Dear readers,
I’ve been blogging across a number of sites for several years now, and think I’ve created some articles that have been fairly poignant, timely, or mildly amusing.
And although each time I post a new article I get a good swathe of new visitors, and progressively increase the traffic to my site through organic search as a result of having more keywords listed and fresh content, etc - I still get very, very few comments on any of my articles.
I’m looking at deploying some additional comment plugins that interface with Facebook profiles, for example, to make commenting [as you] much easier. But I’m a little skeptical about how much difference that will really make.
Could you recommend me some ways in which you think I could encourage or better position my site that would get more reader comments?
I’d love to hear what you can come up with…
(…Oh and if this post gets zero comments I might just give up!)
Arrived here via Planet BNM Twitter feed because the post title interested me. comments aren’t all they are cracked up to be. Just us egotists wanting to hear the sound of our own voices
Hey Richard,
I’m not going to offer you any particular help, as I have the same problem ;] But I found you via a PlanetBNM tweet, which led me to your article, and your post made me feel I should comment - as there aren’t any yet! I felt you HAVE to have at least one comment here, just so that you don’t give up!
I’d guess that people are more likely to comment if what they are reading provokes an emotional response, and perhaps if they know they are going to get further comments in response to theirs then they’ll be more inclined to take the time too… and perhaps that’s part of it - you need to show people commenting to get comments?
I’ve not read any of your blog posts before so can’t really comment on whether I feel they would provoke a response, but I think that *surely* if you keep it up, it will start to happen, and then it will snowball?
Helpful? Poss not but at least it’s a comment!
Chris
Thanks for the comments Jez and Chris! Much appreciated. At least I know you guys care!!