(WA) Certified Commenters Wanted

At the beginning of March, I began my journey to become a Certified Commenter. This was in response to the low quality Site Comments and Site Feedback I had received and the other similar sentiments that I have encountered.

In my effort to learn how to do this well, I have done some training and referred to Site Comments made by other Members.

After completing only 7 Site Comments, I have made some observations that may be helpful. Please correct me if I have gotten anything wrong with the process and what is required.

1. Be Ready For Site Comments.

When requesting Site Comments for your website, ensure tat your site is ready to receive those comments. Given that we have an excellent spelling and grammar checker at WA, I do not expect to have to make frequent comments about either.

The editing of pages and posts should be completed before requesting site comments. If your site is not grammatically and structurally ready to receive comments, you will benefit little from the request made.

2. Do Not Plagiarise.

Once I am doing Site Comments, I DO Site Comments. That means, although I might have an interest in your topic, I may not know the specifics about the product or service your content is based on. If that happens, I will do some research.

In researching for one requested Site Comment, I came across someone else's content that was so similar I had to go back and forth to make sure it was not the same author.

If content is taken from somewhere, do quote your source.

3. Visual Ease Is Important.

Giving Site Comments is helping me as a visitor and buyer. I approach it with those eyes and look for engagement and persuasiveness from the writer. I ask myself: Would I buy this product or service? Do trust the writer/seller? Do I feel welcomed in this space?

In my opinion, those are the outcomes that we are looking for with our online businesses.

To achieve this, visual ease is important. Pay attention to fonts, depth of colour, headings for definition and organisation and use of imagery, video, etc.

All provide an effective and memorable customer experience.

4. Learn To Be A Commenter

Becoming a Certified Commenter will definitely help you with your online business. With all communication there is giving and receiving. To be good at one role, it helps to perform in the other. In the same way that we learn to be good verbal or written communicators, it will benefit you and our Community of you work towards becoming a Certified Commenter.

With hundreds of thousands of us here pushing out content every day, we surely need more support for comments on our content to help us with our rankings and traffic.

I really like the pay-it-forward aspect of WA and would like to see many more people getting involved. I know that I need a lot of support and help in this are for my content and I would like to know that we have competent people participating.

5. Become Trusted and Respected

To become a Certified Commenter, you must complete 50 Site Comments. I am 14% there. In addition, you are required to maintain a comment approval of 80% or more. My current rating is 100%. Your skip rate should also be less than 20%. I currently maintain a skip rate of 0%.

If being at WA for the long-term is an objective and if you would like to be respected within our Community, I highly recommend that you embark on this journey. You have much to gain from it.

6. Earn Credits To Request Site Comments

For each Site Comment offered you receive 1 Credit. These Credits can be accumulated and spent when you request Site Comments for your website, pages or posts. An excellent trading forum.

Do note that these are not dollar credits so they cannot be exchanged for cash. They are good to keep "in the bank" though and saves you from having to spend your dollars to buy credits for requesting Site Comments.

Be A Part Of The Solution

There has been a lot of posts and exchanges about the quality of Site Comments (this writer included).

Wouldn't it be great to be a part of the solution? Think how good you would feel to know that you took the time to learn a skill and used that skill to support your fellow WA Members and yourself as we build our businesses TOGETHER.

I look forward to seeing more of us participate in the Site Comments space.

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Cassi