Very nice. Another way is to use Andy Bailey’s CommentLuv plugin that adds the commenter’s latest post at the the end of his/her comment. Thanks for the mention!

basically you need to comment on other blogs and try to strike a conversation with your readers.

Sarah – this is a fantastic article. I just stumbled it.

I agree that bloggers can only understand what a sincere comment means to the blogger. I also agree that we bloggers have a heightened sense of detecting the intent of the comment.

I’ve been encouraging a blogger friend of mine to consider writing a guest post here at Blue Jar. She’s really good about engaging with the people who comment on her site.

Wow, great list of tips! I also try to only comment when I have something to add to the conversation. If you are reading other blogs and leaving comments like “I agree!” that won’t really add an value to that post.

Glad to see you joined the group writing project!

Great post Sarah. You certainly do get a good many comments. Thanks for the tutorial.
@brownBaron, that sounds like a great plugin, I’ll have to give it a try.

I noticed the whole “Comment on blogs starting at similar times to you”, can I just say something here.

As a 5 year blogger, I’ve noticed that blogs kinda start in peaks and troughs. At the moment, I’d say we’re coming down from a peak. In 2006, I’d say I picked up 3-4 regular new commenters, this year probably 10-15. I dunno the purpose of it, but maybe that’s just me.

I’m growing to hate do-follow, will blog abotu it next week, but my goodness have I had some dodgy comments recently!

Writing about comments is usually a pretty good way to get more.

Hi Sarah
great article articulating what others probably think but don’t come out and say.
I LOVE comments on my blog and absolutely adore talking back to my commenters – the conversational relationships formed through blogs never ceases to astound me.
There are occasions when I am so busy with my work life (child protection) that I cannot comment immediately. That annoys me, so I often visit the commenters site, bookmark and then revisit and leave a comment when time allows. It is my way of spreading blog karma.
And now….I have to get back to work because I have a client about to arrive. Oh how I long to go pro blogger and talk to other bloggers all day.

@ Brown Barron: thanks for pointing out that plugin. Sounds like a great idea.

A Sarah: I’m glad you managed to write your entry. I know you have been flat out and was hoping you made it in time.
Comments on blogs is what drives me to keep going. I’ve also had some “duds” trying to sneak back a link love, and if I can pick them I delete them. I even had a Chinese one the other day and couldn’t read what the heck their were saying.

Who knows, they might have proposed to me for all I know. LOL

Good luck with the entry Sarah
Monika

This is a great article Sarah. I do answer all of my comments, but how do you know which blogs started when you did?

Sarah,

What a great list. Like Monika said, comments are what drive many bloggers to keep going. I just recently started reading your blog, and love the information you’re sharing.

Off to check out some of these other blogs.

Heather

P.S. Stumbled

Commenting on blogs that began at the same time is interesting. I have built a few relationships with a similar tactic but it was because a relationship began with each of us commenting and trying to improve our design/posts.

I’ve found that I enjoy the idea of a conversation with comments. It seems very hard to start, but once your regular readers become used to it I think it adds a very unique sense of community to the site.

Great list. I did almost all this things, except “Comment on blogs that started when I started”. Did you look at all blogs stats to see that?
I stumbled this article, too.

I’d like to add that NOT all blogs receive some kind of attention, even if all the “necessary” steps have been taken, e.g. installing the Top Commentators plugin, removing the “nofollow” tag, replying to comments, etc.

But one thing is for sure: Blogs on blogging receive much more attention compared to personal blogs these days.

@pelf, it’s because the personal blogs usually don’t have a fixed topic of discussion. If one post is about the topic A, the next is about topic Z, which makes it hard for the readers to remain interested in the content of a personal blog.

While on blogs about blogging, for example, we have a large audience of bloggers who are constantly interested in our topic because it benefits them, so it’s easy for them to stick around and join the discussions.

I think for personal blogs to make any real progress, it is necessary that they provide value to their readers i.e., provide useful insights, and somehow make their life easier. You see, people value web content based on how it changes their life for the better, and if it’s worth their time or not. Make it worth their time and you’ll slowly build an audience that’ll care about your discussions.

Some really good tips there mate. I think you’ve got to put yourself out there in order to be found. It’s amazing how many people actually click links in comments. Also think the ‘Top Commenters’ plugin is a great way of rewarding your commenters. Keep up the good work!

Peaks and Troughs – Highs and Lows

This is a great way for getting comments and I will defnitely try out those that you have listed out to garner more comments for my blog

I’ve always wondered how important could bloggers be for the marketing of your site. Your post has opened my eyes, so thank you very much and my best wishes with your work.

I’ve recently started to interact more with some of our readers, and have really noticed more in the way of conversations taking place.

A few days ago, we passed the 1000 comments benchmark, which makes us happy, even if a lot of the comments are from people who wish we would die. In a fire.

Sarah, great share. There’s a link error with “Pure Blogging’s”

I like the idea of featuring the top commenters. I think I’ll try that out.

I just recently implemented comments on my blog engine. Not as lucky as you are when it comes to comments.

Great comprehensive post on commenting and how it can contribute to building one’s blog, Sarah! I think this really helped when I started out last month. Unfortunately it is also now my ‘downfall’ as I have not had enough time to visit and comment as much the past few weeks due to some work on other stuff. I hope to resume normal operations soon as I really miss the communication!

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Thanks for the post Sarah! I think my first comment on your blog was “How to you get so many comments!?!?” HAHA So now I guess I have my question answered.

Do you think any blog (whatever topic) can get lots of comments or just some categories like Blogging Tips, SEO, etc??

Aseem

I agree with your points – all of which have worked pretty well for me. I especially like to keep the conversation going with my commentors – people like to be recognised for their efforts of leaving a comment and a simple ‘thanks for commenting’ reward is not much to give.

Nice blog. I’ll add you to my RSS reader

Hi Sarah,

I’m like you in that I always answer comments if for no other reason than it’s plain good manners! I do-follow too because I believe if people go to the trouble to comment, it’s only fair their link gets recognised by the search engines. I like fair!

Ok, I get a lot of spam because of it, but the Askimet plugin takes care of most of it and the sneaky ones that get through I can always spot and head straight for the DELETE button!

This is a great post and I really enjoyed reading it. I look forward to more!

I stumbled too!

Terry

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That’s a lot of comments and great ways to attract them.

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hey cool beans I rarely get comments liken your blog ta
HB~

great advice, I have noticed a lot more blogs using this kind of approach successfully, this should be included in the “your first blog” instruction book

thanks BrownBaron for mentioning the CommentLuv plugin!

@sarah: contact me any time about the plugin!

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Great article! I picked up on it with stumble and since I just started my blog I am going to try to put it into practice.

Thanks for the advice and thumbs up on stumble!

A nice post, and you’ve obviously had success getting those comments (38 on this post alone as I write!)! I think this one is big:

“Comment on blogs that started when I started”

You’re definitely more likely to get responses from your peers rather than the big name bloggers who get dozens or even hundreds of comments a day not to mention email. Anyway, more people are likely to notice your comment on someone else’s blog (and click through to your site) when there aren’t a zillion other comments on there. So all around it’s a good strategy to establish relationships with other folks who are in the same boat as you are.

Thanks for the tips! I like the idea of the top commentators on the sidebar.

First and important thing is to comment on other blogs to tell them your existence. Good article. I have written many on improving comments.

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I’ve just start my blog and thanks for the tips, now I understand that it’s all about take and give.

i am doing blogging for past 3 months as well but hardly anybody putting any comments on my blogs. i dont know why

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Great article and I agree with what you’re saying. Actually, although I’m new to blogging I’ve decided to put myself on a blogging schedule in order to keep up with reading feeds, MyBlogLog pages, comments, etc. in the hopes of keeping things on track.

nice post. Looking to attract more readers to my blog, and stumbled across this article. Seems like it could be very useful. Will browse the rest of your articles too!

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While all new bloggers are shouting out the PR they recieved, I see no movement here… Congratulations for the PR4!

And just came to know… Congratulations for winning Group Writing Project at TheWritersManifestoBlogwriters…

HI Sarah…i read that u were 3 months old in the blogosphere and have already managed 1091 comments, and went back to mine and checked- i m 5 months old here, and still haven’t managed to get many comments beyond my friends’ circle. I so want to get an honest feedback from total strangers about my writings! I hope your tips help. Thanks for sharing!

Good ideas there. The biggest one for me has just been engendering conversations. If a person has a good conversation with you once, they’re more likely to come back and comment again the next time.

It’s also a lot of fun to do.

sometime it is kind of a big headache to get people comment on your blog with good stuff. but then it is a challenge to all bloggers. that’s what internet all about. the place to show your stuff and be among the best.

Thanks for helping like this. I m really very needy for that. It will be helpful for me.

Your idea is so admirable. I feel as I get something new from your guidelines. Thanks for sharing.

Which top commentors plug-in are you using?
Does it support WP 2.3?

Thanks,jb

Sure, removing no-follow is great to attract web developers and search engine marketers but what if you’re in a niche where most people don’t know about no-follow? Doesn’t do much good there to remove except to invite spammers. I am pretty neutral to this.

The first 3 months my blog was up, I put out some 15 articles. The comments section had nothing but a long string of zeros. It felt like I was talking to myself.
Now, even though I do not serve coffee and donuts, a few people are starting to visit. Appreciate your tips.

Great post. I think you could add “write more posts so there are more posts to comment on.”

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You have discussed very important matters in your article. I need to follow these. Thanks for your recommendation.

Thanks for this list. It’s useful, since I have always had a bit of a problem getting comments. (I get lots of hits, not many comments.)

From what I’ve seen on other blogs I think the last point is especially true. That is, there seems to be a critical mass of comments that has to be reached. Once it has, the comments never stop. (It’s kind of like people at a dance — it takes a few brave souls to get up before everybody else does.)

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Seems like all of us bloggers are talking about the importance of commenting lately!! I totally agree with this post and can vouch for it actually working!!

I actually saw one of your comments on another blog and it brought me her to your blog… You wrote that “guess what I found? One of those blogs that steal ‘feeds’. So basically the headline was cool, but it was actually from another persons blog! I don’t know how many of those are on there but they need to check these blogs and they also need an easy way to report it – Unless they allow that sort of thing?”

Now I know this is kind of off topic and I hope your are not annoyed but if you find a way to report these blogs that are a full of other people’s “feeds” will you let me know to… This is a huge pet peeve of mine!
Have a good night!

nice articles , got new insights of getting users to comment more on the blog
blog is succesful only if it has gud nd active commentators

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So if i post a link to my site here.. I’ll get more comments huh ….

Lol only messing around , this truly is a great article, I found it by seraching google on ways to improve my comments. my blog has over the past year just been a ghostly presence, but now I’ve started to actually make posts on it regularly and given it a redesign things are picking up, conversations are growing, but it’s really still in it’s infancy, so I think the above advice will help me.

I like the idea of top commenters listed on the side bar, i currently only had recent comments.

Wow, that great. My blog is about 6 months old and I only have like 5 comments.

Interesting post. I agree that interacting with visitors actually activates them. As simple as it can sound, at least you got me to prove the point.

Congratulations on such a wonderful blog! We just started our blog formortv at blogspot this week. We have enjoyed networking with like minded individuals. Thanks for the great article. I wish you a ton of success and prosperity.

Peace Out………..

I find it a very useful information. All the tips sure comes in handy. Most blogger actually do not answer on the blogs comments posted by others. It’s a great way to have a two way communication.

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You can attract comments on your blog if you have good article or content. At the same time your blog must be of follow and you should list it in do follow directories or other directories. Giving comments to other blogs will also help.

Blog comment needs a specific measurement. It will modify your thoughts.

sarah
this is a wonderful list.you get many comments.I’ll have to give it a try.

I think that removing No Follow option in your blog is the greatest single thing you can do to improve traffic to your site. Admittedly you need to do a lot more comment filtering to remove posts that are “nice post, I like your work” but translate to I want a link to my blog from your blog as you have a PR of 6.

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Good ideas! Also, to get more comments in your blog try to post an interesting topic. If readers got interested in your topic, more visitors will read to your blog and make more comments and try to visit again and again. Making your post a little bit conversational is great!

Me too, I enjoy the idea of a conversation with comments. It is not hard to start and give regular answers. And it would be pity to to miss the communication!

depends from topic to topic.. still great article, liked

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Thanks for all the advice, the list is very informative and useful. I learned alot and will definetly be using many of those tecniques. I am new to blogs so many of the strategies you have described, I have never used before.

You bring up some good points. However, I would assume you’d need some decent traffic to in order to get any comments in the first place. In any case, I will try to implement a few of your suggestions to my blog.

Thanks!

Reply to comments and remove do-follow seems the best.

thank you . this post is so good for me
good luck

Nice article – the whole way of thinking about community and relations is very good – i will consider to do a little like u on my own blog

Hi,

I know you did good job in this blog, but the thing that I am wondering is: I know anyone would be happy to get more traffic to his\her site, but what the result? do you make money with this? I really don’t understand it, how can someone makes money by having more traffic to his\her site when it is only a blog site where someone write and others read?

Anyway, you did a good job,
Regards.

Interesting article. Not sure if you have it but offering an rss feed of comments for each post is another good way to increase commenting.

Very good ideas and well written. These are some good ideas for improving comment involvement.

Great tips there – certainly allows me to try a few of these ideas to get more comments.

Those tips were helpful.! Many of them are already implemented.. But havent tried anything like commenting on those who started the blog in the same time as mine

Hey it worked, you got my comment!

You are absolutely correct. Traffic is easy to get, it’s the comments that are hard to come by. You have to nurture them like a garden.

Thanks the advice. I`ll try it!

Wow. What an awesome post with exceptional ideas! Thanks for all the advice. I’m rss-ing you!

I like to leave comments, and I like to read comments after reading the blog post.
after all the whole reason for the internet is to have two way communication and the blogs do even better than that.
They allow for an exchange of ideas ,(and technologies ) that benefit every one involved.
I found it hard to comment when I first started to say anything when I first found out about reading blogs. so I just read them.
But as Knowledge grows so does the ability to say what you want in a relevant manner.
besides it’s fun when the bloggers comment, or e-mail you back! Tommy

I found this blog, and I just wanted to comment I’m happy I had the chance to read it. I have a small tip: when I have been in Berlin, I browsed through berlinshotel.com for my hotel bookings.

Great List, will help gain comments on my almost commentless blog.

Thanks for the good read and advice.

Will be back soon for new articles.

That’s a great list of tips. I think you’re especially right about the need to create a feel of community. That’s got to be a priority.

Going to dofollow and asking questions of my readers made a huge difference in comments on my blog. This also reflected in subscribers.

I think commenting with other bloggers builds a great community and can naturally help to build comments on your own blog as well over time. Nice tips!

Seeing the number of comments that you already got out of this post, I think you very well know what you’re talking about. Been trying hard to attract comments to my blog and these tips are of wonderful help. Thanks!

Just getting started with our own blog, your post will be helpful for getting much sought after comments!

Seems like all of us bloggers are talking about the importance of commenting lately!! I totally agree with this post and can vouch for it actually working!!

I actually saw one of your comments on another blog and it brought me her to your blog… You wrote that “guess what I found? One of those blogs that steal ‘feeds’. So basically the headline was cool, but it was actually from another persons blog! I don’t know how many of those are on there but they need to check these blogs and they also need an easy way to report it – Unless they allow that sort of thing?”

Now I know this is kind of off topic and I hope your are not annoyed but if you find a way to report these blogs that are a full of other people’s “feeds” will you let me know to… This is a huge pet peeve of mine!
Have a good night!

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Thanks a lot for this post….I was a bit slow to answer the comments on my blog and post comments to other blogs. Well, now onwards, I won’t be lazy to reply comments and post comments to other blogs…thanks man for motivating…:-)

Thats an useful posts for bloggers like me.
I am running my blog since year, but only 20 comments in total

Great article.

I know that alot of the feedback that I get from my blog really has to be solicited directly. Not many people ever want to leave the good comments but they will leave the bad comments.

Hi.

Thanks for the tips here – I’m going to put these into action on some of my blogs and see how it goes. At the moment I’m struggling to get many comments.

You clearly dont have a problem with getting comments on this blog though! Great work

James

I think those tips are really working and the best one. thanks for the tip.

Nice tips…Controversial posting also attract more comments. So content is also an important factor to sttract comments.

This is one of the greatest summary i was read. I do agree what you are telling and that’s the reason you can getting over 100 comments on this posts.

Nice way of writing about blogging, your content styling is impressive

Wow you really sturred it up with this post. Very nice !

Thanks for the useful info. I have a blog of my own but I’ve gotten what, like 10 comments in the last 6 months lol. Keep up the good work!

I really like leaving comments on blogs and i find it very easy to leave good comments to. When i first started i thought, why am i doing this but it is so obvious to me now. You sure do have some great ideas and TIPS about blogging. Thanks and keep up the good work

I have recently joined the do-follow movement, but have already received a few spammish comments, they are relevent but are blatent advertisments for other sites! Oh well, gotta take the bad with the good..!

wow…gr8 articles…very nice…i was looking for it in google since a long time…thx a million
-abhi
TechFreakiez

Thats an useful posts for bloggers like me. Thanks…

Great information for bloggers like us. Especially in the finance and student industries.

Great post, answering a comment or two with a post or including them also helps.

I think since this is such a difficult thing to do it attracted so many comments and users. I believe if you do have a do-follow blog you will get more feedback because people are being rewarded for their input. Continue to write fantastic informative blog posts and people will come back. Nice Post!

really interesting post, lots of useful information and tip for building a successful blog. Keep up the good work,
Dave

Verry much usefull post !! keep the good work up !

Too bad that you didn’t install dofollow plugin f.ex month ago. Then you could tell how much it did affect amount of comments in your posts.

I agree with all points you’ve made. Especially commenting on related blogs and trying to build some kind of “related blogs network” is very important and will have long-term positive effects on your own blog/website/brand. Moreover, commenting on related blogs is also crucial from a SEO point of view. It brings quality backlinks and possible boost in a traffic and targeted visitors. However, remember that the comments are permanent – this means that short useless posts written just to get a free backlink are wrong and might have negative effects on your image. Think forward

Wow great post! and you sure got a lot of comments! hehe..
keep it up…. thanks!

Your post is full of great handy tips. I myself am trying to create a network with fellow sites to see if I can improve my traffic.

Just add a little bit of link love, and the comment should start rolling in

Nice post. i have been trying to figure out why i never get any comments for a while now. I will try some of your tips and let you know how it goes

Thanks for a great post.

wow,you are reall giving back links to those who comment…..nice job.

It surely works for you. Looks like you do attract a lot of comments. My question is, how do you manage to manage all your comments?
I seriously do not have this problem on my blog yet. It is only 6 weeks old and had a handful of posts only. Managing the comments is the last worry at the moment. In the mornings, I open my Wordpress. Go the the comments and simply delete them all, since they are all from the same spammy poster that tries to sell medicines.
Easy sorting. But I wonder how you work your way through with a large blog, and many comments to follow up per day. Does it take a lot of time?

Wow,
I’m impressed. Not only the number of comments, but the number of posts that you write in a month! Respect!

What I was going to write: How do you manage to manage your posts? Does it take a lot of time?

My blog is now only 6 weeks old and has a handful of posts, so I do not have this luxury problem. Every morning I only need to delete the bunch of comments that are all spam. But you really have a full-time job sorting out your posts. How do you do it?

Great guide I subscribed to your rss. I can see that this is working for you by the amount of comments that you are getting

blogging is about to socializing, build your own community

I guess the nature of the blog post works, look at all the comments. Great Job !

The problem with removing the no-follow. Spammers come running from everywhere wanting to spam the crap out of your blog

Using the blog medium to get your thoughts and (links) out via other blogs who share simillar content with your own site is a great way to help your site gain popularity.. as long as you provide worthy comments

Making friends on blogs bring visitors back, its like taking care of customers in business. Supply the right product and give the service.

Commenting has always been the best way to socialize with other members of the online community. I am pretty sure with what you have suggested here, it would definitely help many others expand on their own community around their sites.

Rick

Great article!

Personally, I tend to try comment on other blogs with similar niche as mine and thus building kind of a small “quality blog comments exchange” network (I’ve just made that word up – sorry if it doesn’t make much sense) with them. Sometimes blog owners from websites where I comment from time to time (when I read some interesting post there) come back to me and comment on my website. Other than that, of course making your blog dofollow will help, as well as already having some quality comments so there is a potential for more sophisticated discussion.

You have covered basically all comment tactics I know plus few others I haven’t thought of

Richard

I think removing the no follow tag is a big one (thanks for that by the way!). It helps build links and PR for the commenter while boosting the popularity of the blog for the blog owner.

hey, think it works very good….you have my comment and soooooo many others congrats

Great post Sarah – that reminds me, I really do have to get comments running on my blog.

Thank you for the do-follow tag and for following what you preach. I’ve been on other posts where the author talked about how bad no-follow was and why it should be removed and then low and behold their own post had no-follows – just ironic.

Thank you for this article. I used some tipps from you and since then I got 100 more visitors per day.
Thats a nice number, because I had only 30 visitors before.

I think dofollow is the biggest factor. Everyone likes a dofollow blog

My blog is running good.
But I cannot have enough visitors!
So thanks for your tipps!

Thank you for this article.
The last points are really important for me and I will use them for my blog.

Informative info. You may want to add more entries to your blog to keep us going.

I believe that until now you’ve managed pretty well to administrate your blog. So, I don’t think that you should worry. Keep up the good work just like you did until now and everything is going to be just fine.

Looks like it is working the do follow stuff, very glad you run this awesome blog and allow do follow. Many thanks !

I think this is a wonderful idea I need to start featuring top commenters on my blog that is a great tip, thanks a million !

CommentLuv definitely helps to get fellow bloggers to comment.

I also try to ask a question of my readers at the end of my posts.

you too do some contest to attract more comment, maybe giving away some free banner ads for one month for top 3 commentators.

107 posts in 90 days. That’s really impressive. I really would like to emulate your dedication to your blog.
I am a part time marketer and have a lot of projects running online. But you have inspired me to up my act
Thank you

Nice tips and glad to see that your blog is doing so well
It is crucial to reply to comments

Yeah, and damn it works. I mean 158+ comments on this post only, I gotta say that’s a successful blog.

Well, you’ve clearly done something right. Here’s comment 159.

I think you have to start conversation with your readers.. it will make them come back to your blog again and again

A page worth bookmarking. Just need to start posting first, so there is something to comment on. It is so hard to stay focused.

I read about the ‘you comment, I reply’ movement and think it is a little sad to attract commentators that way. But than again, I might need to use it, because I will be desperate soon.

I did join the ‘you comment, I follow’ movement. Results: 1 half-decent comment and over 200 SPAM comments…

Thanks for advice! I’ll work on getting more comments on my blog.

I liked this post a lot because it carefully analyzes what encourages people to post. Every blog will naturally attract other bloggers. Those bloggers have their own blogs that they want to promote. While there will naturally be spam at some point, it shouldn’t be a necessity to remove promotion of other sites as a means to remove spam.

Aside from approving comments, there should be other tools to limit spam. Most of it is done by bots, so Captchas are a fairly decent solution.

I always see your blog.
I am looking forward to renewal of your blog.
Please take a look my site, if it’s possible.

Great advice about removing nofollow tags on comments! I used to agree with a lot of SEOs who think nofollow tags helps channel pagerank into certain links; now I embrace the theory of open dofollow reciprocity for all small blog owners. This helps the entire community of bloggers.

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Thanks for the help much appreciated. great post. This is my first time to the site and I will defiantly be back.

nice article.. and yes: it’s true

Getting people to comment on your blog is always tough. But nice tips though. Thanks!

I think it is so cool that you have this blog that hasn’t been touched for almost a year but still you’re getting comments and you have more than 190 subscribers to your feed. Now THAT is cool!

I do follow on my blogs as well but i find I have to spend a lot of time moderating comments because of spammers

I however think that allowing useful comments is a great way of increase each posts content
Also we know that search engine optimization has a bit to do with updated content. Allowing comments helps with this as well

You should visit other blogs and comment, be a regular at blogs that attract most of your interest. That’s how you’ll build a network

I agree with the above poster
Top commenter and CommentLuv work really well:)

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I appreciate that your web site creating a higher value in providing updated information through your web site.

I also believe that the more regularly you post, the more comments your blog will attract, as most people won’t take the time and effort to comment on blogs that have dated posts. It also gives your readers more subjects/points of view to comment on.

really useful article! every bloggers should know about it. Thanks you

good Post, Your blog is great!

I totally agree that comments attract more comments! I’ve noticed on forums, people don’t want to participate if it looks dead. But they’ll join if it looks like an active community.

These are excellent tips. I’m surprised that you haven’t received spam from not using no-follows. I guess people have given up on blog comment spam. Thanks.

This post has a lots of comment and attract me to comment too. Top commentator also quite attractive for a new webmaster as their can increase their backlinks. Moderation should be on too for filter spam comment.

Great tips useful for all bloggers who are willing to increase comments on their blog posts.

thanks for the tips. to the previous comment, i think you can reduce spam with captcha, multiplication or other challenging techniques.

nice article! every bloggers love to get a lot of comments, and should try to attract more comments. Thanks for the nice article.

Right, So now my blog is great at getting comments. These tips just don’t work if you don’t have any readers though!
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Thanks for all the suggestions, Keep up the GOOOD work!
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Much Thanks
Adam

You attracted my comment!!!

Great list. I did almost all this things, except “Comment on blogs that started when I started”. Did you look at all blogs stats to see that?
I stumbled this article, too.

Are you really sure that you want to encourage more comments on your blog! You already have 171 of them. I have found that more comments just means more admin sorting out the spam etc, and doesn’t really get you higher in the rankings or earn you more money.
Chris-

What wonderful advice for new and experienced bloggers! Other tips for increasing you readership and comments is to sign up for blog groups that are similar to yours! Like at technorati or blogged, being a part of their blog networks can help increase traffic by showcasing your blog and what you have to say to a wider audience. You can also even see if your web site host has a blog/site optimization package they can set you up with, that will enter you blog or site into different blog groups and networks so you dont have to spend the time finding and signing up, but can instead blog!

Your post about attracting comment really works, 171 comments is a proof.
Thanks for the tips. I should give it a try and hope i can attract as many of this people here ^_^

Cheers!
My blog is do-follow now so anyone feel free to comment

Great post and the bottom line is definitely community. It’s all about ‘what goes around comes around’. When in doubt, just remember the word COMMUNITY – and be good online citizen. The rewards for doing so will come back to you in the long run.

Good tips… i’ll try them on some blogs i manage and be sure if they work (your tips i mean) i’ll be here every day checking your blog for new guides!…thanks for sharing with us this info and congrats for your blog!.-

You attracted my comment too

The fact that you, like me, believe in spreading the luv around by allowing follow means that I found your blog, read the posts to find something of interest and now am commenting on it. I will be back because what goes around comes around and you just earned my support at least

Katie

I enjoy the interaction through the blog comments, and it’s always GREAT to wake up in the morning and find that I need to approve some comments. While I don’t get as many of them as I’d like too, I still get a few here and there when I make a new post!

As with a few other things you cover, I visit a number of blogs throught the week, and if I have something to add then I’ll leave a comment. What’s the point in commenting, if I’m not going to say something useful?

One thing I always do is reply to the people who comment on my blog, it’s not only polite, but a fun way of maybe getting to know eachother, and forming a realtionship of some kind.

I completely agree with you that comments attract even more comments, but it also adds to the discussion, and could well start a cool debate. That would soon drive a number of comments towards the post!

Thanks
Mark

Thanks Great post its really helpful i will use these tips of yours to get more visitors from my site thanks!

Hmm..I guess besides doing the above things, you miss out something which I think is quite important which is to write something worth talking about. And the content has to create a resonance among the readers.

WOW! Your comment tips must work as you have over 190 comments on this post alone?

What happened to the rest of the blog though? There’s only been one post this year… it would be a shame to let the blog die.

It’s great success. I try to use your recommendation.

Great article and its obvious you know what your doing judging by how many comments you get here.

Yes your are quite right and I am sure it is the no follow removal which attracts interest.

Great blog post, some very valuable points to getting comments. Thanks for the advice, hopefully it will help get comments on my blog!

I always appreciate a blog where the owner also responds to comments.

It’s great success. I try to use your recommendation which definitely will prove to be a success for me too.

Thanks.

Excellent post. Basically the more often you post the more comment you get…the more comment you get the more comment you get. in my opinion.

It sounds like a lot of work attracting commentors to your blog. Though I suppose it’s a big investment at the start which pays off in time.

Thanks for the tips. I’ve been thinking of starting my own blog but have been humming and hahhing about it for a couple of months now. I’m worried I might not have the time to devote to it to make it all it could be

Just by the amount of comments in this post alone, IMHO, makes you an expert in getting comments. I really appreciate when the webmaster of a blog responds to comments, most blogs do not do this simple thing. Thank you for the great tips!

Attractive discussion..It’s nice to see your post and stuffed in good manner.As I want to learn things that are different it attracted me to go through the post..

Thanks for the tips, will be using them on my blog (^-^)

Cheers

Oliver

congradgulations on your success, i dont have a blog but i do have a forum is there anything you could reccomend for getting more forum visitors?

thanks in advance

nice article,thank you

It is very good to remove nofollow from your blog and because of this I love to visit this blog often. Something like win-win situation yeah.

Thanks for an informative site and some great tips. Although surely the amount of comments is going to be relational to the amount of visitors your site receives or has the amount of visitors stayed the same?

Very interesting post. Will definately bookmark this blog to check back later.
Thanks!

Thanks for the post and a wonderful blog! I had to post really didn’t I.

I agree with posting comment to our commentor’s blog … it built good relationship with readers ..

I myself still use nofollow, I think I will remove them to attract more comments

The good resource should be brought in bookmarks

I like the ideas you have to attract comments on your blog. I’ve been trying to do the same thing for my blog. Thanks for the tips!

Nice tips Sarah. Thanks for the link to removing the No-follow tag wordpress plugin. I’ll soon be starting the wp blog and I’m thinking to apply the plugin and tips.

Nice post. Have added you on RSS to keep myself updated.

What you’r saying is not a guaranteed thing, so it’s risky + sounds like a lot of work so it only works if you have time to read articles and post comments on others website

Good tips. Especially about removing no-follow you’re right on the money. There are a lot of people looking for that feature and when they find your blog is on the first page that way you attract a lot of organic audience. Search engines are artificially smart enough to assume for some reason many people go to that blog and reward with higher ranking. Wise choice author!

The best article i have found in a long time. Im gonna use this as guide to my blog.

For such a young blog it’s doing exceptionally well. Keep it up!

I can see that you practice what you preach. 224 comments Wow. I will have to definitely try to emulate what you do…thanks once again for the great post

Thanks for this post, i have addet your feed to my reader.

nice and simple rules to get more comments on your blog. Thanks for the sharing!

I think the best way to attract comments is publishing great big lists of things and resources, for example: if you have a seo blog you can post huge lists of directories and do follow sites. That will attract massive amoounts of comments.
I love this blog!

The easiest way to attract comments to your blog is to make it onto one of those “dofollow” blog lists. However, this will come at a cost because you will find unscrupulous people commenting away to gain precious links. If you are a social blogger, chances are good you will have a plentiful number of comments. However, you shouldn’t expect to make coin with a social blog.

We have missed the one of the most obvious points which is good content. Well researched, good quality content such as pillar articles attract comment quite easily.

WOW – 224 comments at the time of writing. Perhaps writing a post about how to get comments should have gone on the list?!

great advice I will give it a try because I have a lot of views on my blog but the only comments i receive are SPAM, hopefully this will help get comments on my posts.

nice post. i have been trying to figure out why i never get any comments for a while now. I will try some of your tips and let you know how it goes

Hi there. I think you pretty much cover everything in terms on attracting visitors to your site and sharing each other opinions (good or bad). Keep it up..

- robert

great tips,installing do follow plugin now….

Do you know of a plugin to change a Wordpress Blog from automatically No Follow to do follow? Thanks

Building community is the best way

Speaking of attracting comments to a post, you are doing well with your 200+ comments on this post. One blog I was on today actually has a monthly contest for who can be the top 10 commentators. Then various sponsors would donate various prizes costing about $10 each.

He there .great tips. I will use your tips on my blog.

Useful tips and insights. Finding readers who are interested to your posts is the key …

ood tips. Especially about removing no-follow you’re right on the money. There are a lot of people looking for that feature and when they find your blog is on the first page that way you attract a lot of organic audience. Search engines ar

Good Tips

Removing nofollow would certainly help as well.

Informative post. Thank you.

I recently started a blog, however I’ve posted twice and so far no one has commented. What are some tips when it comes to attracted users to comment on my topic?

I think the best thing you can do to encourage blog commenting is to make your comments “dofollow”

Wow, this is great post very informative, keep up the good job man, bookmark this!

Your take on developing relationships with your readers is spot on. I know many webmasters using WordPress that have become disillusioned and are removing their Top Commenter plugin to stop spammers. Responsible folks will stay on topic and add a quality comment to your site.

As far as removing the no-follow I have to agree with those that are in favor of doing so. Writing a comment on a blog (such as yours) that contributes to the conversation can help move their own site up in Google resulting in more organic search traffic.

Thanks for letting me post. You have a great blog here!

by looking at these comments , you prove that you have practically done it and that was success.

You’re relatively young in this business but you achieved great success. You’re very well informed so that I am not surprised with your great progress.

ooo good tips

thanks for article

“List top commentors on my sidebar”
and “Feature top commentors” threse 2 works for me

Great advice! I dont like to blog on a no-follow-page.

But why is it so important with all these comments? Traffic is important.

Great article! I picked up on it with stumble and since I just started my blog I am going to try to put it into practice.

Thanks for the advice and thumbs up on stumble!

I love commenting on your blog. Your blog has lots of nice tips.

I would get commenting on other people’s blogs for traffic. It can be a very effective tactic.

Hey thanks ,
That really helped me out to increase the commenting on my blog.
I will be thinking on all your points to increase the overall traffic of my blog.
I am expecting such cool articles from you.
Continue….

Having high page rank article pages along with removing the no-follow tag is a sure way to increase comments. You also should have a good interlinking structure so that page rank can flow to most of your pages. This along with writing good content, and content that has a “call to action” will be a huge help. It looks like you have this method down well!

Hey, this is the best advice that i have seen for a while on the net.
I have implemented almost all of them, thanks

Nice Article. I will definitely keep all this techniques in my mind when i will write posts on my blog also when i read posts from others blog. To get good commentators on my bog.

Great post. I have always wondered why bloggers “nofollow” their pages. It will inevitably stop people from posting. I’ve always found that the best way to get people commenting is a good PR. If you have that and “dofollow” you’re sorte. I too have never had a problem with spam.

As for the rest, you’ve taught me a thing or two so thank you.

You have given us some very good information, and from all the comments on your blog you definitely know what you are doing.

There a a few main reasons for trying to build comments on your blog:

- To build a community
- To encourage conversation on a topic so that you can gain more knowledge through other’s point-of-view
- To increase traffic that may result in higher ad CTRs
- To increase page and site freshness which can lead to higher SE rankings

What was the biggest reason for you to attract comments?

Great tips Sarah! I’m pretty new to blogging myself and looking for new ways to promote my blog. I’ve recently gone “DoFollow” as you mentioned so looking forward to seeing what difference that makes to the number of comments I get.

Great article – I am always looking for different ways to attract more people to my website and some of your tips are excellent!

Ross

Outstanding post. We are just about to launch our new blog, and attracting commenters is a concern to me. I am most concerned about how much it may hurt me if I allow do follow comments? It’s obviously not hurting you, because you seem to have quite a few inbound links in a short period of time Thanks for the info.

I like your suggestion of ‘Answer my own commentors’. I can imagine by providing feedback to commenters, they actually feel like they’re talking to a human being instead of posting a comment in some random corner of cyberspace. This would encourage a lot of users to become more active in discussion so it’s win-win for everybody.

I am curious about your suggestion “Comment on blogs that started when I started”. How do you go about finding blogs that started at a similar time as you?

Great advice and thanks for the tutorial.

A lot off whise things. But i don’t see any top commentators in your right bar. Do you give your top commentators some extra linklove? Would be a great way to keep people posting.

Given the number of comments in this post, your tips work!

nice article, i love and i’ll try to do to my blog..:)

Very interesting tips. Exactly what I was searching for. In my opinion, tip #5 is the most important, because if you don’t answer your visitors, you seem uninterested of your own blog, and the commenter won’t be interested to post again…

And on #1, a very good way is to find similar blogs with Alexa (it has categories).

This is really an important factor in getting comments. Not only you read other blogs, you also need to comment on other blogs and express your opinions. But do not spam other blogs by commenting, post only valuable comments. This will make others also comment on your blog and once you have a good number of comments, any new visitor will get a good impression of the blog and this in turn helps in increasing the subscriber count also.

I completely agree with your opinion

Which of those techniques do you personally use?

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Really Nice article.
I have already written about ‘Increasing comments in your blog’ in my blog last week.
Thanks for share.

Great tips thanks dude. The main thing that attracts comments is good content and stuff you are really interested in I think. Ive only ever posted about 10 blog posts to date, still no comments but hopefully ill improve!

John

I totally agree with points mentioned here for blog comment posting. Thank you for sharing these tips. With blog comments we will get quality back links these tips are useful for all SEO peoples.

lots of great tips, thanks.

Blog comment are tips good one, i would like to share some thing more, why we are doing? because extreme competition among products and services exist and for easily approach/access the users.

Great post with a lot of good tips, but aside from the plugins you suggested, I think the next important tip you gave is responding to your commenters. it truly helps in forming a real relationship!

This articles is so good. I’ll try to practices it. Thank a lot.

Make the comments link do follow also affective to attract the visitor comments.

Very interesting and helpful comments. I have a new wedding services site and I will use some of the comments to help me and the new site.

Thanks for sharing with us its quite interesting and informative information which is very useful to us. My blog is also do follow.

Good tip on featuring your top commentors, it gives people a real incentive to come back time and time again, and it’s probably great from a webmaster type blog because everyone wants links to their site, good post!

nice info i find “Feature my top commentors” removing nofollow link to be good, but i read in internet that dofollow effect the PR, so i haven’t made my blog do follow.

What a wonderfull post dude, thanks for sharing this. For sure i will check your another post later, i just bookmarking this site. Again happy posting

I think the best thing to do is to be open, and join in any and all discussions that your blog posts create. Be friendly and offer good advice, and learn what generates the most debate. People will come back and comment regularly if they know you will get involved.