The next step after attracting attention is to encourage engagement. On a blog that is very easy to do since your readers can immediately add their comments to your post.
Neil Patel has a post on ShoeMoney called 6 Easy Ways To Increase Your Comment Count and Gyutae Park at Winning the Web recently wrote 9 BIG Methods to Pump Up Your Blog Comments. Both blog posts provide great advice on how to encourage people to comment on your blog. You will see that I implement many of those suggestions here on this blog.
One thing I would add to their suggestions is to disable “nofollow” on blog comments. If you do this then a commenter will receive some search engine love from links in their comment. Andy Beard has a lot to say about nofollow and provides this ultimate list of dofollow and nofollow plugins.
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Nick,
Posted 06 Dec 2007 at 6:50 pm ¶Thanks for the mention.
I’m a bit hesitant to use nofollow because of the spam it brings along with it. Also, I’d like to have full control over who I link to.
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