Thanks for the marvelous posting! I really enjoyed reading it, you can be a great author.I will remember to bookmark your blog and may come back later on. I want to encourage that you continue your great writing, have a nice holiday weekend!

Great post nicole. I just love it. Specially tip # 6 is something new for me. Anyways its my first visit to your blog and i think i will love to come back again.

Hey Rob!

It’s this one:
http://comluv.com/download/twitterlink-comments/

Thanks for stopping by!
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Timeless information here Nichole! You knwo when you have comments on a post that span a two year period, you gotta be doing something right.
thanks for all these ideas, I’ll certainly be putting them to use.
gracias,
Rob

Wow this is a lot of useful information on how to get people to comment. Thanks for the list.

Great stuff!

Something that also helps is to have a widget on the side that displays recent comments and links the individual’s name to their website.

It’s hard, but really people have to not get too stressed out about comments or lack of comments. Some niches/blogs simply generate more than others.

I’ve found that with my Self Help blog, for example – people simply prefer to e-mail me! I have no idea why this is, but it’s okay by me. On the other hand, I have a dreamology blog that gets a great number of comments. Go figure!

Hey Jenny,

Do you have a loyal readership? Meaning – do you have regular traffic coming in?

If not, I’d recommend working on your marketing/traffic growth. More eyeballs on your blog will also help increase your commenting.

If so, then it could be anything. Ask a few friends if they’d be interested in commenting on your blog and you’ll comment on theirs just to get the commenting started.

Hope that helps.
Nicole

ive done all these things and people still dont comment.

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Paul,
Yes, requiring very little work to enter seems to work best.

I’ve tried having people submit pictures, stories, and all kinds of things. But, the less work for them, the better.

Also, keep the prizes relevant, as I’m sure you would.

Hope that helps!
Nicole

Howdy Nichole,
What a great post. I believe that I will be following some of these great idea’s starting today.

Great list Nicole! Thank you
If you don’t mind me asking, why kind of give a ways or contests have you done in the past? Have you notices some work better than others?

Thanks!

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Thanks for the tips. I leArned a lot of new things. Btw if you use friendfeed, your scheduled posts will be tweeted and posted in facebook too. Hope that helps!

Nicole,
Thanks for all the helpful ideas to encourage blog readers to comment. I’ve been blogging for quite a while but I don’t know enough about blog format to follow through with some of your suggestions. I have a free blogger blog and a free wordpress blog and am part of a group blog. I am trying to figure out how to email someone who commented on one of my blog posts. The link goes to their blog and not to email.

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A nice list of tips.. Thanks!

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I had favorited this in my tweets to read and am finally catching up. Thanks for the tips…I try to do many of these, not enough stumbles though…I don’t have a WP blog but did find out you can add CommentLuv to blogger, which reminds me I need to get that done!

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What a fantastic post. I favorited this page and I can’t wait to work my way down the list.

Thanks

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Great list. I will be implementing some of what you suggested. Thanks.

Great list! It’s reminded me to do a bunch of things I’ve been meaning to do for months. Stumbling

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Nicole,

Thanks for all these great tips and thanks for including my thank-you to commenters list. It’s not an original idea, but I have found it to be very effective.

Do Follow and Comment Luv attract comments as well.

Commenting on other blogs is also effective. I found your blog because you commented on mine.

On moderation, you have a valid point. But with a Do-Follow blog, I find the need to moderate the first comment. Askimet is great and catches lots of spam (almost 5,000 since I moved my blog a couple of months ago), but some spam does slip through.

If I moderate the first comment, I don’t let the spammers get a foothold. Subsequent comments aren’t moderated, and I try to moderate comments promptly.

I recently added a brief note above the comment box to explain about first-comment moderation. Though I’ve always had it posted it on my policy page, I was get people leaving duplicate comments because they thought the first one got lost.

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