Why I Don’t Comment On Your Blog
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When you first start a blog, it seem like no one is reading it because there is no comment. Let me show you some techniqes that will help you get more comment on your blog.
The study
Study have showed that “In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.”
Even with over a billion users online and over 55 millions bloggers, less than 1 percent participate in forums and blogs.
The downside of not participating
- Feedback. Without the feedback of your visitors, you won’t know how to improve their experience on your blog or website.
- Review. You can use your visitors as reviewers for whatever product you will be selling or just for your site.
- Search Engine. If less than one percent of your visitors participate, then you’re missing out on a lot of backlinks.
- Rating. With more comments that you receive, it show that you know how to connect to your readers and give them what they want. You will attract more readers if they see a lot of participation because it show popularity.
Overcoming lack of participation in blogs and forums
The truth is that there isn’t a lot you can do to overcome that. You can change it only a little because most readers just like to receive, rather than give. Most also just don’t have anything meaningful to add to the table and it’s totally fine.
How you can make your readers participate more in your blog
- Make it easy. Don’t ask them to subscribe or register to comment!
- Reward. Reward your readers somehow for commenting or participating. I reward mine by removing the no=follow tag so that everytime they comment, it help with their site Page Rank. Page Rank is important.
- Promote. Promote your top contributer. Use the top commentator wordpress plugin! I use it and it seem to be working fine right now.
These are just simple steps and here are even more from ShaunLow and ProBlogger.
36 Comments on this post
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Catherine Lawson said:
Hi Sean - thanks for the tips. I am concerned about the no follow. The trouble is, I don’t know how you find out if it is in your wordpress theme to begin with, and how to remove it. Any ideas on how to do this would be appreciated. Cheers.
CatherineSeptember 10th, 2007 at 3:27 am -
Admin Sean said:
OH yeah, I should’ve mentioned the plugin for that.
There is a wordpress plugin that remove the nofollow tag and allow commentators to benefit from commenting.
Here is the link to it:
http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-fixes/dofollow/Note: This plugin disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:33 am -
Matt said:
Thanks for the link to that case study, it was interesting and I enjoyed it.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:00 pm -
israel said:
thanks for the info
September 10th, 2007 at 4:27 pm -
Dana Wallert said:
Hi Sean. Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting! I’m glad to know your name now
You’ve got some good advice up there. I would add that I tend to comment more on blogs where I can see that the blogger actually responds to the comments. Even more so if I am commenting with a question, it’s nice to know that I will most likely receive an answer or response!
September 10th, 2007 at 5:31 pm -
Admin Sean said:
Thanks Dana
Thank you for visiting me blog! Yep, I am one of those very active visitors, I love giving my thoughts to blog posts
September 10th, 2007 at 5:39 pm -
MyBlogContest said:
Great tips!
September 10th, 2007 at 5:53 pm -
Catherine Lawson said:
Cheers Sean - I’m going to plug this in right now just incase. I know you don’t use the no follow, but what annoys me - some of the top bloggers advise all this link love stuff, and they don’t return the links.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:38 pm -
Sean said:
Cool, you might also want to inform your reader that it have been installed and activated.
One of my reason for installing it was to reward those who comment and get more comment and it seem to be working good right now
Yeah it feel great to get comments on your blog
September 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm -
Carlo said:
One thing I hate about commenting is realizing that the form doesn’t even submit properly, and the comment you just made will not post.
Bloggers out there, make sure your commenting box works! please!
September 19th, 2007 at 10:08 am -
Thomas Sinfield said:
where do I find a good top commentor plugin?
September 20th, 2007 at 5:42 am -
Bape said:
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:05 pm -
Maximillian Gunther said:
Why the visitor don’t comment? well, because they dont’ have anything come up from their mind since the post content don’t require/invite any discussion. I myself found my blog somewhat dont encourage the reader to make comment. I still dont know why. It’s my first (english) blog. I still have many things to learn.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:58 am -
pharmacy said:
It is nice article! Thanks, good info!
October 10th, 2007 at 8:20 pm -
Ken Xu said:
Great Tips. It’s so inspiring for me. I seldom promote my top commentator and will do it this sunday. thanks for the tips!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:35 am -
David said:
Hi, thanks for the tips. My blog is allowing everyone to post their comments.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:38 pm -
Strategic Internet Marketing said:
I believe by installing the plugin “WP Grin” will increase the comments by little percentage as it’s attractive!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:26 pm -
Single Mummy said:
Hi Sean
Thank you for your blogging tips and advice. I agree with you totaly, the more comments the more popular you will be with your readers. You definately know how to connect, build up trust and creditibility with your visitors. Thank you
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:41 pm -
Mike Goad said:
I read about that plug-in yesterday that removes the nofollow and wondered if it really worked. Interesting read. I’ll have to try the plug-in. Thanks for the information in this post.
November 24th, 2007 at 8:04 am -
Smart3Up said:
Hey Sean,
Great way to look at it. Good pointers. Seems like this blog got a whole bunch of comments.
December 7th, 2007 at 6:11 am -
bLuefRogX said:
I’ve removed nofollow but I don’t get a huge amount of comments yet, probably cause I don’t have all that many readers. Slowly but surely though
December 8th, 2007 at 5:58 pm -
Vanessa said:
Hi,
Some good tips here. Another plugin I installed recently is the commentluv plugin. It attaches the commentors latest blog post to their comment, for my part it’s just another way of saying thanks for the comment, much like the top commentors etc does.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:29 am -
Mark Greens said:
I really like you blog a lot, and I told people about your $1000 dollar challenge on my mailing list. You might see an influx of visitors in a couple of days.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:27 am -
Matt Ellsworth said:
I do those things and I can say that since I got listed on a few lists of dofollow blogs - it has increased the number of comments.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm -
Troy said:
Agreed. Many people are overprotective of their new blogs and then wonder why they don’t get comments. Still others haven’t yet found that, as you stumble the web, you should be leaving comments if you have a reaction to the article. That way you build a good habit
February 15th, 2008 at 3:10 am -
Akhmad Bisnis Guntar said:
Visiting other people blog is really works to increase comment. It’s just that I dont think I have much time to do that
March 19th, 2008 at 5:18 am -
Erikka Fasting Arone said:
I agree. You can use your visitors as reviewers for whatever product you will be selling or just for your site.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:15 am -
getcelebritygossip.com said:
Good stuff…thank you
May 7th, 2008 at 12:18 am -
Philadelphia said:
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:04 am -
Detroit said:
We are what we repeatedly do.
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 am -
Columbus said:
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:04 am -
phil said:
Hey Sean, you’ll be missed!
Luke, I really hope you don’t change too much, and hope that you’ll hear our voices.
P.S - Remember, your blog is driven by we the people!
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm -
Halim-Belajar SEO said:
Using top commentator widget is more useful if we have a large group of visitor and got a frequently visit but if not better use nofollow tag for comment.
July 4th, 2008 at 5:57 am
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