15 Ways To Receive More Comments In Your Blog

It is a very common phenomenon that new bloggers are tired of writing content more and more without a single comment. Today I am writing a post with 15 Techniques which may help you to increase your comment amount to a high extent. But make sure that you apply all the techniques step by step.

1. Make a relation with new visitors: New visitors will obviously have a hard time to understand what you provide and how to get the most from it. You can help the new visitors by a quick chat or something like that in this time. Use this service from Woopra .

2. Reply to each comments you receive: Once you receive a comment from your visitors, reply them even if they do not ask a question. By this another visitor will be interested and subscribe to comments in the blog. This is a good way of getting more comments.

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3. Ask some questions inside the content: In your blog post do not forget to ask one or two questions to your audience. But please do not spam the post with a bunch of questions.

4. Give some value who comment regularly: Keep a widget in your blog with the title 'Top Commentors'. So people will be interested to see their name there with their blog link and photo if possible. Learn from here.

5. Expose yourself: Try to tell about your bad sides in a friendly manner to your blog readers. This is going to increase your comment quantity. If you are lazy, if you look bad, if you failed to do something share it with your readers. Because people are more interested in other's activities!

6. Make the process as easy as ABC! : Here, I mean that make your commenting process a bit easier. In Worpress, the bloggers are having a good time in getting comments. But for blogger users, they must cutomize the systems and make easier. For this go to 'Settings' tab and 'Comments' sections to customize. Check the 'anonymous' button to enable comments from all people.

7. Do not say everything: You do a great research on the post but do not give all the information. Then people won't have any  point to share in the comment box.

8. Disable the register option: When I find somewhere that I will need to register and then comment, then I normally do not comment in that blog. Because I am a bit lazy and do not want to share my information all day long!

9. End with a invitation:  When you finish writing your post, then tell your visitors to comment your audience 'Teach me in the comment box' or something like this.

10. Give your visitors opportunity to edit their comments: Sometimes people make some mistakes in spelling and grammar. If they do not get the right to edit their own comments, then probably you're going to loose some valuable subscribers. For Wordpress users, use the plugin: here.

11.  Reward with name in the post: When some commentors ask you a question very much relevant to your blog topic and you know a lot about it, then you can reward a post for him. And write that 'Dedicated to (name) .' in the intro.

12. Make 'Recent Comments' like I did: I placed a widget in the right sidebar titles as Recent Comments. To see your name there, comment me below! You should place the widget to give some additional value to your readers.

13. Enable 'emoticons': Haven't you seen a smiling face in the comments, yet? When visitors type :), then the the sign automatically turns into a smiling face. When, :(, then it shows that the commentor is sad. These are called emoticons. In most cases, in Wordpress it is automatically enabled. But in blogger you should look for here for a box full of emoticons above the comment.

14. Enable 'DoFollow' tags: Do you know why nowadays people comment like mad? They comment specially in dofollow blogs to increase their Google Page Rank. If you are interested to give something free to your visitors, then enable that system. If you are hearing new about dofollow, then read the article here. To enable it in blogger, go for here.

15. Let users make your blog a discussion forum: You can enable threaded reply system in your blog. So if someone comments your blog something wrong, then let another reader reply and correct him.

These are the systems to get more comments in your blog in a short period of time. If you know some more points, please let me know below.

Start with Hubpages before you start Blogging Journey

Hubpages.com is now a high-trafficked site monetized with Google Adsense provides people a very fascinating service to write content, get massive exposure and increase personal, business and brand credibilty. If you yet do not know much about Hubpages, I suggest you to pay a visit there and discover the informative hubs.

We, maximum blog owners do and get something really great from Article Marketing. Read my posts- 5 Reasons to start and continue Article Marketing and I am writing periodically at Articlesbase and gaining great to learn more about Article Marketing strategy, idea, significance and promoting guidelines.

Anyway, Hubpages is somehow similar to article marketing. But in most cases it can provide you with something extra facilities. Like, you will get money from Adsense, Amazon revenue, but the article directories are not going to share you with those opportunities.

Anyway, one problem with Hubpages is that, you will need to work  hard, give effort and time to promote it compared to that Article Marketing as the Hubs (posts you write) are your property (in a sense) and no one is going to give time to promote your one. But you will get something nice facilities from the Hubpages Administrators as they are always busy to develop their site, and your hub (page) is a part of that!

The Pros of Hubpages

While using Hubpages, I already told you that you are going to gain something great from it. So let me just make you the concept clearn with neat points, below.

• The site will be optimized for Search Engines to crawl.
• That's already a high-trafficked website.
• You can easily meet with thousand publishers (they call 'hubbers') contibuting that site.
• You can have the opportunity to earn money from their faster.
• There is grading system for Hubbers. Once you reach more than score 75, then the site machine is going to expel the nofollow tag, and you will be able to link to your site with 'dofollow' tags which is going to help you increase the Google's eye of importance to your site (called Page Rank).
• With Hubpages sharing options are easier. You can get regular readers there and grow your overall name, site & business reputation to a great extent. The people can easily share your articles utilizing Social Networking sites such as 'Twitter and Facebook.'
• Nowadays, maximum people are getting rejected from Google Adsense for missing some Terms. But if you use Hubpages, create a hub. Then the process is a bit easier. And later you can make a channel and place ad units to your site in the very beginning. To get guaranteed Adsense Approval, I suggest you to read my post here- Guaranteed Adsense Approval (if you want to make the Approval Process easy for you.)

As soon as you get the facilities from Hubpages  by attaining a higher hubber score, your overall blogging journey will be a bit easier. Because you will have some ready made subscriber for your articles there. And people will start believing you. Then as soon as you start your own blog or website, then it would be easier for you to suggest your hub readers to convert into blog or website readers.

Choosing the best blogging platform

Many bloggers at the beginning start to think a lot about which platform to choose, which template to select and which topic and keywords to go with. But if you really want to take my advice, I would suggest everyone of you to think and understand which platform possess which kinds of abilities and capabilities. Such as, if you are here to start your blog just as your hobby then the platform will be something different and if you want to register your company with your blog name then the process will be something different. Let us discover which platforms are here to help us blog with.

1. Wordpress.com
2. Wordpress.org
3. Typepad
4. Blogger.com
5. PMachine.com
6. Greymatter
7. B2evolution
8. ExpressionEngine
9. Text Pattern

There are also various hundreds of platforms. But to name them, I think I won't need to write so big list. You decide yourself that how much time you wanna spend for your blog promotion, writing and making it a rich one. Presently, people are choosing Blogger and Wordpress the most because of some various services they provide. Let us check out which can fulfill what kinds of demand of bloggers like (you and me).

A brief introduction to blogger

You should have already known that blogger provides free (domain+hosting+customization) fully free unless you intend to buy content, templates and something more. If you think that you do not have much experience in blogging, writing and catching up with your readers, then blogger is the best solution for it. You will get everything including (money+success) from Blogger but the process is a bit slower. Because, we know that as it is free all people are crumbling there with new domains and blogs and blocking the paths of those who really want to blog. So, from thousands of scam sites it will be your job to come up and show off yourself to the people. Which will need (creativity+patience+little experience of writing). Another bad side of blogger is that the domains seems quite bigger with 8 characters added with your desired name. Such as your blog is on Facebook Tip. If you want to start a blog with the name then facebooktip.(blogspot).com will be added, which will be difficult for those people to remember who actually do not know what is blogger and other services.

But Blogger is really a fascinating platform if you want to give a try! One day one of my friends suggested me to jump blogger to wordpress with this exisitng blog (which you're reading). But I didn't because the link juice, popularity which I got for this domain with (x.blogspot.com) added. I have no intention to do the struggle again with the only (x.com). So whenever you are here to choose a blog platform, always know that if you once choose Blogger it will be a very tough job to shift to your main and paid domain. But Blogger has a plus point because it is the product from Google. And what Google creates, it rank #1 in the world. So whatever you do with blogger it is absolutely safe to go with.

Now I tell little about Wordpress for your paid (domain+hosting)

In the very beginning I need to say that Wordpress will do the best for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) with necessary plugins. And it is easy to customize everything from the dashboard. And whenever you are here to change the theme (template) in Wordpress, it will make the overall process much easier.

Did you hear about Darren Rowser from Problogger? Most probably you have. If his domain was problogger.blogspot.com, he could not make the status as #1 blog tips provider in the present world. Because its free and free can never take you to the the desired position you dream about today.


So both Blogger and Wordpress is a good solution to blog with. It actually totally depends on you how you are going to make the plan and start with. If you want to become a full time blogger, its your duty to choose Wordpress and Blogger if you want to make a start.

So as a conclusion, "Blogger stands #1 for newbies"
                              "Wordpress stands #1 for people whi have interest, intention and dream to make          the     most    from blogging expo."