Guest post by Steve Blanchard
Out of all the make money online - comment marketing can end up being a very good one.
What is comment marketing?
Well it's actually been happening a lot since blogging became popular, however, it's where you consistently leave comments on high traffic blogs of your niche and when doing so you receive a link back to your site, plus if anyone clicks the link on your comment, then you will get traffic from that too.
How you should do comment marketing:
- Research who the top bloggers are in your industry. You can simply do this by blog searching sites like technorati or just type in some searches on google and see which sites are actually blogs that come up. These guys are already listed in the first page of google so they have been doing some stuff right to get there. Since they are high traffic this will help you.
- Create a list of these sites and begin a schedule that you can follow to begin posting comments to the sites. IMPORTANT: If you can try to be in the first 10 comments. You will have to find out if the blogger posts at the same time every day or every week and if so, try to be the fist commenter because that will give you the most traffic obviously. You will notice that if you are subscribed and you click on their post immediately once in comes into your email that there could be 40 comments already on there - that is because there is a delay from when they actually post to when feedburner or whatever they are using sends out the message to their list.
- When commenting: DO NOT SPAM COMMENT! What's that? Well, make sure that you leave legitimate comments about what they posted and you more likely to have your comment posted since most are moderated. So if they are talking about 3 ways to find fish - make sure that you address something in your comment in regards to what was written. This will acknowledge that you actually read some of the post and who knows - you might just learn something that will help you so definitely read the post.
- Evaluate every month which blogs seem to be getting you traffic and also search for new comers that may have popped up on the high traffic scene. You may have to drop a blog that you thought was doing well and start up with another one.
- Be consistent. Again everything is about consistently leaving comments so that you can see the traffic start building a little more and more each week. You will still get some traffic even months from the time you comment if 1) the post was good and 2) You got within the first 10.
Another positive point about comment marketing is that it actually helps your search engine ranking too. I have seen back links created each time a comment is made on another site, so this will help you and can be very beneficial when starting out.
