Most of the bloggers use blog commenting to get backlinks and traffic so that they rank well in the SERPs. If done properly, blog commenting can be really powerful and gain you lots of backlinks and traffic in a short time. Even, it helps you to establish your authority in your niche.

This is a strategy I use to get backlinks and traffic to my blogs. Basically, the idea is to find popular blogs related to your niche and visit them occasionally and post comments on the articles that you are interested. This way I gained some PR juice as well as some traffic. This is something you will see the benefits in the long run, so do not expect a traffic overload in one day. Just, post your comments patiently and you will see it. On the table below, you can see the traffic that I got from blog commenting.

Recently, while organizing my bookmarks, I noticed that if I used Google Reader for that purpose, it would be faster and easier to comment on the blogs that I follow. So, what I did is I collected all the blogs that I am following in a folder in Google Reader and classified them according to their subjects. This way, now I am able to see all the new posts in one screen and choose the posts that interest me and comment on them.

You can see a screenshot of my Google Reader account where I have blogs related to affiliate marketing in a folder.

Note that what I talked about is not spamming others’ blogs with nonsense comments or posting thousands of automated comments at a time. What I do and urge you to do is to contribute to the discussion, this way, you will gain more traffic to your sites and establish your authority in the niche faster.

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I talked about how this blog got PR1 on the latest update in a previous post, How Did I Achieve PageRank 1. Well, after checking one of my older blogs that I created in May, I noticed that it got a PageRank 2.

That one is a Blogger blog and it is about general tips and news about different topics such as, internet, technology, world and things like that. You can see it here: Simple Web Tips. I haven’t been updating this blog for a long time, after this PR update I will definitely work on this a bit more.

Differently from DailyAffiliateTips.com, I did some link exchanges with other webmasters of similar blogs. Firstly, I found some similar blogs which are not much popular but have good content and I contacted to their webmasters asking if they would like a link exchange. Some of them responded as they would like to and from that time, I have their links on my site and they have my link on theirs too. Although there are only 3 websites that I exchanged links, I am pretty sure that they helped a lot in terms of PageRank juice. Because one of them is PR4, one is PR3 and the other is PR2.

This is a really nice example of how link exchanging will benefit your site in terms of PageRank and traffic.

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