10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs

Published: August 28, 2007, 10:18 am

Ask popular bloggers for 10 ways to build traffic to a new blog and I’ll guarantee that almost all of them will mention the importance of commenting on other blogs as part of their answer. Much has been written about commenting as a strategy to build traffic (because used correctly it is a powerful tool) - but very little has been written on the dangers of it. Over the past few months I’ve noticed some bloggers using comments in increasingly aggressive ways to build their own readership - to the point where I think they are probably doing more harm to their own brand than they are doing good. I should say that this topic has been one I’ve been a little hesitant to write about - partly because I see some of these tactics used here at ProBlogger. This is not a post written with any particular person (or people) in mind - however I put it out there for your consideration and feedback. Two notes before I start: I’m not going to include using automated

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