Blog Tipz

Leaving comments on other blogs is extremely important for all bloggers. If you don’t, the only way others will find you is through search engines and other blogs that may link to you. By providing your thoughts on other blogs, you are sharing in the conversation and letting others know what you think.

Photo by chrismar

Before long, we have come to realize that comments are often more than just the thoughts of someone who has visited our blog. They are left by people who really want to help you grow, and they are encouraged by sharing their thoughts.

However, we should be looking at comments than more than just this. After all, we aren’t just sharing comments on individual posts anymore. Disqus and Backtype both allow us to see all the comments we leave on sites supporting these services, and through Twitter, even more so.

When we watch a television show or other event, we might make a mental comment or thought, and this doesn’t get out to the world. Then, when we open our mouths and tell someone else, it becomes a reaction.

In the early days of blogging, it was more difficult to get comments, because blogs really weren’t as popular. Relatively few people could discover your blog, and all comments stayed on your blog. There really weren’t huge communities like there are today. These comments remained comments, but today’s comments can become reactions as soon as they enter the whole “sphere” – Twitter, Facebook, and other sites where content is shared.

No matter how you look at it, having a reader submit your site to Digg or share a link to it on Twitter can be more beneficial than them simply leaving a comment, and it can result in further reactions by others, who in turn leave their thoughts on your blog.

What do you think about this? Please leave your thoughts below.