How to bring traffic to your blog by commenting on other blogs

Have you ever seen a blog post hit the front page of Digg or get featured on Slashdot and wished you could get even a fraction of the traffic that blog is getting? Believe it or not, simply commenting on others' blogs can bring traffic to your own!

Step1

The first step is to find other popular blogs in your niche. You may know that Slashdot and Digg can bring a lot of visitors to pages that make the front page of their respective websites. If your website is slashdotted, it means it was hit by so many visitors in such a small amount of time, that your servers crashed (It sounds like a bad thing, but it means a LOT of traffic went to your website very quickly). You need to target the blogs within your niche that receive lots of traffic.

Step2

If you haven’t started using RSS, now is the time to begin. I won’t go into the details of how to set up your RSS, but you should do it in a reader, and not e-mail, because RSS e-mails usually get delivered slower than they do in readers. A good idea is to subscribe to the RSS of high traffic sites that link to other blogs, such as Digg, Slashdot, or TechCrunch. Once you see a blog post that matches your niche, go to that website as soon as you can to leave a comment. If you’re fast enough, you might be one of the first people to leave a comment, which could increase visitors to your website. Don’t leave a boring, empty comment like “Good information” or “I liked your post.” Its very unlikely someone will click the link on your name and go to your blog with posts like these.

Step3

Instead, leave a comment that proves you read the post, and has something to offer. Readers will be interested in what else you have to say, and be more likely to go to your blog. If the blog article’s comment section doesn’t have a field to put your wesite URL, you may want to leave the comment on a different blog. You can leave a comment if you’d like, but if you want traffic, target blogs which hotlink your name to your blog, or use the “comment love” WordPress plug-in.