The One Year Millionaire

Hey Everyone… We are now at issue 58 of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ and so far we have accumulated a great deal of great information regarding internet marketing and making money online. If this is the first time you join us then be sure to read up on the earlier issues because I have packed in a lot of great information in earlier posts! If you haven’t already noticed… my recent posts are more focused on a specific idea or topic while my earliest issues covered broad internet marketing ideas on a grand scale. The reason I am doing this is so that new internet marketers can get an overall idea of what they need to do by just reading the first few issues while advanced webmasters can just stay up to date and hopefully learn more from specific posts!

So in a previous issue I already talked about Leaving Comments on Blogs and why it is important for webmasters to engage in this activity. Today I am going to be giving a quick step by step tutorial or guide about how to go about commenting on blogs. If you are in the middle of a Link Building Campaign then you should consider adding this to your list of things to do! Leaving comments on relevant blogs is an easy and effective way to build great backlinks to your website or blog and gain some quality referral traffic at the same time! So let’s look at how we can go about this:

• Searching for Blogs.
  In order to leave comments on blogs and create some high quality backlinks you need to find blogs that are relevant to your own. There are a number of great ways to do this and all it takes is a little time and patience. One thing that you can do is create a bookmark folder in firefox with all the blogs that you comment on so you can keep track of them and occasionally re-visit them. This makes it a lot easier especially if you want to take advantage of TopCommentator. Here are a few ways you can find a potential blog to leave a comment on:

1. Manual/Natural Search.
   Every once in a while you will come across a great blog that is relevant to your niche and you can use this as a great opportunity to leave a comment. Commenting on blogs that you genuinely read often is a great way to build a relationship between bloggers and also a great way to increase traffic to your website! Another thing you can do is use your favorite search engine and type ” *your keyword* blog ” and you will probably get a list of blogs relevant to your niche that you can leave comments on.
2. Do Follow Diver.
   This is a new search engine created by the linkbuildingbible.com which gives you the opportunity to search blogs that have the do-follow enabled. They also have extra options that you can see which blogs have TopCommentator and CommentLuv. This is one of those great resources that you can’ leave unmentioned. All you have to do is type your keyword in the search field and voila… great results!
3. Technorati.
   Technorati is a great social bookmarking website because it has become an authority on blog rankings. Type your keyword in the search field on their site and you can find a lot of great blogs that are just clicks away. If you have a blog then you should go ahead and register your blog on their site! (In the next issue I will be talking about Technorati in detail)

• Leaving a Comment.
  Leaving the actual comment is just as important as finding the right blog to do it on. You can’t just leave any comment because it could be taken the wrong way. In every comment that you leave you have to make sure that it makes sense and is completely relevant to what has been said in the post. Here are a few things to remember when leaving a comment:

1. Don’t Spam.
   This is one of the things that I see a lot on the internet and blogs. I see my own pages getting spammed constantly and I know that I speak for most webmasters when I say that this is one of the worst things you can do. Spamming can only hurt your online marketing efforts so please don’t do it!
2. Add to the Discussion/Ask a Question.
   One way to comment on a blog is by adding something that you may feel that the webmaster had left out. Maybe they left it out for a reason or maybe they just forgot or didn’t know. This can help boost your online reputation if you have a lot of knowledge on certain subjects. Providing great answers to a posted question can bring a lot of visitors to your own page. On the other hand if the blogger wrote about something you don’t quite understand or something that needs to be expanded upon then you should feel free to ask a question as a comment.
3. Leave your Opinion.
   If you have an opinion on the topic at hand… then by all means speak your mind. You will never get noticed if you don’t say anything, so if you have an opinion let it be known. Adding your own opinion whether you agree or disagree with the blogger is a great way to leave a valid comment.
4. Be Nice.
   I have noticed that generally speaking, a webmaster cannot turn down a comment if he/she is being nice and polite. If you are congradulating the blogger on an achievement or complimenting on a great post they can almost never turn it down. Don’t just say “Nice post” and leave because that can be easily confused as SPAM or a quick way to get a backlink.

So if you have been slacking on your Link Building Campaign lately because you didn’t know where to start… then you can stop right away. This post gives you all the information you need to go about leaving relevant comments to get quality backlinks to your own web page or blog!

Two Things to Keep in Mind.
Some blogs have a ‘TOP COMMENTATOR‘ plug-in which displays the top commentators for that month. This means that the more comments you leave on a blog with this plug-in that your name will be up there displayed with a link to your site throughout their entire blog or on the main page. One thing to remember is that this feature usually resets at the beginning of each new month so it is generally easy to get a top spot with few comments if you leave them at the right time! The second thing is a plug-in called ‘COMMENTLUV‘ which basically checks your blog feed for the latest post and will display a link to that post at the end of your blog comment. I think this is a nice little added feature that could attract more referral traffic from other blogs!

When you spend time working on building backlinks through blogs, do you have a certain process? What do you do specifically on your backlink hunt?

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about a great website, Technorati!