The Ultimate Sneaky Tip to Increase Visitors and Comments
We’d all love more visitors and comments. You’d be a strange blogger if you didn’t. However, trying to increase just one of these — never mind both — is a difficult task at the best of times, but there is some great advice out there on how to do it. For example, Darren’s post outlining “10 Techniques To Get More Comments On Your Blog” is excellent, and should be read by all.
Having said that, I’m going to let you in on a sneaky tip which you’ve probably never read before, that will most likely increase your visitors and comments (this blog has an above average visitor to comment ratio).
How Do You Visit The Blogs You Read?
This is an important question. Do you visit them through a feedreader, from your bookmarks, or type the url into your address bar? If you do any of these, then you could be losing visitors and comments for your blog.
“Huh?”
Allow me to explain. One of the most frequently checked stats that webmasters keep an eye on, is checking where their visitors come from, and no matter what, we all like the sites that refer the most traffic to us. But what does this have to do with increasing visitors and comments?
Rather than visit blogs from your feedreader, bookmarks, or typing in their address, I advise you to make a point of visiting them from your own blog. That is, if they are in your blogroll, on your links page, or (even better) have left a comment on your blog, click on the link on your site every time you want to visit their site.
What Effect Will This Have?
Well, when the other blog owner checks the referrals in his stats, he’ll be able to identify specifically that they received hits from your site.
How will it increase comments?
In two ways:
- i) If the referral has come through a comment they’ve left on your blog, they are more likely to go and see if there have been any significant replies after their comment. When he does that, you increase the chances of them leaving another comment.
- ii) Seeing that they keep getting visits to their site by leaving comments on your blog, they then value the opportunity to do so, and feel that it is benefiting them, so they make sure to comment on a more regular basis.
How will it increase visitors?
Again, in two ways:
- i) By them clicking through from their stats page, you’ve already got yourself at least one more page view, with a good chance of more if you’ve written a new post since their last visit.
- ii) Bloggers tend to scratch each others backs. If you support them, and send visits their way, they are more likely to appreciate you, and link to you, which will ultimately send you more visitors.
Final note - This is more likely to work with blogs that receive little - average numbers of visitors. It won’t effect the big blogs because a) your referrals will be drowned by hundreds of others, b) they don’t really need to scrape up visitors and comments this way anymore.
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Hmm, you are so right, I never thought of doing going through my blog to blogs I visit on a regular basis…that is a brilliant tip thanks.
Adam - I’m glad you found it helpful. I’m always trying to think outside the box, and I’m only too happy to share my ideas with my readers. Just don’t forget to Stumble it (or whatever social bookmarking service you use
Armen,
another good idea! In fact, I just reached you from my feedreader but next time I will take the door through my blog.
Hey good idea, I usually click in my feedreader or type in the address in my browser (although I clicked on your link in a comment on my blog to get to yours
), I’m getting quite a good number of comments already, but can always use more 
I think this is a brillant idea, will include your post in my next “smart posts worth reading” post on Sunday.
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Neena - lol…yeah, I don’t own one of the huge blogs where your referral will get drowned by the hundreds of others!
Jonathan - Thank you, and thank you!!
I usually just click through from my feed reader, to save time.
You do make a good point though, Armen.
I’ll stumble this for you too.
David - Ah, but you see my friend, you’re moving into the big blog category at a rapid pace. Such tactics would have pitiful results in comparison to the amount of visitors you’re getting these days!
Thanks!
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This is another great tip. The best part about it is the fact that you would be going to the other person’s site anyway so you are not even doing anything different from your normal routine. You can just do your thing and help build up traffic at the same time.
Andrew - Thanks for the compliments. I like your use of humor on your site; some good tips too.
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Damn! That’s so oblvious now that you have pointed it out! Thanks for the post!
Andy
The point about bloggers “scratching each other’s back” is very true. I found this blog because Armen left a comment on my blog and I thought, “Hey, that’s a good comment, let me go check out his blog.” — and here I am. Once I got here I found good content and a well layed out blog. Conclusion, I’ll be back to read more and participate whenever possible.
wow these are great - I will actually try these, even though they are simple
Good article. I also Stumbled it.
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I don’t think this will increase traffic that much. 10-20 visitors a day perhaps?
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Good post. My blog is a few week old and the technique you out line here has worked well for me. Also joining MyBlogLog.com has helped.
Couple of times, I got my visitors lack to comment on my blog. I don’t know why? However, the traffic doesn’t go down. I hope as soon as I’m implementing your suggestion, I could get more comments on my post.
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This is very useful. I do click from my del.icio.us account; need to click back from users’ comments more often. Thanks!
nice tip. thanks!
Great idea. Thanks.
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good luck in your ventures. i hope you can continue this blog at some point in the future!
This is a very good idea that I have never really thought about. I always typed the website in the URL, but I am going to give this a try and see what happens.
Apparently, there is a handy little addon for firefox that allows you to change your referrer URL. Not sure what it is, but it DOES change it to whatever you want..
Say.. how about setting the referrer to your blog and visiting other blogs in your niche
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Cool trick
Thanks for the post
Little weird but smart indeed
thanx for the tip mate
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good trick,i will try it,thanks
Great piece of advice - I’d never come across it before. That’s a sure fire blogging hit!
Nice trick! Hope it’s gonna work.
I always know that all along..
you might want to add some more.
link to other blog inside your post. this way, not only you, but your readers also might click that link to go to the pointed blog. you have nothing to lose. in fact, you’ll get trackback link.
so.the point is, we not just attract blog writer to come to our blog, we attract the blog readers too.
Nice tip, but comment moderation is too much of a pain. That is just too much work for too little benefit IMO.
I wouldn’t say this is sneaky, but it’s definitely helpful to ensure you show up a s referrer instead of just another burried statistic. Similar to having link outs, you can build a bookmark page as a private page and use that for all your blog access.
I never thought of that. I’ll try it myself. Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the idea,great post btw.
Thanks for the tip!I will follow your idea in future!
I can add youtube vids on my myspace without a problem, just copy and paste the embed code. But whenever I try to publish a post on my blog.
Nice blog! I happened to read your post at the right time, because I have just started a blog and your tips are very useful. Thanks a lot.
Really great tips. I’ll follow them.
Very valuable advices.We can increase the comments and visitors by following these ideas.
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Very nice advice you shared here.
I’ll try doing this.
Great job
thx for share, i will try your method. im just beginer need more to learn
good post,but i wonder if this can really increase the number of visitors?
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Really good job.Thanks for this..
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Interesting line of thinking. Networking is important in the blogosphere, so I suppose that backtracking through to other blogs through links on your own could help a bit!
Great piece of advice. This will also pull up your blog from the ground and make your blog more popular. The more visitor and comments we receive the better. Thanks for this
That’s actually a great tip! I’ve never thought about it, but when I think about it now, in reverse.. I always check my stat counter to see where my traffic is coming from and whenever I see a blog that linked to me, I always head over there to check it out.
I bet others do just the same. I’ll keep this in mind the next time I comment.
Thanks for the tip!
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That trick will sure work. Nice tip.. Thanks! it’s very informative
Of course; that makes perfect sense!
Beyond getting traffic back to your blog, using this tip is perfect for thanking people who have contributed to your blog. Showing them you’re visiting their site is showing them they’re appreciated.
Like you said, bloggers scratch each other’s backs. We can all help each other out
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This is a very good idea that I have never really thought about.Thanks for the post!
This is awesome.
Hope this tip will help me increase my hub and blog. thanks for sharing.
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great point, actually, i never did it- but lets see, how its gonna work
This is awesome. gonna try it. tks
Great little tip I hadn’t thought about doing that before.
Cheers! Ross
Nice advice!
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Oh man! That’s too bad! I really enjoyed this blog!
Great post! I have subscribed to your blog for future posts!
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How to increase visitors for my opinion create good and quality content in that way we can increase our visitors and when it comes to comments if i were a blog owner i will interact with them as possible to answer on their reactions on your posts.
Thanks for sharing such a useful information. I am definitely going to consider it next time.
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I will use your advice. Thanks for the tips!
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