Comments on: Your Blog Commenting Strategy can backfire!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:37:41 +0000

Dan, What I meant is that you can never measure how much of traffic is resulted out of a particular link building activitiy…

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:32:33 +0000

On the section about Risk v/s Reward, what do you mean with “how much of it contributes to your traffic” (for long term traffic profile I guess)? Please give more explanation.

Thanks

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:31:12 +0000

Good commenting is always good. As long as it’s not for the sake of it, it’s fine

By: blog commenting

blog commenting — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:59:00 +0000

I would like to say that commenting strategy will increase their interest in this field and they are also ready to share their ideas.

By: Samrat P

Samrat P — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:45:47 +0000

I feel that using multiple links referencing same page will diversify your page strength. Though it might look like adding more strength to your main domain.. I guess this method doesn’t work better..

By: Today’s Read

Today’s Read — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:21:39 +0000

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:46:54 +0000

@Chris, thanks for your visit and comment. Yes, the key is not to overdo comments…

@Lee, I can see that your link building efforts are well organized and ethically done. You should be seeing great results!

@Brad, thanks for your comment. I never used keywordluv, in fact I took out commentluv as well. As for the spam, well, I know what you are talking about

@Nihar, one hour for this kind of post is all that it takes once you have points. But I should also admit that I never complete all my points or proof read well…

Comment pagination is not a bad idea on big blogs where every other post gets 50 or more comments. As for me, I have only three or four such posts

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:31:27 +0000

Great post Ajith. You took only 1 hour, but i guess you had given more hours of thought to get this kind of post out. Is it?

I have a doubt regarding Comment Pagination that you mentioned. Does the blog owner has to remove comment pagination so, that reader can view all the comments in single page?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:19:37 +0000

Your points couldn’t be more right! I started running the keywordluv plugin on one of my blogs and the spam just started pouring in (the blog had some decent PR). I had a deluge of “nice comment”, “good post”, “excellent post” etc. While plugins of this type are designed to reward active commenting, the content still needs to be on target to the post or niche.

By: Lee Ka Hoong

Lee Ka Hoong — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:25:01 +0000

These are very true and nice tips Ajith. We do really need the correct blog commenting strategies to improve our blog traffic and brand building. I’ve been doing so for quite some times and I can see the result, it’s working.

Regards,
Lee

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:28:16 +0000

I agree with you saying 100% If blog commenting is done in Planned way it can make HUGE difference for the success of your blog.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:48:05 +0000

Forgot to reply to your post link query. In fact, I thought ?p=xxx way of linking is permanent (even when I change the permalink structure) and hence used it internally. On sidebar widgets (where I keep changing the popular posts) I am using permalinks.

But does it have any impact? I thought, if I use the right keywords, I can use anything on the URL What’s your experience?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:49:10 +0000

@Sita (BinaryDay),
Yes, it’s true that commentluv, top commentator plugin and other do follow mechanisms do encourage people to quickly drop a word (significant or otherwise) to get backlinks. I have taken out commentluv for now, though it was due to some bugs Next in the line is the top commentator plugin…

@Samrat, thanks for the compliments. Hope techhail is doing great, I keep visiting it…

As for this post, it took about an hour to write once I had the bullet points and probably 15 minutes to proof read, quickly create an image and post. I have a big problem with lack of patience…sometimes, even though I have more points, I tend to stop abruptly

@Shanker, thanks a lot for the appreciation

@Madhur, that’s true… In fact, I keep removing one in every four five comments which are like one-liners… I keep them only if it’s from a well wisher and long time reader of the blog. And as Kurt mentioned, we should still ‘moderate’ them.

@Kurt, that’s right buddy. Earlier I used to make comments to keep the relationships alive. But when the other party understands that I still read his blog but makes comments whenever there’s something to add, it’s not an issue. But at the same time, some people do expect comments to comment back

@Raju, thanks buddy. Yep, wrong and totally out of context comments will make the posts loose authority.

By: Raju

Raju — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Wonderful write-up and for once I agree with you completely Some people do not realize that they will lose the respect and authority over a period of time due to their excessive and irrelevant comments.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:40:21 +0000

I think the best whether for a beginner or an established blogger, the best is to comment only when we have something to add to the discussion. For example if i visit my favorite blog and its talking about Volleyball on that particular post. As I don’t know anything about that, I will simply just read and don’t comment.

The principle as you said comment to add to the discussion rather than just for “what we get back”.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:35:47 +0000

Madhur, the plugin actually motivates other bloggers to comment. But you should also screen each comment before approving. Normally on my blog I often gets comments from those companies just trying to promote their stuff by sayin fake praises.

It’s simple. If you think some one is just like “USING” your blog and commenting without really adding any value, you can always not approve it.

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:15:35 +0000

Nice Tips Ajith. Leaving Meaningful Comments that adds value to the content are quite essential if you want to get noticed by the authors of the other blog. I also feel that if you are commenting on some big blogs which gets a lot of comments per post, then the timing of your comments can also matter sometimes.

But as Binaryday mentions, these commentluv and top commentators plugins encourage a lot of useless comments just for SEO. Ever since i started using Top Commentator plugin, i have been getting a lot of meaningless comments.

By: Shanker Bakshi

Shanker Bakshi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:09:04 +0000

A comment is a comment is a comment, and i respect it in all form. Great article. deep analysis.

By: Samrat P

Samrat P — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:05:08 +0000

Wow Ajith this is really a very good post…
What’s the time taken to write the article…Do you write them at one stretch or in multiple days… I love to read ur articles..

[I see that the links on posts for internal link building have the default WP URL structure "/?p=xxx". Is there any reason for using that??]

By: binaryday

binaryday — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:24:13 +0000

Ajith,

Don’t we encourage out of context commenting by giving incentives like commentluv, top commentator, commentator of the month etc?