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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! Sometimes the comments are even better than the post.

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Get More Comments: Focus on the First Comment

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That’s when you begin to wonder … why isn’t anybody leaving a comment? There are blogs with readerships in the hundreds of thousands with barely a handful of comments per post. Why don’t people comment? But for commenting to happen, they must understand it as an option. That first comment is the tipping point.

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Mastering the Art of Listening: A Blogger’s Guide to Success

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The people we tend to be drawn to in real life are people who pause in conversation to let you have a say, people who ask questions about you, people who have a genuine interest in what you’ve got to say. Create Listening Spaces on Your Blog Have you ever had a ‘conversation’ with someone where you simply could not get a word in edgeways?

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Maintaining Momentum in Blogging

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Image created in Canva The Blogosphere is suffering from an epidemic of inactivity. Scientists talk about the amount of ‘space junk’ accumulating in orbit around the earth – my mind boggles at the number of blog junk that must be sitting idle – orbiting aimlessly through the blogosphere.

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Blogosphere Trends + Being Opinionated

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Man alive, I hate bringing you a list of blogosphere trends that includes both Lindsay Lohan and Jersey Shore—not to mention Sarah Palin. Cottle has a long history of writing highly opinionated pieces that have, no doubt, helped her build a tough skin when it comes to antagonistic comments. Let’s chat about it in comments.

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Blogosphere Trends + Unicorns

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Kindle – “ Don’t Really Care About Touch Screens or Color ” from Conversational Reading uses a combination of first and second person. That choice, along with phrases such as “I wonder how many readers out there are like me…” establishes a conversational tone. Please share your thoughts and unicorn stories in the comments.

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Conversion Optimization: Our New Series

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Of all the topics that bloggers ask me about, conversion optimization is among those at the top of the list. All of us have conversion goals of some sort. Some of the blogger’s most common conversion goals include: grow signups to an email subscription list. Revisiting your conversion funnel.