Do you reply to your blog comments?

If you are using a blog to build traffic or using other people's blogs for this traffic, have you been replying to the comments that are being posted.

Blog marketing is a very successful marketing method due to the ease of building authority and trust between the viewer. Most of this comes from you being interactive with the reader. When a comment is placed on your post, replying with even more information about the subject proves even further that you are someone that should be listened to.

Don't just leave a "thank you for your comment". Go all out just like you would commenting on another person's site. The more quality you give the more your readers will love you.

One guest post I did last month produced 5 comments in the first 14 days it was up. I went back and replied to each of those 5 comments with quality content. Within 7 more days, there were 20 comments...7 more = 50 comments.

A few things could of happened to cause this...the blog owner happened to promote my guest post the day I replied to those comments (unlikely), one of the commenters linked to my guest post (a little bit more likely than scenario 1), or viewers of the post saw that I was actively helping the readers understand more about what I was talking about and they wanted to learn (most likely).

This boost of comments on that guest post turned a traffic source of 2-5 viewers per day to 20-50. That blog has a sidebar widget with "Most Popular Posts"...only about 85 more comments and my article will have a much better chance of being seen by every viewer that comes to that site because it will be on the sidebar of every page.

Try it out.

Travis