Expect Comment
April 7th 2007 09:23
I found a note about promoting your blog on Triond.com which mentioned that making comments on other people’s blogs (and presumably leaving your own blog address, like a kind of footprint) was a way to increase the links to your site. But one of the problems in trying to leave comments on many blogs is that you have to register, and by the time you’ve figured out how to register, and how complex that is, and discover that you have to have a blog on that particular system yourself, you’ve either forgotten the comment you were going to make, or lost the original post, or given up in disgust.
Thinking about this point led me (via circuitous ways) back to the Problogger.com site
– a site I should check out a lot more often than I do. Darren Rouse, who runs the site (and very effectively too), has a list of ten points regarding encouraging people to comment on your site. One of them is not to discourage them by making them register. That’s one of the things I appreciate about Orble; you don’t have to be registered to add a note to a post here. (At least I don’t think you do; I’ve always assumed that the comments I get from ‘anonymous’ are from people who aren’t registered.)
One of Darren’s points is so obvious that we should all have thought about it, but when you’re writing a blog, you somehow assume the obvious: that people will read and interact. He says: Encourage Comments. Be specific about this; say something in your post to the effect that you’d like to know what readers think. (Then you’ll know if you actually have any, or whether they’ve just stumbled on you by mistake, as my visitors from Central China must do, I suspect.) Ask questions in your posts, be open-ended.
I suspect that I write posts that are rounded off, and don’t need someone to add anything. But to make your blog more interactive, it’s wise to see your posts as things that are there for people to argue with or discuss or even dislike. Most of us write posts like we’re writing a diary or a journal. But if we want people to get involved, we need to rethink the way we write.
Any comment?
Thinking about this point led me (via circuitous ways) back to the Problogger.com site
One of Darren’s points is so obvious that we should all have thought about it, but when you’re writing a blog, you somehow assume the obvious: that people will read and interact. He says: Encourage Comments. Be specific about this; say something in your post to the effect that you’d like to know what readers think. (Then you’ll know if you actually have any, or whether they’ve just stumbled on you by mistake, as my visitors from Central China must do, I suspect.) Ask questions in your posts, be open-ended.
I suspect that I write posts that are rounded off, and don’t need someone to add anything. But to make your blog more interactive, it’s wise to see your posts as things that are there for people to argue with or discuss or even dislike. Most of us write posts like we’re writing a diary or a journal. But if we want people to get involved, we need to rethink the way we write.
Any comment?
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