Commenting On Other Blogs
This post gets filed under the heading: “The cobbler’s children have no shoes”. This is something I KNOW I should be doing, but don’t do enough. I could give you at least 10 reasons why I fail at this, but you don’t want to hear about my issues… Seriously, leaving comments on other people’s blog is serious business and can be very easily abused.
When you leave a comment on someone’s blog, you also leave a link to your blog as part of your comment. This allows other people to check out your blog if they feel you have left an insightful comment and want to learn more about you. Also as an author of a blog, I like to check out the blogs of my readers and add them to my reading list.
My word of caution here is to not treat other people’s blogs as a billboard to promote yourself or your blog. Think of it as online networking. You are engaging in conversation with the author and other people that comment on that blog. Through regular conversation, you enhance relationships and thus readers, and those that may promote your through their spokes.
So you are reading this and saying “Great Beth, where am I suppose to find these blogs?”. You may find them by seeing what blogs people are talking about on Twitter. You can also use search tools such as Technorati and Google’s Blog Search. Look for blogs that have the same kind of audience you want to attract to your site, in addition to those that you learn from and interact with peers.
Just like everything else, this needs to be built into your routine and that is where I fall short miserably. Reading through my RSS Reader, and therefore commenting, always gets pushed aside when I am busy, but I am vowing to change that right here and now. I know you will hold me to it too. Who’s with me? You can start by leaving a comment here 
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Totally agree with you here! My thoughts are, if the post is relevant to you and your blog and you have something to say, do it; however, if you’re commenting simply as a “billboard” as you refer, the blog owner will see right through it. In the long run this will end-up damaging you as a blogger more than anything.