These apart from spam will probably be the most common comments on your website.
Although they do add to the social markers on your website they are not much use to aid conversations and discussion on your post.
What is a Complimentary Comment?
Well its basically anything that says nice things about you or your post like the following.
"Hey nice post really enjoyed it"
"Great post"
"Wow love your writing style"
With these you are left with a problem on how to deal with them.
- Delete them?
- Answer back in the same way?
- Reply with an update to your blog post?
Most definitely do the 3rd option with one of these methods.
- You can elaborate on a point you made.
- You can drop in your main keyword again.
- You can add secondary keywords.
- You can open a discussion with the person by asking them a question.
This way you get to develop your post much further.
Example user leaves "Wow love your writing style" you can follow up with,
"Hey thanks for the comment!
I have been working on this blog for the past while and been learning all the time how to develop my writing skills.
I joined a training program that showed me the best way to deliver clear, crisp content to my readers that helps with interaction with my blog and gets click throughs on my links.
If you are interested you too can join the program here or check out my post on how to write quality content here.
All the best, Mark"
As you can see I used the comment left to put in a bit more SEO on content writing and followed up with 2 links to follow.
This is a good way to get referrals to Wealthy Affiliate even if your website is about "childrens toys" or something not Internet marketing based.
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.
