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Non-Facebook Users: Please Comment Here

Ari Herzog

Scroll below his post to add a comment — and be forced to comment through Facebook. Whether or not you choose to share that comment on your Facebook wall is up to you, but it’s either comment with Facebook or don’t comment at all. This time, I want to ask a different question.

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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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Lifting the Fog of the Blog: 8 Strategic Questions Before You Write 1 Word

Convince & Convert

There are more than 150 million blogs, according to Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere&# report. Lifting the Fog of the Blog: 8 Strategic Questions Before You Write 1 Word. Answering questions? And if you’re blogging for kinship and community, comments and sharing are critical barometers.

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

ProBlogger

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. One of the simplest ways to create these ‘listening spaces’ on a blog is to ask questions.

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Get More Comments: Focus on the First Comment

ProBlogger

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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Blogosphere Trends + Interview Tips

ProBlogger

As always, the weekly blogosphere trends have been provided by Regator.com. Study the topic and come prepared with a list of questions. According to “ YouTube Users More Interested in Katy Perry Than Barack Obama ,” YouTube’s approach to interviewing Katy Perry was to actually ask YouTube users for question suggestions.

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Blogosphere Trends + A Challenge

ProBlogger

Thanks for joining me for another edition of the weekly blogosphere trends, provided by Regator.com. Then share a link to your post in the comments. Example: AmericaBlog ’s “ Are Iraq combat operations really over? &# asks a question to create curiosity then delivers by answering it in full. Social Security.