Blog commenting is a great way to generate targeted traffic to your blog or site directly and as well as through the search engines. Now, when we talk about search engine traffic, we all know that it’s all about building relevant backlinks to your site, and blog commenting helps you achieve that. The problem is that commenting on all blogs isn’t going to help you; the blog needs to be a “do follow” blog if you want the link to show up in the search engines. In other words, your efforts should be focused on finding blogs that don’t carry the no-follow attribute on their pages. Since finding these types of blogs isn’t simple, you should make sure that the comments you leave on these blogs are actually approved.

Read the Blog Post: There is one major reason that a comment doesn’t get approved by the blog’s owner: it does not contribute any reasonable value to the post itself or the comments are just random and don’t make sense. If you want the blog owner to approve your comment, be sure that you have thoroughly read and understood what is being said before you leave your comments. Don’t just leave words for fun: the comment should reflect your opinion, your analysis of the post or even be a few facts that you know pertain to the post itself. The more of your comments that get approved, the more back links to your site you create.

Aim for Blogs With Recently Approved Comments: Commenting on inactive blogs isn’t something that’s worthwhile. It’s best to give your attention to blogs where you can see evidence of recent activity. This just goes on to show that the blog isn’t dormant and is receiving targeted traffic on a regular basis. When you post your comment, you want it to get approved as soon as possible, but if the blogger isn’t accepting new comments or isn’t available, you won’t get any returns. Focusing on this one point can help you save a lot of time and actually get value out of your efforts.

Only Post One Comment Per Day to One Blog: When it comes to commenting on one blog in particular, don’t post more than once per day. You want to do everything in moderation, especially when you want your comments to get regularly approved.

You definitely don’t want to be labeled a spammer, yet this can happen if you submit a large number of comments to the same blog too quickly. The best tactic is to choose your comments strategically, and it’s always to your advantage if you can submit the first comment, especially if it’s a popular subject. Blog owners are much more likely to approve your comments when you follow this rule.

In summation, this article helps you understand how important it is to leave comments on do-follow blogs and some of the best ways to assure that your blogs get approved. It may seem tricky when you first start commenting and the first few comments you leave might very well get deleted but if you keep at it and leave comments that contribute to the conversation of the blog post your comments should get approved most of the time. Just remember that you need to be active with your blog commenting because the more backlinks you get the better you will be.

Last but not least, it’s usually a good exercise to look at your current analytics data and discover where guests are generally coming from. As soon as you fully understand where your readers are coming from, you can use a  keywords research tool or Google Keywords to get even more keywords similar to the key words that are presently bringing your existing traffic and prospects.