Darren Rowse at the ProBlogger had a post a while back called “Respond to Comments on Your Blog.” And it reminded me just how important such a practice is to blogging. And how this is just one more example of how blogging is so much different than a static website.

I have mentioned many times how blogging is a conversation, a communication and a different way to talk to others. Including our clients, our market and others in our particular field.

Commenting on other blogs and commenting to comments left on our own blog is just one example of how we keep that conversation and communication channel open. Don’t overlook this “most basic skills that any blogger should spend time working on.

Another practice I do and one mentioned on Darren’s post is, click on the link created by those comments who provide their URL. I click on them so I can see what the person‘s blog or website might be. And if it is a blog and I like what they are doing, I might add them to my RSS reader. Just another example of how commenting can actually increase the traffic for the person commenting.

And don’t overlook the importance of leaving a comment on their blog. Traffic becomes traffic becomes traffic.