Proven Ways to Encourage Comments in your blog Part II

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Senthil Ramesh in Blogging for beginners, Tweaking Tuesdays

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Hello and Welcome to Tweaking Tuesdays.

Last Tuesday, we have discussed some of the points to encourage more comments at your blog. This is the second part of the series.

Subscribe to Replies Option:

Its common now to see blogs having option of “Subscribe to the comments”. Enabling this can make the comments to the article reach you. But its sometimes very annoying that, if many people comment on the post and it often pop up in your inbox as “A new comment on” etc.., This can ultimately make you to unsubscribe from the comments which can make you to miss some important conversations. But, what if we need some of our questions answered and we like to subscribe to the comments. So its always good to have a “Subscribe to replies” option at the comments section. There are some plugines available for enabling the option.

Have a DoFollow Comment system:

There are so many discussions regarding DoFollow and NoFollow topic as whether it passes the link juice, or page rank or anchor text. Lets not get in to it. But, what is the true fact is, its always good to keep a dofollow comments system that can encourage reader to give more comments. But, beware you can be flooded with Spam comments, so make sure you use a anti spam plugin like Akismet. Having a dofollow comment system can be like rewarding your readers by providing a link to them.

Recieve your users with great content , reward them a dofollow link so that they leave your blog happily with a idea to return back often
-None other than me

Use CommentLuv Plugin:

CommentLuv is one of the most prefferred plugin in wordpress. Many people are fond of it and prefer blogs using those plugin. It adds the latest article from your blog so that people can know what have you done and can they can reach your blog. This can make the visitors to increase for your blog.

You can find here the list of blogs using comment luv plugin

Use KeywordLuv plugin:

This is another plugin which is not so popular and used by few. But, I can see this is good to get link for your blog for the keyword you target for. It can make the readers to avoid the keywords at the names but a seperate place for using the keywords. This can make a good difference in blog comments.

End your post asking for your readers’ thoughts:

This thing arise in my mind when I read the Daily SEO Tip blog. Ann Smarty, the author of the blog, ends the article always with share your thoughts in comments. This made me to give a push for showing interest at comments. Thats why I have showed interest towards it and you can notice all the posts in our blog, ends with asking for user thoughts. This can make some great changes at the comments of your blog. And of course, DailySEOTip is a DoFollow blog.

With this we end, the discussion on Encouraging comments at the blog. Hope I have covered almost. Have I left something? Or do you feel something worthwhile to be done to encourage more comments? Then feel free to share them at the comments.

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17 Responses to “Proven Ways to Encourage Comments in your blog Part II”

  1. Tweets that mention Proven Ways to have more comments at your blog Part II -- Topsy.com

    01. Dec, 2009

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by PractiseSEO, Senthil Ramesh. Senthil Ramesh said: RT @NoviceBloggers Proven Ways to have more comments at your blog Part II http://bit.ly/4Uykz1 [...]

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  2. Lucifer@Blog Contests

    01. Dec, 2009

    You r right it is annoying to receive too many mails that there is a new comment but all thing which u mention are applicable to the wordpress blog only nd for blogspot blogger they r not available :(

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  3. Ramkumar

    01. Dec, 2009

    CommentLuv is definitely a proven method. a very effective one. Glad to see you are also using Commentluv
    Ramkumar´s last blog ..View your website in different resolutions My ComLuv Profile

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  4. Dennis Edell

    01. Dec, 2009

    Hey Senthil, Sorry to bust in OT but I just wanted to say hi. I just saw you over at Blogussion.com (I think it was Blogussion), looked around a bit, and have now subscribed. :)
    Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Whoopsy Commentluv Is Busted! You Have Permission To Leave ONE Link. My ComLuv Profile

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  5. Dennis Edell

    01. Dec, 2009

    Could you please install a subscribe to comments plugin ASAP? I love to know when there are responses. :)
    Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Whoopsy Commentluv Is Busted! You Have Permission To Leave ONE Link. My ComLuv Profile

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  6. George Serradinho

    02. Dec, 2009

    Your ultimate goal is to create a community around your blog. Have them interacting with each other.

    Some have done it fast, my blog is growing and I’m happy.
    George Serradinho´s last blog ..Firefox Plugins to Increase Blogging Productivity (Series 2)- SEO My ComLuv Profile

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  7. James M.

    03. Dec, 2009

    The CommentLuv plugin just works like some commenters magnet. I have just installed it a few days ago in my blog after seeing several great bloggers using it.
    James M.´s last blog ..Photo Fun My ComLuv Profile

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  8. James M.

    04. Dec, 2009

    Exactly! :)
    James M.´s last blog ..Wave board 101: Learning the waveboard My ComLuv Profile

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  9. Forbrukslån

    16. Dec, 2009

    First of all: I think it`s kinda incredible that people make their blog nofollow. Off course, if you`re site is good enough it will draw people anyway, but you will get heaps of traffic if you give the people something for visiting – like a link. And the comments you get doesn`t have to have poor quality just because of this. I would know, I have dofollow and commentluv on all my sites. Works like a charm. Man, I just luuuv commentluv and keywordluv!

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  10. daybreak

    02. Jan, 2010

    I am seriously considering adding the CommentLuv plugin on several blogs.

    I learned recently that a good way to find blogs in your niche is to search for “Enable CommentLuv [replace this text with your niche keyword here] blogs”
    daybreak´s last blog ..Increasing Web Traffic via Niche Article Submissions My ComLuv Profile

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  11. SEO Blogspot

    03. Jan, 2010

    The commentluv plugin is one of the best wordpress plugin, specially for increasing the number of commenters.. I love it ! :D
    SEO Blogspot´s last blog ..Google update pagerank diawal tahun 2010 My ComLuv Profile

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