One of my blogging friends James over at The Infopreneur posted about how he left over a thousand blog comments in 18 days. He is an amazing blogger and puts tremendous amounts of time into not only publishing more than fifty articles per month, but finds time to promote, guest blog on almost a dozen other blogs and leave almost fifty comments per day on other people’s sites.
DragonBlogger.com would be probably 2x as large as it is if I had not divided my time between 3 blogs. However, my poetry blog Wanderer Thoughts Poetry is my art and I enjoy the creative process, I don’t really consider it blogging really. My personal blog Personal Diary of Justin Germino was created to allow me to voice some of my thoughts and opinions that weren’t a good fit for this technology blog. It also let me blog about local Arizona things that would appeal toward residents, I live in a small enough city that when I blog about things in the city I can usually make the top 5 search items on Google for those things. The other side of the coin is that there are less than 100 searches per month for some of those things, so I don’t get much traffic even if I do have good search placement.
I do however want to increase the number of articles and comments I leave on other bloggers sites, but this is a hard niche for me. Previously I am barely able to churn out about 10 comments per week, but I hope to increase this to at least 5 to 10 comments per day in the upcoming weeks. One method I have found to be helpful is to leverage social networks such as Blog Engage or Twittley to find articles of interest and comment. One other is to use Google Blogsearch and search for keywords or topics that I would normally search for on Google News, instead of going to Google News read the info I was looking for from a blogger and leave a comment on the article. I also will search for keywords or topics that I have recently blogged about or want to blog about and leave comments and gain insight that may help me in my own article.
How many of my fellow bloggers leave more than 10 comments per week? how about 50 or more?
Share with me how many comments you leave per week and let me know what tips or tactics you use to help find other blog sites, and how you go about doing it.
-Dragon Blogger
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January 21st, 2010 at 7:24 am
I know blog commenting can increase traffic but I am a very slow commenter and I don’t have the discipline to do it on a consistent basis.
If I can keep up 50 comments per week, it is already an achievement.
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January 21st, 2010 at 7:39 am
Hello dragonblogger, thanks for the visit to my blog and the comment that you left this week. Yeah, it’s amazing to be Page rank 2. lols. Thanks for this advise about blog engage. I checked the website out and it looks promising.
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January 21st, 2010 at 7:51 am
I think I’m at the 30+ range (weekly). I use my RSS reader and blog engage to find posts to comment on. And like you, I have multiple blogs, so not as much time promoting each one.
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:14 am
It will be a coincidence that I was looking right now for blogs to comment on and found your article on upcoming articles at BlogEngage
The twittley idea looks interesting to find blogs of interest. I never tried it in past.
My per week comment count keeps on changing in past few weeks, it has been poor due to my tight schedule as my exams are approaching but I am confident that it will get better after my exams after which my summer holidays will start.
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:24 am
I find that many people leave comments for blogger articles on BlogEngage itself (which only has an excerpt of the blog) rather than going to the blog site and leaving a comment on the blog post itself. Most of the time I visit the blog itself and comment there, I rarely leave comments on Blog Engage “summaries” for the users submitted blog.
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:17 am
I definitely leave more than 10 a week. I don’t count, but I’d say I average closer to 10+ a day. I don’t use any type of reader, though, which I truly feel is responsible for people not commenting. My thinking is that bloggers put a lot of work into their blog, templates, etc., and it deserves a true visit. I have a regular list of bookmarked blogs that I go to pretty much every day. I also find a lot of interesting posts through twitter.
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:27 am
I leave more than ten comments per day. I just look at my RSS feeder and read the latest posts and if I like them and can add value, then I’ll add a comment. I try to never add a comment for the sake of it.
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January 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am
I don’t comment as much as I would like to, it’s all down to time and the lack of it
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January 21st, 2010 at 9:40 am
Like you, I’ve been impressed by James’ comment rate. I’ve only been at this whole regular content thing for a couple of weeks so I guess it’s too soon to call it a pattern. However, this week
I’ve been aiming to comment on around 20 blogs per day.
However, the key is what Gordie said, it needs to be a comment that adds value, otherwise folks might just think you’re a spammer. That would be horrid
I use Firefox with about 30 blogs bookmarked ready to look at. This list keeps growing though as I see other blogs via the wonderful Comment Luv.
I also like making use of the bookmarks on my iPhone so I can make use of dead minutes (like when I’m making a cup of tea or running a bath for the children) but adding comments seems less predictable on my phone. It crashes sometimes
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January 21st, 2010 at 10:57 am
I used to be notorious for lurking, but I think at the moment I leave about 10 comments a day. You know, as a guess. Some days it’s more, others it’s a lot less, but I try to comment on at least one thing every time I look at my feed reader (usually it’s about 2-3, and I check it every couple of hours or so).
A lot of the time there’s just not much to add though
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January 21st, 2010 at 11:13 am
Hey there DB,
I’m in the same boat. I find it hard to be able to comment as much as I would like to. I probably get to churn out about 10 comments a month. Nowhere near the amount that I would like. I started off small with a comment or two a day and am hoping to increase that as time goes on. Later!
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January 21st, 2010 at 11:49 am
I leave about 20 or more comments a day, plus I try to RT, Digg, Stumble vote at BE on articles I think deserve my vote of confidence.
I think commenting is an important part of advertising which I just published an article (in the CommentLuv link).
read Keith´s article about Comment Links Are Advertising
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January 21st, 2010 at 12:27 pm
I think I’m closer to the 50 or more but that would have to be a good weeks and never on the same website. To help with my efficiency I recently became a member of comment luv. This has helped me find blogs that are more in my nitch (it has also help me find cool blogs!)
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January 21st, 2010 at 3:24 pm
CommentLuv rocks, I use it and have recommended it many times.
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January 21st, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Adding value is absolute key, If you can’t add value then don’t comment. By all means re-tweet it if you think it’s worth others reading it.
The better the comment and the more value it add’s to the site’s content, the more chance you have of getting new readers!
Thanks for the mention, Justin you guest post is up brother
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January 21st, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Thanks for posting my guest article today, looks great on your site.
read Dragon Blogger´s article about Tips for Leaving Blog Comments
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January 21st, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I try to leave comments on at least 20 blogs per week. The issue I face is finding enough sites that update often enough to do so.
I also prefer to only leave comments on sites that i actually want to read, so that narrows me down to my feed reader.
I like commenting… not as a way to get traffic or links, but as a way to encourage other bloggers like yourself.
AL
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I would like my goal to be about 10 – 15 comments a day, but I have been pressed doing alot of other things. I have my full time job, then Kikolani, plus several other sites / blogs / the directory, and some guest posting opportunities. When I do get to commenting though, I see a tremendous boost in reactions from other bloggers, which is a great thing!
BTW, nice to meet another AZ blogger!
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January 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 am
I didn’t realize you were in AZ as well. I too am pressed with a 60 hour a week day job that keeps me at my desk on a computer all week long, and then I have to spend another 20 hours per week on a computer for my blog. Hard to stay motivated sitting in front of a PC 80-90 hours per week.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I found out that I had to give myself a break from the work end and do some personal projects that I had been holding off of since I was too busy. Once I did those, I got back to being with ok with doing the work again. You just have to give yourself some “you” time too!
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January 22nd, 2010 at 4:52 am
Hello Dragon Blogger,
Thanks for great tips to increase traffic using comment on another blog. If to many comment on another blog cant be mark as spam? my be this my opinion.
Thanks
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January 22nd, 2010 at 6:44 am
This isn’t true, I know blogs where the same people comment on virtually every article, they are only marked spam if the blog owner does so. Providing valuable comment that adds something to the article usually doesn’t get treated like spam.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 7:44 pm
I think if you continue to set small goals just the way your doing it, then increase them as time goes on you will be amazed at the difference it will make in how many comments you leave.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 9:01 am
Tips for Leaving Blog Comments…
Some tips that I use to find and comment on others blogs on topics that interest me or are relevant to what I have talked about recently….
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I stopped counting long ago…well over 50 though.
One of the best ways to find opportunities without even leaving your blog is to look at all the commentluv links of your own commenters.
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January 24th, 2010 at 1:48 am
I don’t set any targets to leave X amount of comments per day, I just go with the flow. Sometimes I leave comments, sometimes I don’t.
I try keep things natural. Setting goals seems constricting for me
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January 24th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
A thousand comments in 18 days is insane. What is the point that the comments lose value and turn spamy. There is no way he could post that many comments and not have them end up being generic “That’s cool” “Awesome” “Good work” type of comments.
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:29 am
I’ve only been at this whole regular content thing for a couple of weeks so I guess it’s too soon to call it a pattern. However, this week, I’ve been aiming to comment on around 20 blogs per day.
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April 1st, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Blog commenting requires users to develop the skills that active thinkers bring to any learning experience.
Am also a member of Blog Engage, its a cool place to meet bloggers to hang around with…
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May 10th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
…I find that there are some practices I use recently that lead me to blogs that I naturally want to read.
In addition to Google Reader, I find that Tweetdeck will lead me to blogs that interest me in an organic fashion. Someone tweets about their latest blog entry and if I find the tweet compelling, I click through and of course then I’ll have something to comment about.
I believe that when Google Buzz gets a little more traction, it will also have that effect, given that the content you see on Buzz will be generated by the people in your contact sphere.
—v
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May 25th, 2010 at 8:40 am
I try to leave about twenty comments a day for my site, over a month thats six hundred comments or so. It adds up pretty quickly.
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May 31st, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I’m one of those ‘less than 10 comments per week’ folks. Not the best approach – but that’s the way it is. So far, anyway.
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July 5th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I don’t value comments as much as I used to. I only comment when the blogs are worth it.
Unless you go uber-crazy like James, it’s not an effective method for gaining traffic. I rather build valuable relationships with big players. A tight and ass-kicking network is more useful in my opinion.
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July 5th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
James doesn’t even run TheInfopreneur.net anymore does he? I haven’t actually seen anything from James in quite a while.
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July 26th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I know I don’t comment at other blogs as much as I would like. The ones I do comment at, are mostly at the blogs of my own blog readers! I try to support them, as I appreciate they do mine. And it’s about as far as I get, SOME weeks. Finding time to comment alone wouldn’t be all that bad. But the fact is, I need to READ the posts first, before I can generate a comment to leave. lol
My main reason in wanting to increase blog traffic, would be for monetizing my blog. And I’m having a heck of a time doing that.
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August 9th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I have started to leave more comments on blogs, but don’t have a specific number that I am trying to achieve. I am using method such as yours where I will search for blogs and posts that match a particular niche.
I also ensure that comments I do leave have some value, and aren’t just the usual “good post”, which can make the comments section of any blog look like garbage. After reading the above comments, you don’t seem to have a problem like that.
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