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

The great commenting experiment: Early observations

Day three of the great commenting experiment and we have seen a number of visits so far. Ok so far that number is quite small, and it’s already obvious that if I were to rely on just commenting on big blogs in order to get traffic, I will never be more than a tiny minnow in a very large pond. Luckily for me I am not a pony with just the one trick, and this is just the first experiment of many, I plan to make my mark in the blogosphere.

Interestingly enough I am getting more traffic and better readership from the smaller blogs, with Tyler Cruz providing not only the largest number of visitors so far but also those which stay around the longest. John Chow on the other hand has provided but one single visit and he didn’t even stay long enough for our header image to load. Based on the results so far I will be spending more time hunting for smaller blogs to comment on to see if this is a blogging trend!

I plan on keeping this experiment running for at least a week, I believe some of the poor traffic results so far could be because we have been commenting at the weekend which is traditionally a quieter time for all websites. Also I have yet to make the top commenter spot on any site other than Tyler’s which may also explain why we have received more hits from his bog than others. So for now the plan is to keep commenting, wait for the sun burn on my face to fade and have a nice old drink up to celebrate my flat mate’s birthday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and happy clogging.

Friday launched the first part of clogmoneys great commenting experiment. The plan is simple, post as many well written thought provoking comments on other blogs in the make money online niche and get some free targeted traffic. Day one went well; we received twenty visits just from commenting on four large blogs. Ok so twenty visits isn’t very much, in fact if we’re being honest it’s f**k all, but hey it’s a start and who knows, one of those twenty one may just come back and visit again. Upon reflection I feel I can relate to this very famous quote to our experiment so far: “What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals”. Yes I feel that quote ties in nicely.

Now I know you’re all thinking, why the lazy polar bear and the only real answer I can give is why not? And that’s something you just can’t argue against. ( Think Lost ). Now I must end this post and start the commenting again. The goal for the weekend is to hit the top commentary list on one of the big blogs and see just how much that boosts traffic.. Come back again to see my findings.

PS. If you are reading this blog for the first time please leave me a comment, I’m lonely.