Why Leave Comments?
I know that many of you readers come here, read what you want to, take what you want to, do what you want to without me knowing that you ever came here! So, if you have been a silent reader of my blog and want to know the benefits of leaving comments on a blog’s posts, let me give you some tips on why you should be doing it.
1. Do you know me?
If you regularly leave comments on a particular blog, it will make the blog owner recognize you and also your website. When you do this on multiple blogs, you will be socially recognized in the blogging community. Also, most of the blogs nowadays use Gravatars which can help in branding and getting some popularity for your own blog. I think that leaving comments on popular blogs is the best way to be known around the Internet.
2. Building Community
A community is built around people and their views. Leaving comments is a way of showing that you care and want to share your opinion with others including the owner of the blog. The comments can be a suggestion, feedback, appreciation or even criticism. They are good as long as they are not spammy or abusive. So, even if you are just stopping by, try to make that little effort of writing a comment, even if its just a line.
3. Getting What you Want
You should leave a comment because that’s the only way the blog owner can judge what the reader/customers want without getting a written e-mail or any other form of communication.
4. Link Building & Traffic
Most of the blogs allow you to leave your website link/s when writing comments (Dofollow or Nofollow) for the blog. This can help you in getting good inbound links and also some additional traffic to your site.
5. Selling yourself
If you are a service provider or have something to sell, comments can be an unobtrusive way to do this. I am not asking you to write your sales pitch in the comments but when you build a relationship with the people through commenting on their blogs, it gets easy to sell your wares to them. Cheap advertising for you 
6. Go down in the Blogging history
This is for the people who do not run websites or blogs but just like to surf the Internet. Someday, when someone tries to search for your name on Google, believe me or not, if you mentioned your name in the comment author, the search results will pop out the comments that you wrote. For some people, the results can be very fascinating
7. Show off your writing style
Finally, if you have good written English skills, comments can be the platform where you can flaunt them. A lot of people will read them.
And last but not the least, when you leave a comment on a post, it is sort of a reward or a small prize for the blog owner. So, you know now what makes leaving comments so special! Go on, leave a comment and show me that you learned something
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Hi, i think that i noticed you visited my website so i got here to ?go back the choose?.I’m trying to find issues to improve my site!I assume its ok to make use of some of your ideas!!
I like to leave comments on blogs that have done there homework and have something to say
Great idea! take mine xD
I love the idea of building relationships through repeated comments. Wish we could get more legitimate comments – we seem to get a lot of spam on our blog. Is there a way you can recommend to facilitate that? Thank you for this piece.
it is really a good ideas for me, thanks
I never really understood the purpose of leaving comments on someone else’s blog besides the simple fact of having your voice heard. After reading your post, I realize that it’s important to do so, and I’m sure I’ll be doing more commenting in the future. Thanks for your insightful post.
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Just leaving a quick comment to say I’m enjoying your blog…
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It’s really true!!!
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I am an devotee of your website. Keep up the good work.
Leaving comments is great because, you know what people think!
Great article! I love leaving comments on blogs.
Nice to network with you
Leaving Comment is a good habit, because “the internet never forget”
I can certainly validate the community-building point. After reading these comments and chuckling to myself, I found myself hip-deep browsing the rest of your website. I’m a PHP/CSS neophyte. I stumbled across your link to The Square Grid (thank you for that!). I could burn up the rest of my day here, but I’m not going to do that (really, I’m not!).
You are now in my bookmarks sir. Thank you. I will be back.
Thanks also for the link!
The cartoon is cute, but at firsts I had trouble connecting its meaning to the topic of blog commenting. Then it hit me. That’s the admin that was supposed to moderate all of these comments.
Loved the tip about link-building.
Thanks!
wow! this thread has a lot of comments, i wonder why
I’m more than happy with the trouble and don’t feel like adding anything in it. It a perfect factor which is being done. Keep the great work! I’ve simply bookmarked this site for future reference. In search of your common post.
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Right… you are showing some true points, also I like the cartoon that you show
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Thanks for the info. Can you help if no- follow are considered as backlinks?
Been following and using the BOB theme since day 1. So now with new owner, I have no regret following BOB again. Jai, thanks for many2 tips and cool free themes.
Aye to that. Very nice points and you’ve made me realize a few things that I’ve missed.
WP isn’t the best platform, but it works! BTW great template! ???? ?????????
Personally I do not prefer WP as a website engine . Google see it as a blog – blog should be dynamical. New content every day or at least every week. It is better to create a static website on a basic html / php and make it seo friendly. Just my 2c.
I like your article and I do agree with your tips to start a comment
Thank you
4. Link Building & Traffic
Most of the blogs allow you to leave your website link/s when writing comments (Dofollow or Nofollow) for the blog. This can help you in getting good inbound links and also some additional traffic to your site.
THUMB UP!
Wondering what comment to write! Ok, let me guess your name. Are you Jai, ‘coz the site is designed by him. Maybe you’re Bob, ‘coz that’s what you’ve in the contact page.
Anyway, I like this article, and am going to quote you in my forthcoming book on SEO for small businesses. It’s pleasantly surprising to see that comments are coming here even 2-1/2 years after it is written.
Best!
Great points I usually lurk, but now I’m going to try to be more faithful to comment.
great point. more interesting now. thanks
I love the idea, it is just so hard to decide who to follow continually vs. checking out several blogs during the week.
Great post! I like your wordpress theme. Letting a reader leave comments without creating an account is very important tool . Why leave comment?? you need to speak up what’s in your mind..right?
Great post! I like your wordpress theme. Letting a reader leave comments without creating an account is very important tool, I think. I often don’t bother with comments when it requires signing up.
Hello I will add comment now.
i like word press blog
Hello I will add comment now.
Nice wordpress theme..
I heard that you’re Malaysian..
I just borrowed your bald head..
Hope you don’t mind… I’m a poor blogger
Well you have made some excellent points with this article. I am one of those who don’t tend to comment just for the sake of leaving something unless I
have something meaningful to say. That’s why I post on my blog
Aunty Munaza
Kurangi Town
Karachi
Why leave comment?? O’course you need to speak up what’s in your mind..right?
Upon spending many hours on the net eventually We’ve identified a person whom really does understand they are preaching about appreciate it so much really great post.
Very nice ideads, i learn a lot, thanks!
This is a very very helpful site. Lots of good info. Glad I found it in doing research about commenting and if it is actually worth doing. Thank you.
You would not believe how long ive been looking for something like this. Browsed through 5 pages of Google results and couldnt find anything. Very first page on Bing. There was this…. Really have to start using it more often!
just to say hello great site
Thanks for attention!
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just to say hello great site
I don’t know if I should cry or laugh…
Almost 10.000 people have been viewing this post but only less than 100 have left a comment!
Oh, boy oh boy…
This is like ‘out there’ when people don’t know how to say ‘thank you’.
Good posting, thanks for sharing!
Howdy – This is a great place
Just registered and wanted to say hello.
I agree with all of the points
unfortunately some people do not understand that and use comments as a pure no costs advertising platform.When you sell something and connect the relevancy of your comment with your product or service thats fine, but just posting a link without giving the blog owner (or readers) the impression that you have read the post can bring a reputation loss with it.It’s comment spam.
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thanks
It also shows that the blog is still relevant.
It also shows that Google is still linking to the blog, so it will still make traffic.
I have a saying, “Blogs are brilliant” I use them all the time because it gives me instant opinion and cutting edge view. There readers are real people and if you want to keep it real and get the here and now factor; blogs are brilliant. Simple..
I spend many hours reading blogs and commenting and this blog was really helpful. Thanks
is that all?
I comment on Blogs rather that playing the game of trying to attract Attention in Forums.If i produce a Quote that an Organic Search will find.Then I would Rather that another blogger Gets the Result Not Some Forum.Plus the Inbound Links From a blog are Much easier To be Seen on a Blog.And I really Like Gravatars.
“Link Building & Traffic”
This Sentence of this This blog is so important .
I do it myself & It is really Work.
I like this blog & Thanks to Share .
What a great post! I know when I fist began blogging I was kind of scared to leave comments on others posts because I did not know what they would think, but when I began receiving them back it made my day! Thanks again!
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Great article
Really useful
Love it
Great post
Thanks for share
great post
good idea
thanks
Just love commenting for the sake of it. It makes whoever posted the article feel like someone cares… and we do!
i think your good friends and honest can i tell you my secrets?
I was just searching for a page that had good reasons to do this for twitter and my blog. Now I don’t have to write it I’ll just twitter this. People do not realize what they miss by not leaving comments. TY TY TY, PS Im new to wordpress what about a Custom WP theme??? Interest is peeked
JohniLouise
socialpopstars.wordpress.com
I hope my gravatar shows up w/this (crosses fingers)
Great article. Nice blog. Keep it coming. Mike
stimulating and informative, but would participate in something more on this topic?
i like this post.. i often read your post but not leaving any comment, may start from today i will leave a comment on every blog i read
Hi, I found your post by googling the term “leave comments” and you were at the very top. Great job, my friend. I was going to write a post similar to yours but now that I see that it has already been done, I will link back to yours from a post (as yet unwritten) with a slightly different take.
To flaunt or not to flaunt one’s superior grasp of the English language when commenting — that is the question. Whether t’is nobler to suffer the potential jealous slings and arrows of the less linguistically endowed and by casting one’s elegant prose to the side make the blogosphere a warmer and fuzzier place?
cool, thanks for this!
Digging the wordpress themes. Like the chat box in the corner, tried to speak to you on it but no answer.
Hello, Jai! Nice picture =)
You compiled this list of great ideas in a manor that I just love. I think even the colors are easy on the readers eyes. You really know your stuff. Thanks for the help.
nice
Really Great Post? Can you give me help for my blog posting.
Very great post. Really pushed me to write my first comment on a blog
I love cartoons.
Yes, thanks for the great tips. I’m still trying to figure out how much weight #4 carries because I saw a site with less than 10 backlinks and a good deal of traffic.
Many say you MUST have many backlinks but this site didn’t. I’ll figure it out sooner or later. Thanks once again. http://www.babyboomerqueen.com .
i agree with u.. it’s necessary to know the benefits of leaving comments on a blog’s posts..good post….and good advantages explain by u.. it’s very useful to increase traffic….x-(
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thats way I will leave a comment here, thank you for this article once more
thats what i always did. But i only will comment at some blog which i interested to stay. If that blog cannot make me feel something like want to comment, i will never did that.
i like this post.. i often read your post but not leaving any comment, may start from today i will leave a comment on every blog i read
I cannot agree more. It’s really one of the best ways to make your site known to other people. Please take a visit at my site.
Well, quite interesting article. And ofcourse I would like the fellow readers to include me in the pal’s list and give a visit to my site. Thanks
i like this post.. i often read your post but not leaving any comment, may start from today i will leave a comment on every blog i read
You have a point there, which is i also mentioned in my blog about “i do, do you comment?”.
Good post about it.
I spoke with a friend on the phone who had been reading my new blog, and she said she loved it. I asked her why she didn’t comment on any of the threads, and she replied, “I was intimidated by your writing.” She said my writing was so good that she felt inadequate. Well, that’s no good! But what’sa gal to do?
It is very difficult for me writing when I don’t know if people are reading it or even appreciate the effort. I would certainly welcome more comments on my baby blog.
Thanks for the reminder and encouragement. Consider yourself commented on.
Good points jai
from now i will not be a silent reader
Good post, thanks for that
I like that idea. I wish more people would leave comments because I know they are reading, but I don’t see the feedback.
@Ashwin : Soon, my friend. Soon.
Hey Jai, when are you going to start PHP lessons?
Also, a startup kit-ebook or basic lessons in customizing wordpress blogs will be helpful for newbies like me.
Cheers!
Thanks for the article. I think i’m gonna republish it in spanish on my blog, linking to your article permalink, of course. Thanks a lot again my friend.
that was a nice point. I reached your site from google to find out how to add a new sidebar. That post was nice, hoping to be a regular visitor
oh yes, oh yes yes yes
if something we have still to develop it is the open attitude to communicate happy
Hai Jai,
Very good points. Just a question though, can we leave comments requesting some more tutorials for tweaking our wordpress blogs? I’m sure you are the best man for the job.
Andy.
I visit this site regularly but never commented, just left a few things in the forum.
You’re doing a great job with BOB and I am really glad I was referred to this site by two other very happy bloggers.
Keep up the good work.
Good points..
heres my comment
nice post..
1…..funny.
2…. having lesson
Regards
Hank Freid
Ha ha. True!
And I Loved that cartoon!
Nice post. I love getting comments. Any tips for encouraging people to leave them?
Lisa
Good post, thanks for that
Been following and using the BOB theme since day 1. So now with new owner, I have no regret following BOB again. Jai, thanks for many2 tips and cool free themes.
All the best.. ‘hanging’ on there
Proud Papa here
You make very valid points. We should comment more, even if just to let you know that we were here, and why…
1. Thanks for your posts. I am subscribed to your RSS feed.
2. I liked the “Velocity” theme you featured some time ago, and I have installed it on my website(ScarletMambo.com). I have made some mods, and it’s a work in progress… take a look.
3. Right now I am working on adding media functionality to my blog. Podcasts and Videocasts. Perhaps you can dedicate further posts in this topic.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Well you have made some excellent points with this article. I am one of those who don’t tend to comment just for the sake of leaving something unless I have something meaningful to say. That’s why I post on my blog
But I agree with you and I will make an effort to add more comments to any article I find interesting.
Hey Jai, cheap way to get comments.
Seriously, great points. I usually lurk, but now I’m going to try to be more faithful to comment.
As a long-time lurker, I find that I don’t have much to directly contribute to the conversation. And I’m hesitant to add comments simply for the sake of adding them.
Having my own web page, I find SEO and web design to be an interesting topics. Which makes Blog Oh Blog a must read for me every day.
I’ am following u since feb 2008. and honestly i used till now 2 themes (tutorial and statement) for testing with out leaving and comment. (sorry…
) anyway from now on i will comment (becuz this what should be)
Nice wordpress theme..
I heard that you’re Malaysian..
I just borrowed your bald head..
Hope you don’t mind… I’m a poor blogger
http://ligakampung.com/blog/2008/05/13/kursus-penulisan-blog
Aye to that. Very nice points and you’ve made me realize a few things that I’ve missed.
So bloggers out there, leave your comments and be known to the world!
Good points Jai. I think we should put a little effort into our comments too—instead of simply stating, “good post”, or “thanks for that”. Those types of comments seem like they’re there for one reason only.
And of course, when the blogger puts a great deal of effort into their posts, one of the greatest rewards one can give in appreciation, is their comments.
Many times I’ve learned more from browsing through the comments of a good post, than I have from the article itself.
great points. I usually lurk, but now I’m going to try to be more faithful to comment.