Are You Building Relationships With Effective Comments?

With the return of Tribe Tuesday beginning today I was inspired to write today’s post from an excerpt of The Tribal Beat. Ken Pickard touched on this topic as a tip for the week but I want to expand on it some more.

Most people know that commenting to people’s status updates on Facebook is a good way to engage others…particularly the person that posted the status update.

You might even know that you can create and exchange dialogue with others on Twitter too. While this can be a bit more challenging due to speed of the Twitter stream it is still fun and effective when commenting.

The Empowered Tribe community is growing. We have some new members that are really going to be great contributors. For some of them though, this will be their first experience with a Tribe Tuesday. So I wanted to touch on this important topic.

The idea behind Tribe Tuesday is to have people within the community meet on a weekly basis to get to know each other, learn from each other, and bring new readers to their blog via syndication.

Your blog is your central hub. Your showcase…your masterpiece. All your social site activity revolves out from there. Your goal is to have people return to your blog on a consistent basis.

One of the best ways to achieve this is by commenting after you’ve read the blog post.

The important thing to remember here is to leave a comment that adds to the value of the persons blog post. Your goal is to add a comment that reflects your thoughts, your experience or your feeling on the topic of the post. And it should be positive in nature. Definitely more than just a “great post, Thanks.”

This one little step is so vital in building a relationship between you and the blog author. It creates dialogue. It shows social proof to other people visiting the site. And it validates the author as well as creating a viral effect.

Not only that, but if the Comment Luv plugin is installed it gives you great back linking and shows other visitors your most recent blog post as a reward for commenting. It’s not uncommon for the blog author to visit and comment back on the blog of one of their visitors. It’s also not unusual for other visitors to visit your blog too if your title catches their eye.

There’s another plugin that you might want to consider installing and that is WP Thread Comment. It allows for the replies of the author to be nested with the original reply. This makes your blog look more conversational and allows the author to reply directly to the person leaving the comment. And again, it’s helping to build the relationship.

Another important point is to have an Avatar…one that matches with your personal brand. If you don’t have an Avatar you can get one here.

Actively leaving comments on people’s blogs is a key foundation that our community is built on. There are other communities that profess this too and then there are others that say they do but really don’t.

I know this from people I talk with. Some communities are built on how many points you can attain simply by syndicating. They’ve said their blog looks like it has had many readers by their bookmarking stats but in looking at it…well it looks like no one has visited because no one left any comments. And, they have no idea who the visitors have been. As a result…no progress in building a relationship.

Most of us are learning to be attraction marketers. Attraction Marketing is founded on building meaningful relationships. To build meaningful relationships you have to engage others and one of the most effective ways is to leave valuable comments on the blogs you visit. Believe me, the author of the blog will notice and you will be rewarded…in more ways than you can imagine.

I hope you found this to be informative and helpful. I’d love to hear your comments about how you see commenting on others blogs and the result you have experienced from it.

As always, please share this with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter.

Until next time, go out and Live Your Best Life!

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