Yes, I just tripled my comments on February ‘09, comparing to January ‘09. Take a look at the screenshot below. 90 Ham detected (genuine comments) on Jan 2009 and 283 on Feb 2009 -that’s more than 3 times the comments I received in January,
Earlier this year I moved to wordpress from blogspot platform. I used Disqus comments system on my blog and received 345 comments in total. -that’s all I got in 6 months. Now if I take a look at the new stats, I got more than the number of the old stats in first 2 months alone (Jan-Feb ‘09) When I move to wordpress, I lost my older comments and I was upset about it, but now I’m happy to get even more comments.
How I got even more comments on my blog? You may think this is because of the DoFollow movement of BlogKori, but I made my comments dofollow few days ago and those comments were received even the blog was nofollow.
You can read some basic steps where I explained 7 Ways how to get more comments on your blog post? and then I wrote another one here: 4 Ways explained on how to get more comments on your blog post?
Ask for comments
At the end of each article, what I do is to ask for comments. I ask questions, suggestions and let them to reply with a comment. If you don’t ask your readers, they will rarely comment on your post.
Replying to all of my comments personally
Whenever someone leaves a comment and I feel that it needs a reply, I reply to it ASAP. I try my best to provide answers, suggestions and solutions. I feel it like a duty to reply comments; this makes my reader to comment back again. Your own comments are part of the total comment too! This is how I made my comments double and triple the reader participation.
A big reward
All commentators will have the chance to be on the top commentators list. I made the widget more attractive by adding their profile pictures in it. After each month the *top commentator will get an ad spot for one month and that’s free! This is another reason how I attracted more comments. Now that I’ve made my comments DoFollow, I believe I’ll attract even more commentators.
Posting more articles
How can you attract more comments if you have a limited number of posts? I increased the number of posts and this how the total number of comments increased. I also linked my posts with other posts and showcased the best posts on my side bar.
Leaving comments on other blogs
This is a habit I’m developing and you should have it too. Each comment I leave on other blog invites more readers to my blog and then I get more comments. Give some comments to others and others will comment on your blog too.
Asking for comments on social media
I use social media a lot like twitter, stumbleupon and facebook. I ask my friends to leave comments to start the ball rolling.
So how you’re attracting comments?
Are you having a nice amount of comments on your blog? How you attract comments and then how you handle them? Do you get comments organically or need to ask some friends?
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Congratulations, you do get a lot of comments on most of your posts. Just wondering do you use ‘Lucia’s linky love’ plugin to make comment links do follow after 3 posts?
kunal’s latest blog post..We are CommentLuv enabled
@kunal, I only use the WP DoFollow pluging and there’s an option to set when you can apply the dofollow. I set it from the 3rd comment.
Congratulations. You’re reaping the rewards of your hard work. That’s very encouraging. I’m a bit hesitant asking for comments in twitter. But seeing how I heeded your call and drop some comment here – you’ve got a valid point there. :) Just have to work on my shyness though.
Yeah, it helps you’re in WP now and you have this commentluv plug in. That attracts me to drop by here too. :)
jan_geronimo’s latest blog post..Give Me an Insightful Comment and I’ll Promote You to Front Page
Nice job, and thanks for sharing your comment generating tips. I’d say leaving comments at other blogs to initiate comments or to reciprocate is the best way to draw commentators onto your site, and keep them coming back.
~ Kristi
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Good job! And I think that one of reasons why You found so many new commentators is your competition as well as Top commentators sidebar widget! ;) Maybe I will steal this idea from you…what do You think? ;)
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Congratulations, one thing that I want to suggest you, you need to protect your blog from “drive by comment” :)
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@Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009, I do get those types of comments often. I check all of them personally.
Congratulations! You’ve got quite a huge number of comments in your blog.
Off-topic: There is no “Recent Posts” widget in your sidebar. I think it is necessary. Please consider putting a “Recent posts” widget on your sidebar.
Aminul Islam Sajib’s latest blog post..Do you know you have got multiple addresses with 1 Gmail account?
@Aminul Islam Sajib, I’ll work on that for sure! thanks
One problem occurring. Whenever I leave any comment on any post of this blog, I check the “Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail” tick box so that I can get notified when my comment has got a response. But for some days, I wasn’t getting any notification email into by inbox although my comments were getting responded. I never take a look on my “Spam” filter. I just delete all the spam mails. But today I’ve discovered the comment notification emails are being gathered in the Spam filter. I didn’t know why these mails are marking as spams. Not all of them, but most of those follow-up comment notification emails were being gathered in the spam filter. Do you have any idea why this happens?
Aminul Islam Sajib’s latest blog post..Do you know you have got multiple addresses with 1 Gmail account?
@Aminul Islam Sajib, This is the plugin I’m using and it sets the check mark automatically. You have to change it everytime, by the way it sends you email when someone replies your comment. I think this is the best tool for you as you’re participating.
I have to agree 100% keep up the good work and the great site
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