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Add me on SphinnI saw an interesting post the other day over at NeilsWeb involving me. He basically did a little blog comment experiment, and commented both the blog of John Chow and I. He made 5 comments over different posts (5 comments on each blog), and was going to see which blog brought him more traffic.
After 5 comments, he received a large goose egg, 0 visits from Chow. After 5 comments on my blog, he got over 85 hits to his blog - a lot of them good quality too. Sorry Chow I’m just the man and you know it. You can see all the results here.
Point of this story being: comment my blog more. Fo real though, it’s proof that simply commenting and involving yourself in other blogs is a great way to network and drive traffic to your own sites. So if you read somebodies blog, make sure to drop a comment on the post!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Wow, this is really impressive. It just means users here, at uberaffiliate.com are loyal and they actually are interested in seeing other people web sites :)
Thanks for the post Paul, was very informative, I’ll start commenting on your blog now :D
April 29th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
wouldn’t people leaving your site mean they’re the opposite of loyal? just sayin.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Not really. It means they’ve read the most recent post, are reading the comments, and wanted to see what site the person had that was commenting.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Yeah, people are always looking for something more..just like you have a girlfriend and you still look at girls
April 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Still loyal. Just because I’m interested in how an interesting commenter might represent at their own site certainly does not mean I will not be back for more of the goods here.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:03 am
It just means that they are involved readers that check out others sites because they are quality traffic that is actually interested if the other sites content will be/is good.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:42 am
This is on lesson I’ve struggled to learn but when I did it really paid off. I was always of the mind that placing any links on my site that are not self serving was detrimental but I’ve since seen a huge increase in traffic by being more involved and willing to promote others. Traffic wants to flow so don;t get in the way. Let it flow and it will flow larger over time.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Okay, I am starting my test. Of course we all knew John Chow was all “viral shit” and no go :)
Love the Uberaffiliate Marketing Guide–still visit my bookmark from time to time for refresher.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Congratulations, you’re more popular than you thought, eh? Commenting does help bring in traffic, but only if you’re relevant and near the top.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I couldn’t agree more. By JUST commenting on other blogs, you can generate enough traffic to get you off the ground and running. This is also a great way to meet others in your area of expertise and network. Great blog by the way. I have a graduate school education and I’ve learned most of what I know through blogs just like yours! Thanks!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Interesting. I actually planned to start a larger scale case study several months ago but I got to lazy and didn’t follow through with it. (blog-commenting-case-study-1).
Hmm, that gives me an idea. How about the battle of the 125×125 ad buttons.
Nice job growing your blog and fan base so quickly.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
This blog should be popular. I just started reading recently and have learned a lot already. Love your Affiliate Marketing Guide. Keep up the great work!
April 29th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
So how do you get traffic? By leaving your url in the comment?
April 29th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
No, that would be annoying because then I have to go and edit it out in your comment :). Just by making your name the link, which it automatically does.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Yet another good example of link bait! Good stuff!
April 29th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Dude affiliate marketing is cool, it offers great insite into other businesses and options available to everyone to open a business from home. I personally blog myself on different websites as well as a storefront. Anyways, good job!
April 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
So whats going to hit my URL first?, a human or a spider?, 85 niche spiders is quite likely…
April 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Nice! Good experiment for linkbait! :D
April 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
You are going to get a lot more random comments now .. like this one :)
Thanks for the good info …
April 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Hmmm…. there’s gotta be a way to make money through comments. Make a site that is nothing but comments?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
People should comment to contribute, but I fear you are going to get a lot of useless comments after making a post like this. I did the same thing a few weeks ago and now I get daily useless comments such as “cool thanks.” Oh well! :-D
April 29th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Here is a random comment. Interesting experiment though. Keep up the good work. Check out my booz page.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Thanks for keeping us informed
April 29th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Uber Affiliate Rocks! LOL, This is so random :D
April 29th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
haha, I wonder how John Chow feels about Neils post.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Its amazing to see how ‘your’ blog rss subscribers grew by 50% in like two weeks!!
April 29th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Well played Paul. I’ll bite ;)
On a serious note comments are win/win. Comments are the lifeblood of a good blog. People who disable comments or moderate before approval are killing conversations and their traffic.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Sweet statistic. I hope people visit my little blog. I am having a contest (oh, just pimped my blog)
April 30th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Paul - 1, John Chow - 0
I never really got much traffic from other bloggers comments pages, then again I never comment as much as I should.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Did you really just ask people to comment spam your blog? Great, now each post is going to get even more worthless comments like “Great Post Paul” rather than more people talking about the subject at hand.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Iam top commentor! muhaha
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
sometimes im always the top commentor wow wow bite my ass off someone please:D hahahaha!
April 30th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I comment to provide value to you and your readers, it’s my way of saying thank you for the quality content. Anything beyond that is just extra!
April 30th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Wow that’s quite amazing. 85 hits. All for posting a few comments. Makes me think that I can get a few more hits / day just by posting on various blogs. :)
May 4th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Not really, i only think the main places are uberaffiliate.com and shoemoney.com those are the 2 places that brought traffic to my blogs!
April 30th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Your site does send pretty good traffic. Thanks playboyyyyyyyyyyy!
May 1st, 2008 at 1:10 am
PR6 site is a wonderful thing
May 1st, 2008 at 7:27 am
Hey, I just read similar analysis by Chris Guthrie at his blog on John Chow effect and it proves to be commenting on John Chow blog does not help in any traffic. Probably, that’s the reason I am here commenting on your blog, LOL!
May 1st, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Lies! I wonder if I talk crap about you, if that would catch people’s attention so they would come to my site?
Also, to be fair, doesn’t John Chow have a bigger readership and more commentators? So doesn’t that also mean a lot of peoples comments get buried equaling less traffic? I’m just saying… I don’t really go to John Chow’s blog as much, so it’s hard to say…
Jay
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 am
85/5 = 17 .. for this one comment sent me 17 visitors today SUP3RNOVA :D
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I was holding top commentators on your site as well as a few others. I had probably about 10 popular sites I was TC on. I think I got about 80 some hits from you, 30-50 from JC, and then about 8-25 probably from the others. A day. It was almost 200 hits extra per day total. I then slacked off as it was a lot of work, on top of all the other things I had to do. Looks like I am going to keep up on it again.
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May 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I think it will be interesting to see how many new people get into your top commentators after you’ve published this article.
June 8th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Thanks for letting me know. I am a newbie and never thought this is a great way to generate traffic. Thanks again!
May 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Haha, dude your success is a gift from God. I can’t believe someone whose as young as you are making six figures every month (more then probably 98% of the affiliate marketers out there)..
May 7th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Definitely a good reason to comment
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
very very interesting. I am going to have to try that out and see if that really works :)
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Better start commenting then!
Ill track the traffic.
-Dave King