Blog Commenting: 10 Killer
Tips to Get Lots of Comments
on your Blog Posts
by sheeraz ali
Every blog owner wants to see lots of
comments on their blog posts. But that
does not happen automatically. You have
to put in lots of efforts to get comments
on your blog. Lots of blog owners did not
get even a single comment on most of
their blog posts that are genuine and
high quality. You will be able to get
some comments on your blog posts if you
have a blog with thousands of daily hits
and your blog content is good enough
that people love commenting on your
blog posts. If you have a blog with lots of
high quality posts and don’t getting the
comments amount you were expecting,
this blog post is specially drafted for you.
In this blog post, I will be sharing 10
killer tips to help you get lots of high
quality comments on your blog posts.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m getting
some decent comments on most of blog
posts on Bloggers Passion. If you believe
in numbers, on BloggersPassion, I have
so far published 160 posts and those 160
posts have 1694 approved comments. All
comments that I approve on Bloggers
Passion are all high quality. I, most of
time delete single line comments that
are written in general. If I do the
calculations, I’m getting 11 comments
(approx) on each of my blog posts on
average. And now I’m also looking for
more ways to increase the flow of
comments coming on this blog.
1. Top Commentors Widget
First of all, I would suggest you adding a
Top Commentors widget on your blog. I
have noticed lots of blogs that have this
kind of widgets available, gets lots of
comments from its blog readers. You can
add this widget in your blog sidebar or
in the footer section. In top Commentors
widget, top Commentors for that month
are shown up in descending order. Lots
of readers to your blog will start sending
comments to your blog simply because
you have installed top Commentors
widget on your blog. Availability of
bloggers in top Commentors section
gives them decent traffic, branding and
backlinks for their websites and blogs.
These days’ lots of seo’s and webmasters
have started including blogs that have
top Commentors kind of widget in place,
in their overall link building strategies.
So if you notice top Commentors on your
blog, you will find some guys from seo
community are sending their valuable
comments to get the benefits of
backlinks from your blog, If you are
running a WordPress Blog, there are
plugins available that will add top
Commentors widget on your blog
instantly. I myself have added a top
Commentors widget on Bloggers Passion
blog in its sidebar. You can use this
plugin to add Top Commentors Widget
on your WordPress Based Blog and there
are lots of customization options
available with this plugin.
2. Replying to Comments
If you reply to comments coming on
your, that will leave positive impression
for you in your blog readers eyes. And
when blog readers sees their comments
are being noticed and replied by the
blog owner, motivates them to send
more high quality comments on your
blog. So you should make sure that you
send your thoughts to most of incoming
comments on your blog. I used to check
all incoming comments on this blog once
a day at least. When I have a new
comment coming, if its good and
genuine comment, I will approve it and
if its just spam, I will simply delete it.
For each approved comment, I send my
replied at least where my blog readers
are expecting some feedback or
information from me.
3. Running Contests
I have noticed lots of blog owners using
contests to increase comments on their
blogs with great success. For increasing
comments, bloggers run interesting
contests where they offer some cash,
freebies, gifts or advertising on their
blog to contest winners. I’ve not used
contests on this blog so far for improving
comments. But in the coming days, you
will see some contest coming on
Bloggers Passion to motivate blog readers
to write more comments on this blog. I
may be running top Commentors kind of
contest on this blog where the top
commenter for a month will get some
prize with regular backlinks and
branding for their websites and blogs.
Read: To Bloggers: How to Run a
Facebook Contest
4. Writing Comments on
Other Blogs
You should create a list of some popular
blogs in your niche and start sending
your valuable comments on those blogs.
When you send your knowledge-based
comments to other blog owners, they
will notice it and appreciate your efforts
by leaving comments on your blog. You
should subscribe to your favorite blogs
RSS in your RSS Reader and send
comments as you notice a new post
being published on any of your favorite
blog. You should continue this process
for a month and then notice how much
benefit you get from this process. Apart
from increasing comments on your own
blog, you will end up getting lots of
targeted backlinks, traffic and new
readers to your blog from commenting
on other blogs.
5. Write High Quality Content
It’s your content that will play a major
role in deciding whether people will
comment on your blog post or not. It’s
your content quality that will decide if
you will get zero or tens of comments on
each of your blog post. Lack of good
content, will make you end up with very
few comments on your blog even if you
have a high traffic blog. So you should
write engaging content and look for
maximum ways to get feedback from
your blog readers about your blog
content quality and what kind of posts
they want you to publish on your blog in
the coming days. So you should spend
lots of time while creating your blog
posts and should keep some elements of
engagement for your blog readers in
your posts.
Read: Points to Pasture the Google
Panda in 2012 – Intense Quality
Content
6. Dofollow Comment Love
It’s highly advised to make your blog
comments dofollow to get more
comments on your blog. Lots of seo’s
and bloggers keep searching for dofollow
blogs to get maximum search engine
ranking and page rank benefits. Lots of
link builders us dofollow blog
commenting as a powerful method to
increase high quality backlinks for their
websites. So being a dofollow blog, your
blog will receive lots of additional
comments from seo and link builders
type of community members. There are
some dofollow blog directories available
on Internet where you can submit your
dofollow blogs. You should highlight to
your blog readers on prominent
positions that they are making
comments on dofollow blogs by adding a
comment luv kind of image in your blog
sidebars as shown towards left. If you
are running a WordPress Blog, there are
plugins available to help you make its
comments links dofollow. Use this link
to make your WordPress Blogs dofollow
where all links used in comments
section will be all dofollow.
Read: CommentLuv Plugin
WordPress: More Comments and
Traffic on Your Blog
7. Comments Notification
Email
You should give your blog readers the
facility to subscribe to your blog
comments via email. Your blog readers
will be able to keep track of new
comments coming on blog posts they
have subscribed to. When they feel they
should send more comments on that
post, they can do easily. Email
Notification feature in comments section
creates a great level of interest among
your blog readers. With such kind of
features, you will see lots of threaded
comments rows appealing against your
blog posts. If you are running a
WordPress based blog, here is the plugin
you can use to allow your blog readers
to subscribe to comments against posts
of their interest.
8. Easy to Comment
Functionality
You should make the whole commenting
process on your blog really easy. I used
to notice some bloggers using ugly
captchas and sign up forms etc to
Commentors on their blog. They make
the whole commenting process really
difficult. Some blogs have so difficult
code words behind captcha that it
becomes really difficult for you to
recognize them. If you are doing all this
to avoid spam comments on your blog,
there are tools and plugins available to
avoid them. And if you are running a
WordPress blog, there is a plugin
popularity known as Akismet to help
you fight against spam comments on
your blog. Here is the installation link
for Akismet plugin for WordPress self
hosted blogs.
9. Use Lists in Your Future
Posts
I would suggest you create some posts
around lists in future on your blog. I
have noticed blog posts carrying some
kind of list do really well as compared
with normal posts when taken into
factors like the number of comments
they receive and the number of votes
they get on social media websites. The
most commented post on Bloggers
Passion was created around lists where I
have received 61 comments so far on
that post. You can yourself check my 5
Indian Blogs You Must Read Always
here.
10. Some Mixed Stuff
Traffic to your blog will also play a big
role especially if you have a blog with
good traffic numbers and high quality
posts. So look for ways to get lots of
traffic to your blog. Apart from asking
questions and seeking advice from your
blog readers will also help you get
additional comments from your blog
readers.
I hope I covered most of popular
methods to increase quality comments
on a blog. If you feel I missed something,
please share in the comments section
below. I will also be interested in
knowing which of the above method you
are currently employing to get lots of
comments on your blog.
Tips to Get Lots of Comments
on your Blog Posts
by sheeraz ali
Every blog owner wants to see lots of
comments on their blog posts. But that
does not happen automatically. You have
to put in lots of efforts to get comments
on your blog. Lots of blog owners did not
get even a single comment on most of
their blog posts that are genuine and
high quality. You will be able to get
some comments on your blog posts if you
have a blog with thousands of daily hits
and your blog content is good enough
that people love commenting on your
blog posts. If you have a blog with lots of
high quality posts and don’t getting the
comments amount you were expecting,
this blog post is specially drafted for you.
In this blog post, I will be sharing 10
killer tips to help you get lots of high
quality comments on your blog posts.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m getting
some decent comments on most of blog
posts on Bloggers Passion. If you believe
in numbers, on BloggersPassion, I have
so far published 160 posts and those 160
posts have 1694 approved comments. All
comments that I approve on Bloggers
Passion are all high quality. I, most of
time delete single line comments that
are written in general. If I do the
calculations, I’m getting 11 comments
(approx) on each of my blog posts on
average. And now I’m also looking for
more ways to increase the flow of
comments coming on this blog.
1. Top Commentors Widget
First of all, I would suggest you adding a
Top Commentors widget on your blog. I
have noticed lots of blogs that have this
kind of widgets available, gets lots of
comments from its blog readers. You can
add this widget in your blog sidebar or
in the footer section. In top Commentors
widget, top Commentors for that month
are shown up in descending order. Lots
of readers to your blog will start sending
comments to your blog simply because
you have installed top Commentors
widget on your blog. Availability of
bloggers in top Commentors section
gives them decent traffic, branding and
backlinks for their websites and blogs.
These days’ lots of seo’s and webmasters
have started including blogs that have
top Commentors kind of widget in place,
in their overall link building strategies.
So if you notice top Commentors on your
blog, you will find some guys from seo
community are sending their valuable
comments to get the benefits of
backlinks from your blog, If you are
running a WordPress Blog, there are
plugins available that will add top
Commentors widget on your blog
instantly. I myself have added a top
Commentors widget on Bloggers Passion
blog in its sidebar. You can use this
plugin to add Top Commentors Widget
on your WordPress Based Blog and there
are lots of customization options
available with this plugin.
2. Replying to Comments
If you reply to comments coming on
your, that will leave positive impression
for you in your blog readers eyes. And
when blog readers sees their comments
are being noticed and replied by the
blog owner, motivates them to send
more high quality comments on your
blog. So you should make sure that you
send your thoughts to most of incoming
comments on your blog. I used to check
all incoming comments on this blog once
a day at least. When I have a new
comment coming, if its good and
genuine comment, I will approve it and
if its just spam, I will simply delete it.
For each approved comment, I send my
replied at least where my blog readers
are expecting some feedback or
information from me.
3. Running Contests
I have noticed lots of blog owners using
contests to increase comments on their
blogs with great success. For increasing
comments, bloggers run interesting
contests where they offer some cash,
freebies, gifts or advertising on their
blog to contest winners. I’ve not used
contests on this blog so far for improving
comments. But in the coming days, you
will see some contest coming on
Bloggers Passion to motivate blog readers
to write more comments on this blog. I
may be running top Commentors kind of
contest on this blog where the top
commenter for a month will get some
prize with regular backlinks and
branding for their websites and blogs.
Read: To Bloggers: How to Run a
Facebook Contest
4. Writing Comments on
Other Blogs
You should create a list of some popular
blogs in your niche and start sending
your valuable comments on those blogs.
When you send your knowledge-based
comments to other blog owners, they
will notice it and appreciate your efforts
by leaving comments on your blog. You
should subscribe to your favorite blogs
RSS in your RSS Reader and send
comments as you notice a new post
being published on any of your favorite
blog. You should continue this process
for a month and then notice how much
benefit you get from this process. Apart
from increasing comments on your own
blog, you will end up getting lots of
targeted backlinks, traffic and new
readers to your blog from commenting
on other blogs.
5. Write High Quality Content
It’s your content that will play a major
role in deciding whether people will
comment on your blog post or not. It’s
your content quality that will decide if
you will get zero or tens of comments on
each of your blog post. Lack of good
content, will make you end up with very
few comments on your blog even if you
have a high traffic blog. So you should
write engaging content and look for
maximum ways to get feedback from
your blog readers about your blog
content quality and what kind of posts
they want you to publish on your blog in
the coming days. So you should spend
lots of time while creating your blog
posts and should keep some elements of
engagement for your blog readers in
your posts.
Read: Points to Pasture the Google
Panda in 2012 – Intense Quality
Content
6. Dofollow Comment Love
It’s highly advised to make your blog
comments dofollow to get more
comments on your blog. Lots of seo’s
and bloggers keep searching for dofollow
blogs to get maximum search engine
ranking and page rank benefits. Lots of
link builders us dofollow blog
commenting as a powerful method to
increase high quality backlinks for their
websites. So being a dofollow blog, your
blog will receive lots of additional
comments from seo and link builders
type of community members. There are
some dofollow blog directories available
on Internet where you can submit your
dofollow blogs. You should highlight to
your blog readers on prominent
positions that they are making
comments on dofollow blogs by adding a
comment luv kind of image in your blog
sidebars as shown towards left. If you
are running a WordPress Blog, there are
plugins available to help you make its
comments links dofollow. Use this link
to make your WordPress Blogs dofollow
where all links used in comments
section will be all dofollow.
Read: CommentLuv Plugin
WordPress: More Comments and
Traffic on Your Blog
7. Comments Notification
You should give your blog readers the
facility to subscribe to your blog
comments via email. Your blog readers
will be able to keep track of new
comments coming on blog posts they
have subscribed to. When they feel they
should send more comments on that
post, they can do easily. Email
Notification feature in comments section
creates a great level of interest among
your blog readers. With such kind of
features, you will see lots of threaded
comments rows appealing against your
blog posts. If you are running a
WordPress based blog, here is the plugin
you can use to allow your blog readers
to subscribe to comments against posts
of their interest.
8. Easy to Comment
Functionality
You should make the whole commenting
process on your blog really easy. I used
to notice some bloggers using ugly
captchas and sign up forms etc to
Commentors on their blog. They make
the whole commenting process really
difficult. Some blogs have so difficult
code words behind captcha that it
becomes really difficult for you to
recognize them. If you are doing all this
to avoid spam comments on your blog,
there are tools and plugins available to
avoid them. And if you are running a
WordPress blog, there is a plugin
popularity known as Akismet to help
you fight against spam comments on
your blog. Here is the installation link
for Akismet plugin for WordPress self
hosted blogs.
9. Use Lists in Your Future
Posts
I would suggest you create some posts
around lists in future on your blog. I
have noticed blog posts carrying some
kind of list do really well as compared
with normal posts when taken into
factors like the number of comments
they receive and the number of votes
they get on social media websites. The
most commented post on Bloggers
Passion was created around lists where I
have received 61 comments so far on
that post. You can yourself check my 5
Indian Blogs You Must Read Always
here.
10. Some Mixed Stuff
Traffic to your blog will also play a big
role especially if you have a blog with
good traffic numbers and high quality
posts. So look for ways to get lots of
traffic to your blog. Apart from asking
questions and seeking advice from your
blog readers will also help you get
additional comments from your blog
readers.
I hope I covered most of popular
methods to increase quality comments
on a blog. If you feel I missed something,
please share in the comments section
below. I will also be interested in
knowing which of the above method you
are currently employing to get lots of
comments on your blog.
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