I generally don’t leave comments because I just like reading an article and jumping to the next post but when I’m compelled enough, I try to add some insightful comments.

The more active you can be in the comment sections of blogs within your niche, the more authority you can bring to the table.

One thing I try to do is drop the feed for blogs that I think might give me traffic into a desktop feed reader (normally I use Google Reader, but it doesn’t give me the instant updates like my desktop reader – Newzie).

As soon as I see a new post, I head over to try to be the first replier, assuming of course that I have something to add. Any commenter gets a backlink. The first commenter gets the lions share of the traffic.