Guest Post by Moon Roy
Professional bloggers know its importance and amateur bloggers wish to see it more. It is a blog comment. Even though you write quality content which is quite useful you hardly see a comment left by visitors. Research says majority of online users visit your pages without contributing while a rare few leave comment after reading a blog.
So, don’t lose heart when you see no comment on a blog post that you created with all your honest effort. As a blogger you need to find a way out to increase the rate of blog commenting from your readers. Here are a few suggestions that might help:
<1. Invite personally: Explicitly ask people to comment on your blog. You can personally mail links of your new posts to your friends and contacts with a polite request to visit your latest post and leave their valuable comments. Personal approach often motivates people to participate.
2. Use easy commenting method: Make sure you use an easy-to-use blog commenting method. Complex blog commenting process and compulsory registration prior comment posting dampen readers spirit and may drive them away.
3. Be interactive: Even if you have provided solution to a problem in your post, asking questions or seeking alternative solutions is a good way to trigger response. It means that you need to be articulate in telling all the things you know yet leaving room for others to add to what you have said. You can end your post by explicitly asking your readers to opine on the topic or share their views.
4. Comment on other’s blog: It requires extra time and effort. But it is an effective way to secure more comment for your blog. As you keep reading and commenting on other’s blog they will feel the same way to get back to you and participate in your blog. It not only helps you in creating a blogging niche but also ensure some quality back links for your blog.
5. Networking: Whether it is social media networking with Facebook, Twitter or registering your blog with networks of blogs such as Weblogs or Technorati it always proves beneficial for a blogger. Social networks help driving more traffic to your site while blog networks allow you to communicate and develop relationship with fellow bloggers.
6. Allow DoFollow commenting: The primary concern of allowing dofollow is the loss of PR and spamming. But in reality PR is passed on but you don’t lose yours. As for spamming, you have the authority to approve all comment and opt out spammers.
There are several benefits of dofollow blog commenting service that on the contrary, helps you gain. It gives a reason to other bloggers and site owners to visit and comment on your blog for their personal interest of earning links. In turn, you get more relevant and authoritative comments that add value to your webpage in terms of search engines. If your WordPress blog is nofollow you can convert it to dofollow by modifying the core code. It’s for free but requires technical understanding while adding dofollow plug-in is an easier option that may cost you extra bucks. And don’t forget to submit your blogs links to dofollow web directories.
However, if you find it hard to manage the job or can not give more time to your daily blogging you always have an alternative. You can outsource the entire task to an Indian SEO company at an affordable rate.
Well, there are downsides of allowing blog commenting such as spamming or negative comments but there is no denying that comments with substance helps you assess your work. Whether it is participation in the discussion you started or constructive criticism any sort of contribution from reader’s part encourages the writer to carry on with his/her work.
Moon Roy is an SEO consultant and expert. She writes article and blogs for Softzsolutions. You can also do guest blogging on TricksDaddy. Read guest blogging guidelines.
Simrandeep Singh is the Editor-in-chief of TricksDaddy and a blogger from Chandigarh (India).
He loves to write about WordPress, Freewares, Mobile Phones and Blogging Tips. Apart from Blogging, he loves travelling, photgraphy and cooking.
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Many would have to argue about the dofollow and nofollow of links, etc. I would also suggest installing CommentLuv as many commentators will leave replies as they will be getting a link back to them.
I would suggest commenting on niche websites that are similar to yours.
I think you’re right about the dofollow/nofollow debate. If I’m not mistaken, Tricksdaddy used to have CommentLuv and is dofollow. Obviously, they have probably found some more convincing ideas that made them change their minds.
In commenting only in related niche websites, again, this is open to debate. Personally, I comment on any post that I consider helpful no matter what niche it is in.
You are right. TricksDaddy had commentLuv plugin installed but I have disabled it. Actually I’m experimenting with the page page speed of my theme. I may install it again in future.
Saw this post talking about dofollow and thought you would like to know about a new site, Wiki Dofollow. It is a community compiled list of high ranking dofollow sites. That way, the list stays current.
wikidofollow.org
If you want, be one of the first to blog about it. I am sure you know how difficult it is getting visitors to a new site. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks.
Thanks for sharing this site with us
Some nice ideas , to get comments and backlink .
Another tip that you should add is to = respond to every comment.
When someone leaves a comment they want to be heard and acknowledged – especially by the blogger. Responding to each comment and using some sort of ‘notify me of followup comment’ system is a powerful combination to get more and more comments because once I get an email that you responded to me, I’ll probably come back and respond to you!
Simple!
Ian
This is must for every blogger. Whenever a user leaves a comment on your blog post, you must reply to his/her comment. If you do so he will surely come back to your blog again to read future posts. Thanks for sharing the tip with us and adding the value the post.
Yes, unless you tell your reader what he wants, the chances of him coming back to your blog are less.
Gust posts bring lots of new users and definitely more comments. Thanks for tips.
If one follow all these tips when commenting,can get more quality back links for their blog,Thanks for a share…
commenting and allow commenting helps bloggers to grow their blogs….. well thanx for the article……..
I think Interactivity, Networking and Do follow are the three most important points when bvlog commenting is concern. This only helps you get more comments on your post
What I believe in is interacting with your readers and commenting on other blogs. It helps you gain some recognition with the readers of the other blogs. And also the dofollow allows more and more people to comment as it helps them a lot in increasing their PR.
there is always an issue on dofollow or nofollow… thanks for explaining about allowing dofollow commenting…. i was in search for these type of topics….
comments are real booster to write more articles… usually I had the habit of leaving articles without commenting abt them, not even a thanks. but i realised the mistake wen its comes to me. sure ll do comments on articles which ever i read.
Always try to comment on articles which you find useful for yourself. You should also try to add some value to the post with your comment
Well in my earlier blogs neither did i get comments , so no chance for me to reply . A blog with a solution to a problem gets the mac comments . Thats my experience …
Let me see if i can get some more thoughtful comments after passing through this post!
I attracted more comments from visitors by changing comments to Dofollow
Just like in monetizing your website, you need to first work to build a relationship with your list so that they trust your recommendations and look to you as a sound source of advice, tips and information relating to the subjects that interest them.
Spend some time engaging with your subscribers, offering them free material, information, tips and resources that will help them.
If you do this, it won’t be long before you have a loyal following of people who will eagerly open up your emails, respond to your offers and genuinely investigate the products that you promote.
Without comments a blog is like a death place!!!!
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