One of my fellow Lieurance-King Spring Article Challenge participants, Trish Anderson, has published a great article on commenting on other people’s blogs and articles, reprinted with permission. Enjoy!
Leaving A Comment
Five Tips When Commenting On Blogs & Articles
By Trish Anderson
www.inkthinkerblog.com — Leaving a comment is a great way to let an author know how much you liked their work. Your words may help them shape other articles, give them new ideas or simply let them know that someone is reading. There is some etiquette involved though and you will greatly improve the worth of your comment by following these five tips and suggestions.
1. Leave a comment. Even if you’re only going to say “Great stuff!” or “Love your work!”. That’s something at least for the writer who sits alone at their computer wondering if the writing life is really for them.
2. Encouraging words. Whether you like the article or not, always try to shape the language of your comment so that it reads as positive and encouraging. Constructive criticism travels further than a blatant flame. Remember that abruptness is easily taken as rudeness and will not help a writer improve their work.
3. Praise. If the article or blog has inspired, helped, educated you in some way, say so. A writer wants to know this and, again, your words will encourage further explorations into a topic.
4. Improving “sales.” In some article directories, leaving comments improves the ranking of individual authors/articles. If you have a favourite author, help them out by commenting on their articles whenever possible. Try to have something constructive to say. For some authors, comments are similar to sales. The more comments, or sales, the author achieves the more they know they are reaching an audience.
5. Generosity. Not every blogger can attract the number of comments some of the “high-rollers” can and not every blogger wants to. The reasons for opening a blog and continuing it are many and varied. Supporting some of the smaller blog sites with your comments can be the very straw that balances in favour of keeping a site open and up to date. Be generous with your words. They cost you little, but are worth much.
~~~~~~~ Trish is a freelance writer for hire. Read more of her articles and pick up a copy of her new e-book, Plan to Write Plan to Succeed, for free at Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Trish_Anderson |
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Good to know. I’m sometimes shy about leaving comments on blogs, but now I’ll be better about piping up. And, just for the record, your blog is my favorite. Keep the posts comin’!
Hi.. I very much agree with. I want to add one more thing that ever comment must have signature that stated e.g a blog url or an email so that blog owner can easily track them back.
Cheers!
Qumang
http://cleoreader.blogspot.com/
Now how can I read this article and not comment:-)
Thanks for encouraging us so well to comment and make our appreciation known.
This is my first time through Inkthinker, and I really enjoyed this post.
I’m trying hard to correct my personal lack of comments on other blogs. It’s such a good way to build community and meet other writers, yet I’m lazy about it. This post was very helpful in my reform…
Great tips, you’re absolutely right about comments that just say encouraging things. I started blogging 2 months ago and its a real buzz to know that people don’t think you’re writing utter rubbish. I’m sure your blog must really help alot of people – thanks and every success with yoru writing
RR
Thanks for publishing my article, Kristen. I just googled my name and this page was in the first group of sites that came up. Good for both of us!
Drop around to my blog sometime. I’ve posted some new articles and have been playing with Mybloglog and RSS feeds.
cheers – TrishA
http://beginningsmiddlesends.blogspot.com/
(good tip about putting the url after signing a comment)
Awesome Post. My compliments to the author.