Today, many sites accept comments via social profiles. We still need to think of a new strategy – ‘Comment Follow Up’ to meet our dual objectives!!

What sparks my interest: 1. Wit. 2. Sense of humour. 3. Clarity 4. Avatar. Unfortunately I’m somewhat hard to please, so all of those 4 have to be there.

Commenting on my blog is a lot more efficient of course, couple of nice things to say and I’m like “Oh, who is this lovely person?!” (Flattering works on me, totally. :D)

Ultimately I agree with the above posted. I try to comment so the author knows I read their work. I wish more folks who do visit my blog would comment for the same reason, simply so I know that they took the time to read a few pieces. Some blogs try to drive traffic to earn money. I have no interest in earning an income from my blog; I simply enjoy writing about what I know and hope people will find those views interesting.

Thanks,

Mike D
http://www.daileymuse.com

I’ve been experimenting with posts about Sarah Palin and Barack Obama on sites like the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and a popular ‘directory of wonderful things’ called Boing Boing.

Each comment is designed to entice readers to pop over to my blogs, however the Boing Boing crew popped me for linking every post to my sites.

Ouch! I made ammends by cutting that out. Still, I’ve seen over 1,000 referrals this week alone. I love social experiments like this! Thanks for your insightful writing.

If you are a blogger, you certainly know what I am referring to…that feeling you get that nobody is reading or relating to what you are writing, especially in the beginning when you blog is still fairly new.

Whether you get that feeling or not, kind of depends on the amount and quality of the comments you receive.

The more comments you get and the better the quality, the less you will feel that way and the more encouraged you will be to keep writing.

I try to comment on at least 25% of the blogs I read, just for that reason.

There are blogs I comment on just to give the blogger an encouraging nudge and ask for more content. You’ll know I have been there and looking for new posts from you when you get one of those “yoohoo…where are you? come back! I miss you!” comments from me on your last post, and you haven’t posted in awhile.

When I became a more active blogger, I started reading blogs about blogging and I read about the importance of the “link credits”. So, I started commenting more than I was used to.

I didn’t get much traffic directly from them. So I don’t think that comment “to encourage traffic from your comment to your blog” is a good deal. However, when I registered on SponsoredReviews.com, my blog got 3 points out of 5 on “link popularity”. I’m sure that the cause of it is my comments. My “link popularity” lead my overall ranking to 2 out of 5 (I don’t have lots of traffic). It was really a good thing because my BidVertiser revenues are low because of my traffic. So, I now use SponsoredReviews as my main source of income for my blog. I am going to explore it more because I found that for me it has a lot of potential.

Best regards,
Tomás Mendes

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Just kidding: it obviously depends on the quality and style of your comment. In terms of getting people to know about your blog, I think commenting elsewhere is ESSENTIAL. But if you’re doing it just for reason 3, forget it. Joseph Adams/Buat expresses it well.

From
Joseph Adams

I’ve found I tend to visit the blogs of commentors who post funny/witty comments, not necessarily the ones with the best advice.

If they’re anything like me they come simply by randomly clicking commenters names, I really don’t have much of a routine for that. It’s just a bit of the joy of going through the blogosphere for me, click a name and never know what you’re going to get.

Great post!

I’m inspired to check out bloggers who are obviously spamming my blog so I can determine if I should blackout their address.

And finally, I’m inspired to check out commentors whose last blog posts (I use CommentLuv) spark my curiosity.