Why Commenting On Other Blogs is Good

by Samir Balwani on September 17, 2008 · View Comments

It’s often repeated that commenting on other people’s blogs helps you become part of the community and will convince people to comments on your blog. The thing is, that I didn’t understand how it convinced other people to comment on blogs, until I started doing it myself.

That’s when I realized when you leave a comment on many blogs, the comment form gets shown below your comment. This forces people, who like to leave comments, to scroll past your comment before they can write on themselves.

The more often you comment, or the more interesting your comment, the more likely that someone stops to read what you’ve written and follow back your link. It’s important to remember that these people are willing to leave comments since they were scrolling down to leave one on the site you already left a comment.

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Louie Bernstein September 20, 2008 at 10:01 am

I agree with you.
I have just started two blogs for my two businesses and I am looking to “give to get.”

http://www.LouieBernstein.com

Jack Kinsella January 2, 2010 at 2:55 pm

Another great tip is to use HTML to to make your comment stand out. You’re much more likely to get read this way.

Samir Balwani September 20, 2008 at 10:58 am

Awesome Louie, I’ll take a look! Thanks for the comment.

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