One of our new members to Success BlogNet -  Mary AKA The Panda lady from Panda Picks and I were talking about how important it is to make comments on blog.  This is a lady who is striving to learn about all aspects of Blogging.  This Post is dedicated to her

Go Visit her blog and give her feedback on her posts and article and don’t forget to leave her a good comment.

Before there was social media as a way of communication, there was the blog comment. Blog commenting was one of first ways that people had to be able to converse with each other as an advanced form of social interaction.

The fact is that we all jump up and down with joy when we get a comment to our blog - not the spam comments of course, but those from people who have come and read what you had to say about any particular subject.

Many of you bloggers out there even know ways and means to entice people to leave comments such as:

Asking for comments

or

Asking questions and seeking opinions

BUT

what else do comments do for you?

Blog comments can help with the search engine optimization of your website by seriously improving your ranking within the major search engines. WOW! How does that work you ask..

Search engines see blog comments as content, and most of it, you did not even have to write yourself. When your readers are commenting on your post, it is quite likely that a lot of the content of the comments are going to reflect your keywords or at least your topic. When you reply, using keywords ( where appropriate) can also be a boost to your blog All this adds up to making your blog Search Engine Optimized.. very Cool!
Just remember that like writing any post, make sure that you keep your language natural because the whole point to having blog comments is creating a continued conversation. The fact is having your readers coming back to your blog site creates value and a sense of community.

What tips or tricks do you use to keep the conversation going?

To Your Success

Success BlogNet Team

Our passionate advice is that the time to join the conversation is now. The barriers to entry are minuscule, the benefits great, and blogging just happens to be fun.
Scoble Israel, Naked Conversations

As we all know by now,to be successful when writing content for your blog, it is also important to add the eye candy so that people will stay longer on your post or page.

This includes images, videos, graphs or what have you.
As with anything, there are rules to this as in reading the license that come with downloading or uploading an image to your blog.

It can’t be stressed enough that you could be breaking the law if you don’t take the time to know these licensing rules.

A short primer on the different wording you may come across: (more…)

A Success Blognet Commentary

In times past, men and women in the military communicated with their families through letters ( when they got through).  Families worried over their husbands, wives, sons and daughters, never knowing when they would hear how their loved ones were.  The stress on the soldiers, whose lives were on the line, fighting whether from beliefs or duty must have been unbearable at times.

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