you
should get one. A Gravatar helps build a brand around your name which
helps gets comments approved at a faster rate. Blog owners tend to
approve comments with gravatar as it gives a feeling that the person
commenting is serious about his own image and not out there to SPAM
blogs.
5 Simple Steps to Effective Blog Commenting
