Comments on: 6 steps to make your blog visitors loyal commentators

By: Chris J Politzki

Chris J Politzki — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:18:17 +0000

Nice post!

Good tips I’m going to try out for my studio 119 blog. Thanks again for some very useful tips!

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:57:55 +0000

@jan_geronimo – Nice success story! Building loyal readers one by one, day by day is what it is all about in the long run. Thanks for sharing!

By: jan_geronimo

jan_geronimo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:36:04 +0000

My latest post is a guest post by a reader. I noticed this reader left a particularly insightful comment and this made me so happy I sent him a personal email. Basically I thanked him for his contribution in enlarging the points I raised on the post. And then I asked him to flesh out some parts so it would read nicely as a guest post. The very next day he emailed the same comments with additional paragraphs as requested. He’s happy he’s able to build upon where I left off. Thus, I have my first guest post. Well, I’m pleased I have gained a reader who’s enthusiastic in keeping the conversation going in my blog.

So in the next days, I’m looking into your other suggestions in co-opting readers into active participants in my blog. You’ve been of great help to me. Thanks.

By: Mr. I

Mr. I — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:12:00 +0000

@ Marko You have inspired me a lot. When I saw that you achieved PR 4 in just 2 months, I said to myself, “If he can, why Can’t I” (in a friendly competitive manner)! and started putting more time in promotion.

As a result, I got a guest post at Daily Blog Tips. I am just waiting to see what are its effects.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:42:04 +0000

@Mr. I – Great to hear that, congrats! Thanks for sharing!

By: Mr. I

Mr. I — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:31:12 +0000

Marko, Thanks for tips. I dumped my Thank Me Later auto mailer plugin and started responding personally. results are amazing. i am having great coversations with many readers and they are turning into loyal visitors.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:22:38 +0000

@blogaboutnothin – Yeah to be able to get some feedback from Twitter you need to have a good number of followers. Work on that first and you will see benefits of your work in the future.

@Tamal Anwar – Nice work! It is important always to look at your blog and your visitors and try to improve the user experience daily. Small changes can make a big difference…

By: Tamal Anwar

Tamal Anwar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:49:22 +0000

I made my blog comments dofollow and added the top commentators plugin. I’m also giving a free ad spot to my top commentator of the month. For all of this I increase my comments up to 300% in February, comparing to January.

By: b

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:30:33 +0000

I like the idea about leaving good comments on other people’s blogs. I’ve never thought about promoting someone’s comment into a blog post. I believe that is very clever, and that attracts more bloggers to post intellectual comments.

I also like personal comments a lot more than the “Thanks for posting a comment!” auto spams. That makes me remember the person better.

I agree that Twitter builds great traffic, but it is hard to ask questions for someone who just started using Twitter because they don’t have many followers. So far, I have 51 followers, and none of them ever respond to my questions.

Adding this post to my favorites so I can refer back to it later on. Thanks for the post.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:11:05 +0000

Thanks for a clear well written post. As a on and off blogger for sometime I recently made the decision to reduce the number of Blogs that I had as I wasn’t giving them the quality time they needed (plus they weren’t getting any traffic !!).

I haven’t used StumbleUpon before but will look into using it.