Wes Pomeroy · 2026-08-30 – 2026-09-06
When you comment on someone else's post, LinkedIn shows what you wrote to their audience, not yours. A comment can reach people who would never see anything you publish.
LinkedIn quietly counts how many people saw each of your comments, but it never shows you the pattern. This page pulls it together: what you wrote, who saw it, and whether the careful ones did any better than the quick ones.
The idea behind this audit is not ours. It comes from Richard van der Blom, who wrote it up as “Your Best Post This Week Is Not A Post” and does the long-running research behind it at richardvanderblom.com. He does the audit by hand in a spreadsheet. This does the same job automatically.
Each number below comes with a grade and one thing to do about it. Only comments on other people's posts count here — replying under your own post is a different activity, and LinkedIn reports no view count for it.
A good week with one or two things to tighten. Look at the lowest grade below first.
Averaged across the 5 graded measures below. The scale is this tool's own, not Richard van der Blom's research — it is a way to read your week at a glance, not an industry benchmark.
Your 18 comments were seen 3,891 times against about 2,049 followers, so commenting put you in front of 1.9 times your whole audience. Most of those people do not follow you. You are borrowing someone else's room.
Do thisKeep the count steady and watch this number weekly. If it climbs while your posting stays flat, commenting is the cheaper half of your reach.
18 comments over 8 days, about 2.2 a day. Richard van der Blom sets the bar at 20 in a week; you are at roughly 16 at this pace.
Do thisAdd a short block to your day for this. Getting to 20 a week is the cheapest change available to you, and it comes before any attempt to write better ones.
Your comment on Paul Smith's post was seen 1,519 times. The other 17 together came to 2,372. Reach is lumpy, so a single week's numbers can be one lucky room.
Do thisWatch out for reading too much into this week. Go back to Paul Smith and comment again — if it repeats, that is a room worth living in.
8 replies across 18 comments. A reply means the author or another reader came back to you, which is where profile visits start.
Do thisEnd more comments with a specific question. Questions aimed at one claim in the post draw answers; agreement does not.
You left 6 replies under your own posts and 18 on other people's. Answering your own commenters keeps a thread alive, but it only reaches people who already found you.
Do thisReply to your own commenters in one short sitting, then spend the rest of the time in other people's threads.
11 of your 16 subject comments brought a fact, an example, a question or an argument. The rest were hellos and agreement.
Do thisBefore posting a comment, check it says something the post did not. If it does not, either add one or skip it.
Each comment was read and sorted into one of five kinds, based only on what it says. How many people saw it was deliberately left out of that judgement, because otherwise the answer would be circular.
| Kind of comment | How many | Views for a typical one |
|---|---|---|
Making your own point Substantial enough to stand on its own. | 0 | — |
Asking or pushing back You questioned or challenged something specific. | 8 | 94 |
Adding something You brought a fact, an example, or something you did. | 3 | 236 |
Agreeing You said yes and gave a reason. Anyone could have written it. | 5 | 118 |
Just saying hi Congrats, nice post, a thumbs up. Friendly, adds nothing. | 2 | 107 |
16 were about the subject and 2 were friendly notes — a congratulations, a hello. Friendly ones are a normal part of being a person here. They are just not doing the same job.
This is the whole reason to bother. If putting real thought into a comment gets it in front of more people, that is worth knowing. If it does not, that is worth knowing too.
Yes, so far. Your thought-through comments were seen about 183 times each. Your quick ones, about 118. Writing the better comment looks like it is paying you back.
Careful with this one. It rests on 18 comments over 2026-08-30 to 2026-09-06. One popular post can move the whole answer. Ask again after three or four weekly runs, when there is enough to trust it.
Some people's posts put you in front of a big audience and some do not. Rather than guess, this ranks them by what your own comments actually earned. It waits until you have commented with someone three times, because one good result is luck.
Nothing to rank yet. You have not commented on any one person's posts three times, so there is no pattern to read. This fills in after a few weeks of running the audit.
Going back to these people is the fastest way to find out whether it repeats.
| Person | Your best comment was seen |
|---|---|
Paul Smith Chief Commercial Officer | 1,519 |
Randy Sadler Principal, CIC Services, LLC | 376 |
Ethan Mollick Associate Professor at The Wharton School. Author of Co-Existence, com | 343 |
Allison Herbert Senior Product Manager · Growth, Discovery & Experimentation for B2B S | 248 |
Aleksandra Przegalinska Professor & Vice Rector, Kozminski Uni / Harvard CLJE Fellow/ CampusAI | 236 |
Most seen first, so you can judge for yourself what landed and what did not.
One week cannot tell you much. The answers above get real around the third or fourth run, when there is enough to see a pattern instead of a coincidence.
If a comment landed in the wrong kind, say so. The rules live in a plain text file and are meant to be changed.
Once you have commented with someone three times they show up ranked above, and that is when this starts telling you where to spend your time.
The framework this measures against is Richard van der Blom's, from “Your Best Post This Week Is Not A Post”. His wider research on how LinkedIn actually behaves lives at richardvanderblom.com. The 20-comments-a-week bar used above is his. The letter grades are this tool's own.
Built September 06, 2026 at 08:04. View counts come from your own LinkedIn activity page and keep climbing for a day or two after you comment, so running this again updates them rather than counting anything twice.