Yes and No.

Actually, it depends on how you use this tool.

Some people do it in a right way, some do it all wrong.

Let’s see how it works.

One of the best ways to generate traffic is adding quick comments on other blogs, which are usually higher than your blog in ranking and traffic.

However, remember one effective comment can bring more results than months of quick commenting. And if you don’t have good content on your blog, you must not really bother commenting on other blogs. It would attract just few curious clicks.

There is another way many bloggers use to generate traffic use that doesn’t really work if the content isn’t good. They wait for a new post on a big blog, and as soon as it comes, they fight to be the first one to comment. This is generally because first or second commentator gets more clicks.

The rush to be the first, however, often creates a bad impression. This is because most of the times, bloggers don’t add any value in the comment. Sometimes, they don’t even make any sense. So, the curiosity clicks, if any, is simply to know ‘What’s this bozo’s blog gonna be like?’

So, Am I Saying Commenting on Other Blogs is Useless?

No, not at all.

If you use a smart way, it can, in fact, be one of the best ways to boost your blog’s traffic.

How Does it Work?

Here is a thumb rule: If the content of your blog sucks, no tools can help you have good traffic. Hence, before you plan to spend few hours every day commenting on other blogs, spend some time improving the content.

Next, don’t simply rely on commenting. There are several other tools that can help you generate traffic like regular tweets, facebook links, social media votes, bookmarks, and so on.

Can I Post First Comments Regularly, and Get Traffic?

This is pretty much the same question. My suggestion is do not do it. First, you will spend so much time commenting on other blogs. Second, you will keep checking you feed reader count throughout the day. I would rater suggest you to concentrate only on your content, and do some moderate SEO for the blog. If the material inside your blog is good, it would be good enough to attract people.

Earlier I had posted an article on how you can get link popularity without any cost. However, while doing this, there are few things you need to keep in mind.

Link building is certainly one of the best ways to get more traffic to your website/blog. And more traffic means more revenue generation, be it through add-clicks or product sales. But having bad quality links on your site would repel people away. Hence, it’s quite important to have link building plan before you start with it. Here is 5 things you need to keep in mind.

1.    Target High Traffic Websites

Simply having links on other sites is not enough. You need to place your links on sites that have high traffic and enjoy a good reputation in the market. If not many people come to the targeted site, how will your get traffic on your site through them.

2.    Check Reputation

A sight may have high traffic, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it enjoys good reputation. Make sure you link up with sites that have good reputation and have quality people visiting their site.

3.    Target Similar Sites

Linking up with sites is important, but only high traffic and good reputation shouldn’t be your only criteria. You mus link to sites that are similar to your niche. You must not place links on financial sites, if you have a game review blog. The people visiting your targeted sites must have some relationship with the content, services, and products on your site.

4.    Active Links

After you place links on other sites, make sure they are active, and you must check them regularly. If you link is broken, it creates a negative impression about your website. As soon as you find your links aren’t active, remove them.

5.    Limit Links on Your Site

While having link exchange, make sure you don’t stuff your site with links. This will work against you, instead of working for you. As soon as a visitor comes to your site, he shouldn’t be directed to other site very quickly.

Link building is one of the best ways to get high traffic and optimize your site. But only if it’s done in a right way.

Link popularity is one of the major contributors to you blog’s or website’s search engine ranking. It is a way to connect to other sites, thus increasing traffic on your website. The more you connect to others (through link popularity), the more you will be successful with search engines. Let us, hence, explore a way to boost the link popularity of your site, without any cost.

Two Difficult Ways to Increase Link Popularity

There are two ways to boost link popularity of your website. However, you will have to choose whether you want to do it the hard way or easy way. Hard way is to visit thousands of websites, place their links on your site, and ask them to place your site’s link on their site. This is probably a very long process, and it generate not-so-good results.

Another way, which isn’t free, is getting links from popular websites by paying them. To get started, log on to textlinkbrokers.com or linkadage.com. You would definitely get good traffic from other popular sites, but the worst part is, you have to pay them. Instead, you can use an easier method that’s more effective and is free.

Write Articles and Get Effective Links

This is probably the easiest and most effective ways of increasing link popularity. There are several websites and blog directories where you can submit your articles with your link, at the bottom of your article, in the resource box. You can get links for free. On the other hand, the webmaster receives free, quality content for their site.

What If you are Not a Writer?

When you write about things you know, you don’t have to really be a writer. Besides, you don’t have to submit very professional articles on such directories. It should simply be informative. Make sure you run a spell check and grammar test before publishing the article. That’s it. And you don’t have to write pages. An article of 300-400 words would be enough.

Take Action

If you have a blog or a website, and if you haven’t done this yet, you are missing the most important element of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Once you start writing articles, you will learn it’s a very simple process, and the results are outstanding. Motivate yourself to take immediate action.

You would probably find enough content on the web about SEO for new blogs or for beginners. However, I would like to emphasize on few very essential tips.

1.    Rich Content

Believe it or not, one of the best SEO tools you have is your content. I don’t think many of you would agree on this. However, according to me, without quality content your blog would never be a topper. You can do everything to get enough traffic on your blog. But if they don’t find your content attractive and original, they wouldn’t every come back. And I guess that’s not what you are aiming at.

2.    Keywords & Titles

There are several tools that would help you to generate a list of keywords that are widely searched on the web. Using these keywords in the title and body of your posts would provide your blog with much-needed exposure. However, make sure you do not flood the content with these keywords.

3.    Links

The more links you have, the more exposure you get. First, make sure you have enough links on your own posts. This will help people explore your blog and help you to keep them engaged on your blog for a longer time. You can have relevant links at the bottom of the post (related articles), side bars (popular posts), and so on.

Second, place your links outside your blog, i.e. on other blogs, social networking sites, and so on. This is a very significant tool to boost the optimization process of your blog. Your blog’s ranking, its traffic, its popularity, and just about everything depends on number and quality of links you place. One shouldn’t, however, be obsessed with getting links. Understand it’s difficult to get links and it takes time to have your links scattered all over the web.

4.    Effective Domain Name

Although this isn’t an ongoing SEO process, it’s a one-time tool that, if selected properly, would work well for your blog. You domain name must have the main keyword related to you niche. This would attract more traffic, and more people would be able to find you through search engines. Hence, select a domain name cleverly.

5.    Submitting to Search Engines

All the above mentioned SEO strategies would be useless if you haven’t submitted your blog to search engines. For a blog or a website to be listed in search engine results, it has to be indexed by major search engines. One of the quickest ways to get indexed by search engines is to get linked by websites or blogs that are already indexed by search engines.

There are several other ways to optimize your blog and increase its accessibility. However, the ones mentioned about are some of the most important ones and shouldn’t be overlooked.