The Billevard

RSSPieces.com, a real estate blog that shows realetors how to blog online, wrote a great article about how to write appropriate comments on other’s blogs.   I found this post by searching for the keyword string “commenting for traffic” on google.  Dug, stumbled and bookmarked, everyone using the commenting for traffic method needs to read this article.

You can find the comment I left to the article here.

Mashable is the world’s largest community blog on social networking. On Mashable you can read about the latest social networking websites out there and catch up on the older ones like facebook and myspace. If you are into commenting for traffic and branding yourself across the web then getting yourself onto multiple communities is a must. Mashable is a great way to do just that and get in early on new networks.

You can make a personal profile on Mashable and comment on articles. So far I have only commented on a couple of articles and have already had about 200 profile views in just a month.

I recently added a link to this blog onto my Mashable profile under the My Networks section, so soon I’ll get to see how much traffic having and using a Mashable profile can get me. I’ll let you know the stats as I get them.

Side Note:

What also is great about having a Mashable account is that people can see what other networks you are on, so if they aren’t interested in checking out your website then maybe they’ll check out your profile on youtube, or your profile on stumbleupon as you can link to them all in one place.

I found a great article worth commenting on at LifeHack.org. The blog post is a how to article about firefox; how you can make it faster and what keyboard shortcuts you can use to browse the internet faster. I favorited it on my stumbleupon and digg accounts and left a nice comment towards the bottom.

I’m doing it, stumbling my way to higher traffic.  It should work shouldn’t it?  Top stumblers recieve hundreds of profile views a week, and a lot of them promote their own websites.

I created my profile and started stumbling right away because I have a lot of ground to cover.  The top stumbler likes over 22,000 pages, 1000 videos, 2000 photos, has 700 fans and recieved 185 reviews… so It will be a while before I get there.

My profile is here, I reviewed 5 websites already, and hope to review and favorite popular websites that I can get traffic from.  So if you want to find good blogs or websites that you can get additional traffic from by commenting on them then subscribe to my stumble favorites here.

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)