No one comments on my blog? What can I do?

You have a blog and you post some really great content on the blog but no one ever reads it, if they do they rarely leave a comment. Does it feel like you are talking to yourself? Turning your blog to dofollow blog can change that.
I will first describe the pros and cons of changing your blog to dofollow blog and then discuss other methods that could be used to increase participation in your blog.
More backlinks: With a dofollow blog, you become qualified to get listed in all those dofollow directories and dofollow lists. That automatically means more backlinks for your blog.

More traffic: You write about technical analysis (for example), a great topic that requires knowledge and experience in finance industry but noone will ever find your blog in google search because there are 94,800,000 results for that keyword, allintitle:technical analysis results are no less daunting at 750,000. If you make your blog dofollow, a lot of webmasters in your niche will use dofollow blog search engines and they will find you because you are now only competing against a smaller subset.
More backlinks and traffic will result in a search engine ranking boost as well as help you increase participation on your blog.
You should reward your readers for commenting on your blog, giving a dofollow link back to their homepage is a good reward. I will also discuss other methods that encourage commentators to leave a feedback, you are welcome to suggest methods that you have used successfully on your blogs.
Some would say, I was talking to myself before, if I change my blog to dofollow, I will be talking to robots with names like “make money”, “hotels in las vegas” or “cheap via**a”. No, you won’t before you turn your blog to a dofollow blog, make sure you have activated akismet on your blog, it’s an excellent blog spam filter. I would also like to point out that if your blog is popular, it doesn’t matter if it’s dofollow or nofollow, you are bound to get spam; these are bots, they don’t care about your blog being dofollow or nofollow, they will rather leave a comment on all blogs rather than trying to find out dofollow blogs.
Now that we have covered one method of getting people to comment on your blog posts, here are some more methods.

1. Install keywordluv plugin, so that your visitors can leave their names but still get a backlink with anchor text.
2. Install commentluv plugin, that’s the most intelligent plug-in I have seen and it encourages people with blogs to comment because they can showcase their latest blog posts.
3. Install Top Commentator plugin, this will definitely increase visitor loyality because they will keep coming back to post more comments.
4. Blog about your top commentator, take some time out, visit your top commentator’s sites or blogs and write a small post about their business and thank them for being an active part of your blog community.
5. Ask your visitors about their opinion on the topic of post. Most readers just visit the blog, read the tips and go away, you should call them to action by soliciting their feedback or responses on the topic.
6. Switch to disqus, intensedebate or wordpress’s threaded comments – why do you think livejournal blogs and slashdot became so popular, one of the reasons was that they allowed visitors to respond to each other’s comments with ambiguity.
7. Encourage people to subscribe to followup comments via e-mail so that they can contribute to discussion.
8. Last but one of the most important points, approve comments fast and respond to them.

These are some of the methods I have used in past to increase participation on my blogs, I would love to hear from you about methods you use.
Author Bio:
Jeet is part of dofollow movement and maintains dofollow search engine. He is also trying to build a quality directory list.

Thanks Jeet

I do appreciate everyone that has left a comment on this blog. Comments should never be taken for granted I have seen plenty of hot shots do that and now they have tumbleweeds rolling around their blog

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