Let's first look at WHY you would want to give quality comments to others.

1. If you give quality comments, you are more likely to receive quality comments back from others.

2. Every comment you leave is essentially a backlink to YOUR website. This is great for you too.

So how do we give quality comments that work for you and the other website owner?

1. Comment on the CONTENT of the post and make your comment RELEVANT to what is being said.

2. Ask a question so you give the website owner an opportunity to reply back to you, possibly even to link to other content on their website. There might also be a really great point the writer didn't think of, this gives them an opportunity to expand on their content.

3. Write a long-ish and thought provoking comment that adds good value to the website.

4. Add in YOUR keywords too if you can, IF you can make it look natural and if your keywords are relevant to their content only. This can help to improve YOUR rankings.

5. Write properly, as if you were writing a post on your website. Watch your spelling and grammar.

Let's look next at what NOT to do when giving comments

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drtcdutton Premium
Thanks! Great advice.
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Loes Premium
Can't be repeated often enough:)
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TanjaRita Premium
Thanks for writing this! I struggle daily with the comments I get. They are so vague that I don't even know if the person who left the comment read my article.
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LynneHuy Premium
@TanjaRita
Yip I get that too sometimes, are you using the site comments feature? I put the link in the training.

At least that way you have full control over how many comments you get and if you disapprove one you will still get another comment. This way whatever work you put in you always get back!
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NemiraB Premium
@TanjaRita
They could scan article, it is faster and use in comments thoughts from our writing. During all time, I got few real comments. Other just couple long sentences.
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HPearson Premium
Did my rant inspire you to write this? Whatever did, I'm glad. I guess I should have thought of doing it, since my issues of late led to my rant in the first place!
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LynneHuy Premium
@HPearson
You had a rant? Sorry I missed it :)

Nope just something I have noticed lately, lots of people complaining and I see the same people leaving quality comments on my website over and over again, which is great! But there are lots of people asking for comments in the thread and I am there every day.... so I just wonder where they are putting their comments.

I have also seen other people complaining about not getting many comments when they give a lot.... and these are very often the people I see leaving great comments on my website. So essentially something is going wrong isn't there?

I have also received some really silly comments like "hey nice site" on my websites... pointless, completely pointless.

I just think if everyone understood the importance of what they are doing they would do a better job of it.
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christianWA Premium
I'm glad you wrote this. I wish it was mandatory reading, especially for people using the comments exchange. Some of the comments I've gotten from there the past few weeks have been rubbish. Let's hope this training reaches a wide audience for all of our sake.

Cheers!
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LynneHuy Premium
@christianWA
It is a pleasure and there is a reason I wrote it! I hope to help others, I am sure they don't intentionally give low quality comments, they just don't understand the importance of comments.

If everyone just gave really high quality comments everyone wouldn't have to work quite so hard! We wouldn't need as many would we :)
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