When you start a new website or a blog you can hardly find any comments on the posts no matter how good or resourceful you write. But that does not mean that all your posts are a fail. It happens at first when your blog has no good reach being new on internet. Once it starts getting the attention it deserves you can find some good comments being made on your posts.
Here are the possible and the ONLY reasons why people will comment on your blog.
Do you know of any other possible reason why people would comment on a blog? Then write your valuable thoughts below in comments.
Comments on Blog
Your Website has a High Page Rank
This is the most important reason why many readers would comment on your blog. If you are a website owner or a blogger, then you have already heard of all those blog commenting services out there that charges you to increase your back links and page rank. Blog commenting on other high PR websites is also one of the ways considered to increase Page Rank.
Your Blog gets High Traffic
If your blog has a high Page Rank then the chances are your website already gets some good traffic. But this point is about the traffic, Alexa rank lets you know how much traffic the website gets. If your blog posts are read by hundreds every day and gets a lot of retweets and facebook link share then people will tend to write a comment on your blog.
Here people will also look to be the first person to comment on your blog.
You are using Comment luv or Keyword luv on your blog
Comment luv is a plugin for wordpress that will display the latest posts from commentators URL along with the comment. This helps commentators increase back links to their website.
Similarly, Keyword luv gives commentators an option to enter the keyword that they want to have back links on with the use of @ symbol after their name and before the main keyword.
Many bloggers or website owners uses these plugins to encourage readers to make a comment. You can even find a list of blogs using these two amazing wordpress plugin on internet. Hence this is one of the most important reason why many readers will comment on your blog.
So better get those plugins on your blog.
Your website is DoFollow
DoFollow attribute lets search engine know that the links can be followed by them. Many bloggers or website owners are always looking to find do follow blogs on internet to comment on and get a back link in return.
Not all the blogs or websites are dofollow and hence you can find a list of dofollow blogs on internet if you happen to search.
You display Top Commentators with their link on sidebar of your blog
Many CMS has an option to display top commentators on the front page or the sidebar (which is site wide) of their website. This can encourage readers to return on their website to read more and comment more.
This can also help in increasing returning visitors to your website.
This works best if a website with high PR is using top commentators plugin. If you happen to find such a website then you can expect hundreds of back links from a single high pr website because the list is displayed on sidebar which is always sitewide and hence each article or a link on the website will have your link on sidebar.
Reader is genuinely looking for resources or information
Please note that all the readers that falls in the above list of categories can also be genuine readers that are looking for resources and information.
But this is the real category where people will comment on your blog when they seriously have to express their thoughts or further discuss the topic.
Here, the possible reasons why readers would comment are if they disagree to some point explained in the post or if they have their own idea or view on the information provided in the post.
