In The Blogosphere Comments Are Your Calling Card
Getting noticed in your niche or in your expertise can be difficult. There are over 60 million blogs out there today and getting your voice heard among the noise can be a difficult thing to accomplish. One of the things that has worked for me as a no lose tool is making many comments on lots of blog posts. This is a must if you want to get your blog noticed by the influential people in your niche.
If you have been around in your niche long enough, you will know who the people are that get the most traffic to their blog and the people that seem to have all of the commenters and all of the traffic. If you are in the niche of blogs about something not real popular it won’t be hard to find those who stand out in the crowd. If the niche you are trying to enter is a blog about gadgets or photography or some other very popular niche, it may not be as easy to pick out the influencers. Technorati can help with finding the top bloggers within a certain area and could be used for that purpose.
Now that you have found the top dogs in your niche. It’s time to hang out and see what they do and what they say. Why are they an influential A-list blogger? What expertise are they providing? As you get a sense of their blogging and their blog personality, it’s time to become part of the group. It’s time to leave a comment.
I’m not talking about the comment that says "Good point", and then moves on to the next article. I mean to actually engage in what the writer has stated or at least lend some of your own wisdom to their ideas. This in turn will get their attention. I can’t think of a single blogger that I have talked to that does not like getting comments on their written articles. They love the feedback. Even the top A-listers within the most popular niches enjoy reading the comments. Many of them will respond to a comment right away if what you have said is at all lending to their ideas or creating more need for conversation within their thoughts. Your comments can be a calling card to get you noticed. Commenting on blog sites is almost as important as having one of the top dogs in your niche send a link to your site. Commenting begins a relationship with the blogger and over time, they come to rely on your thoughts. Before long, although not overnight, you become expected to provide your thoughts, and people will be more than happy to come to your own blog to get your wisdom first hand. Now the hard part occurs, having good content there at your blog when they do arrive.
Tags: Blog Comments, Blog Content, A-List Blogs, Blog Networking
