Commenting @ Blog Bloke = Greater Visibility for You
June 25th, 2008
How’s That Might You Ask?
A reader recently reminded me why it is to your advantage to leave comments on this blog. You actually have three ways you can improve your blog visibility:
1. First of all, when you leave a comment you have a chance to get a link in the top ten performer’s list. You will find it in the right-hand sidebar under the “Blokester Roll” menu. So the more comments you leave, the better your chances are for being listed.
2. Secondly, leaving a link with your comment promotes greater visibility for your blog.
3. Thirdly, I use the plugin called CommentLuv which adds a link to your most recent blog post. Now that is sweet!
You win big three ways!
Some might call it bribery but I prefer to think of it as a reward to you, my loyal readers. So comment away and watch your blog go ballistic!
I should also mention that if you link to Blog Bloke on your blog I will add you to my Blokester Network and feature you in a post (with another link to you of course).
WHOA!
How’s that for putting my link love where my mouth is?
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I offer 2 outa 3 so far, not bad. I am thinking of the KeywordLuv plugin as well…so many like to spam the name field anyway, why not just make it “legal”.
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It seems like everyone is using CommentLuv nowadays!
Good luck with the comments! 
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Thanks Sue
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Blog Bloke reply on June 26th, 2008 12:16 am:
I don’t think Blogger (my blog platform) has Comment Luv, but hey, I LOVE leaving you comments for ALL the great benefits.
Did your gmail get fixed?
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Two out of three ain’t bad. Yes, Gmail is back online again.
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Blog Bloke reply on June 26th, 2008 12:15 am:
Great job Bloke, A Listers should definitely take notice. Hey, I’ve made this cool U Comment I Follow Image that I also use it on my site. Please feel free to use it on your sidebar, without any back links whatsoever!
http://www.gamersworldbd.com/wp-content/themes/structure(new3-5)/images/Custom/comments.jpg
Others, please email me if you decide it to use it on your site. I can be contacted at http://www.contactify.com/1679e
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I like it! It’s now in my sidebar.
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Blog Bloke reply on June 27th, 2008 1:28 am:
The Blog Bloke sends high quality traffic indeed, even to a blog NOT related about blogging.
Here’s what I dug up from my Google Analytics account. The Bloke visitors view 4.33 pages/visit! Holy smokes. That’s even better than Google Search traffic. Bloke visitors spend a whopping 6 minutes on my site and has a bounce rate of only 30%. That’s WAY above my sites average and better than any referral I ever received.
I would like to thank Blog Bloke and all those who visited my site.
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On behalf of myself and all my Blokesters you are most welcome Mushfiqur, and please remember me in your Will
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Yep, I’m gonna leave you a million visitors in my Will. But let me get that million visitors first.
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Mushfiqur Rahman reply on June 27th, 2008 2:05 am:
Blog Bloke reply on June 26th, 2008 11:47 pm:
I never think too much about what commenting does for my site. I am just a talkative person by nature, so I tend to leave my comments all over the blogsphere when I find something of interest. But it is good to know this information.
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I am just getting started with my blog, and I’m amazed at just how much I don’t know about blogging!
Thanks for all the great info you have made available. I will visit often for little bytes of blogfood, but I will have to eat slowly so I won’t get a brain cramp!
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Hi Vicki,
A warm welcome to BlogBloke.com I learned a lot from this blog while I started blogging and I hope you find it as much useful as I did.
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Mushfiqur Rahman reply on July 9th, 2008 1:44 am:
Yes Vicki, I echo Mush’s sentiments and welcome to Blog Bloke dot com. Sorry for not replying sooner but I’ve been nursing a wicked migraine the past few of days.
OUCH!
Thanks for the comment and I look forward to hearing more from you.
…BB
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Blog Bloke reply on July 10th, 2008 2:52 pm:
I also think it’s important for blog owners to respond to their reader’s comments. There’s nothing like leaving a comment and feeling as if it’s going into a black hole. If your posts get lots of comments I can see how a blog owner might not get around to answering each one, but if he/she doesn’t take the time to answer ANY comments it creates a void between the blog owner and the readers. It makes the blog more impersonal in my opinion.
Fortunately, you’re not in that category!
New visitor here - can’t remember how I got to your site but I’m glad I did!
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Amen to that Chanya.
It’s like not answering your door when the neighborhood welcoming committee gives you a ring. How rude.
Welcome to Blog Bloke dot com!
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Blog Bloke reply on July 12th, 2008 1:23 pm:
i agree with this post… commenting helps a lot to get better page rank… but comments should not be vague or irrelevant… these comments may kill your blogs brand image also.. so make genuine comments always
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And of course there are benefits for you (the blogger). By welcoming comments on your blog you are encouraging a sense of comunity where regular visitors can have a chance to interact with you and each other and of course you also get free content on your blog to draw even more search engine visitors.
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I just found your blog while trying to figure out how to add a blogspot blog to the subdomain of my mom’s business website. I can’t believe I’ve lived my whole life without knowing about you! I’ve poked around a bit and decided I need more blogbloke in my life - subscribing immediately!!! Thanks for all your hard work
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I think in general leaving comments to posts that you have read, whether you enjoy them or not is both courteous and in general a good thing.
Even if you did not enjoy a blog post or article, I find it useful when people even post negative responses to my posts. Negative posts help me gauge what I am doing right and what i am doing wrong. I then take that information and apply it to future articles.
So in general I find constructive critique as well as positive responses are the way to go, and I do it on just about every blog post I read.
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Hi Bloke,
I lost my ‘blokester button’ that I had on my blog and now I can’t seem to find the code to add it again. Can you help?
BTW great blog. It is most helpful to all bolggers. Thanks for all the helpful info. Also thanks for the CommentLuv.
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Hi Leeuna. Does this not work for you?
http://www.blogbloke.com/introducing-the-new-blokester-buttons
Thanks for the support.
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Hi again,
The link isn’t working for me. I get a pic of a cute little coffee mug and the following message:
WHOOPS!
I’m sorry, but when we moved over to Wordpress the link that you clicked was changed…..
Thanks for replying so quickly.
Leeuna
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Doh! Crikey, your right. I guess I should have clicked before I talked.
Sorry about that. This link should work:
http://www.blogbloke.com/introducing-new-blokester-buttons/
Let me know how it goes and thanks for bringing it to me attention. I’ll fix the link right away.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the fix. I have it up and functioning now. Your blog rocks.
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Thanks for the support Leeuna. I checked your site and it looks great.
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Blog Bloke reply on October 27th, 2008 3:58 am:
Leeuna reply on October 26th, 2008 9:18 pm:
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Blog Bloke reply on October 26th, 2008 6:52 pm:
Great encouragement man! This is exactly what I do with my blog, and it seems like everybody’s doing it now as well.
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Hey Bloke
Cool blog I’m going around visiting to take my mind off the election and hopefully Obama’s win. The world is watching
My blog has all the comment, keyword, do follow features all are welcome
Thanks
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Cool Blog…glad I found it! Lots of great info! Will be visiting often for tips and tricks! Great job!
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To Chrissy, John, Sly, Dan, Tata, Wolverine, Asithi, Dennis and anyone else I may have missed — please accept my wholehearted thanks for dropping by to comment.
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I am getting trouble to use your XHTML tags into my blogs.
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Sorry Zonaid but I don’t follow you. Which tags are you referring to?
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Blog Bloke reply on December 2nd, 2008 5:09 pm:
You should consider adding a dofollow plugin, that would be the most helpful imho.
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IMHO? Wouldn’t that be a contradiction of terms for a lawyer? Or perhaps a conflict of interest?
I don’t like the dofollow plugin because it puts a load on the site and may cause conflicts. It also takes way the ability to make decisions on a case by case basis. There are of course plugins that will allow you to do this but they also put a load on the site and may also cause conflicts.
You can read more about another way of doing it manually here: http://www.marketingtechblog.com/2007/10/13/nofollow/
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Blog Bloke reply on December 22nd, 2008 6:49 pm:
Hi, Like the sense of humor in the articles. The site is a literary masterpiece. This site is capital constantly providing fairness reviews and infos.
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Thank you so much for your kind words.
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Blog Bloke reply on February 23rd, 2009 3:50 pm:
Pretty nice… Hope you can write more, so I can read more!
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Will try as soon as I get my hosting issues settled.
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Blog Bloke reply on February 23rd, 2009 3:50 pm:
Great article, bookmarked!
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Thanks!
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Blog Bloke reply on February 25th, 2009 4:25 pm:
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
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Cool post, i have subscribed to your blog.Please keep it up, Samantha
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I really liked your blog!
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Very nice information. Thanks for this.
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Hey ! thanks for the material, a salute from Chile, iam adding your blog to feedreader !
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I have probably been looking around online for like the last 20 minutes for a site like yours. So i just want to give you a big thank you and tell you too keep up the hard work. Have a great weeken! =) Thank you!
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Will certainly be bookmarking this, i will certainly be reading more of your posts when i get some time
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Enjoying reading your blog. Hard work always pays off.
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Another interesting article from your blog
When will it stop….hopefully never
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Great work! I also have my own blog I just find it hard to write quality content like this.
I guess I really don’t have the time.
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You got a nice blog. I also started one but I could find the ideas to posts everyday so I started posting famous quotes and sayings it is becoming quite popular. You might like to check it out.
Sorry for the self promotion
It would help if you can blogroll me…
Regards,
Daisy
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It was great to go through the stuff posted on your blog. Look forward to more useful posts in future.
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I Love your blog on google and have read many of your posts. Excellent. Keep up the good work!!!
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Whattadya know, another site to add to my reader! Google blog search has you pretty well indexed! Mark
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I really liked your article. Keep up the good work.
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Dude, how can we subscribe to your blog?
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Dude, how can we subscribe to your blog?
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The idea is there..;) cheers
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Well Whattadya know, yet another great site to add to my reader! Google blog search has you pretty well indexed it seems! you have some and informative stuff here!
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is that really the case? gives me something to chew on haha
great blog by the way! i couldnt help myself, but had to post. i usually dont write comments, but good luck please continue the good work
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Hi,
I am new to this SEO field. I have just created a website named www.worldhealthcare.info. I want it to get indexed in google. Could anyone help me?
I am using a custom domain with blogger and I have been using the blogger’s posting service(No FTP!).
Please take a look at my blog and leave your valuable comments. Also, please help me out in adding my site in google index.
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I’d like a widget which showed who was reading my blog at any time–like a more public version of the Sitemeter “who’s on” function, which allows me, as blog owner to know who is reading my blog at any time.
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hey bloke, i like you posting.. good job !
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