Comments on: Why Comments on Blogs Are Important

By: Morochos

Morochos — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:05:41 +0000

That’s true, I receive a lot of visitors from the keywords entered by others’ comments.

By: Easy ways to get traffic

Easy ways to get traffic — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:38:39 +0000

[...] to check out your blog. So, go blogging and leave comments(This can be addictive) My friend over at online opportunity wrote a post all about commenting on blogs and why it is so [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:42:37 +0000

Hi Lori, 22 entries is great! I’m looking forward to when I have a contest and 22 people enter, so I think you’re doing just fine.

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:38:15 +0000

I’ve had a big increase in comments over the last month. I don’t know why really but I think visiting forums and other social sites had a lot to do with it. I try to make sure I respond to every single one of them. I had a contest going and it did ok. I had 22 entries. I didn’t think that was too bad at all since I’m still very much a newbie. I’m trying to think of one to do right now…..something to get my rss subscribers up. Anyhoo, you always reply back and I think that’s a great thing. Definately makes me feel important as a reader.

By: Juggling Frogs

Juggling Frogs — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:26:30 +0000

CASH for COMMENTS,

Did you find that the 400 comments resulted in regular readers? Did the contest-motivated commenters stick around? Did they turn off the regular commenters that you had before running the contest? 400 is a huge number. Was it worth it to have them all to respond to, or did this take away from content writing?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:32:38 +0000

Jay wrote:

Yeah, my one month experiment of my Free ReviewMe boasted over 400 comments.

That would be too much to keep up with personally. I’ll look forward to having that problem!

By: CASH for COMMENTS

CASH for COMMENTS — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:22:08 +0000

Yeah, my one month experiment of my Free ReviewMe boasted over 400 comments. I found that there is a threshold to the number of comments I can actually respond to. So I have changed my promotion to be even easier.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:30:37 +0000

Try Commentful at http://commentful.blogflux.com/ . It’s supposed to work with Blogger. If you’re using Firefox, it integrates and you’ll be able to tag one of your own posts to watch for comments and get notifications when new comments are posted. Without Firefox it’s a little more work, but not terribly.

By: Juggling Frogs

Juggling Frogs — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:06:57 +0000

Add that feature to the list of Wordpress features that Blogger needs to implement.

{sigh}

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:02:08 +0000

Jay wrote:

My other problem is keeping track of the comments as they spread out to different branches of the discussion. This includes link-backs, that carry the discussion to and from the other blogs.

I use the email notifications from Wordpress. There are some web based tools that will track comments, but they’re more for comments you want to track on other blogs, not your own. The email notifications give me a nice way of keeping track of comments, whether on old or new posts.

Now and then I also make sure to check Akismet’s spam folder for legitimate comments that get stuck in there. It doesn’t happen very often, but it does happen.