Does this work the same for a Ping back comment? I read some place that if you have a blog it is better to comments on your own blog and Ping back to the comment to the blog your commenting on. That way traffic on your blog will see your comment as well as people visiting the blog your commenting on.

However I have never actually done this yet.

[quote=Doin' bpose]I have gone from 0 to about 25mph in a few months. I have posted regularly for almost 3 months. I have traffic which averages out to about 3 visits per day. I have peak days of about 30 hits and some with no hits. Traffic is increasing. Feedback is positive. Least (but some) of my hit are search engine hits, most of the hits is facebook traffic from my sphere. I have a question about a repeat visitor I am getting, statsactive.com/counter. Does this mean I am being visited regularly by the search engines?

Also I have put links to my favorite posts in my email signature. I am not certain how those show up.

Thanks for any feedback. [/quote]

A good way to see how often Google is crawling your site is to sign up for Google Webmasters - it gives you a ton of stats related to how the GoogleBot sees your site, how many times it crawls your site, and a host of other useful stats.

http://google.com/webmasters

You can broadly classify blog comments as:
1. spam
2. worthless
3. beneficial to the conversation

No matter the type of comment you left, it will always provide some kind of SEO benefit - - so long as it's accepted by the moderator, and there was a link somewhere in the comment. If the link is dofollow you get a good bit of SEO benefit. If the link is nofollow you don't get much (but that's not to say you get zero).

If you leave a beneficial comment you see 2 positives: creating a positive relationship with the blogger, and maybe some traffic back to your site. In my experience, don't expect a ton of traffic. You'll get more traffic if you're able to leave a link in the body of the comment to a webpage that's relevant to the discussion (i.e. a similar blog post you wrote).

persomally i find it difficult to comment on blogs because some of the blogs i find on google search are mostly not updated. i prefer writing my own blogs than commenting on other peoples blogs.