Blog Comment Form
One of the nice things about blogs is the ability on most of them to allow user interaction in the form of leaving comments on posts. I have done this, as I am sure most anyone who reads this has done as well. The question I pose today is this:
Do you comment, just to comment?
The great thing about comments is, you can get a link back to your site. However, is that the only reason you leave a comment? If so, maybe you should re-think your strategy. Simply commenting for the sake of it, or the sake of a link is not only going to hurt you long run, but often times hinder the communication that is attempting to take place on the blog.
Just now I was reading a favorite blog, and had posted a comment earlier. So there I was reading other comments, and getting some brain-food from them, and I started clicking on the comment poster links. I visited probably about 10 different sites, one of which was a student who is currently doing freelance web design while going to school. Hmm….that sounds kind of where I started out at too!
That interaction found me retracing some steps I have taken, thinking of what success and failures I have had and reflecting on how to build into the future. All that from a comment on a blog post? You bet, because I took the time to read the post, comment something of positive value, and read those other positive value comments, and then actually visit the site to get “a look at” the comment poster.
Maybe you will just find another favorite blog to follow, maybe you will have a revelation, maybe you will see nothing of positive value. But if you aren’t truly interacting, following some of the comment poster links, and are just hoping everyone else sees yours, seems like a waste of effort since you aren’t giving any thing of positive value back to the blog poster or comment posters.
Do You Comment Just To Comment?
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Blog Comment Form
The great thing about comments is, you can get a link back to your site. However, is that the only reason you leave a comment? If so, maybe you should re-think your strategy. Simply commenting for the sake of it, or the sake of a link is not only going to hurt you long run, but often times hinder the communication that is attempting to take place on the blog.
Just now I was reading a favorite blog, and had posted a comment earlier. So there I was reading other comments, and getting some brain-food from them, and I started clicking on the comment poster links. I visited probably about 10 different sites, one of which was a student who is currently doing freelance web design while going to school. Hmm….that sounds kind of where I started out at too!
That interaction found me retracing some steps I have taken, thinking of what success and failures I have had and reflecting on how to build into the future. All that from a comment on a blog post? You bet, because I took the time to read the post, comment something of positive value, and read those other positive value comments, and then actually visit the site to get “a look at” the comment poster.
Maybe you will just find another favorite blog to follow, maybe you will have a revelation, maybe you will see nothing of positive value. But if you aren’t truly interacting, following some of the comment poster links, and are just hoping everyone else sees yours, seems like a waste of effort since you aren’t giving any thing of positive value back to the blog poster or comment posters.
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