How I Got More Than 4500 Visits Through Blog Commenting (with numbers)
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Some important questions to ask: how much time did you spend reading & identifying places to comment, and then writing the comments? Doing some calculation, how much time did it take you to earn each visit on average? What % converted to subscribers? And what % of subscribers (and visitors in general, I suppose) clicked on the ads that seem to support this blog, since you don't appear to sell anything?
Or more succinctly: how much total time did you have to spend to earn however much money you've made from this effort? What was the opportunity cost of this action? My gut is: exceptionally high.
I don't make any really interesting amount of money from the blog (I'd love to, but it is hard). The number of subscribers that resulted is hard to tell. At most, I can tell how many people clicked on my subscribe page after visiting, but they don't necessarily subscribe in the end. I have added event tracking, now I could do it... But in September I could not (Google changed its code).
It was exceptionally high, but from what I've seen, the blogging community suggests the best ways are guest posting "by far" and the blog commenting. And from what I've seen... It is false. Guest posting results in very few visits which result in very few more subscribers.