At most blogs there is a facility to post a comment to an article. The idea is to try and get your comment in first or as close to the top of the comments as possible. This is where it will get the most exposure, so it makes sense. Interesting and informative comments can be used to lure visitors from that blog to your own. The best way is to post a great comment that either adds to the post in more detail, or gets the reader visited in finding out more about what you have to say on the matter. If you are lucky, you can even get some comments going back and forth between yourself, the administrators, and even some other comment posters. Sometimes a controvercial posting also gets things going, but should only be used in a positive way, you want the admins to approve your comments, not delete them. I quickly just want to reference another post of mine about harnesing the power google alerts to get web traffic, there are some ideas in there that can also give you some ideas with blogs.

If you have some interesting articles and need a traffic boost, find some really popular blogs that have the same type of subject matter, or are targeting the same web audience, and post comments to their articles. You should focus on a few sites that are well known, and have high readership, with the idea of becoming a regular commenter on all their articles. Many blogs have a listing of the visitors who make the most comments, this is used to give credit to those who read and comment on the articles regularly, and this is where you want to be listed. Getting a link to your blog listed as a regular contributor on a popular blog targeting the same web audience, means loads of excellent traffic, especially if the site also has a high page rank and is placed well in google.

Lots of blogs also allow do-follow links from their sites, while some only offer do-follow to comment posters who have made more than a pre-determined amount of posts, eg 10 comments. So by posting regularly, you can get do-follow links working to your website, on a blog that does not support it for once off commenters. Sometimes the bigger, more popular and higher ranked blogs that have either the limit for do-follow links, if they support it at all.

Use RSS feeds to keep updated with the articles posted on your target ‘commenting’ blogs, eg, the ones you are going to focus your commenting on. By using website like Bloglines.com, you can easily subscribe to the RSS feed of each of the websites, and easily keep track of new articles and information they post. By using bloglines you can keep updated with all the latest industry news and information on the subject, this will come in handy when you post your comments.

Because your own blog is similar in subject, you presumably are also interested in, and therefore have some knowledge about the subject matter, combined with information sourced through your feeds on bloglines, you should have no problem commenting on the articles with some sort of authority. You will also benefit a loads from reading all the articles on the related blogs, and should soon become an expert in your own rite.

By visiting the profile pages of MyBlogLog members, you can increase traffic to your own blog, as well as make a few good contacts and friends at the same time! One way is to add members as contacts if they have similar type blogs or interests to you. That member will see they have been added as a contact, and will visit your profile to see who exactly you are, and possibly your blog. By strategically adding members as contacts, who are well known, or have popular blogs, you can get offspin traffic from members visiting their profile page, who see your avatar as a recent visitor, or in the messages area. This is a common ‘trick’, and there is a restriction on the amount of contacts you can add in one day, which is 15, so by choosing 15 good contacts a day, leaving a message on their profile page, and visiting their blogs, it is possible to get some nice offspin traffic.

Browse or search through MyBlogLog, and join a couple of interesting communities that are similar to your own blogging interests. On the profile page of the community, your avatar will be displayed as a recently joined member. Your avatar is what other members of the community will click to see your profile, and possibly then click through to read your blog. You can also leave an inspiring message, and even your url on the community page, or the profile page of another member. It is surprising how many visitors you can get just by leaving a positive, good message, on a members profile page. The member will normally visit your page, possibly leave a return message, and will more often than not also visit your blog.

It has to be said also that you can get loads of traffic just by having an interesting looking avatar. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so just by having a great looking avatar, maybe a beautiful picture, something funny, your company logo etc, you can inspire members to click to see your profile. This works for MyBlogLog members, as well as other non members to a particular blog that is displaying your avatar.

What I also like about MyBlogLog is the tracking available. You are able to add snippets of code to your blog which allow Mybloglog to track the statistics, so that from your profile page, you can see how many visitors your blog has got over the last few days, the traffic source of the visitors, what pages they visited on your blog, and what links they clicked. This information is only available to the profile owner, so members visiting your blog cant access your blog stats.

If you have a blog, do yourself a favour, and join Mybloglog, add the widgets, join some communites, and possible make some great business contacts. The social networking, and the great resources of blogs and communities alone are reason enough to become a member, and expand your blogging horizons.