Are you using blog commenting to increase your online visibility?

If not, you should consider it.

Blog commenting has several advantages, such as improving SEO through backlinks and referral traffic. Additionally, well-written comments that add value can enhance your social proof and help establish your reputation as an authority.

Whether you're responding to comments on your blog or engaging in blog comments on other sites to enhance your presence, this strategy is valuable for self-promotion and has been proven to be effective.

Blog comments also come with two other great benefits :

• They help you grow your network and build relationships with people
• They offer targeted traffic back to your website
• Because if someone comes across a three-hundred-word comment at the bottom of a blog post that adds tonnes of value they’re going to take notice of that as well.

Art of Blog Commenting

Use Your Real Name: Always use your full name instead of brand name or keyword to look genuine.

Add Value: Write relevant comments and add value to the blog post. Avoid short, generic comments like “Great work!”

Be Relevant: Make sure your comment is relevant to the blog post to engage in meaningful discussions and not look spammy.

The OG user-generated content (UGC)

Neil Patel did a case study on whether blog comments help with rankings. The experiment found that building links through blog comments did help with SEO rankings. Despite blog comments being user-generated content (UGC)

Blog comment backlinks work but make sure they are quality links from authoritative websites.

So it is always a good idea to build relationships and connect with high-quality and?relevant?blogs