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One Simple Way to Generate More Comments on Your Blog
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How you end your posts depends on what you’re trying to achieve and what action you want the reader to take. When it comes to prompting reader interaction, how you wrap up your blog posts or articles may make all the difference between a handful of comments and an explosion of discussion.
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One Simple Way to Generate More Comments on Your Blog
Do you have trouble getting comments on your blog?
According to Jakob Nielsen’s study only 1% of your blog’s readers are regular commenters:
- 90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute).
- 9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time.
- 1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions: they often post in just minutes.
How can you encourage comments? Chris Garrett gives
10 Tips for Attracting More Comments
Your blog can be thought of in many ways. As a pulpit, a soapbox, a magazine, a platform, a newsletter, a diary. A lot of bloggers focus on the “broadcast” aspects, getting their message out. While great content is essential, never neglect the community element of your blog. As we have shown your audience can be your best asset. Here are some tips for attracting participation.
First of all, as we have said time and time again, you must answer comments that are made on your posts. It is not only the polite thing to do, it also encourages more comments. If people see they are treated with respect and they will get answers, they will comment more. It still surprises me the amount of bloggers who post, then sit back and ignore the feedback they receive.
PLEASE COMMENT ON THIS POST
One common suggestion is to ask readers to comment. So I am asking you lurkers to comment. Is anyone reading this blog? Are the posts helpful? Do you want more posts about blogging? A little feedback goes a long way 
Thanks for commenting.
Comments and resulting discussion can add many dimensions to a post but most people do not comment. No one comments on this blog but I don’t mind. I don’t really write much here. It’s more of a place to share posts from other blogs.
My other blogs Heart of Wisdom and Heart at Home receive between 500 and 1000 hits a day, but usually only a hand full of comments (unless there is a contest or controversy). I wish there was more interaction. I’ll be working on it and posting articles I find here. Meanwhile, the Fine Art of Blogging has a good post on this topic:
There is every indication that blogsphere - vibrant and unique community with its own criteria – is gaining greater influence as the number of blogs is exponentially growing and awareness of the form is becoming widespread.
One feature that distinguishes weblogs from static websites, making them more interactive, is that they allow instant comments by others. This is a matter of choice for bloggers, though. They can disallow other visitors to comment on weblogs or single entries or can authorize comments for all internet users, for members, or make their blogs as read-only. Generally speaking, comments are what most keep most bloggers (including me) going.
