Are you waiting for a personal invitation before you go visiting? The best way to get quality comments in your blog is to leave some of your own in other blogs. The odds are excellent that you’ll be paid a return visit. Even if you don’t, anyone reading your comment has a direct path to find your blog.
The latest post at Blogging Without a Blog is an excellent example of both a popular blog and a post that garnered plenty of comments: 54 so far as I type this. Read Attract Readers – Make Your Blog a Safe Haven to get an idea how to get your own blog to become a magnet for an active community of folks willing to jump right in to your discussions.
Now that you know what is possible, here are some tips on how to maximize the effect of your online visits:
- Bloggers who use CommentLuv create communities of very active commentators and provide link love too. Click through to the blogs listed in CommentLuv’s Top 50 Active Sites and leave comments in those that appeal to you. Subscribe to or keep a list of the blogs you like best so you can visit them regularly. The blogs on that page change regularly so you might visit there regularly too. If you like a blog do them a favor and give them a thumbs up on that page.
- When you find a blog that interests you follow the links from the comments there. The odds are good that if you are interested the bloggers who comment there will too – and that they will also use CommentLuv (because bloggers who use it recommend it in their blogs!). If they comment in THAT blog they are likely to comment in yours too! You may want to open them in a new tab so you can explore more posts.
- When you find a blog you like read more than one post! Check out the categories they offer or search for what interests you or move backward through their latest posts – or all three. You may have pertinent comments to make in older posts. Remember that older blog posts are likely to be listed in the search engines and drive traffic. Perhaps you’ve blogged on that subject and want to use your related blog post in the URL field. [NOTE: CommentLuv only allows you to choose one of your last ten posts IF you've claimed your blog AND you use the EXACT URL you used when registering.]
- I’ve made it REALLY EASY for you to get started by seeking out the Great Blog Communities linked below. Just click through to them and start commenting.
- Those who want to skip ahead can use the same strategies while visiting even more blogs from the dofollow lists below.
- Do keep track of the blogs you really enjoy so you can visit them regularly. Leave comments. Share your insights. Invite them to visit you. The friendliest bloggers invite the most visitors.
- I hope you’ll subscribe to GrowMap because I’m working on some contest ideas related to sharing our favorite blogs that will benefit all who participate AND those they recommend.
GREAT BLOG COMMUNITIES:
- Blogging Without a Blog
- Caroline Middlebrook
- DennisEdell.com
- DerekSemmlerDotCom
- DirectSalesMarketingWeb – $100 Cash Prize for Best Review of His Two New Sites
- Easy Cash Contests
- JamieHarropDotCom
- JungleofLife
- PlugInID
- Thou Shall Blog
- Wendy Knits
LISTS OF DOFOLLOW, COMMENTLUV AND KEYWORDLUV BLOGS
- DoFollow Blogs Directory
- Stephan Miller’s Ultimate DoFollow Blog List
- D-List of Blogs that Follow
- DoFollow Blogs SpreadSheet by ChadHols
- DoFollow, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv Blog List
- Do Follow List of Lists by niche including the Do Follow SEO Internet Marketing List
- Do Follow Blog Directory – Register your DoFollow blog free (The process presents a sales page.)
DOFOLLOW SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES:
DOFOLLOW FORUMS:
- Do Follow Forums List – 149 verified Do Follow Forums broken up into 11 categories.
- DigitalPoint List of DoFollow Forums
HIGH QUALITY RECIPROCAL LINKS:
- Membership Site to find targeted blogs interested in Reciprocal Blog Linking and Commenting
UNDERSTANDING DOFOLLOW and NOFOLLOW:
- SEO Tips DoFollow and NoFollow Links Explained
- What is DoFollow, How Search Engines Use NoFollow, DoFollow Lists
DOFOLLOW SEARCH TOOLS:
Wish you knew how to make your blog more comment friendly? See Blogging Best Practices: Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments and Magic Formula to More Comments; Only 3 Ingredients.
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Twitter: @BSwafford
I love your opening line. When I first started blogging I thought all I had to do was publish a post and the comments would start showing up. Not true. After months of not having my blog posts commented on, I took the initiative and started visiting other blogs and began leaving meaningful comments. It was then my community started to grow.
The tips you’ve shared are spot on. We get what we give.
Thank you for including me on the list of great blog communities. I visit some of them myself and can vouch there are many great ones other there.
Barbara Swafford’s last blog post..When Non-Blogger Friends Don’t Get It
Twitter: @GrowMap
@Barbara Thank you so much for dropping by and confirming that what I’ve suggested is indeed why your blog is so popular and gets so many comments.
I suspect many who read recommendations online wonder whether they will really work. When more than one blogger makes the same recommendation others are more likely to act on it and be on their own way to success.
Thanks for the mention. thoushallblog has grown into what it is today simply by the power of commenting. The “If I build it, they will come” is no longer applicable today. So leave your blog……
As what Barbara said, “your tips are spot on.”
Yan
Yan’s last blog post..How To Import PLR Articles to Your Blog Automatically?
Twitter: @GrowMap
@Yan – Thank you for taking the time to add your voice to this discussion. With confirmation from two very successful bloggers with active communities I hope the suggestions I’ve made will move more bloggers to action.
I see you just reviewed the Blog Blazers book that contains a chapter on a blogger I regularly recommend (http://DerekSemmler.com). I’m off to read and share it.
There is another benefit to leaving comments specifically in CommentLuv enabled blogs. They remind us to visit blogs we know to read, comment, and share on their latest posts.
You make some really excellent points, all things I wish I had known before I made my previous blogs.
With my fiddyp blog, I took it upon myself to start commenting on others blogs and like Barbara, found that it was the key to building a community.
Comments were so successful in getting my blog noticed that I had to come up with a way to reward the people that took the time to add to my sites discussion and that’s how Commentluv was born. Thanks for giving it a nice bit of press here!
Andy Bailey’s last blog post..My haircut calamity
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@Andy – Good to see you here too. For those who haven’t “met” Andy he is the person at CommentLuv who helped me sort out how to use it. Without him this post wouldn’t have been possible.
I fully expect this to be the most commented post I’ve ever made because of the power of CommentLuv and the willingness of those who use it to give their time for the greater good of the blogging communities they are active in.
Twitter: @DennisEdell
I’d like to subscribe here via email. Can you please enable that feature in you feedburner account.
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..*Best Blog Review Contest* EXTENDED To Months End – $100 First Prize
Hey,
I’m determined to grow my community over the coming months, so thank you for the words of advice which you give here. I have made it one of my New Year’s resolutions to ensure that I begin to comment a significantly more on the content that’s out there. I have already become aware of a number of new blogs over the past few weeks by following an approach similar to what you describe above.
It’s a social web, so let’s all go out there and interact right.
TLR
The Lovable Rogue’s last blog post..Keeping the Conversation Alive
I wanted to thank you for mentioning our list on your blog again. We have received regular traffic from your site ever since your last mentioned us.
I also wanted to let you know about our newest project, The 109 day Link Building Explosion. We feature 5 Do follow sites everyday. We offer blogs, forums, and other social media sites. Comment Luv should provide a link to this program.
Thanks again.
Boris A local SEO’s last blog post..The 109 Day Link Building Explosion – Day 12
I’ve been reading blogs for a long time, but never leaving comments. I didn’t think doing so would help. It’s only recently that I’ve been carefully reading not only the blog, but other comments as well. As a result, I’ve found some very interesting blogs that I didn’t see just by looking through google search.
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Must be doing something right. We just installed commentluv a few minutes before reading this post.
Thanks for the helpful tips. I found this link from Barbara’s (BWOAB) tweet. Glad to see her blog listed here as it definitely one of the most helpful communities I’ve found online.
Sterling’s last blog post..Twitter, Technology, and Tea Swapping
I was highly amused recently when one very well-known blogger wrote a guest post on another well-known blogger’s site, and advised among other things to spend 10 minutes a day commenting on lots of other blogs, and to write quality comments!
It often takes me 10 mins to READ a post, let alone write a comment. It takes me hours to leave quality comments. What is wrong with this picture?
Robin’s last blog post..5-Year Plan For This Blog
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@Dennis Thanks for dropping by. I’m in feedburner right now looking for the way to enable that. Still haven’t found it but will keep looking. Thanks for the tip. I’ve really got to remember to somehow make time to enter your blog review contest.
@TLR Even though time is tight it is so critical that we stay active outside our blog as well as in it. I’ll be visiting your blog and sharing whatever I feel my followers at Twitter and subscribers at FriendFeed will find interesting. I do this for all bloggers who cross my path. I’ve used CommentLuv to link a post about how far such efforts can reach to this comment.
@Jay Thanks for stopping by. I’m looking forward to reading more on your TrainWreckIdeas blog.
@Sterling You definitely ARE doing a lot right. Barbara’s blog is exceptional, isn’t it? I’m off to visit yours right now. Thanks so much for using CommentLuv so I know your latest post is right up my alley and highly likely to be shared elsewhere by me.
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@Robin Maybe he has a personal assistant visiting and commenting for him. It takes more than ten minutes just to find the blogs worth visiting!
It takes me hours to post and more hours wandering all over other blogs. I’m glad you commented here as one of the very best ways I find other blogs worth sharing is by following links back from comments.
I thought I was finally going to get some sleep but I may visit your blog briefly first. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll make it a habit.
Twitter: @GrowMap
@Boris Akismet caught your comment for some reason so I didn’t see it until I had just published another new post that links to your dofollow lists. I receive a substantial amount of traffic from the links from your site to here.
Is there a post somewhere about your featuring five dofollow blogs a day that I can link into that new post? Have you talked to CommentLuv yet about featuring each other?
Twitter: @GrowMap
@Dennis I added the FeedBurner subscribe via email option for you. I’m also sending you an email to let you know. For now it is on the about page here until I can get it moved.
Twitter: @DennisEdell
@Robin – I GUARANTEE the more you read and comment, the quicker you will become at both, and without losing quality…it does take a little time though.
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..Do You Have An Advertising Page?
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Oh, and I’m subscribed via email, thanks!
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..Do You Have An Advertising Page?
Great stuff! I’ve learned that this is all so true. If it’s not just about writing, if it’s about building community – and that’s what it is for me – then it is about visiting others, commenting, replying to comments – in short – be active if you want to have activity…
And thanks for including me here. I’m honored, very much, by this.
Lance’s last blog post..Sunday Thought For The Day
@Robin:
The art of commenting is all about habit. As what Dennis (the unofficial comment king) said, the more you do it, the better you become.
Yan
Yan’s last blog post..How To Import PLR Articles to Your Blog Automatically?
Twitter: @GrowMap
@Lance You and all the others who have commented in my last few posts are proof that those with an understanding of the importance of building community do so wherever they are made to feel welcome.
Your commenting here shows me that I was correct about your blog belonging in any list of great blog communities.
Twitter: @GrowMap
@Yan Yes, comments are like any other skill; the more we do it the faster and better we become. I popped over to your blog and shared your Theme review at FriendFeed. Do you happen to know the Thesis Theme too? I’d love to read how they compare.
It’s always great to go out and meet new people by leaving comments on other blogs!
Susan’s last blog post..Nature Gift
Awesome post, thank you. Im checking out that list, good tips as well, to think of the countless hours ive spent contributing to no follow blogs, wow, time to start over – keep up the great work. -charles-
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@Charles Thanks for visiting. I still comment on quality posts wherever I find them; however, if we’re going to go discover new blogs why not start with others that are dofollow?
Internet Strategist’s last blog post..Finding Interesting FriendFeed Users
Hi, I’m just responding to a comment you left on my df blog list. I’m checking your blog now and I should be adding it to the list shortly.
RT Cunningham’s last blog post..The Farce of Personal Income Taxes in the US
I thought this was a well written and well thought out article. Keep it coming!
Blogging is my medicine to not be bored in life. Expressing your problems and comments to the other bloggers. This technology is help a allot of being lonely.
Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009’s last blog post..A newbie Hectic
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@RT Cunningham Thank you.
@Jessica I’ve been focusing on Social Networking lately and am planning to blog more frequently in the near future. I hope you subscribed to my feed so we can keep in touch.
@Hectic When you find really friendly blog communities you won’t be lonely or bored any more. Do visit http://BloggingWithoutABlog.com as that is the friendliest community I’ve ever run across.
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I know from experience that one of the best ways to get comments in your blog is to leave some in other blogs, related to your topic. You have added some great resources. Thanks!
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Twitter: @GrowMap
@Jasmin The other great thing about leaving comments is it reminds the blog owner who you are and makes it easy for them to get back to your blog. With CommentLuv it also lets us know when your new post is something we’d be interested in.
I really liked your blog! You have some great content. Check out my blog,
Listen I wanted to tell you about this Huge Birthday bash and give away….
I just got an informed there is a HUGE JV going on right now and its great for everyone. If you haven’t heard about it here is the general idea. One marketer is having every other JV submit a gift ( eBook, software,scripts,etc) which visitors will have the option of downloading (for free). This gives marketers a bunch of exposure and visitors a bunch of free gifts…
If you haven’t heard about it you might want to check it out. Its only lasting for about a week
Either Get Free Gifts or Tons of Traffic..
Twitter: @GrowMap
@affiliate.solutions I copied your comment above and added it to my contest post. It will get more views there. I’m still getting DNS lookup errors when trying to view that information. I suppose it could be this PC even though I tested it in two browsers.
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@Susan Sorry I missed replying to your comment. It was probably trapped by Akismet and popped in between the early comments where I didn’t see it until now. Welcome to GrowMap. I hope you’ll be back.
InternetStrategist’s last blog post..Are You Missing the Conversations Because You Only Read Blogs in RSS Readers?
Great tips on blogging, during my first few years reading blogs I was kind of scared to comment in fear that I would say something stupid. But then realized how nice it was to join in on virtual conversations.
Twitter: @GrowMap
@John Thank you. Your comment makes me wonder what percentage never comment for that reason. I often mention that there are no dumb questions.
InternetStrategist’s last blog post..Who Are My Readers? Are You Getting Benefits From What You Read Here?
The art of commenting is all about habit.Great stuff! I’ve learned that this is all so true. If it’s not just about writing, if it’s about building community – and that’s what it is for me – then it is about visiting others, commenting, replying to comments – in short – be active if you want to have activity…
Twitter: @GrowMap
Absolutely. The trick is figuring out how to stay on top of it all as it does take a lot of time. My apologies for the tardiness of this reply; I missed your comment earlier. We just activated Threaded Comments to make it easier to keep on top of them.
InternetStrategist’s last blog post..WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments Works In Thesis
Comments were so successful in getting my blog noticed that I had to come up with a way to reward the people that took the time to add to my sites discussion and that’s how Comment luv was born.really its great and amazing post so i would like to say thanks to u and i would appreciate to your efforts.
Twitter: @GrowMap
CommentLuv is probably my favorite upgrade for a WP blog because it makes it easy to remember regular commentators. Every time they leave a comment I am reminded to revisit their blogs.
Did you see our post on a commenting strategy to greatly increase visitors? When we wrote it traffic was up 54.87% and went up to 76.63%. That post is almost always in the Most Popular list in the right sidebar but just in case I’ve also added the link to the word GrowMap in this reply.
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I have installed DoFollow on all my blogs hopefully this will attract more visitors and more links for everyone.
- Jack
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Jack. A faster way to get your new dofollow status to attract more visitors, links and comments is to add yourself to the DoFollow lists and tools we’ve linked to in another of our posts that has always been in the Most Popular list in the right sidebar.
I’ve also linked it to this reply so you can just click on GrowMap above to get there or visit it any time in the Most Popular list. I suspect it will stay there indefinitely.
InternetStrategist’s last blog post..Promote Your Business Without Cash
There was definitely a need for a clear and concise guide on how to be a civic blog commenter. Thanks for the great article. I look forwards to returning here (and finding similarly well-written articles
)!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Gregory. Glad you found us. You’ll probably find other posts that interest you by using our search function or skimming the categories. Both are in the right sidebar.
Internet Strategist’s last blog post..Do YOUR Blogging Goals Include Monetization: Benefits Our Readers Receive
Excellent. I was thinking of adding a blog, (yes I know about time your thinking) so reading this has been a great help. I will ask my people to install these plugins! Many thanks
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Steve,
You may want to check out a recent post related to creating a powerful blog-based business. I’ll use it as the CommentLuv featured post to make it easy for you to find.
Internet Strategist’s last blog post..How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business Part 1
Hi,
I agree with you that The best way to get quality comments in your blog is to leave some of your own in other blogs.By leave some comment in other blog other people also know about your blog.
Nice post.
Thanks for all the tips.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello anupam and welcome,
Other posts that may interest you are the one I featured in the reply just above your comment and this one:
Commenting Strategy Increased Our Traffic 54.87%
Internet Strategist’s last blog post..WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments Works In Thesis
Hi,
Very useful collection.
Thanks for the sharing it.
I really like the idea of allowing people to comment and get a keyword with a link out there. It’s helpful but certainly a win win situation for people who take the time to post a sincere comment. Much appreciated. By the way, this is a very good advice. thanks!
This is actually a good past time. But the only concern for bloggers are those spammers, they are actually abusing the used of the plugins, they are actually destroying the concept of a giving related comment to the topic.
Twitter: @saurabhsnv
Hi,
That is really a good sort of work it is something help you in getting backlinks to your site and also making you aware of spam comments and also to get the relevant information from the blogs which you do want to have.
Thanks
Twitter: @SNVINFOTECH
Hi,
I agree with you that The best way to get quality comments in your blog is to leave some of your own in other blogs.
Very useful collection.
Thanks for the sharing.
Hi,
Really nice post, you have shared good information regarding with dofollow blogs. It is very informative. It is very helpful for a webmaster.
Thanks for sharing.
.-= Raj@SEO Indore´s last blog ..SEO Indore =-.
Twitter: @SNVINFOTECH
Hi,
Excellent. I was just create a blog and add keywordluv plugin to this.
Amazingly the traffic is trough my blog.
This plugin is really fantastic.
Thanks.
Twitter: @SNVINFOTECH
HI,
It is i am looking for.It is really great post.I agree with you that you need to comments on the other blog for receiving.
Thanks and regards
Aditya
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