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Do you know who is your blog’s commentator? Do you know what the commentator interested in? Do you know how many times someone give comments? We are lack of these information, unless do a mysql query in our wordpress database.

Why Should Get To Know Them?

Because these commentators are your royal readers. Without these commentators, your blog become dead, no interaction. The fun of blogging is share what you think and listen to what people say! So, these commentators are motivator of your blogs.

By get to know them, you know what to write next. Or I should say you could target your audience more accurately.

How To Know Them?

It’s not that difficult to write mysql script or command file. But we have easier method is using Comment Info Tip plugin. This plugin tells you 5 info about your commentator: Total commented times, latest commented post, latest post excerpt from commentator’s blog, pingbacks and trackbacks. (more…)

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Comments in a post can tell you know the post popularity and how
active is your readers. Recently, I have posted an article about design your own logo on
LiewCF.com and it brought about 10 comments within hours. This means
LiewCF really made well relation with his readers, also the readers
are active in this blogsphere.

How to get more comments?

There are 7 ways I would like to share with you:

1. Ask for their opinion
When you post an article, do not close the article with only your own conclusion. Give some space for your reader to post their comment. As for me, I always use the question like ” How about you? What is your opinion? What do you think?”. These question really make your readers start to think rather than feed them, and they might reply their opinion to you by comment in your post.

2. Put in interesting topic
Put in some content that can use for discussion, which do not have absolute answer. For example, my previous post about HD DVD vs Blu-ray , this is an interesting topic for discussion that do not have an absolute answer at this moment. It is more to readers’ need and usage. There are more interesting topics that you can write about, for example: digital or analogue, comparison between softwares and etc.

3. Respond to their comment
Once your readers comment in your post, you must respond to their comment in positive way. This way make your readers like to comment their opinion, their question and definitely build a relation between readers and author. When your post are lively, more people will start to comment.

4. Reward them
Some blog did launch for contest for their top commentators. Frankly speaking I myself did launched a contest after my 1st month blogging. There are more ways to reward them , such as install a top commentators widget on your blog’s sidebar like mine. The top commentators with link back to reader’s blog is a big encouragement for them to comment. (more…)

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