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Every month I attend a meeting of the Bristol Internet Marketing Mastermind Group.
It’s a meeting of fellow marketers from the South West of England and we get together to discuss what we’re working on, form business partnerships and learn new tricks of the trade.
Anyway, we had our last meeting a few days ago, and I picked up a useful traffic generation tip which I thought I’d pass on.
Here it is…
Say you want to get traffic to your blog or static website. Not an unlikely scenario I’m sure you’ll agree! Well, a good way to do that is to make useful and interesting comments on the high traffic blogs in your niche.
Ofcourse, it stands to reason that the first comments posted are the most read as they’re directly underneath the blog post itself. The problem then is how to track all the related blogs for new posts so you can be one of the first to comment.
That’s where Comment Sniper comes in…
It’s a neat little desktop app created by organic traffic expert Duncan Carver that notifies you whenever a new post has been made on a related blog.
You simply configure it to monitor the specific blogs you’re interested in and Comment Sniper does the rest.
As soon as it spots a new post, it flashes up a little message on your desktop (or it will send you a SMS text message using Skype if you prefer), so you can rush over and be the first to comment. Keep doing that over a period of time and you’ll soon have numerous quality backlinks pointing back to your blog.
A handy feature built-in to the software is the Blog Search utility. Just enter a niche topic and it will search all the major search engines for related blogs. It even displays their Alexa and Google Page Rankings so you can assess their worth.
Comment Sniper is 100% free, although you do have to register. Give it a try and let me know what results you get by making a comment below.
I’ll be tracking my results too and post my findings in a few weeks time.
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Hey Graham, interesting lil software. It sounds like it does what any RSS feed will do but additionally text message your phone to notify you.
Unfortunatly I have a disease that forces me to put any new web-browser enabled cell phone through the nearest washing machine within a week of obtaining it. Thus I’m not able to reply online until I get back to my ‘puter.
For the life of me though, I cannot get rid of this cursed and indestructable Nokia from 2001. (featuring a cutting-edge color display!)
Cheers mate! Hey I just sniped your blog! =)
Tom
Hi Tom,
The advantage of comment sniper over a regular RSS feed though is that it flashes up a little box from your computer’s system tray every time a new post is made, so you can’t miss it.
Thanks for sniping me btw. I look forward to reading more of your comments!
Cheers…Graham