Over on a different forum related to marketing and blogging that I am a member of, there was a question that was posed that asked, “Is it poor form to comment on your own blog?” This is very important so I’d thought I’d share it here as well. This is how I responded.
As marketers one of our main goals is to attract people to our sites to have them potentially sign up for more information about potential products or services we may have. I use the word potential because the best way to have someone click the big X on your tab is first appear as if you are trying to sell something. If you are pitching, touting, overtly recommending to buy or sign up, people will do one thing, Run away! This is not to say that you can not recommend things and ask them to buy, but that should only come after they have earned your TRUST.
So how do they earn your trust? Firstly, by not pitching. Secondly, by offering value in the form of insights, education, thoughts, perspectives, interests, and humor. To do this, it will involve interaction. Certainly the number one ice breaker in the whole world is the weather followed by concerns of how things are going. There are psychological underpinnings in this small talk and it is usually a way two people determine whether (pun intended) each other want to continue in a dialog. What’s the best way to do this? It is to engage people in dialog by responding to people in your blog just as Julia suggested. People love it when you engage them and consider their questions, ideas, or concerns important. They even love it more when you ask THEM what they think about something. This isn’t something that we have to be phony about. It’s just having genuine and concerned thoughts and ideas that will resonate with people.
So NO there is nothing wrong with commenting on your own blog posts. In fact I encourage it. I encourage it on all the social media you use. Engaging people and building relationships is something that will differentiate you from all the other spammers using social media as nothing more than an advertising bill board. In all your interactions with new people you meet should end with a question. This is the whole concept behind ATTRACTION marketing.
I’d like to hear your opinions…
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Hey Chris, Agreed 100%. Comments are the conversation starter that lead to building good relationships. And answering back to questions encourage more comments and interaction. It shows you care. Cool post, thanks for sharing!
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Thank you George and thank you for the Twitter RT as well. There are other advantages to commenting in general, not just in your own blog. For others like yourself, commenting here gives you a back link to your blog AND a back link to your latest post. So there is an SEO advantage as well.
Have a remarkable day!
Yes you are right! And on the linkbuilding topic…
I dug out this tip from one of my membership sites for you. It was something I wanted to get back to so you gave me the perfect reason
It’s always good to find active blog commenters in blog comments. But to take it one step further where you know you are guaranteed to get links back, go and find the blogs with comment luv.
All you do is go to Google and search Keyword & “title=”CommentLuv Enabled’
For example
dog training & “title=”CommentLuv Enabled”
Pretty cool heh?
.-= George Fourie´s last blog ..MLM Blog Network Now in Prelaunch for Network Marketers =-.
Yes I agree. Thanks your the well written post. How are you? It has been great getting to know you through your blog posts. Keep up the good work.
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This is a great post Chris. I’ve always wondered if it’s acceptable to comment on your own blog and this also answered another question.
I see some blogs where when the owner of the blog comments it’s actually in a different type of box so you know that he is the creator responding to the posts, but I see in yours your post is just like everyone else’s.
I think we must have the same comment plugin because mine is like that too.
Thanks for the advice, I’m going to start commenting on my blog posts!
Hope you’re having a great weekend. Thanks for the all the RT’s!
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Well I wouldn’t be taking my own advise if I didn’t comment here. On a prior non-related blog I had a dialog that went on for 108 comments. At least 40 were me. There are always times things need clarification, things maybe need articulated better because of some of the other comments, and in reality, one of the purposes is to make people feel welcome in dialog and to know they are welcome to chime in at anytime.
There are times when things may get way to serious and some shenanigans are in due order. Did you know that today is Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Get’s over to me opt-in box and stick yer name in thar matey if yo don’t want to walk the plank!
Look for a bunch more traffic coming your way.
Later Deb.
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This is great Chris and I agree. A great way to start a conversation through comments. This was very interesting to me.
Beverly