Well it’s now been almost a week since I started commenting on some of the big blogs and it’s definably starting to pay off. We received 47 unique hits yesterday alone and our Google search box even made me my first few pennies from this blog. Now I know 47 hits a day isn’t enough to start making any real money from this blog. I have other sites which are pulling in a constant 200 uniques a day and that’s only enough to make around $200 dollars in your American money a month, but it is as they say a start.

I also received a comment from a guy called Pit from http://www.torrentomega.com/ recently about abandoning our commenting strategy and concentrating on search engine optimisation (SEO). Now I know a little bit about SEO, and that one little bit I do know is that getting links to your site is the most important way to rank for any keyword. Splice in a little relevant anchor text and you’re half way to topping the mighty Google. Now I know what your all thinking, commenting on blogs is worthless as the links are all no-follow. Well yes this is true, however the links in the top commenting section are not no follow and will give me the lovely Google page rank juice I’m after. How can I be so confident these links are not no follow I hear you ask. Well using the wonderful firefox browser and a clever little plug in I see this.

Apologies for the Perez Hilton type scribbles but It gets my point across. I will be making a proper blog post about this plug in tomorrow, if you’re interested. Why a different post? Well it’s all about the SEO

Now as you may or may not know I am a programmer by trade, and yet I have made one of the most fundamental flaws you could possibly make when starting a community driven website like this. I forgot to activate the bloody commenting plug-in. This meant that whilst I was sitting here feeling lonely and unloved by people who had read my little blog so far. It would appear you guys were actually trying to pass comment. Thanks go out to the University Kid and Matt from www.theonlymp.com for emailing me and letting me know. We can only assume that now the commenting feature is working we will be inundated by fabulously intellectual, sophisticated and witty comments from our readers.

The commenting experiment is working well and yesterday we received our highest amount of visitors so far. What I deem to be a hugely impressive, quite frankly awe-inspiring 27 visits. Ok I exaggerate, but we are seeing a daily increase and if this continues? Well surly it won’t take long till we’re up there with the likes of Tyler or indeed the infamous cow. I can only put this insurgence of traffic down to the fact that we are on the top commenter list on John Chow, Shoemoney and Tyler Cruz with only The Rating Blog being seemingly impossible to break into. Damn the people there have a lot to say. How they have the time to post all these comments I don’t know. I’m starting to think Alan maybe either A) employing them or B) impersonating commentators. Not that I would want to stir up any controversy by saying such things. I do find it just a little odd that the majority of the top commenter’s don’t have a website of their own. You don’t see that many other big blogs now do you?