There are several ways of getting traffic to your blog. We all know them because we read about them almost every day. Each tech blog we subscribe to runs a ‘Getting traffic to your blog’ article every month. We’ve read about this and tried hard to implement the suggestions as best we could, but nothing we did gave us quite the flood of traffic we were expecting. This short article will forget the other ways for now and discuss just one basic way of getting traffic to your blog: using comments.
This is the hardest part – finding blogs to comment on. A lot of bloggers think that commenting on your friends’ blogs will attract people to your site. This is only true to a point. There are 4 significant conditions to this basic rule: the blog is the same niche as yours, the traffic level of the blog you commented on is high, what you said in your comment made sense, other people can see what your last post was, and even where your comment was placed in connection to the others. So you see, you can comment on your friends’ blogs for years and only ever get a trickling of people to yours.
Finding the right blog is an art. You can do a basic search on Google and find top blogs in your niche. Just type in (for example) Garden Blogs in the search panel. Find the blogs which have a high traffic – you can usually tell by the number of quality comments they have on each post, and leave your comment there. People visiting this blog are generally people interested in gardening. If your comment is a good one, (this trumps having a blog in the same niche) or you sound like you know what you’re talking about, you will begin to ‘borrow’ the top blog’s traffic to your own site,
Even if the top blog you visit is the same niche as yours and they have a wild amount of traffic, your comment has to be a sensible one. If you leave a flying comment like, ‘Great post – read mine’ no one will click on your name and you may even get classed as spam. If the blogger is asking questions at the end of his/her post, answer them. If they ask for your opinion, be thorough, sensible and helpful. Make sure you read the post before commenting because other commentators can tell whether you did or not – through your response. If your comment stands out on a high traffic blog of your niche (even if it’s not in your niche, but you know what you’re saying), people will be visiting your site to see what else you’ve said.
We’ve already established that commenting on low-traffic blog is virtually a waste of your time if you want to use your comments as a traffic source. Now you’ve found a high traffic blog which is generally in your niche. You take the time to leave really helpful comments and this will definitely encourage people to click on your link. However, blogs that have comment love or another way of allowing you to leave the link to your last post are 100% better than blogs that don’t. Thousands of people may pass through that high traffic blog each day and see your great comment. Nevertheless, people on the Internet are generally very busy. If they can see a fantastic heading of a post you just published on your blog (at the end of your super comment) many of them will click through to your site. If your comment is the first one on a high-traffic blog’s post, research shows that you’re more likely to get click-throughs, than if your comment is somewhere in the middle.
Conclusion: get to that high-traffic blog, leave a comment that stand out and do it quickly. Some of my top traffic sources are other blogs in my niche. I’ll keep them sweet and never stop leaving well-thought out comments on their sites.
Find blogs in your niche when using commenting as a traffic source
This is the hardest part – finding blogs to comment on. A lot of bloggers think that commenting on your friends’ blogs will attract people to your site. This is only true to a point. There are 4 significant conditions to this basic rule: the blog is the same niche as yours, the traffic level of the blog you commented on is high, what you said in your comment made sense, other people can see what your last post was, and even where your comment was placed in connection to the others. So you see, you can comment on your friends’ blogs for years and only ever get a trickling of people to yours.
Finding the right blog is an art. You can do a basic search on Google and find top blogs in your niche. Just type in (for example) Garden Blogs in the search panel. Find the blogs which have a high traffic – you can usually tell by the number of quality comments they have on each post, and leave your comment there. People visiting this blog are generally people interested in gardening. If your comment is a good one, (this trumps having a blog in the same niche) or you sound like you know what you’re talking about, you will begin to ‘borrow’ the top blog’s traffic to your own site,
Make your comment stand out if you want traffic from it
Even if the top blog you visit is the same niche as yours and they have a wild amount of traffic, your comment has to be a sensible one. If you leave a flying comment like, ‘Great post – read mine’ no one will click on your name and you may even get classed as spam. If the blogger is asking questions at the end of his/her post, answer them. If they ask for your opinion, be thorough, sensible and helpful. Make sure you read the post before commenting because other commentators can tell whether you did or not – through your response. If your comment stands out on a high traffic blog of your niche (even if it’s not in your niche, but you know what you’re saying), people will be visiting your site to see what else you’ve said.
Blogs that allow a link to your last comment bring more traffic
We’ve already established that commenting on low-traffic blog is virtually a waste of your time if you want to use your comments as a traffic source. Now you’ve found a high traffic blog which is generally in your niche. You take the time to leave really helpful comments and this will definitely encourage people to click on your link. However, blogs that have comment love or another way of allowing you to leave the link to your last post are 100% better than blogs that don’t. Thousands of people may pass through that high traffic blog each day and see your great comment. Nevertheless, people on the Internet are generally very busy. If they can see a fantastic heading of a post you just published on your blog (at the end of your super comment) many of them will click through to your site. If your comment is the first one on a high-traffic blog’s post, research shows that you’re more likely to get click-throughs, than if your comment is somewhere in the middle.
Conclusion: get to that high-traffic blog, leave a comment that stand out and do it quickly. Some of my top traffic sources are other blogs in my niche. I’ll keep them sweet and never stop leaving well-thought out comments on their sites.
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