You might wonder what is a blog without conversation? Well, it is a subjective question and many factors such as human behaviour influenceing on how people interact in a blog. A blog might sounds dull without many comments and now, here are the ways that may help you increase the number of comments in your blog.
1. Make your post valuable:
:Nothing is important than a unique content. A unique content will make your blog’s vision kept in visitors mind for a few days at least, and provides such trademark to your blog. Let’s say everybody blog about “the importance of having comments in a blog” , then you blog about other things, “having many comments does not mean your blog is successful”. That shows you “think out of the box”.
2. Make a friends with some bloggers
:You can’t live alone in blogosphere just like you’re sitting alone in your room. Make some friends with fellow bloggers, by becoming a loyal reader of their site. This can be considered as mutual benifit for both partys. Don’t make foes by attacking other’s blog unreasonabaly, and be friendly. All problems such as different opinion can be solved calmly.
3. Send a welcoming e-mail to your first-time commentator
:This may be time consuming, but worth it. You can send a welcoming e-mail to your visitor to make they feel their visit is appreciated. As result, you can turn them into your loyal reader, which will do the “word-of-mouth marketing technique” for you.
4. Provide some stuffs in your blog
:NOw, if you know some computing stuffs, you can create a plugin, download respitory, or theme for your blog visitors. Oftenly stuff blog got more promotion than ordinary blog, unless the ordinary blog is havecreative posts.
5. Comments on other blogs
:Whether you know the blogger or not, just comment but don’t leave a spam. This tactics work as a long-term strategy so don’t surprised if you have no comment replied in your blog by the owner. Wait patiently, keep commenting and you will have the visitors to your blog. A good way of doing that is to comment on fresh, important, high traffic contents.
6. Show Top Commentators Plugin
Include “Show Top Commentor Plugin” if you use wordpress cms as a blogging platform. A detailed explanation how it can help you can be found here.
7. Do promotion, and promotion
:Keep promoting your blog in forums, bulletin board, or high-traffic website that provides place for advertising. You can also post your content’s hyperlink to social bookmarking sites to get more readers from around the world.
Conclusion: Try any those method above and see whether it works for you. In my opinion, another crucial attraction of a blog is the blogger’s personalty him/herself. Build your own identity and be yourself. If possible, don’t hide behind an image. Your thought?
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May 31st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
good tips..I’ll try it..thanks…
June 1st, 2007 at 1:42 am
no problem mate. Keep reading my blog!
July 31st, 2007 at 1:46 am
Thanks… good tips
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 am
Hi Fuad. Making friends with other bloggers is very key, but it seems like because the internet is faceless it’s hard to do. So one thing I would add to your list is make sure that you personality comes through in your blogging and you will attract more comments and readers.