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By: The Price of Closing Comments on Old Posts | The Blog Herald

The Price of Closing Comments on Old Posts | The Blog Herald — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:55:57 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:54:06 +0000

Do blogrolls increase traffic and comments? No. Not necessarily. Traffic comes from having content people want. Comments come from writing content that encourages comments and conversation.

By: parrott

parrott — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:59:44 +0000

I am involved with a social network / blog thing through workand we have just over 1050 users now (my personal blog uses wordpress but this one uses drupal). I must say that some people get offended at the weirdest things…I think people can be a little sensitive sometimes. Would you say Lorelle that to get comments you also need to somehow get on peoples blog rolls – traffic helps yes? My personal blog got comments early on but I have lost some momentum…

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:54:23 +0000

I usually like my commenters, but I did have a recent spout this weekend when I got on Digg and it was flame after flame.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:35:25 +0000

Have you read your own blog? I just did. I have no idea what you are talking about and there is no “what is this about” page that I could easily find. It looks more like a “quote others” and feed supplier page than a conversational blog. I found nothing that encouraged me to comment, but I did see a place to log in and become “part of the community”. If it is set up to require logging in before commenting, it kills a lot of comments. That’s a lousy setup.

Take another look, if you are serious about getting comments, at how you supply information and how you request conversations.