Comments on: Reasons Why I Comment on “Nofollow” Blogs also

By: Mr. Money

Mr. Money — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:18:40 +0000

Yes, the hysteria over dofollow can make people forget that comments are at their core about commenting. Too many people fly around the blogosphere posting one line comments without even reading the article! That helps no one!

Honestly, I do not even check if a blog is dofollow or not, if I like the content I’ll write a comment, otherwise I move on.

By: shaxx

shaxx — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:37:19 +0000

I don’t care whether a blog is dofollow or nofollow since I would only leave comments on blogs with postings that I am interested in. It’s the contents that matter to me. Cheers!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:14:57 +0000

I have “dofollow” blogs, but I find that I will comment on almost any blog, as long as I don’t have to log in or register. I much prefer dofollow blogs because I write on a bunch of blogs, so many that sometimes I may only see a blog once; after all, there are over 90 million of them around the world. Those that intrigue me enough get added to my reader program, and some of those then get added to my blogroll.

I have also realized that I’m probably not going to find any Blogger blogs that are dofollow, and some of those are pretty good, so if I decided I was only going to comment on the other kind, then I might as well never think about visiting any Blogger blogs. And I’m not willing to do that either.

By: Liberty

Liberty — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:35:42 +0000

James, great post. I agree with the above, you’re right on when you say frequently commenting on blogs increases your visibility online. I would also add that it is just being a good blogging citizen to participate and converse if you’ve got something valuable to share or a strong opinion to voice.

Additionally, if other visitors to your blog enjoy what the the post but do not want to participate in the discussion they can get added value and a better customer experience by reading comments from other visitors thus feeling more engaged and part of the community. Everyone wants to feel like they belong.

Thanks for the tip on Lucia’s Linky Love.

-Liberty

I feel like it’s good for internet marketers to step back once and a while and realize that what they’re trying to ultimately forge is connections between people. Commenting purely for link juice makes it a monotonous activity and is almost like littering instead of adding to the discussion. I think it’s good to recognize the ’screw google’ mentality that Shoe talks about, in the sense that you should act like you are enthusiastic just because you want to be, rather than for Google’s favor. It will most likely benefit you more than you know. Nice post.

-Jimmy