Responsible Effective Blog Commenting

Placing comments on blogs can be effective in terms of directing folks to your own blog or website. As it is a privilege to be able to blog for business, it is prudent to be respectful and helpful to the blog and its readers. Also, it is important to find topics/posts where you really care about joining the conversation.

Here are a few guidelines to use when commenting on the blogs of others, especially those in your field:

a. If you are new to blog commenting (newbie), do not hold back from commenting, even if you think you do not know enough to comment intelligently. Go with your gut impressions or instincts if you think your spontaneous opinion is not an informed one.

b. Let the blog author know what you appreciated about their posting(s). Perhaps give reasons why you agree or disagree with something. You could let them know why you believe the topic is important in your blog comment.

c. If you are going to disagree, first check to see if someone else has already done so from your perspective. If you need to criticize, do so in a respectful manner. Do not comment in a caustic way or you will only invite a hostile retort on your own blog. You can disagree with an idea or opinion without attacking the person who holds it.

d. Let the blog owner know a topic for which you would like to see more posts.

e. Contribute something that would benefit readers. Perhaps you can help others benefit from your experiences. Perhaps you can inspire readers in some way. Do not be afraid to reveal something about yourself that lets readers know more about who you are. It is not just about blogging for business. Blogging is supposed to be like enjoyable conversation.

f. Create a profile on your own blog(s). When you set up a profile, you bring a human quality to your blog. When you post anonymously or without a name, you lose so much potential to have folks participate in your blog’s conversation.

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Make Blog Commenting Your Best Work At Home Ideas

Link management plays an important part in how successful your home business can become in internet marketing. It is also very relevant to every marketer's desire to achieve high search engine ranking in Google, Yahoo and other top search engines. In my other articles, I mentioned that it is important to get quality links related to your work at home business. While this remains true, it is also imperative that we find the best way to get this done easily, painlessly and preferably getting result exceeding our expectation. This article shows you how blog commenting can become your best work at home ideas for your business.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is considered one of the easiest ways to get free one way links to your website. All that is required of you is simply leave a comment on related business blogs and include some anchor text linking back to your site. While we do recognize that link building is important to your business, you will need to exercise good time management as there are also other equally important tasks demanded of you from your work at home business. For some marketers, finding related blogs to comment is a very tedious task which is time consuming and hard to justify doing it unless of course, if you have discovered a smarter way of doing this.

What Blog Commenting Software Does

One good solution to this labour intensive task is to purchase a good blog comment software. A typical software will trawl through Google listings for a supplied keyword search terms (e.g. small home business, work at home ideas, affiliate program etc), then lists out thousands of related blogs accepting comments. As there are 11 blog platforms including wordpress, blogspot, you can easily obtain a massive list of blog urls ready for you to post your comments to.

The software generates a listing of thousands of blog types by the selected page rank within a few minutes after you key in your keyword search terms. Simply clicking each link takes you to the page listed to do your blog comment posting. Just imagine the hours of time you actually gained back to really focus on your small home business.

If you do this diligently and consistently, you should see good results. If you have a new website, this could help you get indexed in search engines in a matter of days and for more seasoned internet marketers it could well mean better search engine ranking and a higher page rank on your sites. It is no big secret that having more one way links to your site from similarly themed websites will enable your websites attain better search engine ranking.

What Is Considered Good Software
The attributes of a good blog comment software are:

a. It's simple, easy to use and with good presentation

b. it provides training videos on how to use, what to /how to comment on blogs, and which blogs are worth commenting.

c. it provides excellent customer service on your queries, attended by efficient support staff who provide their names (as opposed to getting a mail reply from 'service support staff' from others that I came across).

d. able to filter out blog urls which have 'no follow through' and set up to prevent spamming.

e. 8-weeks money back guarantee


In Search of Quality Links

When looking for links to your website the best ones are:

Free
One Way
On pages with good Page Rank
On topic
Relevant anchor text
Can point to any page in your website

A blog comment software is an excellent tool that can provide one of the best work at home ideas for your small home business. It may not be as well known compared to article submitter, or directory submitter, but will soon become a basic tool for all serious internet marketers. It may be a new revolution in the making which offers excellent help in link management and the domination for high search engine ranking. 

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Better Back Links through Comments

If you have been attempting to gain better back links for your blog or website you may have learned one of the best and easiest ways is leaving comments on blogs with similar niches.

What many don’t know is that many blogs have a code inside of the source code called a “no follow code”. Basically the site has a no follow tag and a back link will not be developed for your site. This is the standard code for most blogs. The webmaster has to remove this code snippet or information in order for you to gain a back link for your blog.

Google, Yahoo and Bing all originated the no follow tag codes. Their intentions were good. The no follow eliminates spam from being created for a lot of website and blog owners. However, times are changing and many blogs are becoming do follow; they will create back links for your blog. If the blog owner does determine your comment is spam in anyway, they will delete the link as well as your post and you will not receive a back link.

Blog commenting is a great strategy for developing back links, but is very time consuming. Manually doing all of this work will not guarantee your hard work will pay off. You want to leave informative comments so you will need to read the blog. Leaving informative, detailed comments is a way to add to the likelihood of your comment not being deleted as spam.

Don’t consider using a back tracking software to leave hundreds of comments for you. This will definitely thwart your efforts because the search engines look for and flag these little buggers and will penalize your blog for using them. Some sites have been banned from the search engines for using them. Don’t go this direction for attempting to build back links.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you shouldn’t leave comments on blogs. Most blogs will even notify you that if you follow, they will follow.

A better strategy is selecting blogs that you feel your readers would gain a benefit from and adding an honest comment with a link to your blog. Whether these blogs are do follow or no follow should not affect whether you leave a comment.

Leave comments on do follow and no follow blogs. Search engines are looking for blogs that have all do follow links and may suspect your site of attempting to “cheat” the search engines in error and penalize you in error. Naturally flowing, no blog or site will have all do follow or all no follow links. They will have a little of both.