Comments on: Does Leaving Quality Comments Increase Traffic http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2009/07/15/is-it-better-to-leave-quality-comments-to-increase-traffic/ Trying to figure out how much money a Webmaster makes per hour. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:53:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jake http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2009/07/15/is-it-better-to-leave-quality-comments-to-increase-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-815 Jake Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:15:52 +0000 http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/?p=360#comment-815 You hit the nail on the head on every point. All of those points are just as important as each other. You hit the nail on the head on every point. All of those points are just as important as each other.

]]> By: roman http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2009/07/15/is-it-better-to-leave-quality-comments-to-increase-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-374 roman Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:14:40 +0000 http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/?p=360#comment-374 A perfect example of a long quality comment and the desired effect. Mike writes a quality comment forcing Randy to click on URL. A perfect example of a long quality comment and the desired effect.
Mike writes a quality comment forcing Randy to click on URL.

]]> By: Randy http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2009/07/15/is-it-better-to-leave-quality-comments-to-increase-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Randy Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:13:42 +0000 http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/?p=360#comment-371 My personal experience (i.e. based upon my personal blog reading habits) is that I only click very rarely at websites by blog commenters (@Mike: your link is an exception from this rule and I have to say that your blog looks quite interesting and I am sure that I will do some return visits). The reason may be that usually the content of a blog is so rich that I prefer to browse through the blog posts itself. My personal experience (i.e. based upon my personal blog reading habits) is that I only click very rarely at websites by blog commenters (@Mike: your link is an exception from this rule and I have to say that your blog looks quite interesting and I am sure that I will do some return visits).

The reason may be that usually the content of a blog is so rich that I prefer to browse through the blog posts itself.

]]> By: Mike CJ http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2009/07/15/is-it-better-to-leave-quality-comments-to-increase-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Mike CJ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:56:31 +0000 http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/?p=360#comment-365 Thought provoking as always Roman. I hadn't analysed this before, but your post prompted me to do so. So far in July just .36% of my blog traffic came from comments, and in June it was .80%. Going back to March commenting drive just over 8% of my traffic! So I think my conclusion is that it remains a valuable tool for new start blogs, but one which diminishes over time. Two added factors which your research don't take into account and the simple SEO benefit of having a link on another site, and the "PR" benefit of being seen on lots of other blogs - I see it as a sort of subliminal advertising. Thought provoking as always Roman. I hadn’t analysed this before, but your post prompted me to do so. So far in July just .36% of my blog traffic came from comments, and in June it was .80%. Going back to March commenting drive just over 8% of my traffic!

So I think my conclusion is that it remains a valuable tool for new start blogs, but one which diminishes over time.

Two added factors which your research don’t take into account and the simple SEO benefit of having a link on another site, and the “PR” benefit of being seen on lots of other blogs – I see it as a sort of subliminal advertising.

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