Comments on: Techniques & Plugins to encourage comments

By: Michael Burns

Michael Burns — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:26:44 +0000

Excellent post. Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed it alot.

By: Bloggista

Bloggista — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:09:53 +0000

Two other methods that can help to encourage comments are allowing DoFollow links (removing default nofollow attributes so that “link juice” is passed to the sites) and installing the KeywordLuv plugin, which significantly helps commenters with SEO because it allows them to choose the anchor text for links.

Overall, it is a good thing to encourage comments because the extra content provided by other people adds more keywords to your posts, which in turn brings in more traffic from the search engines without costing you any more time than it takes to write the original post.

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:51:24 +0000

Several years ago I didn’t want to contribute to any discussions. Why? To tell the truth I was always afraid of making any comments that people would find inappropriate or irrelevant. I thought that they mind find it unnecessary or useless. Now, I have started to trust my opinion matters and whatever people think it’s good that I want to express my feelings. It’s a kind of therapy that helps me overcome shyness.
But I still understand people who are unwilling to post comments. They will finally do it, believe me:)

By: Heida

Heida — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:23 +0000

I have to wonder if some people will ever get involved no matter what one does.

It could be the person is just shy and doesn’t want to make themselves known or maybe they don’t value their own opinions.

Since some poeple don’t like to be the first to comment, One of the other blog commenters could start off and maybe get others to post too.

By: Greenville NC Events

Greenville NC Events — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:31:10 +0000

Great! I have been trying to find ways to help people participate in comments!

By: David Wh1te

David Wh1te — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:54:22 +0000

hmmm… I like a blog post that makes me think.

By: Tom Lamothe

Tom Lamothe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:09:01 +0000

I think that was a pretty good post. I couldn’t do it . Keep up the good work.

By: Teenage Love

Teenage Love — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:16:57 +0000

Other ways to encourage comments:-
(1) Write on popylar hit topics.
(2) Write poll type posts.
(3) Enable dofollow
(4) Make the blog look good. I havew seen some blogs with black background with grey text. Who is gonna comment on blogs which they can not even properly read.

By: Utah outdoor adventures

Utah outdoor adventures — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:40:39 +0000

Excellent tips – I found a few valuable ones I’d like to try out

By: Digital SLR Joe

Digital SLR Joe — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:15:03 +0000

Pretty good article. I like it, keep it up.

By: Miltski

Miltski — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:41:30 +0000

When I first started my Blog I would be really excited to see that someone had left a comment, I would dive in to moderate my newly received comments, only to find an enormous irrelevant comment full of links, obviously spam. Really dissapointing when you first start out.
Blocking in place now but still struggle to get some serious commenting going on. I am going to implement some of the tips you mentioned,

Thanks

Miltski