Writing 200-word comments on big posts: 60 days in

Writing 200-word comments on big posts: 60 days in

Everyone says: "Leave thoughtful essay-comments on big accounts and siphon their audience."

A consultant committed: one substantial 150-200 word comment a day on large in-niche posts, 60 days, no other change to his own posting.

The claim: top comments funnel their audience to you.

Results: 6 of 60 comments hit "top comment." Profile views from commenting: ~340 over two months. New relevant followers attributable: 70-ish. Inbound from it: one solid lead, who became a client.

The honest read: low volume, but the one client paid for the whole experiment several times over. This part actually works — credit where due — but not as a reach hack. It works as targeted outreach disguised as generosity.

The value wasn't the audience he "siphoned." It was the one buyer who read a comment and thought "this person gets it."