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Do People Comment On Your Blog

by JeffersonB
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Just wondering?

I get quite high traffic to my blog however not many comments.. a couple a week maybe and i aim to post one blog a day.

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  • Profile picture of the author Rob D
    Not people as such - but the autoposters seem to find them just fine.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris_Willow
      Originally Posted by alexa_s View Post

      A friend of mine had a similar situation, wanted comments, and started mentioning in her blogging that comments were welcome; and when she did that, she started getting comments (which she then had to moderate, so it was a mixed blessing). Just a thought ...
      I'll have to try this one...
      I have some traffic, but the comment rate sucks

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  • Profile picture of the author James Schramko
    If you send an email to your subscribers about a new blog post they will generally comment
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    • Profile picture of the author sydneymatt
      I have a similar problem. I have a blog that gets okay traffic (500-700 a day lately) yet the comments just trickle in.

      One thing I've found that does help is if I reply to the comments that I do get, then those commenters come back and comment again. Also, if I comment on other blogs that I like, those bloggers will sometimes return the favour.

      Unfortunately I've been flat out for a while, so I only have the time to post to my blog, and none to using these techniques. However if I kept applying them I'm sure comments would go up substantially.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stanley Tang
    Encourage them to leave comments. Articles which make you go "wow" or something controversial tend to get the most comments.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
      Originally Posted by Stanley Tang View Post

      Encourage them to leave comments. Articles which make you go "wow" or something controversial tend to get the most comments.
      It wouldn't be possible to formulate the answer better at this. I agree with Stanley. Also will help if you reply to commenters, so evolves a dialog and people come back again. People like to see that you notice them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rachel Goodchild
    I've grown very attached to some of my commenters!
    Actually I am a complete blog convert!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
      You are welcome, Rachel!
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  • Profile picture of the author Graham Maddison
    Interesting!
    I don't get too many visitors to my blog, but i do get some good comments.

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    • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
      Originally Posted by Graham Maddison View Post

      Interesting!
      I don't get too many visitors to my blog, but i do get some good comments.

      Graham
      Hi Graham,

      The quantity is not all. As I experienced, the quality overcomes quality generally. And the good comments may be contains further opportunities what you can exploit.

      Cheers,

      Sandor
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    Well, one thing that i used with my own blog to encourage comments is i reward them with PR..

    My blog is a do-follow, so people like to comment on them in hope of getting good external links pointing to their blog.

    I had quite a hit with it until i changed my blog from Joomla to WP. My PR dropped to 2 from the high of 4. Now i have to work on my PR back to regain the commentators who used to come to my blog.

    But hey, this works, and you can try.

    *p/s- its still a do-follow blog :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author John Hillage
    In my IM blog I get hardly any - yet in one of my non-IM niche blogs I get 20-30 per week.
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    • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
      Originally Posted by John Hillage View Post

      In my IM blog I get hardly any - yet in one of my non-IM niche blogs I get 20-30 per week.
      yup, this is quite true.. guess we IMers are busy to post comments.. :p
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Sol
    My last blog post had 23 comments! And that IM blog is relatively new
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