The Commenting Snow Ball Effect
Commentating on other peoples blog is like a snowball, the more comments you make the more you practice your writing, and you generate ideas for your own posts (This post came to me whilst commenting on another blog). But just as important as generating ideas and practicing your English skills you get your blog out to the public, out to your best audience fellow bloggers.
You can gain some ‘linkage’ from commentating on fellow bloggers blogs by:
- Getting into their top commentators list
- The owner of that site noticing your blog and finding an interesting article and linking back to you
- Other bloggers noticing your blog and finding interesting articles that are worth linking to
- Other bloggers linking to you not only gives you more links and potential traffic (duh) but if the post the blogger has written is good and is scrapped with a link to you in it you get the extra link as well
As you can see the list could be endless and one of the best ways of generating a vibe for your blog and attracting new readers is getting your blog out there in the blogosphere, and leaving comments is just one of the many great ways of doing this.
To other people this shows them that you are interested in their blog, they often check out the commentators site (I usually always do) other commentators notice you, the snowball starts. 