Regularly making comments on blogs can be a great marketing strategy for almost any website. There are millions of users who read and comment on blogs every day. Smart marketers are able to attract these readers to their website or blog by commenting on blogs related to their topic.
Marketing tactics have been around since commerce began thousands of years ago. Well before the explosion of public relations and Edward Bernays in the late 1920s, ancient Egyptians would nail papyrus to a wall or tree advertising their businesses.
For many individuals, hobbies remain just that – hobbies. However, with the right balance of drive, creativity and business smarts, you can transform any hobby into a profit-generating online business – simply by creating a blog about your hobby.
StumbleUpon and Digg are two sites that article marketers and the social network advertisers must take seriously. The sites are set up to send traffic to other websites, based on posts that users make. Frequently, it is the originator of a page, article, blog post or page comment, who will take the initiative to submit it to either or both sites.
Back when I was young and foolish – now I’m just the latter – I wrote for an educational children’s show that achieved critical acclaim, a Peabody, but no commercial success.





