How many blog comments daily?

I think what Alexa says here is an essential piece of advice to take away and apply for all areas of your endeavours.

Sure, have a set number in mind if it helps to keep you focused and on track to attain a specific target for your given work session. But rather than think in terms of how "X" number of whatever will benefit you, think in terms of how you can best benefit your visitors, readers of your posts, subscribers, etc.

If you have the mindset of how best you can contribute to the discussions on the blogs rather than the backlinks you'll get, you're likely to find the task much more enjoyable and you'll be more likely to attract good, targeted traffic

[QUOTE=Alexa Smith;8015103]It will help you a lot, in the long run, if you can stop thinking in quantitative terms.

Was thinking about this exact question the last week and trying to set some daily goals. Would be interesting to see how blog performance changes when people have daily comment goals on blogs and social media as opposed to not.

Surely, people that comment more (i.e. 5 times per day opposed to 1 time per day) on blogs and social media would gradually get more traffic to their blogs if they are writing intelligent comments targeting their niche. Maybe the short term results would be similar, but imagine long term results would be different.

If you don't have concrete goals and ways to measure if you hit those goals, then you may miss opportunities to maximize your influence in internet marketing.

Would be interesting if we could set up some type of contest to find out...

I don't do anything primarily for SEO, Sheila.

I'm not at all short of SEO traffic, of which I generate floods in the way described in the last paragraph of this post. I've never seen anything produce better SEO than this, because all the backlinks are relevant ones, which Google (and other search engines, by the way) love more and more as time and algorithm-changes go by.

(If people ever tell you that you need "link diversity" and/or that if nearly all your backlinks are on relevant sites, that will somehow "look suspicious" to Google - and there really are people who believe this stuff, however patiently and clearly Google explains the exact opposite - it's ok to throw rotting fruit at them. In fact it's encouraged. Anchor-text diversity, however, is a good thing.)

I've also done some guest-posting, blog-commenting, answering questions at Yahoo Answers and other similar places, and so on (again, none of it primarily for SEO - intended for direct, targeted traffic).

Here's the thing: all that doing things specifically "for SEO" can get you is search engine traffic. One ought to have far bigger fish to fry than that! :p

Personally, I'd advise you not to put too much of your time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic, and I wouldn't even be cursing too much if Google de-indexed all my sites this afternoon.