Most bloggers strive to make their blog a community where people can learn, interact and exchange ideas. This is often achieved through the comment section. It has been said that comments are the lifeblood of a blog and I definitely agree with that statement. Many blogger, both new and experienced, have a difficult time attracting comments to their blog. A while back I wrote a post on how to get more blog comments. In this post, I want to get a little more specific and talk about rewarding your commentators to encourage them to start and continue adding value through quality comments.
Conventional wisdom tells us that people are more inclined to take action if there is something in it for them. As an example, I think back about when I first started college and there were dozens of credit card companies that were trying to get new students to sign up. What did they do, they gave something away, usually a tee shirt or something along those lines. The tee shirts probably cost them a buck but by offering the small reward more people were inclined to sign up. The same is true with blog comments, if you are willing to give a little and reward those that take time to comment, you will be ensuring that people will take the time to actually do it.
I came up with a list of 7 ways you can reward your commentators:
1.Make your links “do follow”, this is self explanatory, as you are rewarding your commentators by providing them a quality backlink to their site. To ruly reward them, I recommend installing the commentluv and keyword luv plugin.
2.Install Top Commentators plugin- This is similiar to the above reward where you will be providing a backlink and increased visibility to the people who comment most.
3.Create a post once a month that links back to your top commentators. I started doing this several months ago and it is a great way to reward your commentators with a link and hopefully drive a bit of traffic too.
4.Become active on their blog. When ever someone comments on my blog, I visit there blog and I usually return the favor and will comment on theirs. If the content is good, I will subscribe and become a regular reader and commentator. Basically, you can reward them by being a regular contributor on their blog.
5.Follow and Retweet. As a reward you can follow and engage with your commentators on Twitter. If a tweet catches your attention, go ahead and retweet it.
6.Give some social networking love. Another way to reward your commentators is to seek them out on social networks and link up with them and promote their posts.
7.Another reward is to reserve some ad space for your top commentators. I am actually going to implement this next month. I will be rewarding the top commentator for August with a free month of advertising on the sidebar of my blog.
As you can see, these are small rewards but every blogger would love to get as many links and promotion as possible. I know I do!
The last way to reward your commentators is by simply saying Thank you. So, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for all the excellent comments and helping build a community here with this blog in such a short time frame.
What are you doing to encourage and reward your blog commentators?
Like during the laker game their was a questionable call on kobe and when they look at the replay i think mike trico said thats not a foul and the other two just sat there like ehh idk I see this happen a lot not just laker games commentators just act like their opinion to give their opiion
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I have my own blog and these are really nice tips and helpful too for me.
Sometimes simple things also skip off our midns (::rather embarrassed::). My blog is a dofollow one but I never knew that I could still reward them. I’ll take the tip from you, appreciate this!
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Great reward tactics! I am going to use some of these for my new blog.
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It’s pretty much confirmed at this point that Ross is moving back to Raw in the near future. It’s not the first time that Vince has swallowed his pride about Ross’s commentary.
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I think Todd Grisham is taking Adamle’s place, or at least it seemed that way on Raw. I have no idea why else he’d pop up. I really wish they’d put Joey Styles back on ECW, or give Josh Matthews a shot.
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The ‘E just never gives the kid a break though. As for the Grish, I think he’d be better suited for color work. He’s a funny kid, but I don’t think he has that much knowledge as far as wrestling goes.
Like during the laker game their was a questionable call on kobe and when they look at the replay i think mike trico said thats not a foul and the other two just sat there like ehh idk I see this happen a lot not just laker games commentators just act like their opinion to give their opiion…
I agree with the first answerer. These commentators have to be very careful of what they say. You’d be surprised at how quick they could get fined or lose their jobs for criticizing the refs.
They also have multiple camera views, stats screens and people in the headsets feeding them information about the players and the game.
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All the success tips that you mentipned in post regarding blog comments. are very useful and also overy handy, as i will definitely go with these tips.
Thanks
Really wonderful piece of information and I appreciate it that you share something so useful with the readers of this blog.pretty much handy.thanks.
Yes agree with dankeller, making good way for other commentators increase the comments count, that i have observed many time. Good comprehensive list though
i have just entered in this blog creation and these tips helps me a lot..
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It is nice ways to reward your blog commentators.keep it up this nice sharing…
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Rewarding the blog commenting is very nice thing because your commentator increases your traffic so rewarding is very must. I like your tips very much for the particular topic.
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The importance of rewarding commenters is a fundamental step in creating an active blog community in my opinion. I always use Top Commenters, KeywordLuv and CommentLuv plugins. Ive also seen people reward commenters by giving them a permalink or even financial bonuses in some cases.
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Thanks for sharing .I appreciate it that you share something so useful with the readers of this blog.
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really appreciate your work.rewarding your commentators is very good idea also it helps in getting traffic on your site.
Creating a post in a month that links back to your top commentators is the best options.
Thanks for resource.
This will definately impact commentators to be more involved in the blog
This will definitely impact commentators to be more involved in the blog
I think you can retain commentators by always replying to their comments. If someone is reading blog, they will likely appreciate more interaction with the blogger.
Wow, you just took me to school big time with this post. I am going to bookmark this blog and come back for some regular learning. I think the biggest lesson for me the first time around reading this post is the ‘comment etiquette’ you spoke of. I will apply that lesson to my other blog.
Keywordluv, commentluv, and top commentators are great tools for us to get a better ranking with. It certainly applies the old saying “work smarter not harder” and it is using software to work for us.
I am new to wordpress and these cool little niche blogs.
Thank you.
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Thank you for this post. I learned so much from this. I am going to take notes on this and I see that I have some rewarding to do for the two posts I have on my blog.
You know, besides making our jobs as bloggers/niche site webmasters easier…it is kinda fun and quite the learning experience.
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I think the “buzz” plugin in comment box will make visitor happy to comment.
Excellent post!!!Your ideas are really unique and creative.
Just happen to find this site and wish I would have found it earlier. you always shred quality contents with the readers thanks learned lot here and like your idea.
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I keep read sites that talk about rewarding their commentator, and seeing your information is encouraging, because it is not so easy as they say it is..
Great post! Agree with enabling do=follow, and with Ralph above, saying submit guest posts. I’m a newbie to do-follow blogging/commenting, but I added it to my blog. Please feel free to drop in and comment at your leisure!
I just read in a blog comment that the Spanish and Portuguese are considered Latina, is this true?
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I really hope most bloggers follow the above mentioned points.
I always install the top commentators plugin on all of my blogs. I think it’s a great incentive to get visitors posting more comments.
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commentluv is a boon for people who do search engine optimization. Its the best way to attract comments to your blog.
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You may be able to try some of my old techniques, get some new ideas on how to get to those messages or you will just have to wait out the situation. SO, you can’t fix the glitch, but you MAY be able to work around it.
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You will just have to use the comment box and mailbox only at the specific times for when they are working properly. Make sure to delete messages during that time, so that you can actually use the mailbox.
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Does Keyword Luv help with SEO at all? Because honestly, that would be the only reason I’d be interested.
I found lots of blog using these plugin recently. I think this is great because these plugin helps both visitor and blog owner. Visitors get backlink and blog owner get traffic.
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I reward my blog commentators by giving free ad slot for one or two months for the top commentators
Hi, Is this blog dofollow. I found this blog when I searched in dofollow search engine. But the backlinks shows that this is not dofollow.
@Tenerife Holidays, Yes, do follow kicks in after 3 comments
Thanks for you ideas. I am going to try a free ad slot contest for top commentator in my blog.
well i think this seems to be great idea in order to attract the commentators and its just like a competition so that people find it as a very impressive and acceptable idea. keep it up
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The blog commentators should be rewarded as they are providing very good opportunity to blog owners.
3# This is where am lacking behind, i don’t usually create a post that links back to my top commentators.
Good post!
for me commenting is the best way to share your idea and also you learn to others.
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just wondering will google sand box your website if they find that all your backlinks are from keyword luv?, as isnt keyword luv cheating the system, for example if I get a 1000 backlinks from keyword luv blogs that’s unrelated to my site would google still rank my site higher ?
@ng@Find Christian Friends, I don’t think anyone knows for sure what Google thinks but I personally do not think keyword luv is cheating the system. Any seo experts out there have an opinion on this?
I do agree with you that installing Top Commenter plug in can really attract more people to leave comment and that's an awesome way to say thank you to the commenter..
Hey, I want to know more about your thoughts on how to boost my site by comments.. I find your ideas great and I'm thinking on how to do it on action.
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Hi, Good to see other people using these great plugins. this means that everybody wins. also i saw a blog that deletes the comment after 1 month, which i think is a good policy to remind people to come back to make more comments.
I really like your blog and appreciateyou allowing me to post comments.
thanks
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Dan That's a great list but don't forget about The comment luv or keyword luv plugin. Which is also equally good as it helps a lot for commentator to get traffic for their blog.
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