What's the best way to get people commenting on your blog posts?

Find a way to get your readers to sign up as subscribers to your AWEBER email list. Offer them a freebie, create a popup...do whatever you have to do in order to get them on that list.

Then, take your RSS Feed and stuff it into Aweber using their Blog-to-Email (or RSS-To-Email...can't remember which) function.

From then on you can set it so that a digest of your blog posts is received either every day, every other day, or instantly as it's published. (there's actually limitless configuration on how often the email goes out)

From then on, your people will get an email notifying them that there is new content and it will give them a teaser of the post plus a link to the blog post. Very nifty.

RSS has not been the "replacement for email" that many technoheads thought it would be. Email is still #1 and now you can use it on autopilot to drive people back to your blog.

Note: you can also do this for free using Feedburner, but you can't customize the template of the email, you can't adjust when the emails go out, and I don't think you can email your list of people when you have a special offer like with Aweber...they only get updates from the RSS feed.

1. Be interesting...no seriously, this is the #1 challenge a blogger has in gaining an audience and getting them active

2. Give them a challenge. End your blog postings with challenges, questions, invitations to comment or participate

3. Run a contest where the top commenter gets something each week - a freebie product, service, gift certificate, etc... Run this for a month and you will start to get them into a habit of participating

4. Run a special day each week when you post a lesson or tip and take questions...sort of a "blog-in day" where you will take questions on your topic and answer them via comments. I've done this on Friday's and gotten dozens of questions that I then turn into dozens of responses which then lead to additional questions, etc...

Hope that helps,

Jeff

Craig,

I agree with a lot of the most common methods of attracting comments, i.e. commenting on other blogs, article submissions with back links, etc.

However, you need to get the idea out into the blogosphere that you really know your stuff and practice what you preach. I just looked at the video you have and it has the "tease" 10 secrets of pro bloggers." Spill some of the 10 secrets out so present a mystery of what the rest of the "secrets" are.

You should look into your products you are selling and give your OWN personal testimonials of how these products work and then solicit people to react to your methods and results.

Paint stories of your experiences with blogging and where you are going with it. People will eventually comment. Also, more people are "lurkers" than commenters. I don't really judge a great blog solely on comments. I look at the visitor metrics and see from where they come from to get to my blog, the key words and phrases that brings them to my blog. I want visitors more than I want comments.

Hope that helps!

Regards,

Bruce