Many bloggers have asked me how to increase comments on your blog. Â People who blog want to know that people are actually reading what they post and sometimes just seeing traffic numbers doesn’t quite cut it. Â Human engagement is the best way to understand what your readers are thinking and the comments section is one of the few ways to get it online. Â I do a lot of research on how to increase comments on a blog, as well as how to increase traffic and sales overall. Â Some of my blog posts receive 0 comments, but some of them receive hundreds of comments. Â One post has even received 878 comments over time! Â My research also carries me over to read other major bloggers posts and see what tactics have been successful for them. Â All of this effort has led me to distill 4 principles for gaining more comments on your blog:
- Get traffic. It should be quite obvious to you that if no one reads your blog, it is impossible to receive comments. Â You can increase traffic through SEO, PPC or by simply telling your social network about your blog.
- Engage your audience. Simply asking questions of your readers or posting polls is a good way to boost comments on your site.
- Write on emotional topics. Â My most popular blog posts for commenting are ones that elicit feelings from my readers. Â Sometimes those feelings are mirth, sometimes anger, sometimes sadness.
- Make commenting easy. If people have to go through a big registration process just to leave their two cents, you will not receive many comments.
- Open up personally. People are far more likely to engage if they can see a little bit of who you are as a person rather than just reading monotonous text.
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