Why do you have a blog? I am sure that one of the reasons you have a blog is to give yourself online visibility. Blogs are extremely efficient in creating visibility for the simple reason that you can add fresh content and have that content automatically show up on your front page. Regular visitors will have something new to read every time they visit. Furthermore, they can start a dialogue with the blog owner and other readers by leaving a comment underneath the post.
As you know comments have more functions than creating a conversation. Every time you leave a comment you create a link back to your own site. Over time this can very easily add up an give you a strong position in the search engines. Furthermore, other visitors who read your comment may be curious to check you out and follow your link to your blog. It is obvious that commenting is a very favorable thing to do. So far, nothing new for you probably.
Let me tell you why I am writing about this topic. You see, from March of 2010 until mid April of 2011 I was an active participant in a tribe, called TSA. If you are a regular visitor chances are that you have read some of my other posts where I talked about this tribe. The way these tribes work, is you comment on other members blog posts and in return they will comment on your blog. As a result your blog looks (and is) buzzing with comments. You would think (at least I did) that this would encourage other visitors to start commenting also. This did not happen much though. There are of course always a few comments, but I never saw a significant increase in comments from people other than TSA members.
To be honest with you, I am at a loss why this is. Especially, when you are not the first one, it cannot be that hard to write a few lines in which you give your view point or verbalize your agreement/disagreement with the content of the post. Is it because people don’t realize the value of comments? Is it because they want to stay anonymous. But why would that be? If you are online to be able to get your word out, wouldn’t you welcome every opportunity to create better visibility?
But it goes even further. When I decided in mid April to leave the TSA, I fully expected to see a significant drop in traffic. This did not happen. As a matter of fact, traffic wise, May has been my best month so far! The thing that did change was the comments. Where I would have up to 50-60 comments per blog post before, I now have only a handful. As soon as I left TSA, most TSA members stopped visiting my website.
This means that they were only visiting my site, because it was agreed upon in order to get comments on your own blog. I would have been very happy with that, if it had increased the number of comments from other visitors. But since I learned that it did not stimulate others to leave a comment also, the value of these comments started to drop. After all, if it is the same people commenting on your blog over and over again, without a lot of new commentators, it does not add much value any longer.
The big question that remains is: why are people not using the opportunity to build online visibility by leaving a few sentences before leaving the page? I am afraid I don’t have an answer to that question. Do you? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below. Help me understand why it is that people don’t use comments in their internet marketing.Are you one of them? Do you leave comments? If not, will you make an exception and explain below why not. I appreciate it.
To your success,
Do you leave comments to increase your online visibility?
Why do you have a blog? I am sure that one of the reasons you have a blog is to give yourself online visibility. Blogs are extremely efficient in creating visibility for the simple reason that you can add fresh content and have that content automatically show up on your front page. Regular visitors will have something new to read every time they visit. Furthermore, they can start a dialogue with the blog owner and other readers by leaving a comment underneath the post.
As you know comments have more functions than creating a conversation. Every time you leave a comment you create a link back to your own site. Over time this can very easily add up an give you a strong position in the search engines. Furthermore, other visitors who read your comment may be curious to check you out and follow your link to your blog. It is obvious that commenting is a very favorable thing to do. So far, nothing new for you probably.
Let me tell you why I am writing about this topic. You see, from March of 2010 until mid April of 2011 I was an active participant in a tribe, called TSA. If you are a regular visitor chances are that you have read some of my other posts where I talked about this tribe. The way these tribes work, is you comment on other members blog posts and in return they will comment on your blog. As a result your blog looks (and is) buzzing with comments. You would think (at least I did) that this would encourage other visitors to start commenting also. This did not happen much though. There are of course always a few comments, but I never saw a significant increase in comments from people other than TSA members.
To be honest with you, I am at a loss why this is. Especially, when you are not the first one, it cannot be that hard to write a few lines in which you give your view point or verbalize your agreement/disagreement with the content of the post. Is it because people don’t realize the value of comments? Is it because they want to stay anonymous. But why would that be? If you are online to be able to get your word out, wouldn’t you welcome every opportunity to create better visibility?
But it goes even further. When I decided in mid April to leave the TSA, I fully expected to see a significant drop in traffic. This did not happen. As a matter of fact, traffic wise, May has been my best month so far! The thing that did change was the comments. Where I would have up to 50-60 comments per blog post before, I now have only a handful. As soon as I left TSA, most TSA members stopped visiting my website.
This means that they were only visiting my site, because it was agreed upon in order to get comments on your own blog. I would have been very happy with that, if it had increased the number of comments from other visitors. But since I learned that it did not stimulate others to leave a comment also, the value of these comments started to drop. After all, if it is the same people commenting on your blog over and over again, without a lot of new commentators, it does not add much value any longer.
The big question that remains is: why are people not using the opportunity to build online visibility by leaving a few sentences before leaving the page? I am afraid I don’t have an answer to that question. Do you? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below. Help me understand why it is that people don’t use comments in their internet marketing.Are you one of them? Do you leave comments? If not, will you make an exception and explain below why not. I appreciate it.
To your success,