Smart commenting can bring traffic to your blog

What do you and the rest of the world prefer - two steps or one? Human beings are smart creatures, and lazy too - they prefer the elevator to the stairs, the easy path to the tougher. And a smart marketer keeps that in mind - make things even slightly difficult and the response rates will go down.

If you are a blogger trying to promote your blog, you are essentially a marketer - and you will have to think like one, if you are to succeed.

Keep that in mind when you are leaving nice little comments on other blogs with the 'honourable' intention of getting some traffic from them coming back to your own little space on the big bad world wide web.

When you are posting a comment on a blogger/blogspot blog, the comments page gives you 3 identity options:

- Google/Blogger

- Other

- Anonymous

Chances are you are a Google Blogger and you sign in with your user name and password, as most people do. It might be the right thing to do, but doesn't help much.

When the comment is published, if someone clicks on your name, he or she is then taken to your 'Blogger Profile' page. Surely your objective is not increase views of your profile page. Now, the fellow has the option to search for info on your blog on that page and make his/her way to your blog, but that's the long, tedious path - it's the staircase route which human beings don't really care for. Then why not give them the faster elevator?

Instead of the previous way, choose the "Other" option. This is what you will now see:

Just type whatever name you fancy to appear and right below put in the URL of the page you want the traffic to be directed to. Next time someone reads your pretty little comments, they just need to click on your name to come straight to where you want them to!!!