Hey – I updated the link for you. Thanks for the nudge!

Best Regards,
Draymond Jamal

Good Idea-collect answers to put up an article. Nice to see what works.

However i see lots of participants saying the same-comment on blogs.
It does work, for sure.

But only if your comment meets 3 criteria:
– Firstly, it’s important to start with a personalized greeting to the author or community. This will show that you’ve taken the time to read the article and engage with the content.

– Secondly, try to make your comment stand out by highlighting a specific point that you found particularly interesting or relevant to your own experience. You could even share a personal anecdote or case study to reinforce your point.

– Thirdly, be sure to add value to the discussion by offering insights or recommendations, recourses or tools that could benefit other readers. This could include sharing a useful resource or tool that you’ve found helpful, or offering a different perspective on the topic at hand.

it’s important to ensure that your comment adds value to the discussion and doesn’t come across as spammy or self-promotional.

I hope these tips help you write an engaging and effective comment on the article you mentioned. Good luck and happy commenting!

And here is my suggestion to get TONS of Traffic:
QUORA.
These are the people who are asking questions-they are hungry for knowledge>
You can answer the questions in your topic, and then put a link to your blog post and say something like
BOOM. Shakalaka.

Tons of traffic knocking your doors ???

Rina

Two cents: when doing keyword research, find question keywords so you can use those keywords by including an FAQ section in your blog posts.

It’s working well for us (for most of my niche websites) as most question keywords usually contain long-tail keywords that are easy to rank for.

We have to experiment. I would like to stress this a lot! Experimenting is everything. We cannot just find something interesting and use it. For example, I am still debating over the use of many links in my sidebar [for my main site], even though it seems to be something that promotes a community. I would love to have less links, and I think I am going to clean it up more. Some sites can get away with no extra links other than the sidebar, and some sites can get away with a lot of links on the side.

Choices are good; however, like some of your previous tips mention, we have to market our presentation in ways that users can understand and appreciate. We also have to see if the choices we are presenting to people are necessary or optional. For example, presenting links to other sections of a site can be necessary, but showing “latest comments” is optional. That optional component, the “latest comments” area in a sidebar, can both help people get involved more in a blog by showing them other commentors who are also commenting, and at the same time, that “latest comments” area will confuse a lot of readers who already know that clicking a post will show them comments for that post and seeing that extra information “only” allows them to participate more, but does not really give a strong incentive as to why they should participate. Does that make sense? I hope I am not too confusing.

In the sidebar, I can put a couple of hundred links to outside places and to areas on my own site, and they can all be relevant to the user. However, simply adding a choice on top of other choices, when there are other ways to find out those exact choices by going through different places on a site, probably confuses people. Think about redundancy also; having the latest comments on every page while viewing pages with comments that show those same latest comments also confuses people more. It somehow adds more links pointing to the same page, the way we talked about in your other post regarding removing links from single titles. Of course, we can have dynamic sidebars, where going into specific single posts will not show certain elements of a sidebar, or even the entire sidebar all togther.

Off-topic: there will be hundred different views on the same concept out there. That does not mean that what Daniel described was wrong/inferior compared to Hick’s Law, Donald. 🙂 The link you mentioned is interesting and we can incorporate it into our sites somehow too, as it seems to be more numberized; thanks for sharing. 🙂

Some people are running 3, 4 and even 5 column WordPress blogs and its just too much fluff content. I’m actually thinking of removing the “Recent Commenter” off the right sidebar of my blog, which is sparse in design to start with. The reason is, I question how much value it really brings to the site and more importantly, what it adds to the users experience.