… and we’re back! It’s day 25 of the Build-A-Blog Workshop and we have our blog built up and ready to go. A few more modifications and some clever marketing tricks, and you’ll be on your way to owning a popular website.
Today, we are talking about a method of internet marketing that has become hyped to a point of excess (in my opinion), but still definitely works. In addition, this method of viral marketing is becoming more effective as time goes on and the web becomes more and more of a community and less of a dictionary.” What method am I talking about? Why, Blog Commenting of course!
What is Blog Commenting, and why is it effective?
Blog commenting is just what it sounds like, commenting on other blogs! But there is really a lot more than meets the eye. In its best practice, you would spend some time each week visiting similar blogs, interacting with their members and spreading your link around the internet. Essentially, you are using the user base that other blogs have already built up to your advantage… and literally aim to leech off of their success! 
The Proof is in the Pudding!
You can see plain and simple that this method works because of the sheer volume of so-called “spam” comments popping up on blogs around the world. If you have ever owned a blog, you know exactly what I am talking about. Marketers have figured out that dropping blog comments that link back to your own blog is one of the most effective (and FREE) marketing techniques around. Because of this, literally hundreds of dedicated “robot” programs have been made and mass produced to help spammers viciously attack blogs and get their links outbound.
I do not recommend using any kind of auto-comment software specifically because their are really only two end results: your comment gets deleted or ignored. Still, the fact that there is so much buzz from whitehat and blackhat marketers tells you that it is worth your while! 
Jimvesting’s Advice
Using 30 Minutes Time to Supercharge Your Efficiency
Here’s a trick that I use to speed up my “networking” across blogs in my coverage area. Keep in mind that this will work the same for any niche, but you need to make sure that you don’t hit blogs that aren’t audiences you are looking to steal away. What we are going to be doing is creating a word document filled with popular blogs and links to them… that way we can simply reference the list again and again for rapid-fire commenting.
What I typically do is open up a Google Document (which is accessible anywhere you have internet, big advantage) and plug into it two different columns: one with website names, one with website URL links. This makes it very easy for you to hop form link to link, read their latest material and post a comment. Make sure that it isn’t an aggregator blog that is putting out more than 2 posts a day (you want it to be read, so ideally they update 3-5 times a week).
-Jimvesting
We’re stringing together two consecutive posts (a first?) today, and getting you another powerful marketing technique. Because we have built up our blog from scratch and have everything monetized and ready to go… we need to get the word out to interested readers, so it’s time for a little bit of marketing! 
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