Author: Reed
Commenting For Traffic: The Test Begins…
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
You have probably written a comment on someone else’s webpage or blog at some point in your life, did you ever wonder how many people followed your comments to your profile or website? I did… and thats why I started this blog. I want to see how much traffic I can get by simply writing comments to other people’s blog posts, and by using social networking/community based websites.
When you write a comment on a blog, you can find a field in the comment form that allows you to link your comment to your website. The idea is, if they like what I say and who I am they will follow that comment back to my blog (this blog).
I have left the following guidelines… I cannot advertise my blog in any obtrusive ways. I must be entirely unobtrusive, all comments must be real and from the heart, I may not link drop, or any bologne like that. This is not a spam-till-I-get-traffic kind of experiment, it is a “I don’t write articles, I respond to them,” kind of experiment. If people are interested in what I said they will naturally seek me out by following the link from my comment to here.
It is a pretty simple idea for building traffic, one that doesn’t involve writing lengthy articles full of keyword rich content like so many website owners get enveloped in.
It will be interesting to see what kind of results I get, you can follow along by subscribing to this blog’s rss feed. I’ll leave a couple comments on other blogs and create accounts on other websites weekly and keep you up to date on the traffic I get in return.
Commenting for traffic, people do it (especialy bloggers), they just don’t know how well it works.
Let’s find out.
I left my first trail back to this website on my profile on ATB Riders, a mountainboarding community website that I use regularly. I post comments on it regularly that I use to drive people to my profile where I link to this website. It kind of is a watered down way to drive people to your website through commenting.
Can you find my link? (It is suttle)
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November 7th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Nice idea. I will certainly check back occasionally to see how you’re doing. Will you be posting stats? Personally I’m all about commenting on blogs. You just get out there, share you opinion, and if your comments are interesting enough, people reward you by going to your site. All of my regulars are either friends or people that followed their way to my site through comments I left on their blogs. No other method of traffic generation has paid out like this… yet. Seems like a fairly easy way to get traffic too. And fun!
November 9th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Thanks for the support! I’m going to post my stats weekly starting the end of this month. I plan on writing at least 20 comments a day on various blogs, which I will be keeping track of as well. I started this blog in October and have been spending most of my time developing content and developing my commenting for traffic strategy.
Thanks!