But your point about thoughtful comments is so important.

And there’s not an absolute need to discover the lay of the land at first. That comment was in response to the person asking the original question that I referred to. He (I think it was a ‘he’) had spend a lot of time finding blogs through Comment Kahuna, leaving comments and moving on to the next one.

I honestly don’t know what kind of comments he left because he didn’t say, but the way he wrote his question left me with clear impression that it was pretty much a ‘hit and run’ approach he was taking.

I could be quite wrong about that, of course!

But the positioning of his question reminded me very strongly of so many of the comments I get on this blog. As an example, I got one yesterday that agreed that the plugin I’d referred to was great – but I hadn’t referred to any plugin at all..!

They clearly hadn’t read the post because the entire comment was completely off-topic.

Those are the comments I have absolutely zero patience for.

But I seriously respect you for the time you put into commenting – I’ve said it before and I’ll say again: I KNOW I should do a LOT more than I do! You can teach me a thing or two in that respect

Cheers,

Martin.

I comment on other blogs for many reasons. I actually have a goal that I have set for myself each week with the number of comments that I would like to make. The primary benefit to me with this goal is getting links back to my site. It is one of my top advertising strategies and I am quite open about it.

I probably should spend more time getting to know the blog before I post, but to be honest it is the old “touch it once” approach that prevents me from doing this. If I do not comment on the post after reading it then I am not going to spend time looking for it again to comment on it later.

I think it is sad that many bloggers employ this strategy very poorly. Leaving a “nice post” comment for the link (even on a do follow blog) is not likely to get indexed any time soon. They miss that the real value in commenting on other’s blogs is that it is a free advertisement to showcase who you are and what type of blog they will see if they follow the link to your site.

You can only do this through thoughtful comments. I believe that what you sow you will also reap. I hope that when I leave a comment others will leave the same quality of comment on my blog. My comments link my credibility to that blog, and hopefully I am adding value in the process.

I am not satisfied with just a few comments on my blog. For me, this means that I have not been engaging enough in giving value through my blog post or my comments on other’s blogs.

I am proud of my comment quota because I know that without it I would just be a reader like so many others, and this would prevent me from being an encouragement to the author.

Brad
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Thanks – my point was that (at least as far as my blog is concerned) if people are genuinely interested in the article, have their own views on it (all the better if their views are different from mine) and make thoughtful comments they’re more likely to be approved.

Certainly that’s the case on this site, and some of the best comments are where people have had opposing views to mine and we’ve had a lengthy discussion as a result.

In my experience that’s the case on many blogs.

‘Hit and run’ comments are not approved here – especially when they’re only there to get a link to some business opportunity sign up page.

Cheers,

Martin.