how much would you pay for a comment on a niche specific blog?

Is that five cents or fifty?

If I were doing the commenting, I'd charge at least $1 a comment, but I write stuff that often inspires the blogger to return the visit.

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It all depends on the quality of the service, I believe.

Hi Jannes,

Please excuse me if these are smackhead questions, but when you say "I have a bunch of blogs" do you mean that you own those sites yourself? Or that they're other people's blogs, relevant to your niche, on which you're hoping that outsourced comments with backlinks to your site will stick?

Are you asking only about how much to pay people for posting comments for you, or how much to offer the blog-owners to publish your comments-with-backlinks?

I do quite a lot of this, myself (I think it's a great source of some targeted traffic and relevant backlinks, when I can find the right blogs for it), but it isn't something I'd too readily be willing to outsource to anyone. It's too highly skilled for that to be easy, and unfortunately there's a real downside to failure. Finding suitable blogs isn't too easy, and one doesn't want to "burn" them on people's learning-curves. I'd be concerned that "cheap labour" will make a mess of it, and the majority of comments won't actually make it through people's (universal) moderation-filters.

You have to make thoughtful comments, adding genuine value, of the type you'd welcome on your own sites.

If I could find people who could really do this satisfactorily and productively, including identifying the sites, I'd pay a lot for it, actually. But I do think it's a hard one to outsource.

I hope I haven't misunderstood your question, and will be interested to see others' replies.

Do you mean comments on blogs that you own or on other blogs for use as backlinks?

Either way, you can probably find someone on fiverr.

If you are outsourcing it you should be able to get it cheaper than that. It would be better to pay someone by the hour. In fact there's are some outsource brokers here on WF that could probably help you out.