Blog Comments

Getting more blog comments helps your blog rise in the Google rankings by building quality back links to your site, and its user-generated content that contributes to the blog post.

Keep in mind when you set out to increase your blog's comments that only a tiny percentage of your visitors will ever leave a comment regardless of how much they like or dislike what you have written. It also takes time for your readers to get to know your style, and get a feel for your content before they will feel comfortable enough to leave a comment. So, be patient but persistent.

Here are seven tips that you can try to get your visitors to comment on your blog posts:

1. It never hurts to ask. When you ask your visitors for comments they are more likely to leave them.
2. Comment on other people's blogs. Blogs are a part of the social media landscape. Become a frequent visitor to other blogs in your niche and in your areas of interest and comment on them. Create relationships with other bloggers and they will reciprocate.
3. Reward those who comment on your posts by responding to them and possibly quote them or mention them in a blog post.
4. Take a stand on an issue that you believe in. Don't try to be controversial for the sake of creating a stir as this might backfire resulting in your getting a bunch of hateful or derisive comments.
5. Make it easy for your visitors to comment by a plugin such as commentluv that automatically links back to the comment author's latest blog post.
6. Interact with those who leave comments on your blog. Follow the link to their blog and return the favor.
7. Use social media sites such as stumbleupon, digg, and technorati to publicize your blog posts. Create a link back to your blog on your Facebook page and tweet about it on Twitter.

Make sure that you use some kind of comment moderation plugin on your blog to keep the spam out and so that you can approve comments before they are publicly viewable.

Blogging on timely issues in the news that a lot of people are talking about as long as it relates to your niche or topic is another way to pique your readers' interest and increase the chances that someone will take the time to put their two cents in.

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