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Is Your Blog Comment Friendly?
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by admin in Domain Development, Domain News | 3 Comments »
In 2006 Jacob Nielsen stated that in most online communities 90% of users are lurkers, 9% contribute minimally while 1% account for almost all the action.
His figures obviously refer to online communities in general but similar principles apply to the Blogosphere. Most of your blog readers are lurkers. If you wish to improve your comment rate
and get more people involved in your day to day blogging there are certainly things you can do:
Install plugins that reward commenters.
Ron Rothams’ Recent Love plugin shows recent comments made on your blog and a link to the commenter’s website (if included). Scott Reilly’s Top Commenters plugin shows commenters that posted the most comments on your blog. A lot of people comment on other blogs in order to get linkbacks or some back-traffic so why not throw them some bait?
Make it easy to comment.
This is especially important if you use a Blogger or WordPress hosted blog as a lot of people there use those annoying comment forms that require you to login. If it is easy to comment on your blog, you can be sure that a lot more people will do so.
Make your blog a do-follow blog.
This is a very touchy subject. Newer versions of WordPress make your blog a no-follow blog by default. You may wish to change your blog to a do-follow blog although you have to be aware that even though this may increase your comment rate it may affect your search engine rankings negatively.
What is a no-follow blog? A no-follow blog is a blog where commenters’ links are created with a rel=”nofollow” attribute value.
What is a no-follow attribute? A nofollow attribute value is an HTML attribute value that indicates to search engines that a link should not influence rankings in a search engine’s index.
Allow commenters to follow responses to their comments.
You can make this possible by using a plugin like Subscribe To Comments that notifies all commenters of any new replies to their comments if they indicated they wished to be notified.
Respond to comments.
Why would anyone comment on your blog if you never reply? Make yourself available and answer any questions asked via your blog’s comments.
Moderate comments.
Pay attention to new comments on your blog and exclude any spam. Also, promote productive discussion but try to moderate any comments that are inappropriate or insulting in any way that may offend your readers.
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“Subscribe to comments” is such a overlooked feature/plugin. Countless times I PM blog owners to suggest to install it because i comment on various blogs and it is impossible to track them all. The responses to my comments have to come automatically to me by mail !
That’s exactly what that plugin does and bloggers which don’t use it, ignore how much traffic and potential readers they loose don’t using it.
ciao
alexander
I did not know recent WP versions had defaulted to no-follow comments. Thanks for the heads-up!
Thank you very much for your very valuable free info, some of the comments were also good, I will be around for more, please let us have it! Thanks again, AJ.