10 Way To Increase The Comments On Your Blog

By: Lynette Chandler

Does your blog look lonely because you rarely (if ever) get people
commenting on it? Want more comments? Try out a few or all of
these ten easy ways to get more comments.

1. Just ask. If you don't ask, you don't get it. It's really that easy.
The worst that could happen is people don't leave comments so
you're aren't worse off just by asking. When you do ask, chances
are people will respond.

2. Get help. Tell your readers you need help deciding for example,
help picking out a new hairstyle, color for your home office, new
computer, help with a new logo design. You get the idea.

3. Give them a chance to self promote. You can get people to
comment by adding any relevant sites that they know of for a
resource list you tell them you're building.

4. Ask them to complete an action. For example, you say you're
writing a report about seven most common gardening problems
but you've found only four. Tell them to come up with the other
three and the ones chosen to be included in your report will get
credit on your report.

5. If you blog about your experience on products or services you
have used, then encourage your reader to do the same (even if it's
an affiliate product). Allow both positive and negative reviews
though so that you become an unbiased blog to visit when
someone is looking for reviews.

6. Offer comments subscription. People are used to forums.
Whether they contribute to a discussion or not, they like to get
notified when someone else has something to say about a post.
Make it easy for them to follow the conversation by offering a way
to subscribe to comments both by email and RSS.

7. Tap into your network, customers or your list. Tell people about
your posts and encourage them to visit and let you know what
they think about the it or if they have further thoughts to add. You
could also ask customers to blog about you and trackback to your
blog.

8. Ask your readers to let you know what they think about the
freebie by posting to your blog.

9. Slow down. Maybe you're posting too often that your readers
just can't keep up with your posts let alone stop to comment.

10. Extend a discussion. Blog about something you read on
another blog, news, magazine or other media then invite readers
to share their thoughts. This usually works very well for hot topics
of the day, week or month.

Now that you know ten easy ways to get comments, try a few
today. Don't forget, sometimes you may not see results in the first
few days or weeks but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Keep
asking questions and provoking responses and you'll have a busy
blog after all.

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Affectionately nicknamed Tech Diva by her peers, Lynette Chandler regularly dispenses blogging and RSS help to countless business owners. Visit www.BloggingStarterPack.com to learn more about blogging and get a copy of her video free.