Most blogging software allows commentators to leave their URL; that can mean backlinks and traffic. But something I’ve been noticing a lot recently is that some links lead nowhere. Turns out, the authors usually forgot a letter or reversed two letters in the URL. That simple error can cost you a backlink or boatload of traffic.
So, here’s a quick tip, before you hit the submit button to enter your comment on a blog, double check to make sure you’ve written your URL properly.
(And, if you don’t have a website, leave the space blank - it’s usually not required.)
haha, that’s right. I have not just made this mistake once, but many times. I think almost every commentor such mistakes. Can’t imagine people are just that careless. Oh well, we learn from mistakes.
# April 8th, 2007
I’ve notices that the visitors on some of my blogs do the same thing - the link just doesn’t work because of a careless mistake - thanks again for the reminder..
# April 16th, 2007
Funny how you can spend ages to write a good comment, and then you mess up the URL to your blog. Only takes 2 secs to doublecheck…
# April 23rd, 2007
I have the informenter extension for firefox installed, which allows you to save text which you may use often in forms. Then, a little arrow appears next to each field and you can click it to pick one of your saved texts. I have my website url saved (and I made sure it was correct when I saved it) so I just click that and I am sure that it won’t be wrong. Usually after one comment I don’t have to enter the info again anyway (even on other blogs as long as its the same platform; usually wordpress)
# June 25th, 2007