1. Comment on blog that around the same level with you, or little bit better than you - Commenting on famous blog such as John Chow is good, but as I said earlier, don’t hope that he’ll leave back any comment on your blog. But if you refer step by step to find blog to be commented above, popular blog can supply traffic to your blog.
   
2. Be among the top commentator on that blog - Not necessarily to be top commentator, being top 5 or top 10 is giving you enough exposure to other readers
3. Be friend with them - Other than commenting, you can be friend in away such as chatting, notify them if something happen to their blog, join contest that they held or support them if any commentator leave harsh comment
   
4. Avoid conflicting with the author - This is important especially when you just start commenting, even if you’re not agree with them, arrange your word carefully and try to not offending the blog’s author. However, when the relationship grow, you can be more vocal as long as within the limit
5. Concentrate on local blog - Not necessarily true, but before going international, cement your footstep on local scene first
   
6. Visit your commentator’s blog and leave a comment . As your blog grows, more and more comment will be received. To show your appreciation, go to their blog and leave a comment. Follow
   step by step to find a blog to be commented . Btw, if you notice, it works like barter system, they provide you with comments, in returns you comment back their post
   
7. Leave controversial comment on controversial blog. If the post is controversial, why not leave controversial comment?
   
8. Leave a comment that relevant to the post
   
9. Avoid comment on something you’re not familiar with . It’ll make you looks fool unless you’re asking question
   
10. Replying comment on top of other comments - By doing this, you have indirectly build relationship with other blogger and at the same time, if the comment is question, you can help blog’s author answer it, as long as you’re not over the limit such as looks arrogant or intent to show off
    
11. Your comment does not need to be very long, but shows that you’re doing it sincerely and trying to be friends with the blogs’author
12. On your own blog, don’t forget to reply comment from others. Try build conversation with them, and it will attract others who read the post and comment to join the conversation
    

The more you comments you made, the more traffic you’ll receive.This is so true in my opinion based on my experience for the past 2 month. So how to maximize the impact from your commenting strategy? Wait for my next post

1. Top commentator plug-in is a great place to start. But before you go to other blogs, see your own blog top commentator first. Those listed ideally are someone who have left a comment before. You also can try Comment Kahuna that I’d mentioned on my previous post, but frankly speaking, I highly recommend you to go for the top commentators first.
   
2. From the top commentator plug-in, click on their names which should bring your to their blogs. On their stats, it will show that this visitor came from your blog. (Important: Don’t do this too often, otherwise you’re manipulating this plug-in and giving an impression to that blog that you’re supplying them with traffic. Remember, blog with honest!!!)
3. When you first start to comment on a particular blog, do leave a few comments on their last couple of posts. Do not exit from their blog after leaving a single comment only. Trust me, they don’t care about you (so do I). They have lots of other people leaving only a single comment and they won’t come back to you due to your one comment.
   
4. Do subscribe to their RSS content. For myself, I have 1 category called ‘blog that I comment‘ so that I’m aware of any recent posts made by this blogger. If they update their blog daily (like me), do visit their blog whenever they had any new post. Leave a comment until you had made maybe around 10 comments. See
   if they visit your blog back and leave you comments. Do the same thing maybe within a week or so.
   
5. If you get nothing from them, neither visits nor comments, it is time to pack your comment from this blog. They’re not the type of bloggers who like to socialize. Forget them, move on to the next blog. But, before that there are a few exceptions on famous blogs:
   
• You comment on famous blogs, such as ProBlogger, it’s almost impossible for them to visit your blog and leave any comment back
  
• You get decent traffic from them. Why not, comments won’t bring you anywhere, it’s the traffic that could generate income for you, right?
• You enjoy reading their blogs and don’t care whether they visit and leave any comments back for you or not
  
6. Repeat steps 1 - 5 on other blogger’s top commentators via the plug-in. Now you’re starting to build a relationship with them, looks easy, right?
7. After a month of being a regular visitor, now you do have a relationship with them. Try to request link exchange from them. In my experience, if they consider you as their loyal reader, there is no reason to refuse your request. That’s why I asked you to first maintain the relationship within a month time.
   

Ok, now that you have built a relationship with them, how could you maintain your comments or make it even better in a way that when someone who reads your comment feels that you sound like an expert whose blog is worth to visit? Do wait for Part II for the commenting tips