I’m pretty happy seeing my stat showing some of the traffic coming from my friends, fellow bloggers. Even it is not so much, but it shows that socializing by being commentators and active in forums really works for me and also for you. 2 months ago, Alexa rank of Blogjer.com stood at 388k and kept on dropping, with less comments and less visitors. What’s a blog without comments
isn’t? At that time, I don’t see blog as a serious source of income for me, and to make things worse, I only post occasionally. My view on blog is different now. In fact I love blogging more than ever now.
I know commenting is very easy to do, and some of you might have better skills in this area than me. But the step by step below and tips that I got is based purely from my experience. You can either use them, or disagree on them, it’s up to you.
- 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.
- 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!!!)
- 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.
- 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. - 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
- 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?
- 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 
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salam weekend bro..
Salam bro..
Aha… what a good idea you have here.. thanks for the info.
Hi Zaki,
That’s a great tips. I always reciprocate the comments on my blog unless they link it back to their sales page or portal page where I can’t put my comment comment or when I don’t understand the content of their blog.
But, there are times where I forget to reciprocate too.
(too busy)
Me too, especially there are too many comments, or when I’m busy, hehe
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i am searching for the best rss reader.. i like the one that is not web based.. hehe actually i also got the list of blog that i will comment on them called ‘blog Network’ but have lost the list because I reformat my pc..