10 Quick And Easy Ways To Get Blog Comments

Is your blog lonely? Want to get people to comment? Here are 10 easy ways you can use right away to get those blog comments started.

1. Just ask. If you don’t ask, you don’t get it. It’s really that easy. The worst that could happen is people don’t leave comments so you’re aren’t worse off just by asking. When you do ask, chances are people will respond. 
   
   

2. Get help. Tell your readers you need help deciding for example, help picking out a new hairstyle, color for your home office, new computer, help with a new logo design. You get the idea.
   
   

3. Give them a chance to self promote. Tell people you’re building a resource list, if they know of a resource to post it and if they own a relevant resource, they are free to post their links in the comments.
   
   

4. Ask them to complete an action. For example, you say you’re writing a report about seven most common gardening problems but you’ve found only four. Tell them to come up with the other three and the ones chosen to be included in your report will get credit on your report.
   
   

5. Encourage people to submit their own experiences or reviews about a product or service you blogged about, even if it’s an affiliate product. Take both positive and negative reviews. That will help make your blog more believable and show people you’re not always just out to earn a share of their hard earned money. This is also a good long term strategy. If this happens often enough people will look at your blog as an honest place to get reviews.
   
   

6. Offer comments subscription. People are used to forums. Whether they contribute to a discussion or not, they like to get notified when someone else has something to say about a post. Make it easy for them to follow the conversation by offering a way to subscribe to comments both by email and RSS.
   
   

7. Tap into your network, customers or your list. Tell people about your posts and encourage them to visit and let you know what they think about the it or if they have further thoughts to add. You could also ask customers to blog about you and trackback to your blog.
   
   

8. Give something away and tell people to share their thoughts about the freebie at your blog.
   
   

9. Slow down. Maybe you’re posting too often that your readers just can’t keep up with your posts let alone stop to comment.
   
   

10. Extend a discussion. Blog about something you read on another blog, news, magazine or other media then invite readers to share their thoughts. This usually works very well for hot topics of the day, week or month.

There you have it. Put some of these to the test today. Remember, just because you don’t get results the first day or weeks, doesn’t mean it’s not working. Keep asking and putting these suggestion to work, sooner or later you’ll start seeing those blog comments rolling in.