HOEI

Being the first to comment on a blog can bring you more traffic from that blog’s visitors as compared to being the 37th person to comment.

If you are like me, then you probably do not visit the blogs of every single commenter after reading a blog post, especially if there are already dozens of comments. So how can you beat others to the punch and comment early on blogs where the blogger has never posted on a subject that you are passionate about?

Answer: Custom Feeds from Search Results

I subscribe to the feeds from custom blog search results on Google Blog Search and Technorati using my RSS feed reader. For instance, I might generate a Technorati search “in blog posts” for the string “burnlounge“. That will return me a list of every blogger that is pinging Technorati who has recently posted with the string “burnlounge” found anywhere in the post. I then use the handy little “Subscribe” icon with the traditional feed symbol off to the right side of the search results. This will often allow for me to be the first to comment on blogs where a person posts on a subject that I have expertise or current interest.

I was approached by a friend to sign on to BurnLounge as a retailer. After tracking feeds from some custom search results, I would now define BurnLounge as a multi level marketing version of iTunes. Being able to read about the experiences that many other people were having with BurnLounge helped me decide to pass on this business opportunity.