Comments on: Encouraging your readers to post comments

By: vardis1

vardis1 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:30:47 +0000

Nice tips. Keep them coming.
I dislike the way blog software comes nofollow by default. Surely it should be the other way around. Good on the people who change to dofollow.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:14:42 +0000

Fantastic information! It's really true what you said and bloggers/webmasters need to take it to heart. Most think that it's as easy as posting a blog post and that the comments will start flooding in. Not so much the case really if they haven't done what you mentioned! Great job.

By: WI Designer

WI Designer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:45:24 +0000

Mikenew hit it one the head. Stirring up controversy, taking an alternate or unpopular point of view or taking a very strong opinion gets attention. If you attract too much attention or the wrong attention, can you stand the heat from a flame war that might ensue?

By: mikenew

mikenew — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:22:41 +0000

This is very helpful for blog owners who are looking to attract more comments on their blog posts. Some of the best action I have ever received is when I discuss something a little controversial. It seems to get people's opinions going.

By: Bloggista

Bloggista — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:05:49 +0000

Two other methods that can help to encourage comments are allowing DoFollow links (removing default nofollow attributes so that "link juice" is passed to the sites) and installing the KeywordLuv plugin, which significantly helps commenters with SEO because it allows them to choose the anchor text for links.

Overall, it is a good thing to encourage comments because the extra content provided by other people adds more keywords to your posts, which in turn brings in more traffic from the search engines without costing you any more time than it takes to write the original post.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:20:19 +0000

Seems to have worked on this page :)

I like the, what would seth somebody do idea, you could easily make a veiled sales pitch there. Very cool.

By: Hunsky

Hunsky — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:19:55 +0000

Finishing your blog post with a comment such as "What kind of word press plug-ins did you find the most useful?" will most likely stir interaction. Also, leaving some link love with NO "nofollow" like you did here definitely gets you more comments ;)

By: Bob Tampa

Bob Tampa — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:06:19 +0000

Another good way to encourage comments is to write interesting or thought provoking blog posts. I like to read real estate related blogs and sometimes I have a hard time getting involved if the poster only talks about subdivisions or things going on in their area.

By: Annie Maloney

Annie Maloney — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:46:12 +0000

I personally do not like to use the "U comment, I follow" images. Reason being is that anyone can do a Google Image search for that exact phrase and viola, all the dofollow blogs you can get your hands on then guess what….spam city. I know there are many different custom beta searches out there that find dofollow blogs, but why make it any easier than it has to be.

Another good plug in is the "CommentLuv". Check it out…

By: Tomica

Tomica — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:34:23 +0000

You get only one, for the first time you make a comment. But it kinda buggs me, but that's just me.