Why Do You Comment On A Blog?

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for knowing about people's opinion and getting traffic

That is a good question, cause I'm sure you don't get much traffic, and you certainly do not get rich by leaving comments.

Get traffic and provide feedback.

To drive traffic, get backlinks, hopefully reach the Top Commentator Spot and drive more traffic. And the share my opinions (the no. 1 reason we have a comment box IMO)

The reason I do it is to get feedback and to drive traffic to my website. I remember reading somewhere best way to drive traffic to your website is commenting on others blog. It might have been your EBOOK dont remember lol.

I comment on blogs usually because I have something to say. Of course, there are times I comment just to gain backlinks but I hardly do that.

I comment on blogs to extend my blogging community, make new friends and of course increase my inbound links.The world of Internet Marketing is pretty impersonal and blog commenting offers an interaction with other bloggers a step closer to human face to face communication.

Peter Lee

I am glad to see most people are being honest. In hopes of drawing more traffic, writing useful comments is hopefully doing more good than harm for all blogs.

i am commenting this to check my gravatar

i do comments on blogs to give suggestions to the blogger as well as to improve my knowledge by getting replies to my comments.

To learn from other blog, search for idea..........become a part of community and gain more traffic ......all mix become one to have long term mutual relationship.

Congrats to the winner

I visit sites to get Information to make my blogging better, I try to stay long enough as to not drive up anyone's bounce rate. I leave comments for two reasons, Being part of the community and to get traffic to my blog.

Hoho. I was comment on it. Sure, for drive traffic. Hahaha.

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This is the example one for drive traffic... Hoho.

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LMAO. The number one reason is to drive traffic to our own blogs. Congrats John you've attracted a great deal of lampreys to suckle on your juicy shark teats.

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To be part of online community. To air my feelings...

I do it for many reasons and I think each one has their own agenda ....

To add something new and insightful to an ongoing discussion or topic, and uh, traffic.

Edit: reading these comments made me realize that I didn't add anything new or insightful to this topic, oh well, traffic.

I usually comment on posts that either contains something I'm trying to learn, something I have real knowledge on, or something that makes me smile...

Of course,it doesn't hurt if someone just happens to click on my link bringing traffic to one of my sites :)

To be part of the community and to drive a wee bit of traffic. I mean jeeze, you don't get that much traffic for the work you put into commenting. There are better ways to get traffic.

to be in the game...

Get traffic. We can get some traffic here and there by commenting on people's blog. That's what John told us in his early days if i am not mistaken! :)

Thanks so much for choosing my suggestion, John! I'm honored, as there were a bunch of other good suggestions.

It's been interesting to read all the comments here and the different reasons people leave comments. I like to comment mostly to get involved in the community and make a contribution, but also to provide feedback for the blogger as well since that is a good way for people to improve and learn.

As thepoorteacher said, I'm just happy when people check out my content so I'm not in it for the traffic really. Occasionally commenting wins you a free shirt too!

I comment when I feel that I have something of value to add to the discussion. Of course, when you check out a site like johnchow.com, someone has likely beat you to your comment unless you live on the internet all day. I mostly abstain from commenting for that reason. However, I can turn a phrase fairly well and I enjoy writing, so I will occasionally comment despite the presence of similar comments, hoping that a well constructed thought receives more attention than a poorly constructed one.

Oh, and it helps to drive the tiniest bit of traffic to my blog. If I participated in more discussions, I suppose new eyes would follow (or "no follow") the links to my blog, resulting in better rankings and revenue. I'm not a full time blogger, so I'm happy when anyone happens to stumble on over to thepoorteacher.com and reads an entry.

I comment to drive traffic to my site, and it's nice to see that I'm not the only one.

To provide feedback and to drive traffic for my blog :)

When I'm not busy posting my ads selling various "enhancement" pills, herbs, etc. in blog comments I'm usually trying to add some value to the post that I am commenting on. Any traffic I get is a nice bonus.

I comment on blog to win tshirts from John chow :D

hmmm.....

I comment on blogs to interact with like minded people and also I usually read some blogs so I like to comment on them.

I leave comments for getting traffic and promoting my blog. the other is to give some advice as well.

Interesting stats that came up after the poll. I don't find comments as a way for me to drive traffic to my blog. I find it more as a means to connect to the blogger - if I get that blogger interested then that could turn out to be a potential loyal reader.

Traffic is good, but I also like to comment if I feel like the post is worth commenting on, whether I agree with it or not.

This is a good question and I can say that I wanted to choose 4 out of the 5 choices. My primary reason is to be part of a community or, in my case, develop a community as there aren't many blogs with my exact niche. Anyway, I feel this way b/c I think once you become part of different communities, the other stuff will come...

I leave comments for the link love, but when it comes to MMO blogs it is also an outlet. I considered starting a MMO blog too, figuring I could chronicle my raise to power. However, with the other projects and the number of MMO blogs already, I am finding that by commenting I can say what I feel needs saying while not repeating what others have already said. If there is an issue I want to speak on, I just wait and someone will blog something that will allow me to vent.

Usually I will do it for a few reasons. First, is to build relationships with the site owner. Second, is to be a part of the discussion with other people that comment and third is to build traffic to my site.

I like being part of the discussion and try to give advise when I can.
The traffic thing is secondary, if it happens good if not, no big deal that's not why i commented any way

I like to comment where no one has commented before- I love to give words of encouragement to those whom just posted their first couple of articles, and are wondering when the visitors will come. I like to comment on things that move me (piss me off or make me cry). I noticed after looking around your site here and there for the last couple of days- I think you have comment stalkers (lol). I can just visualize them sitting around tapping their fingers on their desk, hitting the refresh button and waiting for you to write something so they could be the first to comment. Maybe they are even in your backyard behind a palm tree with a laptop in one hand and binoculars in another. Congratulations on your terrific success. You are like the Paris Hilton of the blog world.

P.S. I would love to see a question answer section in your blog. I am sure it would be overwhelming though.

I used to think that just leaving comments would get me traffic...but I don't care about that anymore. I just comment if the topic is interesting or if it's something I can relate to...to be a part of the community. :D

This will be very interesting :D

Commenting on blogs has been and still is a true addiction, there`s no one single day I don`t comment on at least 10 of my favorite blogs.

wtf is a comment ? lol i just love to be a part of a community. i love to comment funny stuff with funny comments. where ever it´s possible.

This is a good poll question and very related to blogging. I guess I shouldn't have had that rambling question :P I just wanted to base it on your ramblings, John :D

-Mike

Linkbacks. That's why everyone really does it. Most of the people that comment on this blog are in the same business as John is. Almost no one has a casual interest in making money online. There just isn't a great deal of casual entertainment value in the subject. So, people like me comment here, people that aren't as established as John Chow click on my blog (which is found by clicking on my name), leave comments, and I linkback to them by commenting on their blogs. It all helps to drive traffic.

Sometimes for feedback, sometimes for traffic. Sometimes for the community.

One thing I do bet, is this post gets a large number of comments...

congrats to him

For back links.

To argue.

To praise.

Blogger comradity. (Usually IM, Twitter, phone/Skype w/others.)

Honest answers in order of importance for me anyway.

I comment if I have something I want to contribute, or just to let the person know I stopped by.

I purposely refrain from commenting unless I feel I have reason to, for fear of it appearing as if I am only doing it for the link (traffic) purpose.

I think a good follow up question to this would be what makes you NOT comment on a blog. I think there are a lot of times I want to comment on certain topics on blogs but find that I do not for a number of valid reasons. I would be interested in opinions on that.

I think the most important reason is forming part of a community thats related to ones interests, and why not add some traffic while youre at it but thats just an added bonus

Grrr so annoying. Why have the Poll as a check box instead of radio buttons if you can only pick one result!!!!