Importance of blog commenting

There you can see many authoritative bloggers come across many competitive blogs and present their views by commenting on the posts. They are actively checking other blogs and finding some time to comment on the content.

What is the reason for blog commenting?

There you can see people are waiting for blog comments and whenever new blog posts are published within an hour they receive 200+ comments and also social shares.

The first thing is the blog post should be useful for the readers. Thus people like their posts. If the content is not that valuable and no one will be interested in your blog.

There are some more reasons other than just for commenting or starting a healthy discussion related to that topic.

Here I am listing some of the benefits for commenting on popular blogs.

Importance of blog commenting

Backlink

The backlinks are the links placed into other websites with anchor text for your blog posts or your blog address itself. So according to Google, the backlinks are highly important to rank for a particular keyword.

If the backlinks are more quality then the authority of your site also eventually increases and ranks well.

There are 2 types of backlinks, one is DoFollow and another is NoFollow.

The blog commenting will be NoFollow all the time and this will pass very little importance to Google and always blogs are placing these comments for moderation. So the spam links can be avoided by evaluating the content inside each comment.

Traffic

Other than backlinks you will get the most valuable thing while commenting is referral traffic.

How can you drive traffic to your blog?

There should be a value for the readers within the comments, which is the key to clicking any links inside comments. If you are actively answering other fellow member’s queries, that would be highly appreciated by the webmaster and readers.

So the comments should follow some rules to get traffic.

• Actively comment on authority blogs and be the first one.
• Avoid just “Awesome blog post, Nice post, Great article”, etc. This couldn’t help others.
• Write your opinion and if any missing content or points not less than 100 words.
• Use actual Gravatar image for trust buildup
• Use actual name
• Reply to other queries

SEO boosting

You have NoFollow links and people are liking your comments. Then what will happen next?

People are entering your blog via the comments section and spending some time reading your content.

That means for search engines the trust signal is passed.

The readers are greatly engaging with your content like social shares, comments, DoFollow links. These are all the search engine trust signals for blog posts. Definitely the blog commenting will lead you to other benefits.

Social trust or social proof of living

The article publishing and sharing on social media will never get traction for your blog posts. But if you have a community like an FB group, forums for promoting the contents will help you more.

You need to actively contribute to other communities for proving your existence. So definitely the blog commenting is highly important for those who wish to establish a social relationship with other industry bloggers.

If you are real and not spamming links then definitely people will visit your site and promote for free if they like your posts.

Personal relations

We are all sitting on remote ends and we are meeting people within social media.

There are some other platforms for interacting with people globally. The forums and blog comments are such kinds. What is happening inside forums or question-answer websites?

People clear their doubts by asking the questions. Same you can see there are people asking some queries inside blogs. So you have to find answers and help them to clear their doubts.

This will create good personal relations and in the future, you can help by sharing their blog posts.

You can build up a collaborative workspace through these interactions.

Final thoughts

Blog commenting is not dead really. But nowadays we could see that bot commenting and spam comments are increasing. So webmasters are in a headache to remove these bad comments. For securing the websites we can opt some automatic methods like implementing anti-spam plugins or spam blocks etc.

Blog comments with value still have the positive sides and other benefits will follow in the future.