I personally feel that it turns people away if you force them to make a Blog Account cause they will be wary of their email address being sent out and the fire in the article effect will be worn out since a lot of the people have busy lives and don’t want to bother if they don’t blog much.

Also if you force approval on comments people don’t want to wait WEEKS for it to appear in order to engage a discussion cause they will forget if it’s that long and you will have a one-way conversation. 😛 😉

If you choose to go that route you will have to like respond every stinkin day to your readers or the readers will think the blogger has abandon them and move to greener pastures.

Dealz

Thanks. I read a lot of useful posts around here.

I never knew that as I am behind the times when it comes to the internet and only have recently discouverd forums. (last year or so)

and good response from arun.

learning a lot from here!

There’s one other great tip for increasing the quality of a comment: use the name of the author or another poster.

Think I’ll update my own blog now……

I’m unsure of my own stance on commenting. Sometimes I feel its shameless self-promotion for most people, but then at other times I feel somewhat guilty for consuming some fantastic content without contributing my thoughts to the topic. Maybe I will write about this myself. lol.

thank you …

Even though chosing the blog depending on the target blog seems to be a good idea, the audience that read comments and leave comments can be from different niches.

So you are more likely to endup with more visitors if you choose the blog which works better (and which is eventually the most influential one)

One another suggestion would be to use the blog that has a descriptive URL. When people hover over your name and see the url, if they instantly know what blog it is, they will check it out..

Eg: if you have a url that says shoes-for-all dot com, then those who hover over your name will know that its a shoe blog, so they know what to expect.

Hope you got the point 🙂

I have three sites I have to choose between: my own blog, a group blog and my employer’s site. I pick whichever one sits best with the comment I’m making. So this comment, which is to a piece I wrote as a private person, links to my own blog. But if I was commenting with my work hat on, I’d pick my employer’s site.

It’s a bit messy, but it seems to work. And of course just because I don’t think I’m commenting with my work hat on, that doesn’t mean that other people may see things differently so you have to remember that you’re always on duty to a degree unless you’re anonymous or using a pseudonym.

to this comment

“One thing that makes bad impression is commenting by `keywords.
No matter how qualty comment has, keywords make the first impression bad!”

Is it really a huge ‘no-no’ or just kind of the unwritten rule?

But I have one question which is still not clear to me. How should we market our multiple blogs while commenting. I mean, what blog/profile link to use where and why ?

Of course I wouldn’t like to use them randomly on the same blog which may sound like pure advertising strategy and harm your credibility.

And I also always reply to comments. I want people to know that I appreciate their comments…

And I love the Gravatar!

Greetings,
Claus

Also we can put the link to our special page where popular articles are present or where we have got more response.

Thanks for the information!

People always like to know who wrote the comment and an about page is a direct invitation.

🙂

Shhh.. I have used the about page here.. 😛

As a commentator, I always use my nickname across all blogs and have a standard gravatar.

Its like in affiliate marketing, having a landing page or direct-linking to it.. well just my 2 cents