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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.

As I don’t get Google PR yet, so my blog will not be included in the list. This list intends to include some high PR, high Alexa Ranking DoFollow blogs which will be useful for your blog-comment link building.

1. Top of the list is BoingBoing.net. With a PR of 8, this is absolutely top priority blog to put your comment-linking on.

2. V7N SEO Blog – PR 5.

3. Can I Make Big Money Online – PR 4

4. EZ-onlinemoney.com – PR 4

5. Duckeldanny.com – PR 3

6. MyTradersJournal – PR 4 (Stock/Option Trading)

7. BigBenPatton’s Place – PR 3

8. EzyAs123 – PR 3

9. UnlockTheOnlineWorld – PR 2

There will be more I’m sure, and they will be added to the list as I see them. Please add to the list with your findings as well. If you don’t know how to detect a DoFollow blog, here is the tip. Use a Firefox browser, go to the blog post with comments on it, and right click on a commenter’s name (normally with the linking) and select “Properties”. If you can see the word “nofollow” on the properties window, it means it’s not a DoFollow blog. Otherwise, it is DoFollow.

When people leave a comment on your blog, your blogging software is most likely adding the “nofollow” hyperlink attribute to it. The reason behind this is to minimize the benefit you’re giving any spammers who exploit comments or trackbacks. If spammers’ links do get search engine value back to their sites/blogs, it would be quite an incentive for them – therefore NoFollow is used to deter that. The consequence of the NoFollow hyperlink attribute is that search engines like Google either don’t follow or may follow those links off your blog,  yet don’t give any credibility or benefit on page ranking(PR) to those linking, which means the links don’t provide any search engine value to the originating site/blog.

However, if people provide legitimate, quality comments or links back to your blog, what’s the harm in giving them a little value (or love) in return? As long as you activate a spam plugin like Akismet (which does a very good job in blocking off spam comments and trackbacks) it makes sense to open your blog up a bit and give your community a little link love.

I decide to use one of the DoFollow plugins for removing NoFollow attributes on my blog, so it’s now spreading link love with DoFollow. Just a warning though, any kind of spam is strictly not tolerated. 

Andy Beard has a list of DoFollow plugins available on his site. He also host a community on BumpZee.