Increase Website Traffic: Become A Constant Commenter

These days most people spend a portion of their day on the Internet.  If you have an Internet based business, you are most likely spending a great deal, if not the majority of your free time online. Since you are there anyway, why not make these times count.

The importance of relationship building, as a key to a stable customer base and long-term business cannot be stressed enough. Building relationships with your customers, readership and business associates gives them a connection to you.  When they feel connected, they stay with you.

Being a constant commenter helps others get to know you. If you have been around on the Internet for any length of time, you have probably found many places that you like to visit for information of your own.  Most likely these places are related in some way to your niche as well.

Take the time to learn more about these sites and the people that frequent them. Don’t waste this opportunity by simply passing through silently.  Get involved and get known.

Create A Blog Commenting Strategy

Blogs are great places to interact with others. They are places that enable you to strike up a conversation with your own comments and response to the comments others have made. You never know, you may even get into a lively conversation with the blog owner as well.

Has someone you know recommended a blog to you? If so, give them credit by mentioning their name in your first comment. If the option is available, enter their link as well. Appreciation shown to others will raise your own credibility.

RSS feeds are a great way to keep up with the conversation on your favorite blogs, particularly if there is a hot topic you would like to follow. By subscribing to the RSS feed of the blog, you will remain informed when updates are posted.

There is also a feature in many comment areas that allow you to follow a specific conversation. While it can be hard to keep up with many different blogs, using your feed reader to skim new content quickly can assist you in determining where to best spend your time.

Blog commenting should contribute to the quality of the conversation and be done as part of a targeted blog commenting strategy. These days many blogs are under a constant assault from spam commentaries and this type of comment is often removed.

Make sure the comments that you leave at least pertain to the subject being discussed. A comment that invites further discussion is often welcome so long as it is not done in a provoking manner.

Always keep your comments positive and do not blatantly promote a competing product. It is alright to link your name to a competing or even complementary product, but do not blatantly attempt to steal readers from a site your are commenting on. This behavior will most likely get your comment removed and you banned.

If you become a regular commenter on a particular site, it may open the door in the future to other means of promotion for you. Quality comments may lead to invitations for you to become a guest blogger from the website you leave comments on, or even from visitors who like your way of communicating. Guest bloggers frequently are given a bio in which they are able to talk about themselves and about their website business.

Forum Commenting Helps You Get Known

Forums related to your niche and business are places that help you find answers to your questions on running your business, joint ventures, new product launches and so on. Everyone benefits from the give and take these gathering places provide. The key phrase here being the term “everyone”.

Forums are places where you are not only able to find answers, but you are also able to join the conversation and help others in turn. This is the purpose of a forum. Do not use forum commenting to blatantly self promote, but rather, use it to build your authority and gain a trusted name through service to others. Use forum commenting as it is intended to be used. Be friendly, open and helpful wherever possible.

Most forums will expect you to contribute your comments before you are allowed to use a signature line along with your username. Once you have gained the right to include a signature line you may include information about you and your website. As you build trust with those you are interacting with, they will be more inclined to click on your link, give you helpful feedback and hints, and include you in upcoming promotions and JV opportunities.

Blog commenting and commenting in forums provides you with an opportunity to show that you are involved and willing to help others. By becoming a constant commenter, people will get to know you better, they will help you in turn by opening doors to new opportunities. When they begin clicking on your site link and recommending you and your website to others, they will increase website traffic to your site as well.

To Your Success,

SherryD
http://www.wbobr.com