Free Guide: How to Improve Your Blog Commenting Skills

September 24th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

I’ve published a free step-by-step guide on how to become a better blog commentator, based on my three-plus years of making an average of approximately 20-30 blog comments per week around the Web.

My goal is to provide you with nothing but the finest resources on blog improvement anywhere on earth. Please check out my Blog Improvement Checklist (complete) and Blog Improvement Resource List (work in progress) for examples of my work.

I’m actually just fixing up the last part of the commenting guide right now so don’t be surprised if you see a dangling participle or misshapen paragraph. I hope you don’t mind.

You can read it online or download a printer-friendly PDF version.

Thank you to everyone who helped me write it.

Please let me know if you find it useful and how I could make it better!

3 Comments - Publish a Comment

1. Mike CollinsSeptember 24, 2008, 7:08 pm

Wow Easton, first your Blog Improvement Checklist and now this Blog Commenting Guide. You’re really busting your butt to pump out lots of quality content!

I particularly agree with your point about scheduling time to comment on blogs. It’s easy to get carried away and spend hours leaving comments and getting nothing else done. I try to go through my favorite blogs (including yours) during downtime so I don’t get distracted.
2. love elySeptember 24, 2008, 9:08 pm

Hi Easton, thanks for sharing your thought about blogging. According to you, which one you like to comments on a blog:
1) Blog that focused on its nice view, or…
2) Blog that focused on its contents

Thank you for your attention
3. Joanna YoungSeptember 26, 2008, 4:08 pm

Hi Easton, thanks for compiling such a comprehensive guide to blog comments!

My only point would be to exercise extreme caution when linking to your own work. It can sound like you just want to draw attention to yourself and can be quite irritating to other readers.

It’s much more effective to link to someone else’s great piece than your own.

You’ll have left your url – and with comment luv, your last post headline – which means other readers are free to check out your blog for themselves if your comment sounds interesting.

The only exception I’d make would be if there’s a very specific piece you’ve written that would help the blogger with a question they’ve asked – like how do you switch from typepad to wordpress or format bullet points, or something else that’s of a very practical nature.

You’ll also see that I’m ignoring your advice about not writing very long comments!

Joanna