Comments are an important element in a blog, a blog without comments is like a cage without birds, which is not fun at all. Blog comments are important for a blog as readers would share their experiences and opinions regarding your article topic. Therefore, you may be able to learn something new from the comments.

When you visit a blog and see that there are less or no comments on every single post, what will you feel? You might feel that the quality of content is poor and doesn’t attract anymore to leave a comment, and then you’ll leave too. It’s important for us to do something to increase the participation rate in our blog, it adds value to our blog.

Here are the 10 ways to increase comments on your blog:

1. Simple And Useful Content

When writing a blog post, make it simple and easy to understand. If you write something in too much detail and technical, it definitely pisses off your reader because it’s complicated for them to leave a comment and share their thought.

2. Call To Action

Ask a question at the end of your article. Shoot a question to your readers and ask for their opinions or ask them to answer your question. Again, make the question as simple as you can.

3. Comment On Related Blogs

All of us know that blog commenting is a way to drive traffic, build backlinks and brand. You might know the concept of “you comment and I’ll comment back”. When you leave a comment in a related niche blog, the blog owner may be interested to know who his reader is and what his blog is. This is what I used to do to see who my reader is, I’ll leave a comment if the blog has article that attracts me.

4. Hold Blog Commenting Contest

This is hot and many blogs are holding similar contest on their blog. As what you can see in SmartBloggerz, Sushant held a “Commenting Idol Contest” few months ago and the contest page itself received up to 369 comments. All his following blog post received at least 100 comments each. This is a good way to increase participation rate in your blog, but you have to really control and modify the quality of comments left on the post, it may take your lot of time away.

5. Make Your Blog Dofollow

People love dofollow blog because they can get one way dofollow backlinks for their blog to improve the search engine rankings. In fact, there is no harm to make your blog dofollow as long as you control the quality of outgoing link, just make sure there is no outgoing link to spam site, then it would be safe.

6. CommentLuv WordPress Plugin

CommentLuv is a popular wordpress plugin. When your reader leaves a comment on your blog, then the plugin will track and display the latest blog post of your reader’s blog at the end of his/her comment. Therefore, your reader would receive a backlink to his post plus some traffic through the exposure. It encourages your reader to leave comment.

7. KeywordLuv WordPress Plugin

Nowadays, blog owners are used to modify each comment left on their blog and they ignore commentator who uses keyword in the name field. KeywordLuv allows commentators to get a keyword backlink in their comment in the form – “YourName@YourKeyword”; it improves the search engine ranking for that particular keyword.

8 . Top Commentator WordPress Plugin

It’s widely used by many bloggers on blogosphere, this is a plugin which shows a list of commentators who leave the most comments on the blog, as what you can see in the sidebar of this blog. Usually links in top commentator widgets are dofollow.

9. Build A Community

Build a community in your niche and you could get your readers coming back to leave a comment again and again. Of course, building a community is tough but it’s not an impossible task. You can try to help any bloggers to resolve their problems when they have doubt, you would definitely get the reader to stick with your blog.

10. Reward Your Readers Monthly

You may do it with the list of top commentator. You may reward the top 3 commentators in the list of top commentator some prizes every month, such as cash or banner advertising in your blog. As we know, people love free prizes especially cash.

Wrap Up

There are many ways through which you can increase the participation rate in your blog, these are what I did on my blog and I found them very useful and effective. Quality content is still the main key to make a reader to read the full article and leave comment.

Do you find these ways effective to increase comments? What other method that you use to increase comment on your blog?

[Admin Note: Do check my article - "15 Plugins To Make Your WordPress Comment System Better" for improving the experience of your blog's commenting system. ]

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In order to be successful in affiliate marketing, you need to start from basic and don’t skip it. There are many successful affiliate marketers on the internet; when newbies look at them, they will think “I wanna be like them and become successful and well known in affiliate marketing field!”, but they don’t know how to get started and don’t even know where to start first.

Many newbies failed in affiliate marketing because they didn’t know what to do before starting, they will simply apply for various affiliate programs and apply it on their blogspot blog and wait for the money flow in automatically, they’ll just be disappointed in the end. They didn’t know how many effort did successful affiliate marketers had put and how much time they’d spent to be success.

If you are a newbie in affiliate marketing and want to make fortunes out of the Internet, you may follow the following three most basic and easiest ways to start an effective affiliate marketing program.

The First Step – Find a Topic

You have to first identify a specific topic that you’re interested in or passionate about so that you can write about the topic non-stop, if you don’t know anything about the topic, skip it and think another, so that you won’t be bored by searching for resources on the internet, it saves your time.

Also, you can add your personal details such as facebook, twitter or msn, it gives your visitors an impression that you’re real human and able to be contacted. In this way, you gain their trust and eventually encourage them to buy the products that you promote and recommend.

The Second Step – Choosing the Right Affiliate Program

The second step is to look for good and reliable affiliate programs and products or services that are relevant to your interest. Be sure you choose the right one because it affects the click through rate, as well as the conversion rate. There are various affiliate program networks on the internet, be sure you do a comparison, evaluate and see which potential network could bring you maximum earning.

The Third Step – Promoting

Now you have decided a specific topic, you have chosen a product or affiliate network, you have your landing page with top level domain name and reliable hosting, then you’re ready to promote your affiliate product now. This is the critical part and many people fails to do this, you need to promote, drive more traffic, and convert your traffic to sales. In promoting the product, article marketing would be the most effectiveness method, you can write unique article with a link to your landing page and submit it to various article directories, the popular article directories would be EzineArticles.com.

Bear in mind, there is no quick path or shortcut towards success. You’ve seen many successful affiliate marketers who made thousand per day just by promoting their affiliate product, actually they’ve gone through the whole process, they spent a lot of time and put a lot of effort, that’s why they’re successful today.

In make money online journey, you need to learn, test, and error also know as Hit & Trial Method, in this process you’ll learn from the mistake and find out what strategy works well for you, repeat the strategy and you could make a living by starting your affiliate marketing.

My word to all the newbie, if you don’t make money in the beginning, never quit and you will find you success in future!

You can consider reading Top Affiliate Marketing Blogs.

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Make money online is a dream for many people out there but not much people can do this successfully, many people start a site or blog blindly without planning for the future, they just follow the trend and write whatever topic that most of the people like, it doesn’t work.

In order to drive more organic traffic to your blog, you need to plan first before starting your site or blog, you need to know how to build a profitable niche blog. You need to do keyword research on various keywords, there is actually many keyword tools out there that help you do the works, one of the popular keyword tool would be Google Adwords Keyword Tool.

This keyword tool shows you the popularity of the keyword, competition, estimated CPC rate, and etc. This will generate a list of keywords or phrases that contain your niche and will also show you approximately how many people search for each word or phrase as well.
Then you need to decide which keyword would be the most profitable by determining which keyword has the least amount of competitors, so that you can outrank them easily and get into Top 10 in search engine result.

Choosing a good niche topic to base your website around is one of the most important aspects of driving organic traffic off of your articles. This will give you a foundation to build from and you can target one general audience with a pack of keywords that they are most likely to be searching for.

If you write a specific topic in a blog, when a new visitor approaches to your blog and find that your blog has a lot of  relevant articles, most probably they will come back to read other articles again. This way, even though you are targeting one specific subject, you will be sure to interest a wide variety of people in that one niche. They may also find other pages that interest them, which will keep them returning to your site to learn new information about the niche subject. I’ve created few niche blogs and all the blogs work quite well in term of the traffic and earning.

If there is a couple of keywords in the result, then you have to pick the keyword that you feel would be easiest to start with and can be producing unique content non-stop. Once you’ve built the blog for few days and the blog starts to generate some revenue, then you can start to pick another keyword which is your 2nd choice and do the same steps as the first blog.

So you just need to repeat the same procedures over and over again, as long as you choose the right keyword, I believe that you can make a passive income every month just from your online business.

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