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Guidelines For Blog Commenting

July 30th, 2008 by Tom Lindstrom

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  • Jack at Friday Traffic Report
    Jul 30, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    Great tips! So many newer bloggers just don’t do this stuff and it really does help drive great traffic!

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  • Mike at DoFollow Blog Info
    Jul 30, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Tom,
    Excellent points about commenting on dofollow blogs.

    Many newbies are being told to comment on dofollow blogs, but are not told the proper way to comment. So, if their comment does not follow appropriate guidelines, like yours above, their comment gets deleted.

    Point #4 reminds me I need to do more deep linking :-)

    Thanks,
    Mike

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  • Tom
    Jul 31, 2008 at 2:22 am

    Thanks for commenting.Also, from the blog owners point of view, why should he/she approve any comment that does not give any value to the post? Every comment that gives value also brings new and fresh content to the blog.

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  • Julia at Fast Blog Finder
    Jul 31, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Thanks, Tom, for nice blog commenting guidelines. I also have a blog and receive many comments for my posts. I like when people give valuable posts and don’t just tell “Thank you, Julia”. I delete almost all comments of such kind. As to the NoFollow and DoFollow blogs, I comment on both. Although NoFollow links are not counted as backlinks (I did a test and verified this by myself), I would not advise anyone to ignore them. NoFollow links can still drive some traffic to the website. BTW. I liked your notice that keywords in the name field are allowed. I met it for the first time. Usually one should review other comments to decide if he/she can include keywords.

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  • Stephan Miller
    Jul 31, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Use deeplinking. It’s the smartest thing I started to do. Spread the link love around your blog a bit. Thanks for the link.

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  • Debby Phillips
    Aug 1, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Great post! The point of commenting is to add to the topic of conversation. Bloggers love it when visitors leave comments on their blog. It gets the conversation started and people talking back and forth.

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  • Simon
    Aug 2, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Comment spam is so pointless and such a waste of time. It just shows how lazy these type of people are. Writing a decent comment that adds to the discussion only takes a few minutes.

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