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

Thank you for your attention

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.