The Other Factor In Blog Comments

I wrote that commenting in blogs as a means to build traffic is an outdated tip. I still thinks so. If we are to build up our blog with this method, we are going to take years and regularly commenting in a few thousand blogs so a few thousand bloggers becomes our friends eventually and come supporting us. Don’t get me wrong though. It is an outdated tip but for a starters and you don’t have a single friend in the blogsphere, it is good to comment in the blogs that you stalk. You might end up with 100 or more friends over the long run.

That is not my point for today, so lets forget about commenting to build up our blogs.  What I wanted to say or ask today is why do you think most top bloggers even though they already have tons of comments don’t stop encouraging their readers to comment more. It’s not like as though there are have any shortage of commentators. So why are they so greedy for comments and can’t have enough of it?

I am an old fool not to realize it till recently. The reason is because comments plays are big part in enchancing their post’s contents. Short of those apple polishing, 3 word comments like “Great Post, dude” or anything similar, comments with substance acts like part of their posts when the Google robots comes a crawling.

Good commentators are those who contributes to the post. Conflicting, agreeing or supplementing. When these people comments, they will talk about that particular post and when they does that, they inevitably adds weight to the keywords that were used in that post and we all know by now that all these top bloggers takes their keywords very seriously because it is a big contributing factor to their Search Traffic Results.

I have seen many search hits resulting from comments in my daily searches for information. I have seen hits pointing to other blogs because the Search Robots caught the words that I used in their comments and considered it a keyword. In a very tiny and remote way, this benefited me as well because when some guys checked out that posts via that search hit, they will find my comment. I do get one or two negligible visitors that way.