OK we have looked at comments on our own blog but what about leaving comments for others, especially here on WA within the Bootcamp or Classrooms or SiteComments?
In my opinion it is no use to leave a comment like,
- "Hey great post"
- "wow love your website"
- "very cool, I didn't know that"
- "Keep posting, this is brill"
These are all too short and not worth the effort. Remember Google can track your every move online. When using profiles you need to make sure when you comment you are putting in a bit of effort as Google can then see you as a decent commenter and give you points for anything your author is on. (Wealthy Affiliate requires you put in a few sentences so you can't really put in a low word count anymore)
Google has changed its algorithms to track online comments and will de-rank your profile if you do not provide relevant comments. This is especially bad for anyone trying to build an online brand.
If Google thinks your not good enough you will have a hard time getting content ranked.
To counteract this make sure to'
Always put in at least TWO sentences in your comments and make it relevant to the post.
I will always try and put in a question so the blog owner has something to work with in their response to my comment.
If you consider that your comment may be on a very busy high profile blog post getting loads of traffic, and all that traffic is seeing your comment with a relevant question there is a great chance that traffic will follow your link back to your website or profile to find more out about you.
This in essence is the art to backlinking and can be a great way to gain loads of extra traffic. It does take time to find blog posts and comment on them but if you put it into your daily tasks it can build up very quickly over time.
Having a few different online profiles is good when trying to leave comments online. If you have a money making blog then the bootcamp websites is a great place to work.
However if your niche is on "dog toys" or "kids shoes" then your not going to want to get links from money making blogs back to your niche site. Its better to use a basic profile to do that.
As long as you think about the link and where you want it to go then you can build great indexing across a wide network of places using the correct profile.
I hope you found this material helpful and it has inspired you to provide better comments after all better comments will provide better traffic to your own website in the long run. It may be a lot of work but all that extra effort will eventually pay off.
Mark
Cheers
Darwyn
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As a newbie if you get into the habit of leaving relevant comments on your own blog and others it will increase you brand and your popularity among the niches you are in.
Look at it this way if you leave good comments on other websites there is a good chance of gaining a lot of good traffic from them with their readers seeking you out.
Also when you post a comment the owners of those websites will be glad to write comments on yours as they know you will write something to reply that creates a conversation also gaining them traffic.
Then when you post something new you are going to get a good influx of comments fairly quickly. In the bootcamp here you get to see who is reliable for a comment and who is not fairly quickly.
Its a trade off but a good networking technique to build up your profile.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MarkThompson
I have 38k followers and have had almost 1 million views. :)
My Google+ url looks like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114721825627093918938/about
I did ask about the Google+ url previously when I first created my Google+ account and now realise that I still do not qualify to get a custom url yet.
I created my Google+ account during my first week at WA, so it's more over 30 days old now. But I only have all of 2 followers and that's cos I followed them first. :0
Wow! Even Kyle and Carson combined do not have half as many followers as you. Looks like you would be the best person to consult for Google+.
If you have any tips or advice for me, I would greatly appreciate it (if you could, please PM me).
You have probably been busy building your biz and a social VA might be worth having.
If applications are still open, I might apply after I manage to master the skills! :)
Lol, glad you did cos all 3 comments for WA reviews which I made today, I was afraid to use my Bootcamp website and used my niche website instead. That clearly shows how confusion can arise from all the recent discussions going on about how to/not to leave comments.
Not strictly truthful commenting but if someone doesn't care enough to leave you a workable comment then beef it up a bit. I don't see the harm.
Is this something I should try to 'get over' as in 'all is fair in love and war', (and business?).
If I can get over it, how do you edit someone else's comment??
just curious, Joseph
You can edit any comment on your blog just go into the comments section and hit the edit option, This means you can go through them and add links to new content you have created later on, it could be even content to answer a question one of your comments came up with.
