How to Generate Traffic and Backlinks from Blog Commenting

As we all know, building backlinks to our blog is very important to our SEO campaign. No doubt, having quality links pointing to our site would help boost our search engine rankings but a lot of people don’t know how to build these links. In the post, we shall focus on how to generate traffic and backlinks from blog commenting.

Simply put, blog commenting is the act of placing comments on other peoples blog. When you leave a comment and the moderator of the blog approves them, you could stand the chance to gain some free traffic, backlinks or both.

Although, most moderators usually add nofollow tags to the comments to avoid spam, it is still of wise practice to comment on these blogs as you could grow more audience by driving traffic from your comment to your blog. 

Before we get into the groove, I would like to suggest you install SEOquake on your browser. Why SEOquake? This wonderful Firefox plug-in makes it easy for you to find sites with high listings and pagerank. It also works on Chrome. See an example below;

As you can see, the numbers 1-6 points out the domain name of the page, pagerank, incoming links from Google, incoming links from Bing, Alexa’s ranking, and the number of social shares on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ related to the site.

Now, here’s more to what this plug-in does. I entered the search query “how to use Facebook fanpages for traffic” and the following list of websites came up for my search term;

 From the screenshot above, this wonderful plug-in has listed the pagerank, alexa’s ranking and other relevant details of the sites on the top listing. Now all I’d have to do is click on any link of my choice, read the post and hopefully drop a comment. But this is where many fail. With these tips, you’re sure to get your comments approved.

Firstly, when you visit any blog you found on the top listing, never leave comments like

•   Thanks for this post
•   Oh! Wonderful
•    Great tips and so on.

Many moderators will act fast and may remove your link juice from these comments. Rather than do that, try to comment based on the subject, contribute something new or ask some questions if you’re not clear about the topic. Chances are that the moderator and other visitor may be tempted to check on your link to see what they could gain, contribute or suggest when they visit your site. See the screenshots below for some of my comments that got approval with the link juice intact;

This comment was made on the post ~ build highpage rank backlinks easily with this free backlink tool

This comment was made on the post ~ blogcommenting etiquette – 5 tips to get your comments approved everytime

This comment was made on the post ~ howto increase google page rank of your blog: blogging tips for beginners

 This comment was made on the post ~ creative writing a good way to make money?

Can you see how I have constructed some very meaningful tips and got them all published? That’s how simple it is. I also got some good hits from these sites especially KnowEmpowerNetwork which still brings me about 10-20 hits per day. 

Another way to driving traffic from blog commenting is by pinging your approved comments. Many search queries usually bring up comments or answers when people search for related terms. Comments also rank faster when you use keywords in the name field but many of such get disapproval for being too promotional. Either way, before leaving a comment, try to go through previously published ones to see if anyone made use of a keyword term and had the comment published. If you don't find such, just stick to providing your name and url.

Remember, do not spam and avoid placing invaluable short comments. Be a smart commenter on blogs. With time, you will grow a large audience from visitors of the blogs you visit and comment regularly on and this would help boost your blog's recognition also.

To your success. 

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