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May
7th

Comment Sniper for Better Blog Commenting Strategy

By Mert Erkal in Blog

Last November Caroline Middlebrook asked her fellow readers a serious question: Do You Have A Blog Commenting Strategy?

Here is my delayed answer to Caroline.

Last November I knew that commenting on some popular blogs was very important in order to introduce yourself and your blog to Blogosphere. However, I did not take commenting as serious as Caroline.

Back in Dec 2007, after leaving some valuable comments on Problogger and still getting significant amount of traffic from them, I changed my mind. I understand how effective commenting can be.

However, due to heavy workload, I also noticed that most of the time I finish the whole week without leaving any comment. This was a big mistake for a blogger who aims to quit his full time job and become a problogger by 2010.

How I Overcome This Obstacle?

I was so lucky to discover Comment Sniper when I tried to automate my blog commenting strategy. Basically, Comment Sniper keeps track of your favorite bloggers’ posts, and notify you when they launch new posts. All you need is to subscribe to a blogger’s RSS feed using this little cool freeware software.

Here is An Effective Blog Commenting Strategy For You

  • Find the most important bloggers related to your topic
  • Configure Comment Sniper (SMS Notification is also available!), and keep it open in the background.
  • Seconds after one of your favorite bloggers posts an article, you will be notified with a pop up message appearing on the down right corner of your screen.
  • Be the first to comment. Leave valuable comments. Don’t leave comments like “Very good” or “We love you all”, rather approach the subject from a different perspective.
  • Be yourself, and tell your opinions honestly, no matter how popular the blogger is.

Here Is A Short Guideline For You To Start

  • Start with top 5 bloggers in your niche
  • Add their feed to comment sniper
  • When you are notified, take a good look, and shoot immediately! Do your best shot!
  • Bull’s eye!

By the way, please don’t forget to shoot my blog. My blog is a very easy target for most of the comment snipers.

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Comment Sniper for Better Blog Commenting Strategy…

Back in Dec 2007, after leaving some valuable comments on Problogger and still getting significant amount of traffic from them, I changed my mind. I understand how effective commenting can be.

Comment Sniper keeps track of your favorite bloggers’ po…

sogeshirts May 7th, 2008

Wow great info Merkal. The comment sniper sounds like a very useful tool because it is so hard to keep track of all the blogs that have new posts and get in an early comment.

nimrodjo May 8th, 2008

This is a good info…great one Merkal

Inspirit | Abhinav May 8th, 2008

I usually subscribe to my favorite blogs by email and when I am notified of a worthy blog post, I visit the blog, read and comment.

That does the task for me, just as good as Comment Sniper would do.

Mert Erkal May 8th, 2008

@Abhinav: Sure this is also possible. But I am trying to reduce the time I spent for checking my emails. Reading emails is one of the worst time killer. With Comment Sniper I am notified in a few seconds, as the blogger is in my target list I can comment in a few minutes. I did not lose time to logon to my email account, read the message and then comment. Time is very valuable for me, I have a full time 9-5 job, and I am a part time blogger.

Miguel Wickert (Pineiro) May 9th, 2008

Hey Mert

thanks for the tips, excellent article. I downloaded the software before but never got around to using it. I’ll take another look at it, thanks!

rampantheart May 9th, 2008

Very informative post, Mert!It will be very useful for the blog i am going to launch!Thanks!

Tammy May 13th, 2008

I have been using google reader but I think this just might work better. Will have to check into it. Thanks

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battery June 2nd, 2008

There are actually a few different ones out there. I have been giving this software a go and see how it pans out.

You have a great site and i return to it ever now and then as i find the time.

joejack July 11th, 2008

I’ve only just started using Comment Sniper, having been told about it at a conference in April. Got to say I love it already, not just for alerting me for new posts on my favourite blogs, but also for finding new blogs with related content.

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Make Money From Home November 5th, 2009

Blog commenting is a worthwhile strategy

Konya November 13th, 2009

Yaz? içi te?ekkürler mert

mert_erkal673 November 14th, 2009

Rica ederim.

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