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The 5 ways to grow comments on your blog

This is a powerful techniques. Not only do you get your visitors involved, if you follow up your posts that has some interesting discussion you can keep the momentum going which can make your visitors come back several times a day to check the conversation without you even posting anything new.

1. In the beginning you should set some time aside to speak with those who post in your comments. It’s important to build that core of visitors that comment your posts and reward them who reads your blog every day.

2. A great way to start conversation is to ask questions in the end of your posts, to get the readers opinion on some of the things you have written.

3. Just as in your blog posts you have to put some time and thoughts into how you answer your comments. If you just say interesting point or “I haven’t thought about it that way” it will most likely kill the conversation. You have to be as serious with the comments as you are with your posts.

4. Be careful being to controversial in your blog posts. Sure being controversial when it’s done right, is a great way of getting some publicity. But being controversial just to get publicity with no real thought behind can really backfire. I think the more controversial you tend to be, the more weird people you attract that will post stupid things in the comments, just ruining any chance of reasonable discussion.

5. The last advice has is somewhat related to the previous one. You really need a spam protection on your blog. I think Aksimet is the best one for a wordpress blog, and that’s the one I use. You can find it as a plugin at the wordpress website. I also manually approves all the comments, but as your blog grows big with thousands of readers this will be impossible if you want any reasonable conversation going.

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