impaul99
I think the idea of commenting on blogs is to have people read your comment, and feel compelled to visit you as well. There are 2 parts to this.
1. Leave a substantial and insightful comment when you leave one. It needs to be compelling.
2. Become part of a community. Don't just do "drive-by" commenting.
Ultimately, it's a slow, hard work method of building traffic, but it's also one of the most worthwhile. As you hone your content, and write more compelling headlines, each individual that you've built into a part of your community becomes and advertiser for you. They link to your posts in other places, they digg or stumble your posts, they email people to check out what you wrote.
It all starts with forging relationships with other bloggers.
I suspect that once you reach a certain critical mass, that's when your loyalists become a great enough number to get significant results from Digg et al. That would be the point you refer to things taking off suddenly.
I don't know. I haven't reached that point yet, but I do know that one of the reasons why I have dozens of daily - hourly even - readers is commenting elsewhere. When I leave more comments, my traffic goes up. It reminds people that have visited before to come back. Once in a while, it attracts a n00b.
Then the key is keeping that person coming back. |