Why do you comment in a blog post?
Posted on July 18, 2008 by
Roy 
Blogging 
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That may seem a very silly question but if you want to create a dedicated reader base for your blog - you must know the answer. If you can guess what the other person is thinking or why the other person is taking a step, you may have a chance to get into it.
Why I am asking this question?
For last couple of months, there had been lots of talks on “Do Follow” comments. A lot of bloggers made their comment links ‘do follow’ to attract more comments. Some of them are still running the model and some have gone back to good old days.
They thought that it would attract more comments as the commenter would get a free link. And they actually got some comments.
But, what do you want - quality comment or just the number of comments?
You must have seen that, a lot of people make unnecessary comments in high traffic or well established blogs. And the most common text is - “interesting post” or may be “great article” although the blogger had written a crap. Ok, to the most, I would count only 5% of them as genuine appreciation - others are just a comment for comment’s sake.
Do these comments help your blog at all!
I agree that numbers matter - if a post gets 50 comments within an hour, you got to be happy and more people would be interested to write a comment (bees attract bees).
However, my experience and my web behavior say that the real people do not comment for links - they comment because they have something to say. And people normally do not want to comment because they do not have time to comment or they hesitate to comment.
In any classroom, teachers need to do a very important job - they need to make the students aware that, they can ask whatever they want. Did you try it? Did you leave any place for your readers to ask something; to fight with you; to hit you in your face!
Did you give them the space to agree or disagree!
If they agree, they may not write a comment but if they disagree, the chances of their writing a comment go higher (time is not a big constraint anymore).
Being too good is not good enough - people may not like to “talk to” you and “talk about” you for being too good - they would only appreciate you from a distance.
So, what are you plans for the day!
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I comment when I have something interesting to say…and when I know my writing is relevant to the topic at hand.
I never comment just to get a link in; it just doesn’t work in the long term.
Data points, Barbara
OK, so you got me to comment. I’ve been reading and enjoying your blog for a few months now, but this is my first comment. Keep up the good work.
Thats great - thats my success :)
Thanks a lot
I tend to only comment on posts when I feel I can either add to the substance of the post, or join in the “conversation” in the comments with relevence. That being said, I’m not opposed to leaving a comment that is in the realm of “great post” if the post was truly great but didn’t really leave any room for comment.
Sometimes people can write content that’s almost too perfect. No room for addition or backlash or anything really, then all you can do is either read and ignore or leave a comment that simply says “great post” because it was informative and well written.
By the way,
Great post!