You visit a few of the web’s most popular blogs, but are afraid to leave comments.
Have no fear. You can make insightful and valuable blog comments with ease.
With these 5 tips, you can leave witty comments on your favorite blogs without fear of backlash, snarky comments, or retaliation from the web citizens of the world.
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Think about your online image before you make a blog comment.
If you are looking for a job or currently employed your blog comments can either bolster or destroy your personal brand.
If you don’t want your risqué or curse-filled blog comments to follow you into your next position, think twice before you post.
Add real value to the ongoing blog conversation.
Blogging is a two-way conversation between the blog owner and the readers.
If the blog topic is real estate and you are commenting about handbags, you will look foolish. Don’t embarrass yourself with off-topic comments or flagrant self-promotion.
Use blog comments to introduce yourself to the community as a knowledgeable member of the blog world.
Be an expert.
Consider your area of expertise before you make blog comments. Smart bloggers encourage intelligent discourse.
Thought-provoking conversations highlighting your experience and knowledge will only position you as a thought leader and valuable asset to the blogging world.
Don’t start a flame war.
Those who post blog comments that are inflammatory in tone and nature will likely get banned from the site. Using blog comments to fuel negative attacks on the site owner usually backfire on the blog commenter.
The blog owner becomes the hero and the commenter is overwhelmingly perceived as unprofessional and juvenile by the blogging community.
Use the comments to promote your own website.
If you are a long-time member of the blogging community, you can insert a web link into your posts for marketing purposes. Be gentle with your link promotion in blog comments.
Those blog comments that appear to be too promotional will be removed by the blog owner quickly.
- Keep your blog posts short and to the point, when submitting your first blog posts.
- Submitting a “nice post” comment while adding 10 self-serving website links will cause you to get banned from the blog site.
- Recruiters and hiring managers are now vigorously searching the web for negative comments or disparaging information hiding in your background.
- Attacking the blog owner personally is not considered good blog etiquette.
- Don’t use another blogger’s personal space to incite online riots or to boost your ego.