A blog without comments looks dead but that is totally alright if your blog is new. When a blog is new it has a low readership and returning visitors. Over a period of good time when your website finally starts getting the attention it deserves you will gradually start getting comments.
This post is based on the previously written article on Reasons why people will comment on your blog.
These are some evil little tricks to increase the potential of your blog posts getting comments. There are several plugins for wordpress that you can use to improve readers experience and provide them free incentives.
Here is a simple guide you can follow to increase your blog comments potential.
Make your blog DoFollow
You can find a good long list of dofollow blogs on internet. Many bloggers write about such list of blogs that are dofollow and you can find one good list if you search on Google right now. DoFollow attribute lets search engines know that the links on their blog can be followed, helping you to increase your back links.
If you are using wordpress then you can find a plugin to make your blog dofollow.
Use Top Commentators Plugin on Sidebar
Top Commentators plugin for wordpress will add a widget on sidebar that will display a specified number of readers who commented on your blog with their URL on the name. This can encourage your visitors to comment on your post to get on to that list.
The advantage for them here is that the widget is sitewide being on sidebar and hence the commentator will get hundreds of back links from that website since all the posts and pages will have the commentators URL on them.
Use Comment Luv and Keyword Luv Plugins
Comment Luv is a plugin for wordpress that automatically fetches the latest post from Commentators URL and displays it along with the comment. This can help commentator increase deep back links for their website.
Similarly, Keyword Luv lets commentators add keyword next to their name in order to set a back link on their desired keyword.
These plugins can highly increase the potential of your website getting more comments and returning visitors.
So, what will happened is the blog owner receives comments and traffic which is not a good traffic and those who write comments will get backlinks. Who will gain more? as far as i can understand the one that receives back links gain more…Back links are vital to gain search engine rankings and traffic for comments all another story. And hey, it’s just me…
Hi MVNIB:
Great ideas for gaining more comments. This is something I am trying to work on as I do not run on WP yet. I am running on Google Blogger so it takes even more work to gain comments. Thanks again for the great post!
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very nice post.I really enjoy the post.Blog commenting is really helpful for getting the link.