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Comment On Blogs and Commend Their Best Posts, They Will Return The Favor

I have recently posted how bloggers should leave trackbacks or commentsto nearly every post that they read.  Doing this will help improve your standing in the blogging community and will help drive traffic to your site.

However given that this is nearly impossible to do, what is the next best thing?  If you are a prolific blog reader, or use a tool such as Bloglines or Google Readerto allow you to read a blog without visiting it in order to save yourself time, it is very hard to comment or trackback to even a large fraction of all the posts you read.  So what is the next best thing?  Always do it for the good posts!  

I have gotten into the habit of always making sure to comment on the best posts that I read.  More than that I always share the better posts!   Previously I had just used Digg and Stumble to more or less toot my own horn.  I sent out my own posts, got a few links, but never saw any significant traffic boost.   However I realized that it is almost always self defeating to try to game a service!   Instead of trying to use Digg and the other social networking sites solely to drive traffic to my own page, why not use them as they are intended.  I always take the time now to publicize the best pages, and am working on building up my friend network in Digg hoping they will do the same for my site.

So what benefit can you get by Digging others sites?  Well besides the fact that bookmarking a large range of pages will help make your account stronger, allowing the times when you selectively push your own site to be more beneficial, you can gain blogging status by Digging and Stumbling another bloggers post.  When you like a post, do more than just socially share it.  Tell the blogger that you liked it enough to share!   If you had a reader who liked your site enough to share it, and who liked your site enough to tell you that they liked it, don’t you think that you would trace the reader back to their own site?  Don’t you link that you would give them some link love?

In the end blogging is all about building relationships.  One of the best way to build relationships with other bloggers is to truthfully tell them when they write good posts.  And to reward them for their posts by helping to drive traffic to their site.