Blog commenting can make a pretty big difference in helping you connect to your readers. Apparently, 90% of the newbies relate blog commenting to simply spamming. They go so far as to write a generic, crappy comment on someones blog in order to get a link. It is really surprising to see people developing all these scripts which try to bypass Akismet in order to spammy popular blogs.

What is more interesting is the fact that the link in the spam comment does not point to a valid URL. Instead, even the link happens to be junk. I tried following them and received a 404 error.

For people who think blog commenting is an easy way to get a backlink and tons of traffic, I have news: IT ISNT. Do not approach this method as a way to get rich quickly. It will not happen.

Blog commenting is used mainly to get your audiences attention in order to portray yourself a leader in your niche. Once you are viewed as the expert in a certain niche, selling to your customers gets a lot easier.

But there is a catch to it (as there is to everything in life): Your comments should be valuable and insightful. If they are not, your comments will not be productive towards your needs. If you post a generic comment such as the one below:

Nice post! I really liked it! I will come back to this website again!

in the hopes of getting links to their websites without a lot of effort, your efforts will not be fruitful. I have had many of these kind of comments posted on my blog and I really do not find any reason to accept them. Same goes for other webmasters.

So if you want to comment on blogs, make sure you do the following:

1. Only comment on established blogs related to your market.

2. If you have nothing good to say, dont say anything. You will save precious time.

3. Only provide useful comments, which show that you have an insight or command over the specific topic.

4. Leave a link on another person’s blog only when you are sure it makes sense to do so.

And as a last point, please stop using commenting scripts!