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It’s Day 20 of our Problogger Summer Challenge in the forum. Today is all about commenting on blogs, which is something we take very seriously in these parts.
Blog comments are the primary reason why The SITS Girls was founded. Three years ago, blog commenting and social media isn’t what it is today. To find other bloggers in the same niche was a bit more of a challenge. Thus, the idea for this website was born and SITS became a place for bloggers to connect via blog comments.
Since that time, blog comments and the posts published about how to comment {and how not to comment} have come fast and furious. There is a ton of information on the web that can help to make commenting on blogs a successful strategy to build your readership.
Here are a few of my favorites…
- Comment Vomit: How Not to Leave Comments from Melissa at Adventuroo: Our girl even went and made herself a super fun “Just Say No to Comment Vomit” button.
- How to Write a Great Blog Comment from Grammar Girl: The video at the end of the post makes me uber happy…both because I am a rap fan and because I remember when this song was popular on cassette tape.
- 11 Tips for Getting Your Comments Noticed on a Popular Blog from Problogger: Darren is our guy. We’re his groupies. What more is there to say?
The key to a successful blog comment strategy is simple: be relevant, add value, and be consistent. Doing so ensures that your blog comments are not mistaken for spam and deleted, thereby negating the time and effort that you’ve spent on a website or blog.
The tricky part is ensuring that your blog comment stays out of a spam filter. Separating the “real comments” from the spam is not always an easy task. Sometimes, a blog comment may seem incredibly relevant, but when you click over to look at the referring link, you might second guess yourself.
Let’s play a little game. Here are a few examples of recent blog comments we’ve received. Would you approve these on your blog? Why or why not?
1.Blog comments that appear relevant, but the linked page is questionable:
From Free-Form Rainbow Lollipops:
My two youngest (ages 8 and 4) would love doing this. What would be really good to, would be to sprinkle nerds on them as well. Or any candy for that matter. Thanks for sharing!
–kencraftcandy.com/wholesale-lolli-pop-supplier
2. Super short blog comments, such as:
OR Hi
3. The call to action blog comment:
Thank you for this post! I LOVED it. It is super relevant to what I am writing about on my own blog. You should really find me on Facebook because our opinions are sooo similar!
4. The great blog comment, with the not-so-great gravatar:
Wow! I love this post. Your tips on how to use Google Keywords effectively for SEO is really going to help me out on my blog. Thanks for the good piece of advice.
5. The curiously vague blog comment:
Great post! I find the articles published on this website to be incredibly insightful. Please continue to publish more!
6. The personalized blog comment that you don’t really understand:
Hey sis… Yo, yo, yo… i b ur SITStah… no wait… Ur sister from another mother…? um err… … Why am i here… Mmm… Because i like U…. i like ur smile… i like ur great posts that are real and not scripted… okay so i think that…i was in lov wit U 4 ever
So, what do you do? Leave a comment on this post and let’s discuss!
And Before You Go…
In the spirit of blog friendship and all that SITS represents, let’s keep blog commenting alive! Below is a MckLinky. If you are in a blog comment kinda mood today, link up your blog and then visit the two bloggers ahead of you in line. Get to know someone new and leave a blog comment worth reading!
The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Summer Challenge is a program that Darren Rowse, aka Problogger, designed so that bloggers can improve their sites in about a month. Follow along in our Forum, with the #SITS31DBBB hashtag on Twitter, and on Facebook. It’s never too late to jump in!
Here are the topics we’ve covered to date:
- Kick Off Post: Learn How to Blog {Better} with Problogger
- Join a Forum and Start Participating
- Why Top 10 Lists Work for Bloggers
- Analyze Another Blog (With a Twist)
- How to Blog using Link Posts
- Monitoring Content with Google Alerts
- What Did a Calendar Ever Do For You?
- 10 Ways to Dazzle Readers with your About Me Page
- Using Google Analytics to Find Blog Topics
- Can You Find the Spam Blog Comment?
- Problogger Wrap-Up and Look Ahead
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- Twitter Party Alert! Fighting PPD With Mom Genes - Nov 19, 2019
- Why Top Ten Lists Work For Bloggers - Jan 23, 2017
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- 4 Ways to Find {And Keep} Your Motivation - Oct 31, 2016
- How To Be Happy: 5 Things All Happy Women Do - May 2, 2016
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- How to Sleep Better: Top 7 Sleep Hacks For The Best Rest - Feb 5, 2015
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- Get Your Kids Involved In Healthy Living: Fuel Up To Play 60 - Oct 10, 2014
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This is great information for new bloggers that are hoping to build relationships with other bloggers. I have to watch myself as I fall into the “how not to comment” category from time to time. Sometimes it can be difficult to write great comments when you are short on time, really tired, or have two babies screaming for your attention. It’s better to bookmark the page you would like to comment on and come back to it so that you are able to think through what you want to say.