Jun 19th, 2008
BLOGGING TIP: WRITE COMMENTS AS IF THEY WERE MINI POSTS
In the blogging world there are millions of bloggers, yet the majority of them never bother to stop and leave a comment on any of the blogs they visit. If most bloggers new the true power of comments I am sure they would leave more.
There is a real art to leaving to comments which, when mastered, provide readers with an insight to your views and your writing style. The best approach is to treat your comments like mini posts. Follow the same ‘rules’ for writing a post. A start, a conclusion with of course the body in the middle. Short easy to eat paragraphs that add to the conversation surrounding the initiating post.
Leaving comments such as “I agree” do nothing to ‘add’ to the conversation and certainly do nothing to add to your reputation. Write meaningful mini posts as comments and other visitors are more likely to follow your link back to your blog to see what else you have written.
As you gain a reputation for writing meaningful comments, bloggers will not only welcome your visit, they are more likely to visit your blog to leave comments as a way to encourage you back. The reason, posts that contain valuable comments are almost as good at generating traffic as the post itself.
Comments are a powerful tool in the right hands, learn to use them effectively and learn to take as pride in the comment left as you do in your own posts and you will soon see your position within the blogging community rise.
This will lead to increased inbound links and with it increased rankings. This becomes a snowball effect, increases in rankings lead to more search traffic and of course, more links and more traffic. Total win for you the blogger, simply because you took the time to craft your comments.