Every blogger knows how important are comments for a blog. Comments can increase the overall quality of your blog and content.
Comments from readers are valuable to a blogger, and it can also motivate a blogger to come up with more fresh and quality content.
Even though comments play a crucial role in showing quality of content, they are not everything to a blog.
Content is still the KING! There are many other things too which shows the quality of a blog.
Many new bloggers give up blogging after few days or month because they don’t get more comments on the posts written by them.
There are many popular blogs where some receive hundreds of comments, while others receive less than half of it.
7 Tactics To Get More Comments On Your Blog
If you are not seeing enough comments on your blog, then not to worry.
Here are the 7 ways using which you can increase the number of comments on your blog.
1) Content Is The KING
Update your blog with fresh and unique content regularly. Without quality content, a blog is nothing.
If you post something that is already on hundreds of other blogs, then it is not going to help you to get more comments and it wouldn’t look important to your readers.
No one likes to read a post on same topic twice.
So post unique and fresh content regularly to to get genuine comments and generate huge traffic from search engines.
2) Make Commenting Easy
Leaving comments should be as easy as possible. No one likes to register or log in just because they want to share something through comments.
There are many famous blogs, where readers must register/ sign in before they get the ability to leave comments.This can send away a lot of people from comment section.
So never use this kind of methods, and keep commenting simple and easy.
3) Ask Questions or Opinions
Sometimes, even if readers want to comment on your blog, they don’t find anything to comment.
So it’s always better to ask questions or their opinions at the end of each post.
At least one from ten readers would share their thoughts through comments if you use this tactic. You can even find this even in popular blogs like Mashable and they receive lots of comments on each of their posts.
I made a list of ten blogs and visited each one to see how many comments each post gets. Posts where the authors asked questions or opinions at the end of each posts got more comments compared to others.
4) Reply To Comments ASAP
Some bloggers think it’s not necessary to reply to comments. This thought is totally wrong.
You should reply to every comment on your blog. If you don’t have enough time, pick out some comments and reply to them.
Sometimes, replying to comments can start a conversation there, thereby increasing the number of comments.
When you reply to comments, people would feel that you are real and you care for them. This way you can increase comments on your blog.
5) Eradicate Spammy Comments
Don’t approve spammy comments just because you are not receiving enough quality comments.
I have already told that comments are not everything, so don’t lose the quality of your content by approving comments with multiple links, or links not related to your niche.
Accepting spammy comments can also effect your search engine rankings.
Using third-party commenting systems like Disqus handles all such comments, and toss it in to spam box by itself.
6) Send Email Notification
You can thank people for commenting, by sending Email after they comment.
A WordPress plugin called “Thank Me Later” does this job automatically. All those who comment on your blog will receive a Thank You Email few minutes after leaving comments (You can choose it from the Plugin option page).
These kind of Emails can invite them to visit your blog again.
7) Use CommentLuv System
Some people leave comments on different blogs to build backlinks. And their main targets are those blogs with CommentLuv enabled.
These blogs are the best places to build backlinks because you get two backlinks for every comment you leave.
You can choose one of your recent posts to display under your comments, making a CommentLuv enabled blog the best place to comment on.
CommentLuv enabled blogs always get more comments compared to those who don’t use CommentLuv.
Do you use these tactics to get more comments on your blog? Did this increase the number of comments on your blog. Please let me know through comments below.
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You said that everyone should use CommentLUV. But you are using disqus.com.. Anyway, content is the king above all these 6 tactixs. Anyway, nice post dude. All the best
January 24, 2013 / 5:48 PM
I have tried CommentLuv on my blog, but it doesn’t work perfect here. That’s why I switched on to Disqus and I’m happy with it.
Thank you!
January 24, 2013 / 5:53 PM
I personally believe disqus is the best out there. It has certainly worked well with my blog. It’s true, it can be a bit discouraging not to get people to speak their mind, but it should not be a primary reason to give up. Content is extremely important! One detail I’ve noticed is that we should not write too much, but just enough to get straight to the point of the post.
Updating the blog is essential, or it loses its credibility. I personally prefer seeing weekly HQ content than daily crappy content. That’s just me though.
This is an excellent post. Well done!
January 26, 2013 / 11:40 AM
SayBlogger is now redesigned and a better comment layout made me choose default WP commenting system again.
Since this blog is about Blogging tips and it’s promotion, I thought I should gift a backlink to those who comment on this blog.
Disqus is great and was working well on my blog too.
Thank You!
January 26, 2013 / 1:09 PM
Hi Thejas Kamath,
I am agree with your points. I have personally observed that including commentluv on blog attracts more comments as bloggers try to get backlink from your blog and this way we can get more comments as well as readership.
January 28, 2013 / 8:20 PM
Yeah, you are right. I’m planning to activate CommentLuv on this blog too. I have been experimenting with different commenting system like Disqus, WP default comment, liveFyre etc. I’m gonna try CommentLuv too and share the results soon.
January 29, 2013 / 8:56 PM
Brilliant article, straight forward, very interesting and helpful. Thank you!
February 5, 2013 / 2:50 PM
Thank you so much bro. Hope this post has helped you.
February 5, 2013 / 8:21 PM
Thank you for any other informative blog. The place else could I get that kind of info written in such an ideal means? I’ve a mission that I’m simply now operating on, and I have been at the glance out for such information.
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February 6, 2013 / 9:22 AM
You’re welcome.
Please use your real name next time you leave comments on this blog.
February 6, 2013 / 1:17 PM
Hey man, I fully agree with these 7 points. CommentLuv has made it more engaging. The more the comments from real readers, the more solid your social proof
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February 6, 2013 / 1:46 PM
Yeah bro, and that’s why even I am using it on my blog. I should say I’m receiving more comments, from people like you.
February 6, 2013 / 2:54 PM
Hi Thejas,
Good one. While CommentLuv enabled blogs usually attract lot of comments, spam and useless adulation often gets wrapped along the way. And honestly, i hate those who leave comments just for the sake of building backlinks. I prefer having just 1 genuine comment over 1000s of useless comments.
February 6, 2013 / 4:25 PM
Hello Abhishek,
Good to see you on my blog.
I fully agree with you. Even I hate when I see spams on my blog and that’s why I use some WP plugins.
Thank You for visiting SayBlogger.
February 6, 2013 / 4:35 PM
I don’t think writing on a well read topic affects uniqueness; after all, this blog topic has been written about on millions of other blogs, but that doesn’t make your blog post any less unique. It’s all about adding new ideas to existing notions.
I am currently using DISQUS and I haven’t tried commentluv yet. I agree DISQUS is great ,but it’s hard to get more comments with DISQUS.
By the way, your writing is very good for a 16 year old.
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February 6, 2013 / 5:25 PM
@Amartya, there are few bloggers who visit different high authority blogs to get post ideas and write a post on the same topic.
What I think is things like news or Tutorials should be unique if you want to attract people’s attention and reviews, opinions and tips can appear unique even if it has been written on thousands of other blogs. Because opinions vary from people to people and humans love to know one’s opinion about something or someone. So such type of posts usually get more comments than news related articles.
Thank you for the compliment.
Thank You
February 6, 2013 / 5:40 PM
obviously like your website but you need to take a look at the spelling on quite a few of your posts. Several of them are rife with spelling issues and I find it very troublesome to inform the truth however I’ll surely come again again.
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February 7, 2013 / 3:34 AM
Hello Pardoseli,
Glad to know that you liked my blog. And I will try my best to reduce making spelling mistakes as far as possible.
Thank You
February 7, 2013 / 8:52 AM
Thanks Thejas for your helpful information…..I have a Indian cooking website i started working on it just from 2 month ago. and will gonna apply above tips.here is my website address http://www.tadkajunction.com
February 8, 2013 / 7:45 AM
Hello Meena. Your blog is great. But, I’m not interested in cooking niche. Keep working on it and apply all the tips mentioned above. You’d get more comments on every posts. All the best!
February 8, 2013 / 2:04 PM
WOW! Another teen blogger in the world wide web! I wish I had started earlier with my blogging experience. I’m 18 and it’s awesome to meet someone as young as you interested in blogging!!! WOOHOOO!!! Go ADOLESCENTS!!
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February 8, 2013 / 6:36 PM
Hey Zion,
First of all thank you so much for stopping by and commenting. I would like to say that there are many young bloggers on the WWW, especially from India.
Thank You
February 8, 2013 / 6:42 PM
Great article about how to get more comments, thanks the author.
February 12, 2013 / 7:20 PM
You’re welcome.
Visit SayBlogger soon!
February 12, 2013 / 8:14 PM
Hey Great Article as Usual Thejas. Keep Up the Good Work
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February 15, 2013 / 5:49 PM
Hello Thejas,
I’m a new blogger and learned many things from this post. I’m planning to use CommentLuv as many people recommend it to get more comments.
I’m not getting many comments on my blog right now, but I’ll apply all the tips mentioned above and hope I’ll get more comments in future.
February 18, 2013 / 1:26 PM
Hello Vivek,
Glad to know you are a new blogger.
I’m using all the tips mentioned above and I’m getting many comments on most of the posts. If you implement it on your blog, then definitely you’ll get more comments.
February 18, 2013 / 1:30 PM
Very cool post! I have heard people tell me that’s discouraging to sign to comment. But then it prevents spams doesnt it?
February 24, 2013 / 8:12 PM
It does prevent but according to me it’s not the best way to prevent spams. There are different plugins (on WordPress) like GASP (which I’m using on my blog) to prevent spam. I’m receiving ZERO spam comments now because this plugin takes care of everything!
The upside of Sign in to comment system is that people will leave genuine comments and add extra value to the content.
February 25, 2013 / 6:22 PM
Awesome post Thejas comment are really important for a blog I consider comments as rewards for your hard work if Nobody comments on your blog you will feel like nobody cares about your content thanks for sharing this helpful article keep it comin’
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March 3, 2013 / 2:55 PM
Yeah bro! Comment can motivate us to come up with more and better content. We should also remember to encourage other bloggers by commenting on their posts.
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March 3, 2013 / 5:19 PM
Excellent post. These are ideas that can be implemented right away. I just started using comment luv. I didn’t know about two links for every comment. That’s great to know. What are you using for your email builder
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March 3, 2013 / 4:27 PM
Hey Jennifer,
Thank you. I’m sure you will love CommentLuv. Now I’m using MailChimp & Feedburner but soon I’m going to buy an Aweber account because it is the best!
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March 3, 2013 / 5:17 PM
Yeah, comments have the power to keep your blog post updated too. Thanks for writing the nice tips.
March 4, 2013 / 1:00 AM
Yeah, they themselves add extra value to the content and plays a role in SEO.
Cheers for the comment.
March 4, 2013 / 8:46 PM
We all want to see our site at a good position, as there are billions of sites on the network we have to make extra efforts. I’m totally agree with this commenting thing. We have recently enabled the comment luv and yes this is fruitful. Good luck.
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March 4, 2013 / 3:40 PM
Hello Dheeraj,
I agree with you. We must put extra efforts from our side to stand out from the crowd.
Everyone is talking about CommentLuv and it really is a great way to attract comments.
Thank you for the comment!
March 4, 2013 / 8:48 PM
Great post ! I completely agree that content is king to the success of any blog and by writing high quality content you are going to encourage more people to comment on your blog.
I have also found that CommentLuv works well for me to increase comments
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March 4, 2013 / 8:36 PM
Thank you Phil!
Yeah! Content is king. Blogging is a waste of time if there is no content on a blog.
CommentLuv has doubled the number of comments I receive on my blog and it is awesome. It works great.
March 4, 2013 / 8:52 PM
I really like the idea of the “Thank me later” plugin and I have just installed this on my blog. It will be interesting to see whether this alters the return rate of commenters. I also use Comment Luv which I think is another great tool
March 5, 2013 / 4:57 PM
Hello!
Thank Me Later works very well and I have seen people coming back to my blog to read other response and yeah, CommentLuv is awesome!
Cheers for the comment!
~Thejas
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March 6, 2013 / 12:44 PM
Thejas, brilliant article. The article helped me to get good no.of comments on some of my posts. Thanks a lot.
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March 6, 2013 / 5:58 PM
Oh Glad to know that Shravan and thank you for the comment.
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March 6, 2013 / 9:44 PM
Thanks for this great article.
But I am wondering about something.
If you are using Email notifications do you then also reply to your comments?
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March 12, 2013 / 1:35 PM
Hello,
Thank you for the comment.
I think your question isn’t clear. Can you please post it again?
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March 14, 2013 / 11:02 AM
Well you mentioned
“You can thank people for commenting, by sending Email after they comment”.
So if I decide to do that, should I still also reply to comments in my blog?
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March 14, 2013 / 1:53 PM
Hello,
Thank you for posting your question again. Now your question is clear.
My answer to the question is YES! You should reply to comments in your blog. I reply to most of the comments in my blog because it is the best way to communicate with my readers.
But if you receive a lot of comments in your blog everyday, then you might find it troublesome. So you can choose some good comments and reply to them.
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March 14, 2013 / 2:23 PM
Really nice method of improving the attention of my visitors.
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March 19, 2013 / 3:28 PM
Thank you.
I hope that works for you!
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March 19, 2013 / 6:04 PM
Hi Thejas. I really agree with you. I’ve seen dramatic changes on my discussion area on my blog after installing CommentLuv.
Keep it up.
Well put article
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March 20, 2013 / 6:45 PM
Really Nice tips. CommentLuv system is not available for Blogger. sad Things for blogger.
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March 20, 2013 / 9:16 PM
Hello Aditya,
CommentLuv is available For Blogger blog too. You can know more about it from ComLuv blog.
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March 20, 2013 / 9:36 PM
I agree with all of your points especially the one about making commenting easy. Only today I’ve moved away from a couple of blogs without commenting because of the commenting platform. If you want others to comment on your blog, make it easy for them.
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April 11, 2013 / 10:41 PM
Yeah! Most people don’t comment on a blog if commenting is not easy.
Thank you for commenting here. I hope commenting here was easy for you.
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April 13, 2013 / 12:00 PM
Awesome list of tips bro. I haven’t been focusing more on getting comments but after reading your post I got some insights.
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April 20, 2013 / 1:25 AM
Glad to know you liked the post. Thank you for the post.
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May 16, 2013 / 7:26 PM
nyc article thejas … very usefull
May 10, 2013 / 10:55 PM
Thank you, visit us again.
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May 16, 2013 / 7:27 PM
Hi thejas ,
Really nice method to get more comments .. awesome article
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May 10, 2013 / 10:57 PM
Hello, glad you liked my post. Cheers
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May 16, 2013 / 7:27 PM
Excellent methods to generate more comments for you blog – hence good traffic
May 16, 2013 / 4:45 AM
Hello Peter, thank you for taking time to comment here.
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May 16, 2013 / 7:27 PM
I have been using comment luv on my site. but this name thank me later? I will try this for sure.I was trying to configure that manually on my own. lol
May 16, 2013 / 3:31 PM
If you are using CommentLuv, then you should know Reply Me plugin. It notifies commentators when there is a new reply for their comments. But Thank Me Later plugin sends a Thank You message as soon as your comment gets approved.
Thank you for leaving the comment.
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May 16, 2013 / 7:29 PM