Positive Real Estate Professionals

For those of you that missed the first part of this series, you might want to read Using Comments to Build Links and Drive Traffic – Part 1 first. For those of you who read that article, then let’s jump right into this section of the article.

Commenting to generate traffic:

Most people do not realize that you can use commenting to drive relevant traffic to your site. Time after time, I seem to have to go over this topic as a refresher course. With that said, it seems that people take off on the practice of commenting like a well trained race horse with an even better trained jockey riding their way to a Preakness victory. However, the problem is, most people do not make it to the finish line. They quit commenting because they do not see the ultimate return quickly. *As a side note, we all need to quit looking for the quick fix and work at what will make us successful in the long run. If a web developer tells you that they can take you to the top of Google in 24 hours, don’t walk away, run. Side note done, now back to your regular article.* Commenting on other blog articles can actually drive more readers to your site. This can be done by a few different ways, or by using all of these.

The first thing that you have to do is comment with consistency. If you manage to run 6 out of 7 days leaving a comment on a site, then you have done well. As a word of warning, make sure that your comment adds to the article, not detracts from it or leaves the author feeling like someone dropped off a “canned” answer. Readers of the sites that you are commenting on will also start mulling over your comments and if it is intriguing enough, they may take a look at your site. The evil in this is that most commentors seem to think they only need to leave one comment and people will start flocking their way. This is not true for the most part. It takes time to build a rapport with a blog owner as well as their readers.

Another path to take is to find a blog that employs the plugin . In doing this, you are able to leave a link for your site as well as a link to the latest article that you have written. This in turn can be used to drive traffic back to your site, but once again it has to be titled right and also be something that will draw interest from the readers of the site that you are commenting on. Having this plugin will encourage interaction from your readers as well. Ultimately, having the interaction is just one step that you want to achieve.

As I said before, there are many paths that one can use to drive more and more traffic to their site. Another plugin that centers around comments is the Top Commentors Widget and this can be used with both Wordpress and Blogger platforms. This comment widget is designed to show the top commentors on your site in the sidebar. This gives yet another link to the commentors of your site, thereby encouraging them to interact with you and your articles.

While there are other tricks of the trade available  to build links and draw traffic to your site, the ones listed above are pure. These are not black hat tactics. With that said, one of the ultimate ways to drive traffic to your site using comments is belonging to a network like our online real estate network. Commenting on each others’ sites will draw relevant links as well as relevant traffic. This is the ultimate way to cash in on all three of these procedures.