3 Ways To Get More Blog Comments

Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

After the light bulb from Alex Syseof’s blog post that we discussed yesterday I realized it had been a while since we looked at commenting. So this will be part of a series on blog comments.

Getting More Blog Comments

Make it easy

Sorry if I go to your blog with a few rare exceptions and you make me register or go through a captcha form to post a comment I probably won’t. If you make it harder you will get fewer comments.

There are ways to protect from comment spammers that do not make your reader jump through hoops. Most of us just won’t do it. (Yeah I am not only old and bald but lazy too..)

I will be covering what I use in a later post.

Reward your readers

Use a plugin like comment luv that will show your commenters last blog post as part of their signature and I like to use do follow. Having do follow links and letting people know that you do follow increases your comments.

If you do not have proper spam protection and do not moderate comments this can be a pain but quality comments and conversations adds value so put in a little effort and remember to look for the next post which will minimize that effort. (I know two teases for the next post already , think I want to make sure you come back and how many more will I sneak in?)

Ask

Surprisingly simple yet often overlooked. Ask people to answer questions when you are ending your posts. Seems simple but can be quite effective.

Just a simple please leave your comments below can increase the number of blog comments you get. Isn’t what’s below more effective though?

There are 3 ways you can increase your comments on your blog what other ways did I miss? Leave your comment below.

Yes I know you won’t comment now just because but cut a guy a break

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