Yesterday I discussed how to pay for blog comments. My answer was pretty simple. If people post comments on your blog, and they also have a blog or forum, visit their site and post comments.

In my case, I promised to write three (!) blog postings for every posting on WebWord. That seemed pretty fair to me. I’m happy to say that since yesterday, I’ve “Paid It Back” to six different people. I think that my comments were interesting and useful, but maybe not. In any event, here’s where I’ve gone:

http://www.symplebyte.com

http://investorgeeks.com (…and related)

http://allaboutusers.wordpress.com/

http://www.myneatsite.com/blog/

http://chittahchattah.blogspot.com/

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/ (Did they stick?)

Quick sidebar: I need to write something up about blog posting validation. In effect, different sites are using mechanisms to prevent blog spam. More on that some time in the future…

So, here’s another way to reward blog postings. As Steve Portigal says, what I could do is add and update a blogroll to my site which is adjusted based on comments being posted. I like the idea but it raises the issue of “Me Too!” postings as well as blog spam. (Ugh.)

And here’s yet another way to reward (good) blog postings. If you’ll notice above, I explicitly linked to six different web sites. I can guarantee that will drive at least a small amount of traffic. Further, given my Google Page Rank of 6 (reasonable but not outrageous), this could bump traffic from follow up searches in the future. Put another way, you can simply pay others back with links. Isn’t the web beautiful?

So, we now have at least three non-financial payment models:
1. Scratch my back with postings, I’ll scratch yours with postings.
2. Scratch my back with postings, I’ll include you in my blogroll.
3. Scratch my back with postings, I’ll link to your site.

What sayeth WebWord readers?

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