Commenting on other blogs in your niche is essential in order to get readers to come over to your own blog and to build relationships with other bloggers. This is sometimes an overlooked area of internet marketing and promotion for your website, and usually, it is done horribly wrong.

Readership

When going for readership with your commenting, make sure you create engaging and thoughtful arguments and conversation on the blog. If you disagree, disagree politely and state why you think it is wrong and what you think is right. Engage in the conversation. Don’t simply write “nice post,” but instead give insight into the topic, add to the list of reasons “x is so great” and offer some sort of value. If readers always see your name popping up next to smart responses they will be more likely to click on your name to see what you are about.

Build Relationship

Building a relationship with the author is essential. Reach out to them on social networks, on their blog comments, and through their contact form. Introduce yourself and state that you are in a similar niche and really like their work. Creating this relationship will help them recognize you on the blog, be more likely for them to subscribe to your blog, and will increase the chances of them linking to your blog and adding to your conversation as well.

Great Content

Give the people what they want – great content. It is no different than creating content on your own blog, give value and you will get value in return.

Real Name

Don’t use your niche or keywords as your name, you can on some occasions but trying to be more personal can go a long way. Don’t hide behind an alias, as you will have a hard time getting any response from that. If you want to use your keywords, insert them into your reply, or leave a link to your website in it’s entirety at the bottom of your post (make sure you have awesome content or you will risk being marked as spam, and even some spam bots will register you, so be careful with this one).

Never, Ever Spam

Don’t spam other bloggers. Think about how much you hate when you have people spamming your articles on your blog, so don’t do it to them. Create engaging content that will create a sense of urgency and interest in checking out your own work.

To add articles/pages or edit existing pages to your website first log into your website and you will see the following screen:

Your existing pages and articles are located under “Article Manager” and you will be able to edit any of your pages and articles there.  Your site pages are create as articles.

To add a new page/article just click on “Add new article” and you will get the following screen:

Simply give the article a Title and alias.  If this is going to be a new page leave the Section – Uncategorized and the same for Category.

If this is going to be a new article in your News section then change the Section to – News and the Catorgory will automatically change to Latest

In the description box this is where you write your content.  If for example you want to add html for example (html code from a company your affiliate with) simply click on the (Show/hide) blue text on the top left of the tools and this will show you your article in html format.  Simply paste your html code into a section of your article where you would like your banner to be displayed.

You can then click on preview on the top right to see a preview of how your page looks.  When your happy just press save and your article will be live.