Blogging Tips – How to Double Your Comments In 5 Steps
It’s no secret that your blog thrives on its readers, so it’s important to understand how to increase your blog comments as one of the simplest blogging tips! These methods below will help you to not only increase readership to your blog, but double your blog comments in five simple steps:
Ask for comments
This seems incredibly logical, but many readers may feel apt to skim your page but not leave a comment that is worthwhile. If you ask for comments about a specific topic, you can definitely stir the waters and get a conversation started. Many readers may not take the initiative to leave a comment, but if you are asking, they will be more than likely to give their opinion
Ask specific questions
This goes hand-in-hand with the first tip, but if you ask questions on your blog, people will be likely to answer. Any questions that you ask, whether it is an opinion on a product, an opinion on a person, or advice, will be more likely to generate answers. Be as creative as possible! If you have a blog about pet care, ask people questions about their best remedies for keeping their pets active, and you will be likely to have a number of answers in personal opinions. It is always best to ask questions that are close to a person’s heart, making it more likely for a reader to comment.
Interact with any comments that your readers have left
If your readers have already left comments, it is to your advantage to answer back and stimulate the conversation. Readers don’t want to feel like they are talking to themselves, so you need to be just as active in commenting back on your blog to encourage comments.
Be a humble blogger
This is something that will make a genuine impression on your readers, but if you present yourself as a real person with weaknesses, people will be attracted to that. This will let your keep readers get to know you so that they will comment back as often as possible and maintain a loyal following. If people feel that they can really connect with you, they will be much more likely to leave comments about a subject matter and keep coming back to your blog.
Use the Keyword Luv plug-in
This is a surefire tactic that will work to guarantee tons and tons of blog comments, most of which will be spam. This is a WordPress plug-in that you can use to give a Do Follow link back to a website with a keyword as anchor text. Anyone hoping to gain backlinks to their website will be attracted to your blog to leave comments, but as a rule of thumb, it is important to only reward genuine comments that contribute to the conversation. As a word of warning, you will have to weed through a serious amount of spam with this plug-in, but it will provide a serious increase in comments to your blog
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Blog Commenting: A Dangerous Problem…
When trying to comment on my own blog @ Codrut Turcanu dot com I stumbled upon a crazy blog commenting problem…
It was an error in fact, saying something like this:
I couldn’t believe it. I checked the problem and it seems the anti-spam plugin I’ve been using was blocking my IP.
So I removed WP-SPAM FREE plugin and now I can comment on my blogs fine.
Did this happen to you too?
Also, another blog commenting problem: when trying to comment on other people’s blogs [small or big, individual, or company], I couldn’t post my comment [it didn't appear at all] if I included a link with anything after the slash
For e.g. I could comment on blogs with codrutturcanu.com link in the “web site” field, but not if I added something afterwards, like for e.g. http://www.codrutturcanu.com/mbninja
It looks like the majority of blogs [regardless the link] has a plugin or WP default option not accepting urls with anything after the slash
That’s crazy. Just imagine if you have a blog and some commentators include a link like that in the comment field, their comment will go nowhere, so you upset those people.
That means less readers/comments on your blog. It’s really bad. We should check and solve this problem once and for all.
Make sure you let other bloggers about this problem and let’s spread the word!