Comments are like rewards to your blog posts by your readers. Having more comments makes your blog look much more popular and better. However, have you thought why readers will take their time to comment on your blog posts?
It’s possible to get more comments if you have written an exceptionally well blog post or if you have applied some solid and working tactics to get more comments.
Applying good tactics will surely see a rise in the number of comments on your blog.
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In this article, Avi and I are going to discuss some of such tactics, which can help you increase comments by a significant amount, and make your blog much more comment friendly to your readers.
So, here comes the first 4 points on how to get more comments from my side…
1. Leave a question to your readers.
One of the most important things in getting comments on your blog posts is that if you leave a question for your readers on your blog posts. Think about the fact that why a reader will actually post a comment on your blog, unless it is really needed.
By leaving a question, you are actually asking your readers to present their views about the topic via comments, so in turn there is a good chance that most of the readers will leave a comment for you on your blog post as an answer.
For example, if you are helping your readers to learn something from your post, then you can obviously leave a question at last, to test how much your readers have learnt from your post, and which the readers will actually want to answer.
2. Using CommentLuv Premium for your blog.
CommentLuv is an excellent plugin and if you use it you will surely get more comments. It increases user engagement on your blog via comments. It is a tested and working plugin, which will surely make your readers comment on your blog posts, repeatedly.
The most important thing that you should do with this plugin is to allow dofollow backlinks for the readers’ comments only if they comment on a specified number of posts on your blog, let’s say about 5 posts for an example.
In this way your readers will get more comments as the reader will comment on your posts repeatedly, so as to get a dofollow backlink from your blog through the comments section.
CommentLuv premium also has some other advanced features and if you can utilize it fully then I am quite sure that you will see a drastic change in the number of comments on youir blog, as I have seen after installing this plugin.
3. Answer to commentator’s questions.
Another good habit is to answer to comments that your readers ask on your blog posts. In this way, you can keep the conversation going, make the blog posts much more engaging, and flood it with comments.
Interact with your readers well, make sure that they don’t feel lonely while leaving comments on your blog. Make sure that they get a reply to their question. In this way you will also be maintaining a good relationship with your readers.
Always keep this in mind, most of the readers won’t comment on your blog posts if they don’t get a suitable answer for their questions, as they would find the commenting section useless if your don’t take time to reply to their comments.
4. Leave space for suggestions.
You should always try to leave space for suggestion by your readers on your blog posts. As a result, many of your readers will leave you suggestions for your blog post and in turn make your get more comments on your post.
For example, if you are compiling a list of amazing WordPress plugins, then you should always ask your readers to plugins that they might know which can be useful to a person having a WordPress blog or site.
I have observed that by leaving a place for suggestions, readers involve themselves in the blog posts actively by commenting some things that might be useful to other readers.
You should also try to include those suggestion on your next post which might be similar to the one on which your readers have left a suggestion for you, so that your readers do not feel that their suggestions are wasted.
Hope you liked my suggestions. This is where I will take a pause and Avi will discuss the next part…
Here are the next points. -Avi
5. Exchange comments.
If you want to get more comments just after publishing it then meetup some bloggers and exchange comments with them. This is really a good way to get more comments on your blog and also earn links by commenting on other blogs.
6. Create Giveaways.
Yah. They help a lot. Attracts people and you can make the interested ones do anything for you. You can ask the contestants to leave comments to win the giveaway and they will surely leave one as they really wants to win the giveaway.
7. Write controversial or debatable posts.
Controversial posts or debatable posts really get more comemnts. They attract many people to check the post and give their own opinions. For instance, a few days ago I posted the artilcle “Blogger v/s WordPress” and it really attracted a lot of bloggers to read it and give their own opinions. So you can see that these type of topics really rock.
8. Convert Spam.
I think you already read my article “Why I love Spam Comments?“. In this article it is clearly mentioned that more comments attract other commentators. So if you get a lot of spam comments then you can just convert them into genuine comments to increase engagement and productivity to your blog.
9. Write Editorial Posts.
You’ve launched a new product or a new blog? Write about it on your primary blog. This will not only do the promotion of that new blog but also will help you to get more comments on your blog.
10. Send Trackbacks.
You know some good blogs in your niche? Link to him and tell him that you gave a mention or send trackbacks to his blog. This will really surprise him and he may leave a vital comment on your blog post.
11. Announce Winners.
Don’t just announce the winners on a social site but write about it on your blog so that the winners come up and thank you for the giveaway. This helps to get more comments on your blog.
12. Allow guest posting.
This is a good way to get more comments on your blog. The guest blogger submits a post on your blog and then he promotes it in his places. And this brings new commentators to your blog.
Important: Pradeep Kumar’s tips to get more guest bloggers. (He has 700+ guest authors.)
13. Kill spam and learn to say no.
In this blogosphere spam is everywhere, either convert it or kick it off. Try to say no to those guest bloggers who submit low quality content as they will never help your blog.
14. Write Case Studies.
Have you read case study? I wrote an article “why my previous blog was a big flop” and that really attracted a lot of users to check it and know the mistakes I did. This helps the readers to learn from others and so you get more comments on these type of posts.
15. Bring some new taste.
That can give a unique taste to your blog. If you’re always writing articles on your blog then sometimes try to post good INFOGRAPHICS, many people like good ones as they carry a lot of info. So do try it to get more comments on your blog.
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16. Reply to comments.
Of course that will help. If you get 10 comments the reply to them and your comment count will increase to 20. On seeing this other readers will make a guess that great discussions are going on that posts and so they will also leave their views.
17. Good Commenting System.
Don’t ask your readers a lot of questions to comment on your blog. Catcha and other verifications stop them from commenting. Use good plugin like GASP to keep spammers away and get more comments from genuine readers.
So this brings us to the end of this post.
Hope you liked the suggestions to get more comments by both of us. If you want to add some more points then please add them via comments and help us to get more comments.
Note: Without good content you will never get good comments. So always try to provide researched and detailed quality content to your readers. Then they will take some time to leave their opinions for sure.
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Very important tips. If site is not getting comment then it is useless. I have Tried many methods still not getting much comment.
Try these Aditya, and let us know about the results.
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I disagree with you. Dukeo is a popular blog with lot of content but no comments but still the blogger earns 6 figures, The blog is not useless
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Very neat and honest tips Rahul. Well I am also getting some low comments, hope now after applying and following your tactics I will also get good commentators for my blog.
The bnuch of commentators will be there when there is a PageRank time. When it is about to PageRank update, many commentators comment here and there for good results.
Thanks for sharing mate!
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You are welcome mate, and you should see great results if you follow my and Avi’s steps both.
Best of luck with your blog.
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At times like a good commenting system can really prove useful though i don’t understand the reason behind this all they gonna get is a nofollow link.
ITs all for building network everytime people dont jsut comment for backlinks.
@Vivek, I agree with you. But there are some bloggers who comment only on dofollow blogs to get high quality backlinks. So making a blog dofollow can actually tempt people to visit the blog and leave comments.
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Writing a quality content is very important one. Specially, even we used above point we can’t get comment from successful bloggers( may be pro bloggers). They will comment on our blog only if our content is quality.
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Yes that’s a good point, but here since we have spoken about how to increase comments and not how to get comments from famous people, so we have tried to illustrate some simple yet effective methods which can boost the no of comments on each blog post.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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Agree with you, quality is always the king. Every blogger should write quality posts to get comments and social exposure.
Just follow simple rule content is king and design is queen ! rest all wil go automatically right.
Yup that’s a good point Vivek
I have done all the above things to get comments. But ain’t working.
I asked one of the experienced blogger. He says Tech blogs don’t get much comments.
So do i need to worry about comments anyway?
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That’s not a fact that tech blogs doesn’t get much comments, there are many tech related blogs which get a lot of comments. Does your blog has a good number of visitors?
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And 30% visitors are Organic. That is, they come through Search Engines…as my Blog’s SERP is very nice in some important key phrases. Mostly on 1st page 2nd page of search results. And ALexa Rank is also 150K
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Good then, try the point which states “asking your readers some questions which they might want to answer”.
Yes bro, it depends on the niche. You can’t expect a lot of comments if you are writing about tech news and updates. If you write useful post or tutorial then you can get comments.
But still if you write a controversial tech topic then you can get a good number of comments.
What he said is right normally tech blogs receive far less comment s when compare to other niche blogs. Thats a normal thing for a tech actually even popular blogs don’t get much comments(Not included news websites).
One trick i would suggest is first of all ask all your friends to comment on your blog. This way your community and network will grow big and big.
Hey Rahul, Brother Very Nice Tips On Increasing Comments on Blog, I’ll Apply All Of Methods Given Above To Increase Comments On My New Blog.
Thanks For Sharing,
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Thanks, do let us know how it had helped your blog.
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Well comments can also be increased in one more way like if you share links on websites like reddit, etc where people mainly come to read topics worth discussing., if they find your blog interesting and topic of the post worth discussing they do comment a lot and lot.
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Yup that’s a good tip, thanks for suggesting Vivek.
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You are welcome
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Great tip bro, we have share posts on sites like reddit, it helps to gain more visitors and comments.
Also if your site is all related with images or contains hell amount of images then pinterest can help you out a lot. Just give a chance.
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It’s true that Reddit users do comment but do so in Reddit. They do read the post and jumps back to reddit
I read your article. I’m getting lots of comments on my blog! trust me I’m receiving huge comments on one of my blog & if I go to moderate those comments then 24hr a day is not sufficient for me, but bad news is that maximum comments are spammy..
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Might try using Akismet to block spam comments Riya, and have a look at this article http://dapazze.com/2012/10/simple-steps-i-took-to-reduce-spam-comments-in-my-blog/ it might be helpful to you.
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Yes Riya, You could try the steps used by Rahul to reduce spams. It works a lot to stop spams.
You should use GASP plugin to block spam commenting on your blog. It is very useful and effective.
Hmm GASP is rated 4.9 out of 5 Is it such a great plugin ?? Anyone knows more about it ?
Another option you have is use disqus comment system. It provide many features over default commenting system and you can also integrate Akismet with it.
These are great tips. Thanks for the insights. Can you give more details about #2 Comment Luv Premium. Is there a cost for this service. Can it be used with wordpress.com type sites?
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Here is the link to the official site: http://www.commentluv.com/
You can get all the details about the plugin over there…
No, it can’t be used with wp.com.
Ok, Avi. Thanks for the tips. I will check out the link. Thanks so much.
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You’re Most Welcome…
Hello Avi,
Is their any other option to comment luv Premium as I am a newbie and don’t that much budget.I mean is their any trial version kind of we can use on our blog ?
Thanks
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You can just use the free version of Commentluv plugin, I’m using that. Search for comemntluv in your plugins section.
If you can’t afford premium version of Commentliv then use the free version. Free version is also useful to get comments.
Really useful tips. I like to think I incorporate most of them on the blogs I write but definitely some more for me to think about. Thanks for sharing on Bizsugar.com
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Glad you liked it. Comments are very necessary for a blog and so this article is here to help those who are not getting much comments. Thanks for your comment. I’ll keep sharing more important tips.
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I don’t think doing comments exchange is a good way,as we are not getting the genuine comments,we are making an deal with someone for the comments and it sounds cheap sometime.
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May be, but in the start you’ve to do this to show other visitors that your blog gets comments. On seeing that they will also comment and more will join the list. It’s as simple as that…
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I never thought of this,will surely going to do this on my blog
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Bro you can get on posts that are useful, if readers like your posts then they will leave a good comment.
You are right,if visitors find out it useful they will live a comment for sure.
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i would surely try these…mine’s kind of photo blog…plus its hosted on blogger…i doubt whether comment luv plugin is there for blogger…
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Getting comments is not as big a deal as you consider. Yes its true that comments do indicate some life on one’s blog but if you take the pro bloggers like Harsh of shoutmeloud and Dukeo then you would see that these blogs aren’t exactly killing it with comments. They do make a lot of cash though. One should not actively pursue comments as they indicate nothing. Ehsan Ullah on one of his bluehost review posts has over 100 comments but one sale, so think for yourself…
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Comments, they means a lot to me. They tell us that a blog has life in it. When we see many comments on a blog then we get the clear idea that the blog is talking, it’s teaching something, taking opinions from readers and receiving their reactions. They are what makes a blog engaging and living…
And when we talk about sales, let me tell you want thing -Comments play a big role in this marketing world. We hardly buy any product without reading the reviews, and comments are the reviews that people think about the product. When we see many positive comments we really get attracted to the product and finally we buy it. And that benefits the product owner. But without those positive reviews the product site or owner might not have been able to make us buy. But that comments did it just like that. So it’s all about comments, positive ones help and negative ones will ruin. Let me know your thoughts now…
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Agree with you, Comments are very useful in order to gain more trust from new visitors.
When it comes to getting more comments in your post, I’m master in it.
The best advice I can give to new bloggers is to give value to their readers and show some appreciation by responding to every comment.
I’ve written couple of article on this already.
Thanks for writing on this topic Avi.
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George, I agree with you, but comments do help in many ways.
In my bluehost review post, I got lots of sales, not just one. I also got great ranking on that post because of the long conversation with readers, YES I can proudly say that more comments will also help you in increasing the SERP ranking.
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Yup Ehsan, that’s a strong point either. Even I wrote in one of my articles that comments when optimized with keywords help the article to rank better in search engines.
And hey Ehsan, congrats for the sales. Best of luck for future.
While it’s true that low comment doesn’t mean that the blog have low traffic but comments have other like benefits also like chances of getting good ranking on SERP so more no of comments do prove helpful for any blog.
Thanks For The Gurantee Bro…. I will Try These…
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Great tips. The first point you raised is the most important. We should implement it on every post it really works.
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Thanks for the useful tips brother
Comments are important and a social proof. The more the comments and interaction, the more the interest of SE in your article and blog
Thanks for sharing
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Some comment only for links. Most comment only for links, there is genuine interaction is there? Its rare very rare
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all points are very important..especially the ones about exchanging comments…its like telling ppl ‘i am commenting on your blog, can you please do the same?’ also the good commenting system…i lyk disqus and livefyre a lot…they engage users by their social systems!
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Well CommentLuv results in more comments than Disqus and Livefyre
i have tried all these but still no comment got..
You’ve to apply it for a certain time… Instant tricks don’t work much in blogging. Patience is the key. Keep working hard.
Go on doing it, don’t worry about the results they will come they have to come the first law of success if failure
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DISQUS is the best to have it . You can get more comments by ending the article on a curious note
like asking,what do you think? etc.
With discus newbies feel that they have to register on the site to comment, that does not sound good at all
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I agree with you George
Even i use disqus, one feature that i really like about it is that it allows live interaction.
Very nice tips bro, getting comments is not a hard task if the quality of post is good, people will comment with a good reply.
well if the quality is too good then people may be too busy to leave a comment. I wrote a post that has links to 500 blogs for guest posting. People are so busy clicking links that they don’t comment
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Very Useful post Bro
All the points were really good but I didnt understand the 5th point of Exchanging comments. May I get a help in this
That means that you need to go out and comment on other blogs for those bloggers to come on your blog too
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Converting spam is something that I’ve learnt only here and yes editorial posts work and sometimes you get a link back too.
Really nice tips Rahul, My blog comes in tech so i rarely get comments but will surely try some of these tips to get better results.
Best of luck Rohit
Thank you Rahul. I found this article very helpful and I’ll be applying some of these tips immediately. Keep up the good posts and do drop by my crazy blog sometime!
I found this article very useful…Thanks rahul.
@Avi when are you going to arrange giveaway for Commentluv premium
Hey Rahul Chowdhury,
Thanks for the tips, i’ll try to follow these.
Although my platform doesn’t allow some features like trackbacks.
Hey bro i have enjoyed a lot while reading the post. You have given some effective ways to increase comments. And i am sure that this will really help me. Thanks for this awesome information.
I write about my favourite things on topics such as fashion & beauty, health & fitness, humour etc! I also always reply to comments
Excellent tips, I think they work looking at number of comments here!
Best Regards!
Great points . I will surely use them on my site to increase number of comments !! Thanku ..:)