Thread: How do you get comments?

Hi,

Just wondering if any of you have ideas on how to get comments at your blog? Right now I am seeing 500 UV a day but very few comments. Would like comments to go up. Any one got any tricks or advice for this.

Thanks in Advance.

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Sami

You could always join the "do follow" movement.
Get yourself some good spam protection if you do!

but if you use "do follow", your site lost some weight.

Originally Posted by Harvester

but if you use "do follow", your site lost some weight.

True, but it's barely worth worrying about.
Give me visitors over PR any day.

i ask them to respond at end of my post with link #respond or #postcomment
works on single post page only.
So i make sure to put <!--more--> before this link.

I usually ask a question at the end of blogs...gets some people commenting.

Usually it's just something like "Do you agree with what i've said?"

Oh and always reply to comments - creating comment discussions is always good.

make your blog dofollow and people will start commenting on you blog

Originally Posted by weblover50

make your blog dofollow and people will start commenting on you blog

make your blog dofollow and [strike]people[/strike] webmasters [strike]will[/strike] might start commenting on you blog

Do you comment on blogs only because they provide you with a link or touch you on some basic human level?

Touch people on some basic human level and you might be lucky enough to be left a comment by them.

Originally Posted by CountryBoy

True, but it's barely worth worrying about.
Give me visitors over PR any day.

I agree I'll take people over PR any Day.

Originally Posted by i13

i ask them to respond at end of my post with link #respond or #postcomment
works on single post page only.
So i make sure to put <!--more--> before this link.

I ask for them to respond all the time like whats your thought on this.

But why use the <!--more--> tag???

Originally Posted by Halobitt

Touch people on some basic human level and you might be lucky enough to be left a comment by them.

Well I try to do that as an example. On my celebrity passing I get few comments but I have seen on some sites where people have typed just RIP as a comment or something small and have over 30+ posts.

On other sites I have seen people type first just to be the first person to reply to the post.

This is what I am trying for.

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Sami

Originally Posted by Sami4u

Well I try to do that as an example. On my celebrity passing I get few comments but I have seen on some sites where people have typed just RIP as a comment or something small and have over 30+ posts.

On other sites I have seen people type first just to be the first person to reply to the post.

This is what I am trying for.

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Sami

Generally you'll only get people commenting first to be the first person if your blog is really active and gets a lot of comments really quickly. Guess people just turn it into a wee competition or something.

Making your blog dofollow (I don't think) will help you much. Unless your blog is aimed at webmasters/marketing people of course. Making a blog dofollow other than that is just asking for spammy comments all the time from marketers/webmasters for links back and I don't think they benefit any blog really.

From writing a blog for a while now i've noticed that I get more comments on the newer posts I make - probably because i've built up a community of readers who are interested in the subject at hand. As I said before I also find that when I ask questions throughout the post (one or two at most...don't want to flood readers with questions) you get more comments because they answer the questions.
I also find that I get more when I write a blog that is worded as if it was written by a normal person (I say normal, I really just mean that it's not professionally written), just so it doesn't sound like an essay or something. Guess it makes people feel like they are actually talking to a person if they comment or something like that.
It's a shame I don't own the blog lol, still get paid for it

Honestly, i'd just concentrate on writing good posts that people can read easily and not worry about comments - they will come as your blog progresses.

Originally Posted by Sami4u

Hi,

Just wondering if any of you have ideas on how to get comments at your blog? Right now I am seeing 500 UV a day but very few comments. Would like comments to go up. Any one got any tricks or advice for this.

Thanks in Advance.

:flower:

Sami

When you information or the contents meet the vistors' need, they may leave a comment or become a regular vistor.

Originally Posted by Sami4u

I ask for them to respond all the time like whats your thought on this.

But why use the <!--more--> tag???

Exactly i link the question href="#respond". So every time a person click on this is taken directly to write comment part.
Now more tag is so that #respond or #postcomment link do not appear on front page as these link work on single post only.

Hope its clear this time.

Definitely reply to comments, and I'd suggest switching to DoFollow. I could care less about pagerank, as long as I'm getting returning visitors. I don't even have AdSense, I'm perfectly happy with a non-profit blog. But that's just me. :P

Most the comments I get are from spammers

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

I usually ask a question at the end of blogs...gets some people commenting.

Usually it's just something like "Do you agree with what i've said?"

Oh and always reply to comments - creating comment discussions is always good.

Asking a question is a good idea. Sometime posting some incorrect opinions may get more comments, even you know the correct answer.

Originally Posted by Halobitt

make your blog dofollow and [strike]people[/strike] webmasters [strike]will[/strike] might start commenting on you blog

Do you comment on blogs only because they provide you with a link or touch you on some basic human level?

Touch people on some basic human level and you might be lucky enough to be left a comment by them.

I agree with you people are visiting to comment and try to live on there link.

Originally Posted by Harvester

but if you use "do follow", your site lost some weight.

I don't think so you must use akisme software for spammer and more over it increase your visit and googlle traffic.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

I usually ask a question at the end of blogs...gets some people commenting.

Usually it's just something like "Do you agree with what i've said?"

Oh and always reply to comments - creating comment discussions is always good.

Yah, When people comment on your blog they appreciate you or discuss about your blog issue and i am always agree with discussion is good and help your writing and content.

Participating on some related blogs and commenting on them can really increase your visibility within your blog network. I guess that's the best thing you should do. And also, try to make your content, stories, or whatever post it is more interesting so that people would comment on it..

Making the links Dofollow will make the blog miraculously have hundreds of comments...mostly posted by machines. You will have a lot of spam to come on your website. Some blogger i know that has a PR3 website and Nofollow comments has 50 comments a day (95 per cent of them being spam). Just imagine that number on the same dofollow blog.

Talg added 0 Minutes and 40 Seconds later...

To sum it up, you will have a lot of comments but to many to deal with.

I agree making link dofollow will include your blog to dofollow blog list sold at Dp for 7$ :twisted:

Originally Posted by i13

Exactly i link the question href="#respond". So every time a person click on this is taken directly to write comment part.
Now more tag is so that #respond or #postcomment link do not appear on front page as these link work on single post only.

Hope its clear this time.

Looks like I learned something new today

I did not know about these Codes. I'll try and see it this helps

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Sami

You may also leave an interesting questions at the end part of your post. This may also help attract more readers to leave some comments..

Ask questions including specific questions in posts definitely helps get higher numbers of comments. I find that when I include questions in my headings that it is a particularly effective way of getting a response from readers as you set a question in their mind from the first moments of your post.

you should add the do follow attribute to your blog to get moe comments