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Does Blog commenting play a vital role in SEO?


Blog comments are one of the easiest ways to make your blog interactive, to get backlinks on your website and to drive traffic on your blog. Effective Blog commenting strategy will make your backlinks graph grow.
Do you want to learn more about Blog commenting, here you go!

What is Blog Commenting?

Blog commenting is defined as a relationship between blogs, bloggers and blog readers. It is a great way to exchange ideas, thoughts or opinions about what people feel for a particular topic or a blog post. Blog comments helps the blog to attract traffic and makes it social.
Blog commenting is an action taken by the blog viewers, visitors, or blog readers; the blog readers or the visitors leave a comment on to the blog posts in the form of questions if they want to ask anything, or some can simply leave a comment for appreciating the information shared or may be the blog author replying to the comments which are posted by the blog readers.

Why is Blog Commenting important?

Just as fuel is to vehicle likewise, comments is to blogs. Through Blog commenting, knowledge is shared. Blog commenting is a way to viral out the blogs. Commenting leads to conversation which, further leads to building a relationship between the user and the author. The more the conversation, the better will be your popularity. Moreover, it’s not only about popularity, through commenting, you get a lot of backlinks and traffic on your website.

Ever heard about Blog commenting system?

Internet is a hub of information. You have all the answers of why, what and when. Blog commenting is a great way to express, share ideas, knowledge, and experiences etc.

A great feature of web 2.0 websites involved users to interact with other users, the author or the web. Blog commenting system is defined as a system, which allows the users or blog readers to leave a comment on the blog. The Modern websites such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, acts as a backbone for building blogs, likewise, to content management system is Blog commenting system.

Blog Commenting in SEO and it’s need?

Everyone has a different reason to do Blog Commenting. Bloggers who wants to do for Seo perspective, do it to create backlinks, some for increasing Alexa rank and some for spreading knowledge.  
Blog commenting plays an important role to attract traffic i.e. to get visitors on to the blog or website and create a relationship with the users or readers.

As I have already mentioned above, Blog commenting is also done for creating backlinks, and to attract traffic. Let us talk about it more:

  • Backlinks :  One of the most important reasons to do blog commenting. If you feel that your website is not getting enough traffic, one of the reasons might be that your site is not getting authority from search engines. When you comment on other’s blog, you are creating a backlink for yourself which is indirectly helping you to gain traffic.
  • Traffic : Anyone who is commenting on the blog will leave a backlink, which means, backlinking is a mode to drive traffic. Make sure, you are not commenting a random one, as it will serve you no good. The comments should be relevant and in that context only.
  • Build Relationships : One of the great way to build relations with your website users is through Blog Commenting. Initially building relations might take time but once you start doing regularly, you will be noticed. Moreover, you will gradually start building relations with the bloggers or site administrators etc.
  • Brand Recognition : When you are blogging or you are commenting, you do that in your niche, so that you can drive traffic from the potential users. Even if the users or visitors don’t comment on your blog, the brand itself is enough to create an impression on the user’s. Maybe , later while buying a product, they might consider you.

 
How can we do blog commenting in SEO?

It is not that difficult to post a comment on a blog. Make sure, whatever you post, wherever you post, the post itself should make sense. It should draw out some conclusion. The comments you post can either be positive or negative. You just need to know how to take a stand for one.

A small tip, make a list of websites which are of your niche to know about the latest news, blogs from them.

Let’s listen to Matt Cutts views on comments on Blogs!

Matt Cutts talks that you need not worry if you are building links through comments which are relevant and meaningful to the blog. Watch the video to listen what he says:

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To Conclude


Talking about commenting on blogs, Commenting is a very essential practice if you want your blogs to get noticed. Without proper strategies, blog commenting will not be benefitted. It gives you a boost in your seo campaign and also leads to creating relationships with the authors. Blog commenting is a great way to grow your network.

 

 

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