My name is Wesley Atkins and I'm an Internet Marketing & Lead Generation Consultant. On ReviewBooth.com I share my ramblings & my knowledge of SEO, Affiliate, Lead Generation & Internet Marketing strategies. Follow me on Twitter @wesleyatkinsGoogle Blogs is nothing new, but there is a very simple way to use it that many people overlook and it can be a very powerful traffic source for any website.
If you follow this strategy every day for at least 30 days you could easily ramp up 400+ visitors per day to your site and it takes very little effort – just 30 minutes per day.
So, go switch off the television and commit to doing this for 30 minutes every day.
In a nutshell all you need to do is visit Google Blogs and search for blogs in your market that have been updated in the last 12 hours. Google Blogs will list all the blogs that have been updated in the last 12 hours with the keywords that you specify. You can see a screenshot below. Then all you need to do is visit those blogs and leave an *insightful* comment. Don’t just post, “Hey, love the blog keep up the good work”. Make it useful and relevant to what is discussed.
Now here’s the kicker – Because these blogs have only just been updated you are often the first to place a comment on them and if the blog has good traffic levels you are sure to get your comment noticed. However, you need to entice the click aswell in your comment and this can be done by some kind of call to action. Ie, “read more on my blog at:” – I think you get the idea.
Bear in mind that a lot of people use this technique to spam blogs with links back to their site, don’t do this. Always leave the comment with your name. You will still build link juice into your site from the ones that don’t use “No-Follow” and this will help on the next pagerank update. Besides, a few links that are not your main keywords will actually benefit you in terms of rankings as there is a filter placed on Google’s Algorithm that will give you a -5 penalty if your incoming link text percentage is too high, but that’s a topic for another post.
Anyhow, follow these steps as above and just commit 30 minutes per day or 5 comments per day, whatever you can do. I’m sure you’ll be surprised with the results.
Sidenote: You can also use Google Alerts for this method, but I will be explaining how to use Google Alerts for traffic and linking in another post 
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January 20, 2009
Very interesting strategy! Yes, I agree you must leave a compelling comment and not just a Hi By statement. That would be spamming! Leave a unique and descriptive comment that will entice the reader to click your name and go to your site.
Types of link baiting techniques:
* Informational Linkbaiting
* News Linkbaiting
* Humor Linkbaiting
* Evil Linkbaiting
* Tool Linkbaiting
* Widgets Linkbaiting
January 20, 2009
Well I certainly think this is a fantastic idea lets just hope people use it as they should and not become just spam merchants
How about sending me an email i could not find a place to subscribe to your blog
January 20, 2009
Great strategy, I’m going to try this as I’m running a non profit organization that really need a lot of traffic from animal lovers to my site. Thanks.
February 6, 2009
Blogs definitely help in any move to increase the traffic in one site. Knowing how to use Google blogs can be an important advantage.
February 10, 2009
Nice, i just signed up with Google account but i did not have a promotional code i sent them this link, i hope they let me have that credit, currently doing ppc campaigns with yahoo, Email marketing,and some classifieds, Google is Great, i use it everyday!!! So glad i found this site lots of relevant information thanks Wesley…
February 23, 2009
Excellent, i have been using this method for a couple weeks now, it does work, but he is right you have to commit a half hour a day, since i have been doing this i estimate about 100 hits a day, which in turn makes me more money$$$$ yeah…
April 26, 2009
This is a great strategy. I’m glad I found your page. Thanks for the tip!
May 3, 2009
I did’nt quite understand the following things:
1. “Links that are not your main keywords will actually benefit you in terms of rankings as there is a filter placed on Google’s Algorithm that will give you a -5 penalty if your incoming link text percentage is too high”
2. You will still build link juice into your site from the ones that don’t use “No-Follow”
Any clarification?
Since 1999, Wesley Atkins has been heavily into Search Engine Optimization & Affiliate Marketing creating many profitable & highly ranked websites on Google, Yahoo and MSN. If you are interested in consulting for your business please contact him here.