How much time do you spend on commenting other blogs a day?

there are a few services here on the forum that are effecitve and cheap and i am NOT plugging my own service. i saw a guy selling pr5 blog posts for $1 a piece in the for hire section the other day. i know that blog posting is effective for building links, particularly high PR blogs. i outsource all of this but use it regularly at a steady rate on my service websites as part of my seo plan and it is effective. other things work as well, press releases, profile links, articles, etc etc.

edit: sorry to answer your questoin i do get traffic from these types of things, including articles, press releases and posts. it may not be an avalanche but it does show up.

Maybe an hour per day, and I get light to moderate traffic from it.

But I pick up a lot of good tidbits on some forums (like this one) that make the effort well worthwhile...

And sometimes, it gets addicting; you plan on about 15 minutes, and the next thing you know 2 hours have sailed past.

But again, what I learn from other people's posts make it time spent well...

I'd say I do this for about an hour once a month. Occasionally more if I'm at a loose end and want to do something productive.

For me, blog commenting is less about the traffic, but more about the reciprocation you often get (people will comment on your blog in exchange), as well as the friendships and contacts you can make from helping other people whose blogs might not otherwise get all that many comments.

Thom

Honestly u could end up spending a huge amount of time commenting ton blogs and recieve very light traffic

Blog commenting is a part of oil rig exercise,

- identify atleast 5 to 7 popular blogs in your niche area
- spend not more than 10 to 15 minutes per day on only one blog, accumulating to total one hour in a week for posting about 7 to 10 different comments on all such blogs in a week.
- Make sure you leave the link to your own blog or website in your nice, help you attain a reciprocals
- Comments should be genuine on the topic instead of generic spams

I spend probably 15-20 minutes a day commenting on blogs within my niche. I don't just consider this time spent marketing my site, but also time spent keeping up on what's new in my niche. So it's research time as well as marketing. I often find posts I want to link back to as well as new ideas for articles.

I never do blog posts. There are far more effective ways to get your page at the top of Google.

Blog commenting is always mentioned in posts that related to traffic gaining.
But it seems that it's not really an effective method.

Its not so much as the traffic from them where you will benefit. It is the backlinks plain and simple. The time spent commenting on blogs really depends upon how you are fiding your blogs. First keep in mind blogs that show recent comments in the sidebar you can get away with doing one to two blog comments a day which should net you a few hundred links. This is because the recent comments is on every page of their site. Unless they have pages with no sidebars which is highly unlikely. Second I only search for blogs that have the top commentor plugin. This can ensure me a spot on all of the blogs for as long as I am one of the top commentors which is easy to do if you just spend 15 minutes at their site.

I also only use keywords for my name so that I can get good quality seo links from these blogs and a lot of them in a very very short period of time. Whats even better with the top commentor plugin it makes all these links you are going to receive for being on that list DOFOLLOW LINKS. I will take 5 dofollow links over 500 nofollow links any day.

I spend about one hour, thirty minutes each day on blogs that are related to my niche. It is a very good method of getting traffic to your own website or blog. Always make sure that you leave a link to your own site after your comments. It brings residual traffic.

I was referred to a service here on the WF (won't mention a name because I do everything possible to avoid forum drama). The service was highly recommended to me by a reputable marketer and had several posts following the WFO talking it up and saying how the comments were of great quality, etc.

They were crap in my experience. Some of the blogs that they were commenting on didn't even have text in the posts, none out of 100 were even remotely related to my niche, half of the comments posted (which lead to my blog) were combative (not at all my style), and most of them sounded like they were coming from a man, which I certainly am not....and the person couldn't spell! I'm a writer! It doesn't look good if I can't even spell. Haha!

So.....now I have a series of 10 comments that I have written, I do the search for the blogs that I want commented on, and I send the list of blogs and my prewritten comments to my outsourcers to do the tedious part (manually filling out the comment forms one by one).

The service in discussion advertised that the comments themselves were of top quality as well. I interpreted that to mean that the comments themselves were of top quality. :p