Comment My Blog For Traffic
I 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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
wouldn’t people leaving your site mean they’re the opposite of loyal? just sayin.
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!
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.
So how do you get traffic? By leaving your url in the comment?
Yet another good example of link bait! Good stuff!
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!
So whats going to hit my URL first?, a human or a spider?, 85 niche spiders is quite likely…
Nice! Good experiment for linkbait! :D
You are going to get a lot more random comments now .. like this one :)
Thanks for the good info …
Hmmm…. there’s gotta be a way to make money through comments. Make a site that is nothing but comments?
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
Here is a random comment. Interesting experiment though. Keep up the good work. Check out my booz page.
Thanks for keeping us informed
Uber Affiliate Rocks! LOL, This is so random :D
haha, I wonder how John Chow feels about Neils post.
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.
Its amazing to see how ‘your’ blog rss subscribers grew by 50% in like two weeks!!
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.
Sweet statistic. I hope people visit my little blog. I am having a contest (oh, just pimped my blog)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iam top commentor! muhaha
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!
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. :)
Your site does send pretty good traffic. Thanks playboyyyyyyyyyyy!
PR6 site is a wonderful thing
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.
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!
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
85/5 = 17 .. for this one comment sent me 17 visitors today SUP3RNOVA :D
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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sometimes im always the top commentor wow wow bite my ass off someone please:D hahahaha!
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!
I think it will be interesting to see how many new people get into your top commentators after you’ve published this article.
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)..
Definitely a good reason to comment
Yeah, people are always looking for something more..just like you have a girlfriend and you still look at girls
very very interesting. I am going to have to try that out and see if that really works :)
Better start commenting then!
Ill track the traffic.
-Dave King
Thanks for letting me know. I am a newbie and never thought this is a great way to generate traffic. Thanks again!
HAHA! Thats pretty cool experiement..I will be glad to comment on your blog now
Often bloggers/webmasters comment on blogs just for the backlinks. It’s easy to forget or overlook the potential for traffic as well.
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.
The good resource should be brought in bookmarks