Blog Exercises: I Don’t Have Any Comments

I hear this complaint frequently from new and long time bloggers.

“I don’t have any comments. How can I get more comments?”

First of all, let me explain something.

You don’t want comments.

Yes, that’s right. You do not want comments. At least not comments from anyone.

If you just want comments, be content with comment spam.

If you want good comments, be specific.

What you want is a discussion. You want interactivity. You want the social intercourse, to share your thoughts with others and have them reciprocate. You want dialog.

Now that you know you don’t want comments, how does that change things on your site?

How are you going to publish content that encourages interactivity? That opens up the conversation to become a dialog?

We’ll talk more about how to do this later, but your exercise today is to figure out how to change your post content to encourage more interactivity.

Be brave. You can do it.

You can find more Blog Exercises on Lorelle on WordPress. This is an ongoing challenge to help you flex your blogging muscles. You may join us at any time, but I recommend you take a moment to visit past blog exercises to help invigorate your site.

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