Role of commenting in getting good quality traffic
Posted by imark | Under Blog Marketing Wednesday Aug 6, 2008I have read thousands of times at thousand different places that commenting on other blogs helps increase traffic on your blog. Well I never doubted that wisdom. What I did not know was that it helps in getting good quality traffic. Although it should be a natural extension of the argument.
But recently while checking out the stats for my blog, one thing was very peculiar which caught my eye. Here is the screen shot of the same.
I know!, I know! stats are not too great. But that is not the point of the post. 
The striking thing, if you would have noticed , is the 4th column. Yes! Average time spent on site which says that referrals from Problogger and Twitter spend unusual high time as compared to other referral sites.
Now this observation has few implications. The list goes like this-
1) Commenting on good blogs not only brings traffic but Quality traffic to your blog. It is quite often that we forget the quality part.
2) Look out for such blogs like Problogger in your niche and start leaving sensible comments.
3) Microblogging platforms like Twitter goes a long way in building up good reputation for your blog or online presence.
4) Don’t leave out on content aggregators like MyBlogLog or Friendfeed since they will assume more importance in future.
If there is anything which I may have missed out, please feel free to share it with me.
good to see you got better traffic from WATblog than ProBlogger
i agree. recently my blog has been getting extensive traffic from blogbharti and indiblogger, both feature my stories now. we can draw much from the traffic on these websites.