Blogging Web 2.0

Are We Turning Readers Away?

Posted on January 21, 2008
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Probably the biggest worry for any blogger would be to see his blog being mainly comment free. It is disheartening after all that hard work to see our blog devoid of any comment love by fellow bloggers and nobody likes to feel abandoned.

But what can we actually do to attract more comments and why don’t we get them in the first place?

I sometimes wondered why certain blog posts attracted a stream of comments and others simply didn’t? Did I suddenly fail to make contact with my readers?

I’m afraid the answer in those cases would be: Yes

Many factors play into the flow of writing a blog post that reads fluently enough and animates our readers to give their point of view at the end.

Sometimes regardless of what we do, there is simply no action and this could also be down to not having sufficient traffic. But what if we do have traffic and still nothing happens?

Here is what I found helps me to get better conversions:

If I write posts that are informative and helpful I normally get tons of comments
I also noticed that when I write from a more personal perspective my readers are much more responsive to me and are likely to comment more frequently.
Interaction with my readers has always been a must for me. This means I pretty much answer every comment I receive. (Admittedly I do miss some for whatever reasons).
Asking questions always helps. Most people do like to talk about themselves if given the chance and they will hop onto your comment thread if you ask them open ended questions.
Easy navigation: if the blog is too cluttered or the posts are not attractive to the eye then nobody will stay long enough to even bother commenting.

Alternatively we might turn readers away from commenting:

By not replying to your readers comments
Being rude to them
Being too authoritative (bossy)
Closing the post with a command without inviting our readers to comment.
Distracting them with plenty of ads
Blog is slow/not attractive/hard to navigate

Are you happy with your comment numbers? Do you get enough comments on your blog or would you rather have more? What do you think we can do to have you comment more often on this blog? Please do let us know, your opinion matters to us.

Monika

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Blogging Web 2.0 Cyber Hug

Posted on October 12, 2007
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Both Terry and myself have been blogging here on Blogging Web 2.0 for just about 1 month. The blog is growing steadily and will so even more as time goes by. We are both confident that by writing consistent and fresh content we can play the blogging game amongst all the other top bloggers out there. But what is a blog worth without its readers? We appreciate every single reader here and this is reflected by our monthly competitions. How many blogs offer money to their readers right in the very first month?

That’s right, not many and by doing this we show you how much we care about your traffic and the participation on this blog. For next month I already have another great idea, so keep posted for the announcement.

As respected bloggers of the blogosphere here at Blogging Web 2.0 we are also giving back to our most frequent commenter’s and readers. So from this week onwards we will do our very best to give out some cyber hugs to those who care to share.

Become a frequent commenter and we will give you some link love back. In the future this might actually become another reason to hand out some money… but enough said for now.

Our top commenters this week:

Tammy has a great website for WAHM’s offering a wealth of resources and information. Tammy has been in “the game” for a while and she seems to know what she is doing. To top it all of she is also a very nice person as I have come to know her a bit in forums.

Alex has joined a Google Pagerank Exchange and blogged about it on his blog. This will allow you to get more links and visitors to your blog too.

Sharon runs a Business Vibe site aimed at MLM’ers from mainly the UK. She is also involved in a writing site and her style of writing is quite refreshing.

Sara’s Blog Experiment Forum is a great hang out for bloggers with questions and answers. I will have to check this one out myself when time permits.

Karen Zara is our first official guest blogger and we are still waiting for her little blurb so we can feature her on the specially created Guest Blogger Page. Her blog is aimed at all things Internet marketing.

Thank you to everybody involved and keep the great comments coming!