It's Quality Not Quantity When it Comes to Commenting

From time to time every blogger will run across an extremely enthusiastic commentator who feels the need to leave a comment on each and every one of your posts.  They may even go back into your archives and leave comments there as well.  This is all great providing they are leaving quality comments.  A comment that simply says "Great post." is not a quality comment by any stretch of the imagination.  In fact if the blog author allows these types of comments they might actually work against the commentator because they serve as a flag to possible comment spam for other bloggers.  From a blogger's perspective you have the choice whether to allow them or not.

However when you are commenting on someone else's blog always make sure it is a quality comment.  Your comment should acknowledge the contents of that particular post.  It should in some way add to the post or knowledge base of that blog.  This means that you may not be able to leave 20 comments in a day but my experience has been if you leave one or two quality comments each day the end result is better.  Chances are good you will generate traffic from just one quality comment but at the same time you may pick up a subscriber or two and more importantly you might make friends with another blogger :)

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