How Commenting on Blogs Can Make You an Exceptional Person [Blogger]

Creating insightful, well thought out comments and feedback on other blogger’s article posts can help YOU create a reputation for your name and blog’s brand.

Everybody enjoys the social proof that follows with comments and participation

For me, it shows that the dedicated long hours and hard work is paying off and is appreciated. It’s an endorsement that my blog articles hold some form of value to the reader.

Commenting on Blogs Endorse the Blogger – The Writer Extraordinaire

My 30 Second ‘Soap-Box’ Rant…

It’s unfortunate that in today’s fast-paced society everything seems to be turned around. In my opinion, it appears that the subject is all about “What’s in it for ME,” and not the other person.

What’s in it for me – translation ~ In our culture, it seems that most people are caught up in their need for greed. A “What’s in it for me?” attitude. The driving mindset behind “What’s in for me?” is simple and selfish. It translates into “I’m not going to do anything that doesn’t benefit or reward me.”

Thankfully, not everyone is like this. I know it’s tough out there in the real world, but we as a society need to pull together and make some changes for the better.

We need to give thanks where it’s due and bring reader participation back into the Blogger-sphere (my made up word).

Tell me I’m wrong, but it seems that the majority of people are looking for a solution, but don’t have the time to give a simple ‘Thank You’ for the information that was diligently provided for them.

We as bloggers work hard to provide value-based content to our readers and it’s time to show this appreciation, Damn-it.

OK I’m DONE – On to the Facts About Reader Contribution…

Jakob Nielsen talking on the subject of social participation… he states that “In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.”, he calls this the “90-9-1 Rule for Social Participation”.

For this blog, TheBlogPilot.com, the word on the Google Analytic’s street is that my readers enjoy my content.

Google shows that I have a low bounce rate percentage which states that people don’t just visit the one page that they intended, but they liked the information enough that the reader clicked through to another article, or two.

I know of a few bloggers that claim to receive about 2000 to 3000 visitors on any given day that they publish an article and yet they only receive a few comments for that day.

In my opinion, that is not being very appreciative on the part of the reader. And, it sure doesn’t back up the comment made by Mr. Nielson on the subject of social participation considering that there should be some participation from the 9%-ers.

This is pretty pathetic… a few comments on an article that is read by 3000+ people is low, below the 1% of users that supposedly leave all the comments.

YA KNOW – Leaving a comment is not much different than leaving a tip at a restaurant. If you appreciate the hard work the person puts in to taking your order and serving you with a smile, then to continually follow up to see if there is anything else you need, you show your appreciation by graciously leaving a tip.

Building Relationships Through Blog Commenting – Within Your Niche

To help build your reputation as a authority in the blogging world, you must actively participate in the social community.

This simple task of commenting on blogger’s articles and interacting with other commentor’s can help you gain visibility, which in turn can bring those other people to your site.

This is not only a great way to get your name out there to build relationships, but Google and other search engines witness you bonding with the community and it looks good in their algorithmic eyes.

“A Good Debate Leads to Great Ideas”

Not only does this one simple act build relationships, but this daily participation can help give you inspiration to come up with additional content for your blog.

Participating on blogs within your own niche will help empower you, giving you to a strong network of people along with driving additional related traffic to your blog.

I have found that doing this one little daily task creates curiosity on the part of other blog readers bringing additional traffic to my site to see what I have to offer.

Comment Participation Encourages the Building of Relationships

We all know that if you are building a business, whether it’s a digital marketing business or a brick and mortar business, it’s all about the relationship.

“People Don’t Join a Business – They Join YOU!”

Showing your appreciation for a blogger through the leaving of a positive comment will help develop confidence within the person behind the writing of the blog article.

Leaving Comments is a Natural Method for Gaining Backlinks

Having quality backlinks will add authority to your blog in the eyes of Google and other search engines. Having a better ranking will help you gain a higher position within the search engines results pages.

It’s simple… if others link to certain pages on your site, it will be shown as a “Vote,” or an “Endorsement” in the eyes of the search engine, that you have some good content on that page.

Commenting on blogs considered “DoFollow,” that are without the “NoFollow” tag, will help you gain backlinks to your site.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to comment on a combination of dofollow and nofollow blogs which will help you boost your blogs rank in search engines.

Conclusion – HOW Participating on Blogs Can Make You a Better Blogger

Leaving a comment such as “Thanks” or something along the lines of “Great Information Dude” is not going to get you very far. These types of comments are considered spam and won’t be approved.

Be cool and leave a worthwhile comment showing your appreciation for the writer. Let him or her know how much you appreciate the time they spent to create the article and what value it brings to the table for you.

Leaving a Comment is OUR Tip!

I would like to CHALLENGE YOU! For the purposes of improving the Internet’s social participation; when you visit another person’s blog, take the time to write a value-based comment.

After all, the blogger spent countless hours writing the article for you to read it with NO expectation in return.

But, don’t stop there… once you’ve left your comment, take the time to read other articles. After all, you came to their blog to read an article of interest, so maybe there’s additional information that might do you or your business some good.

P.S. After you’re done leaving a comment – visit another blog article from the list below. If you appreciate the article, please take the time to leave me your feedback. Thank You!