All is good in this Commenting Wisdom; except that it fails to recognize the human element involved in commenting process. Failing to involve the Human Factor in the commenting wisdom, makes the bloggers walk the wisdom, in a wrong way. And very soon they are overwhelmed. First signs of this overwhelming, is that they stop focusing on content. Later stages include blogging waywardness; culminating in disillusion (from Blogging).
The Right way to approach Commenting:
Commenting on other people's blogs, works well; when you have Good content on your own blog. In the absence of good content, commenting will be useless; as people who visit to your blog, will be bounces (means "Visit and Leave, and Never ever visit Again". Look for Bounce Rate for your site in its analytics page). So Commenting can never go beyond 10-15 percent percent of your Total blogging time. For instance if you sit 10 hours a day for your blog; then you should not spend more than 1 or 1 & 1/2 hour on commenting.
Comment, as a Reader:
Don't make commenting your objective. Instead, approach the other persons' blog as a reader. The main reason for bloggers getting overwhelmed with commenting, is that they approach other blogs as a blogger (with the aim to get back links and traffic). Approach the other's blog as a reader.
Comment only if you like Commenting:
Approaching any blog for the greed of traffic and back-links is not good. It will overwhelm you sooner than expected. So comment on only those blogs which you like to read. Here Reading part is important and must take 70 percent of your commenting Time. As if you don't read an article, you will not make a useful comment. That apart, if you don't like commenting even after reading an article, don't throw a careless or robotic comment such as "Valid point" or "Great Blog". Instead, just leave that page; and look for something better to read.
Make Useful Comments:
Now, if you are into blogging for some time now, you may also tell a difference between a Spammy comment and that done with the intent to value add the article. If you as ablogger know it; so do the other bloggers. Hence, the eternal rule of commenting is: Make Useful comments. Useful comments go beyond -- "Good", "Great", "Agree" etc. Useful Comments inform, criticise and rattle. Above all they are well grounded.
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