Blog commenting gives you opportunities to not only share your opinion on what you read but it also introduces other readers and the blog owner to you and your own website. The best part of this introduction is that whether people agree with your comments or not, you’ve given them the key they need to visit your site and bring you new and unique traffic.

By visiting multiple blogs and leaving comments, you share valuable information and thoughts with a whole community of people. You may find them coming to your site simply to say thank you for the comments while other people may let you know that they found your site through a comment you left on another blog. Every person who reads your comment is potential free traffic to your website.

Often, a blogger may need to take a break from blogging but doesn’t want to lose traffic to their site while they are on hiatus. They may ask other bloggers to fill in for them as guest bloggers. Guest bloggers write related content to be posted on the other blogger’s home site. If you’re ever asked to be a guest blogger take advantage of the opportunity to find new readers and get new traffic.

Your posts will be read by the other blogger’s visitors and readers. Every day that you post as a guest blogger, you can blog about topics that have appeared on your own page and use those topics as click throughs to your own blog or you can simply add your URL to your bio in every post. Guest posting is a great way to introduce yourself to a new community and interact with readers and possibly gain new ones.

You can participate in blog carnivals by searching for sites that host blog carnivals or by hosting your own. Links are collected and then posted for blog readers to click through like a magazine. For readers, a blog carnival is a great way to find information and posts on a topic of interest. For bloggers, it’s a great way to get free traffic back to their site.

Whether you’re creating your own carnival or participating in someone else’s, a blog carnival is free. You must write a post that pertains to the theme (for instance, pet care) and then submit your link to the blog carnival host, by the deadline. You can choose to participate in as many carnivals as you like, each one will bring unique traffic to your blog.

Though blog carnivals can be published weekly or monthly, the link backs to your content can continue long after it’s over as others discover your content.

Taking advantage of other blog owner’s readership is simple. If you have a website about gourmet food, for example, you will want to find a handful of blogs that have to do with cooking, food preparation, or recipes. Those would be the most obvious topics, but you can think outside the box as well. A blog that focuses on family life or the life of a mom may have the type of readers who would love to find out more about gourmet foods.

Try subscribing to a few of these blogs, hopefully finding ones that already have a stream of steady blog comments. This way you know there are enough readers to make it worth your while, as it does take some time to leave a comment in response to a blog post.

Most importantly, do make your comments meaningful. Becoming a trusted blog visitor is important, and eventually the other visitors will be interested in what you do–and click through your signature to your site.

After you sign up with Wordpress, you will want to choose a blog name. Creating a blog is a lot like making an online newsletter that will share information about you, your company, or your product. You can post weekly updates–or daily if you have time–the choice is yours. The free Wordpress platform is exactly that–free.

You might consider paying a small amount to have a writer compose your blog posts for you, especially if you have trouble with grammar and spelling. In order to make the readers click through to your website from the blog, you will want to project a professional image. The free platform makes it easy to create a professional looking blog, but it’s up to you to make sure the content in the blog posts is relevant and accurate.