Floundering in Blog Obscurity? Join the Conversation!
One of the most common complaints I hear from small businesses who have launched blogs is how difficult it can be to get on the radar. After all, it doesn’t matter how great your content is if no one can find it. One of the best ways to build up your reputation in this situation is to leave quality comments on other blogs. Caroline Middlebrook offers up another fantastic post this week discussing this very topic.
In “Do You Have a Blog Commenting Strategy?, Caroline explains the need to sit down and come up with a solid plan for building exposure through blog comments. In fact, Caroline outlines the strategy she used to directly drive 700 visitors and solid RSS growth in the month of October by actively commenting on other industry blogs.
Caroline goes on to offer more details on each of these four goals. She offers up some solid bits of advice in each area (be an early commenter, become an active commenter on a new blog, post quality content) designed to help you create your own blog commenting strategy. She also outlines some of the common problems with blog comments (i.e. what if you don’t have anything of value to say?) and how she deals with those issues.
It’s a very long post, but it’s chock full of great information and advice. Caroline makes it clear that any blog commenting strategy needs to be focused around adding good content to the mix, not simply on making lots and lots of posts. For any small business owner looking to break into the blogging world, the advice is sound. While it’s easy enough to say “just start commenting on other blogs and you’ll get noticed,” the truth is it’s far more complicated than that.
Caroline lays it out clearly and concisely and offers up a strategy nearly anyone can replicate.
Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, the Social Media Faculty Chair for MarketMotive and offers small business social media strategy & consulting. Jennifer enjoys the challenge of finding unique and creative ways to connect with consumers without spending a fortune in marketing dollars. Though she now prefers to work with small businesses, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children.
I agree with you completely. That’s one of the ways we really began to get traction with our blog, and it’s how we coach our customers too.
Thanks for pointing me to Caroline, Jennifer. She’s a newbie who’s taking a controlled approach to success and letting us all watch over her shoulder. How many of our IM gurus can match that?
BTW, the expression is “chock full” rather than “chalk full”. I know it’s a nitpick, but a lot of people read your stuff, so…
Good catch, John. I’ve corrected it. Thank you!
Caroline manage to get a lot of visitors by posting good comments in other blogs. Now i try to follow her method, and see what happen after 2 weeks. Hope can get some new visitors or subscribers.
That full post was a great read.
In fact, I printed it out – jot down ideas, and I’m going to apply some of her TIPS in my own commenting strategy.
Hint – I’m sure you could notice some applications in this post itself 🙂
What Caroline did was release top-notch information in a specific niche (making money online).
And the fastest way she got traffic was not by doing applying commenting strategy. She got way more traffic simply by having bloggers talk about her “Commenting Strategy” and “Twitter Guide”.
That’s something we need to learn if we want to put a viral spin effect on our blog.
Cheers,
Codrut Turcanu – “Succeeding Against All Odds!”
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Encouraging readers to take part in a discussion using comments is something I imagine most Bloggers dream about. I found found that using a service like CoComment can also help you focus and consolidate your comments.
Jas.
http://www.jasonslater.co.uk
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