4 Important Blog Commenting Manners
Commenting on blogs is a great way to network and promote your own site. However, many blog commenters use this great means for personal gains such as spamming to endorse their non-niche related products and gain traffic from other blog commenters.
Today, blog owners are becoming wiser and stricter when it comes to moderating their blogs. Some dispatch these spammers by simply kicking and blocking them on their blog, and some resolve this by reporting the spammer by sending its URL and IP address in a formal complaint to higher authorities like Google and Yahoo! (or to the blog platform/ provider of the spammer) that may result to serious cyber criminal offense.
Here are some commenting manners to avoid such horrendous things:
Introduce yourself first and use a real name
If you are a first-time commenter on a blog, do introduce yourself first. Commenting without proper introduction is like spamming, too. In addition, some bloggers do not entertain anonymous comments and give no time to those who comment with fake and nonsense Web names. Pseudonyms in blogs are so last century, so it would be better if you use your real name. If you are still uncomfortable commenting with your real name, your company and blog name will do.
Do not use keywords in your comment name
Just last year, SEO practitioners had classified link dropping (or anchor linking) as a form of spamming because a lot of SEO companies and online sellers used it for over-promoting their companies and services.
Today, as these companies and online sellers find ways to use blog commenting for self-advertising, SEO experts have started banning comment name optimization (or putting links on comment names) by disabling links in their entire comment section. However, not all bloggers are as computer knowledgeable as this other bloggers and have the ability to do it on their sites. As a responsible commenter, avoid using keywords and links in your comment name to avoid being kicked out or blocked by blog owners.
Comment with relevance
Being funny and comical in comments is fine, but being overly nonsense and gibberish is not. Always remember to comment with relevance to the post’s topic and never start a conversation that would lead to nothing.
Always comment with a goal to contribute something beneficial to the conversation and to the entire blog. Do not waste your time writing cliché posts like “Great Post!” and “Nice Post!” because no one loves those on their blogs. On the other hand, do not get too emotional or excessively personal. If no one agrees with your idea, then move on!
Treat other blogs as you would your own blog; respect the blog owner and other commenters.
In addition, always treat other blogs as you want yours to be treated; adhere to the blogger’s rules and always practice civility by respecting the other participating commenter’s idea.
Warner writes about SEO, Blogging, and Web Development and works with Endless Rise. Endless Rise provides SEO services to SEO Resellers Only. You can become an become an seo reseller today with no cost or obligation.
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Great advice. I generally ignore anyone that does not use their name, they rarely have anything interesting to say for themselves!
I also always click the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” button when available so that I can follow the conversation and come back again when the need arises.
Shame the the WordPress plugin does not show you if that has been clicked from the comment admin page. This is a good indicator if the person leaving the comment really cares about the conversation.
Warner,
I think you’ve brought up some important points about leaving comments.
There’s a lot to be said about someone’s character who’s confident enough to leave their full name and stand behind what they have to say.
I would also add, that leaving a worthy comment, not only benefits the blog you are commenting on, but the commenter as well. Add value and readers are more likely to click on your link, wanting to know more about you and the blog is more likely to keep your comment, giving you a backlink. Add platitudes, readers are more likely to read past you and ignore your link if the blog owner doesn’t trash it first.
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Thanks for sharing.
II thought it was interesting to read recently that blog comments stand out more now because instead of commenting a lot of people who would have commented just Tweet or Like the post.
I could only read out 3. Did I miss anything?
These are very useful suggestions for blog commenting. If possible, it is also better to add some relevant and useful information in the content so that every one like to read that comment. Good informative post.
While I agree that it’s always best to include your name when commenting, it’s important to remember that some blogs use the KeywordLuv plugin and explicitly permit you to include keywords alongside your name.
I’m not sure about introductions though. Unless you know ahead of time that you’re going to be commenting repeatedly, why not just let your comments speak for themselves?
Hi! My name is Justin Robins and I am a Realtor in Utah. I am working on my SEO for my site, but am very new at this. As far as commenting on blogs…does it even help your seo if you are using just your name? Or is it helpful because you are growing your network of people by reading their blogs and vice versa?
yes while making comments the important rules and regulation must be followed
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@Justin. Blogs are social so the SEO advantage from using your real name and contributing to the conversation is some people will want to fins out more about you and visit your blog.
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I am working on my SEO for my site, but am very new at this. As far as commenting on blogs…
people have differing ideas on how effective blog commenting is. I thoughtful comment will bring traffic. For SEO is helps if the blog has high PR, eventually the post may get PR. You can find high PR blog posts but it takes some work. A blog with lots of traffic often will send more visitors.
I think that like anything in SEO, it is very hard to know what works best. Blog commenting is easy and most good blogs moderate comments, so Google must know that they are not all free for all. However, unless you only blog comment or only do something else, how to tell what really works best? For SEO if you are doing link building you really need to know how to best use your time. Writing blog comments may be easy but it may not be the best use of time. I am still trying to work it out though!
nice pointd have been disscussed
these rules should be followed before you make a comment
Toronto Movers
Blog commenting is easy and most good blogs moderate comments.I was looking for information on blog commenting more than.
I think you are correct in that google can and will distinguish on comments that add value or not.
nice tips i really like this & i ll follow these tips !
I’m not sure that Google will regulate and downgrade low-quality forum posts (and preferably the websites they link to).
The blog owner is still the Gate-Keeper and should try to block as much of the spam as possible. Of course Akismet and similar help to automate this
I am not convinced Google will use the quality of an individual comment. More likely it will use the quality of the page as a whole. If a page / blog has many low quality comments all promoting random businesses then this would indicate a low level of moderation on the part of the blog and therefore even a well ranking site with “follow” links in blog comments may do little to boost your site in terms of SEO.
nice pointd have been disscussed
these rules should be followed before you make a comment
For SEO is helps if the blog has high PR, eventually the post may get PR. You can find high PR blog posts but it takes some work. A blog with lots of traffic often will send more visitors.
Great advice,thank you for your tips,i will always support you for your blogs!
Thanks for all the comments everybody!
thank you for your tips
people have differing ideas on how effective blog commenting is.
Great advice….
I agree with you for the most part, but I disagree with you when you say not to use keywords for your name.
I goes along with your 4th tip. If you use keywords for your name make relevant posts on the blog..
Problem is everyone is using software to do it for them now, that’s their downfall.
Eric,
I disagree, not everyone is using automated software to leave comments. Not those who want to leave value to the blog their commenting on or want to build a good reputation.
Most automated comments on my blog make their way into spam and in my trash. I don’t even publish them.
Hey, not everyone is using auto-commenting. I think WordPress (well, Akismet) does a great job at removing automated comments though. I fully moderate all my communities (so nothing is posted until I have read it) but rarely get any spam these days. A few cheeky posts, but not a lot really. Of course, some niches (tech) tend to draw in the spammers.
II guest post on different blogs and one thing that surprises me is how some blogs get lots of commentors and others, even ones with more traffic, do not.
Thank for providing this useful information. This information really help us to improve the blog commenting and to get the more traffic.
Hi,
I’m shez just newbie in blog commenting and all. I have to admit you blog is very informative for me and I’ll definitely use my name. Because I don’t wanna be a spammer
Nice article. Thanks for providing this useful information
Hi all, thanks for your comments
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Thanks for helping us new bloggers out with some tips. It has so far been a wild few weeks since I decided to join the blogosphere, so much to learn, reading articles like this one have been a huge help in getting me up and running.
The Blog Commenting Manners is nice,i will use the manners.
I can read only 3 points. Is anything missing or its of 3 points only? But whatever I enjoy reading your article because I learned something new from your post. I will definitely keep these points in mind while commenting. Thanks a lot!!
The points are very useful for blog commenting. It helped me alot to carry on my work as I am new to this SEO world. Thank u!!
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These suggestions are helpful in getting good results in Blog commenting for SEO. Good informative post.
Some commenting done on blogs is very hilarious you can actually see that the person commenting never read the post at all. I think it is always good manners to read a post then make a comment related to it. Wonderful post.