Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
How are you getting your blog noticed with no comments on your blog? Well —a — you Won’t…..very well. And that is the point. I am going to comment on quite a few comments about comments : ) in this article about comments and hopefully get a few comments about the comments that I commented about. Oh there I go again! ….darn’ ….. Let’s get into it Getting Your Blog Noticed ….. Comments on your blog….made for you and from you.
The smart guy’s figure that about 90 of us don’t comment on blogs. Still that leaves quite a few when you think about it. The more relationships you build the more sharing of your blog will occur. That would help in how to get more money. So let’s get started. I will cover Increasing comments on your blog.
Getting Your Blog Noticed …. Increasing Comments on your blog
We could talk about some obvious things like writing compelling content that people want to read. You might try to misspell some words to get the English spell’n police out to correct you, but I think you expect a little more than that.
Be sure that your readers can find where to comment. Don’t hide it ….. If you plan on “promoting your blog” …. that’s for sure.
Getting your blog noticed ………………… can they find it?
Another idea is to make some controversy. You could ….. parade how George Bush should be President for 4 more years ….. you should always butter the bottom side of your toast ….. the toilet paper roll should always be placed with the leading edge ….. you get the idea. And here I thought we were having a discussion about promoting your blog! We are. So let’s get back to it.
Ask your readers to comment about your post. Ask people for their opinions, advice, what they like, their methods, any tips they might have, even questions that they have. Put ideas out there to inspire comments.
Getting Your Blog Noticed…..Comments on your blog
You can always leave out a few things. Don’t say every little thing on the topic; leave room for others to say something. That is easy for some of us.
Be sure to reply to those that comment on your blog ….. be conversational. That will encourage those that comment and let them know that you care about them. We all like a little love. Make it personal …. let them know you read their comment. They might start promoting your blog for you. : )
I have started using CommentLuv Plugin on my site. It is easy to use and gives a link to the last post the reader made on their blog automatically. I like that when leaving a comment so I’m thinking others would too. Have any of you had it on your sites? What are your thoughts?
Many Blogs have a widget installed on their sidebar that promotes their “top commentator’s”. Great idea. I would love to hear any pluses, minuses, tips …. whatever.
Commenting on others blogs will encourage them to comment on yours. Get the Love out there and some of it will return.
I am going to get into commenting on others blogs next in this series of Promoting Your Blog. Getting comments on your blog is a wonderful way to get to know your readers. At the same time, it helps in being more authoritative in Google’s eyes. And works “promoting your blog”.
All my Best,
Stephen Peters
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p.s. Why not tell me some experiences that you have had with comments, what you have done to get more comments Getting Your Blog Noticed!?
Comments
Curtman40, February 17, 2012, 14:30
Just a quick comment about the comments of this post on comments, this post was very informative and well put, I am hoping to have some comments one day on my blog.
uDaeth, February 18, 2012, 09:45
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Carmelo Humphrey, February 19, 2012, 18:15
Stephen an excellent post…very useful and friendly…
Crystal Watts, February 20, 2012, 11:00
Informative post! I agree, CommentLuv is a great plugin that auto-generates traffic to your latest post. Also, I noticed when leaving comments on others blogs, it does motivate others to return the Love! Thanks for sharing… http://websites24seven.com.
Karen, February 21, 2012, 14:50
Thanks for this article. It’s nice to read a blog about getting traffic that doesn’t say the same as the rest. Since I have a new website I’m always looking for great unique ways to generate traffic. Tired of reading the same thing. Nice to finally read a different article.
Stephen Peters, February 22, 2012, 10:15
Hi Karen, I appreciate your comment and kudos. Congratulations on the new website! I will come and visit it. Comments are great because it helps everyone involved. It is a great way with your new website to “steal” traffic from other high authority sites, like this one! My Best for you, ~Stephen
Emily Clarkson, February 23, 2012, 12:00
Stephen, this is a very insightful post. I’ve been struggling with getting comments on my blog, and your tips are really helpful. I’ll definitely try some of these strategies!
Jacob Walker, February 24, 2012, 15:30
I appreciate your thoughts on this, Stephen. Engaging with readers through comments is something I need to work on. Thanks for the advice!
Sophia Bennett, February 25, 2012, 18:00
Great post! I never thought about using the CommentLuv plugin before. I’ll give it a try on my blog. Thanks for the recommendation.
Daniel Reed, February 26, 2012, 20:45
Interesting ideas, Stephen. I particularly like the suggestion to leave room for others to contribute their thoughts. It’s a simple but effective way to encourage interaction.
Lucas Harris, February 27, 2012, 08:30
Thanks for the detailed post, Stephen. I’ve always wondered how to get more engagement on my blog. Your tips are practical and easy to implement. I’ll start applying them right away.
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The line about leaving room for others to say something is the one actual insight buried in here — most ‘get more comments’ posts just say post more, this one at least admits you can over-explain and kill the conversation.
The ‘stir up controversy to get comments’ suggestion assumes everyone wants a comments section full of arguments about politics and toilet paper. I built an audience writing plainly about my actual subject. Never once needed a manufactured fight to get a reply.
We called that ‘engagement bait’ a decade later, Anneke, but the toilet-paper-roll example here predates the term by a good while.
Gus’s point about recycled advice is fair — worth trying the opposite exercise instead. Pick the one topic in your niche you actually have a real opinion on and write that, rather than manufacturing a fight for its own sake.
What the post is gesturing at without ever naming it is something closer to ‘engagement bait’ – a pattern that gets studied a lot in platform design research, though usually on feeds with algorithmic ranking rather than a blog comment section like this one. The mechanism there is well understood: give people a small, fast reward for participating – a widget that shows your name, a link back to your own site via CommentLuv – and participation goes up regardless of whether the conversation underneath it is any good. What’s less studied, and what this post is really recommending without saying so, is whether that participation compounds into anything durable once the novelty of the widget wears off, which in my experience with these tools is usually eighteen months to two years before engagement quietly reverts to baseline. The advice to ‘reply and be conversational’ is the one piece here that doesn’t depend on novelty at all, which might be why it’s buried near the bottom instead of leading.
Either way, someone still has to reply to the toilet paper comment.
Anneke’s right that the controversy tactic ages badly. I spent years around this world where ‘stir the pot’ was standard advice for engagement — it gets you noise, not the kind of comment that actually tells you anything.