Comment on a blog that you’ve never commented on

That’s Darren Rowse’s tip for today – comment on a blog you’ve never commented on before. Comes in Darren’s series on ‘31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project.

Sometimes as bloggers it is easy to get in a rut both in your writing and in your reading of others blogs.

Go on a blog hunt today to see how many new blogs you can find in your niche. Add to the conversations on these blogs as you surf by adding useful comments and add to your feed reader with their RSS feeds so you can keep following them.

I’m as guilty as anyone in getting self centered in my blogging. Wanting to spend my time publishing content to my own blog as opposed to commenting on a post on another blog in my niche.

But that’s so short sighted. No better way of networking and meeting interesting people than commenting on their blog. Not only will you draw the attention of the blogger, but you’ll also have people reading the blog comments checking out your blog. Can tell you first hand that some of the biggest referrer links in my blog stats today are from comments I left at a well known blogger’s sites a couple years ago.

And still being a bit in awe of the more famous, I always get jazzed getting an email or comment from an industry leader on whose blog I left a comment. Guy Kawasaki, veteran mac evangelist, VC, and author, dropped me an email within a few hours of my commenting on his then new blog a couple years go.

Have some fun. Meet some influential folks. Start drawing traffic to your blog. Commenting will do that.