Blog Training and How-To Guide for Business Blogging

It can be useful to find out exactly how many comments your blog has recieved and meassure that against the comments you have made on other blogs. This week we've discussed why comments are important and made suggestions on compelling people to comment. Today Dan Smith discusses the importance of taking the time to let someone know you're reading, with a comment.

A critical component in getting readers to comment on your blog is for you to go out and comment on other people’s blogs. It’s the “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” principle and mindset. If you go out of your way to leave a thought-provoking comment on someone else’s blog with a link back to your blog, that blogger is exceedingly more likely to come visit your blog and return the favor with a comment of their own. You are engaging a blogger in interaction, and most bloggers want to be thus engaged. You’re a blogger – don’t you? I know I do.

It’s like living in a neighborhood. Somebody has to make the first move to befriend a neighbor – it doesn’t just happen mystically. If I pay a quick visit to a neighbor 5 doors down, leaving a plate of cookies, or a card, or a pair of tickets to the local AAA baseball game, that neighbor is much more likely to receptive to you and seek to do similar things for you. But it’s got to start with someone, and that someone may as well be you.

What do you think?