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Following on the post about some dofollow blogs worth your effort to put comments on. Today I will talk about how to do your commenting properly and effectively.

People say that to make an impression, you’ll have to open your mouth.  While that is physically impossible in the virtual world of the Internet, saying your piece is not entirely difficult to do.  Thanks to blogs and forums, you can leave a comment or start a discussion thread about virtually any topic from anywhere in the world.  And yes, you can leave comments to drive traffic to your blog and increase your readership.

Leaving effective comments

You should keep in mind that not every comment that gets thrown into an opportunity for interaction creates the desired effect, much less become appreciated by those who hear or read it.  If you don’t use this technique carefully, you will either waste the opportunity or simply allow it to create the wrong impression.  Here are 7 ways you ought to do it:

Choose the sites you leave comments on

Apart from choosing dofollow blogs, choose the sites and blogs with a topic or subject related to your very own blog.  Practice only purposeful commenting – the kind where you leave only well-crafted comments on sites that will help build the buzz about your blog. 

If the site is completely irrelevant but you have the urge to leave a comment, do so only during your spare time.  Otherwise, focus your energies only on more productive activities.

Know what you’re saying

Before you leave a comment with the purpose of driving traffic to your blog, at least write one that is useful.  Your goal is to be noticed AND respected for your opinions so leaving useless and dead end comments such as ‘Cool!’ and ‘Way to go!’ just won’t cut it. 

But if you can write and have something meaningful to say, by all means, do so.  With every comment you have, make sure you keep it short, concise, to the point and useful.  Talk about relevant topics and avoid those that will do nothing for your purpose.

Avoid strong language

Of course, some sites will probably allow you to leave comments that are strongly worded or at least camouflaged as symbols such as !#$%&*, but there are ways to get your point across, regardless of how angry, upset or argumentative you are. 

Have a sense of humor.  The Internet is a vast expanse of space, currently limitless.  In fact, it’s a whole universe unto itself.  If people leave comments on your post that seem to insult you or argue with you, don’t fight back without thinking. 

Check replies to your blogs

Maximize commenting on other sites and drive traffic by frequently checking back on the forum you participated in to see if there are any replies to the post you left.  This is a good way to build buzz and network.

Check your facts

If you will be quoting someone or citing a certain study, make sure your facts can be corroborated.  Don’t use make believe or newly invented figures and statements or even half-truths and try to pass them off as legit.  You will be exposed.  If you want to drive traffic to your blog by leaving comments, make sure you don’t tarnish your reputation with the effort.

When I check myBlogLog stats today, I was suprised to see a surge in the traffic, and most of them are from the post related with the Olympics, which is the most popular keywords at the moment, and most of the hits were referred by Google and Digg. The verdict, always post something with current most popular keywords in it, and don’t forget to submit to Digg or some other bookmark/social networking site. You will experience the same traffic surge to your blog or web site. Updated screen shot on August 16 – another day, another surge. 80% from Google search, 19% from Digg, WOW.

When browsed through the Performing Ads market place, I realized that quite a few of the top alexa ranked blogging sites have got one little widget on them – the Entrecard. Driven by curiosity, I applied an Entrecard account for one of my blogs, and started testing out. It turned out to be a real traffic generator. On a Sunday night, the traffic to my blog more than tripled virtually overnight. The idea behind the Entrecard is sort of similar to the traffic exchange sites, you visit other member’s site and drop your card there to get credit for your account. In return, other bloggers come to your site and drop their cards(thus traffic to your site). The advantage over traffic exchange sites is that you don’t have to click you finger numb to get enough credits to make your site show up to others. I dropped 7 cards out, yet got 15 cards dropped in to my blog. Now I get a secret of the top bloggers.

Tags are generally ignored by site owners and bloggers in terms of potential. They’re small, for one and very often easy to overlook. Furthermore, those who do not understand their use or significance or at least why and how they work may not often appreciate their value. This is unfortunate because tags can help increase the traffic coming in to your blog from blog directories. Learn what tags are and how they work so you can maximize their use.

Put simply, a tag is a small piece of identification on your blog that informs a search engine bot or spider what your site is about and how it should be indexed. If you can choose and design the right combination of tags for your blog, you will be able to manipulate the number and type of traffic that reaches your site from blog directories legally.

There are three important tags that you should focus on when designing your blog for traffic increase from blog directories. These are the title tag, the description tag and the keyword/s tag.

The title tag. The title of each blog entry you have should contain the most essential keywords that appear in your write-up or are relevant to your content. This will help optimize your entry and make it easier for search engines to find and index.

The description tag. Although description tags are ignored by some search engines, adding this to your blog can help influence how your blog (or at least its web pages) is described.

The keyword tag. The keyword tag is the word or phrase that you will repeat within the content body or web page in question. Used strategically, these keywords can help increase your blog’s results in search engines and bring in more traffic to your site by allowing visitors to easily find you.

Don’t be afraid to combine keywords, though. That’s how you will be able to create highly targeted key phrases to optimize your blog. Three- to four-word key phrases will do. Multiple word tags are advantageous to single word searches as well. If you use a keyword phrase tag that says ‘rock paper scissors’, for example, your blog still has the potential to show up in case someone uses only the word ‘rock’ or ‘paper’ in his search.

Don’t overdo the use of tags

If you don’t watch out, tags can be addictive. It could reach a point where you might find yourself using tags that have little relevance to your blog. This usually happens when you try too hard to make sure that your blog or web page appears in more listings.

Although it may seem like a good idea to help increase traffic to your blog particularly as a means to shine in blog directories, overuse of tags can be counter-productive. Try to be careful in choosing only the kind of tags that your blog truly needs. Leaner but highly targeted tags are much more effective than generic ones.

This is the Alexa traffic rank for one of my site (recorded on 2008-07-30), which shows a 1million+ jump in the ranking. I was using a technique which is kept as a secret for the moment.