Of course, that doesn't mean that decision works for every brand. Brian Dean is a good example of that, as demonstrated above — the comments left on Dean's blog posts are often just as useful as the content itself, since readers' can share personal experiences and help other readers' grow their businesses through shared challenges and successes.
If you're unsure whether you should enable comments or not, you can always include a comments section for a few months and then reassessing whether the comments are productive and engaging. If not, consider how you might get creative with facilitating engagement and growing your blog audience through other methods.
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Write something that actually matters. Do you think Darren would be able to post a fluff post every single day if he wrote the truth about blogging? If you want me to care about you, write a blog post I actually care about. To do that, spend less time commenting on blogs. If a crazy person on the street told you to stop going to work, would you listen to them? Why would you do that for random people on the Internet?
Some of these people were obviously just really confused, others were intentional trolls. I put them in the same category as extreme time-wasters for people who are trying to create work that matters. The people who left incredibly intelligent comments. In fact, most of them have gone on to create their own blogs. Then they had the power to do three things:. Write and hyperlink to the important things other people are saying.
Write and say things that they think are important for other people to see as they can become successful. This creates WAY more google-juice and community interaction than comments ever will. These types of comments definitely do not add value to a post, but like Everett mentions no one clicks through to their blogs anyways, so really why should they even matter? Instead of moderating each and everyone of them, why not reply and simply ask them to comment the right way next time or not comment at all.
Blog communities can still grow. And blogs can still be blogs. Where we put our intention with our attention.
My ideas are definitely not perfect, but at a certain point I had to make a decision about where my focus would lie. Did I want hordes of Internet randoms deciding where my ideas needed to go, or did I want to proactively choose the opinions that would influence my ideas? So, instead of letting randomness decide, I choose.
These are people who are working on similar ideas to me, people who are challenging themselves with their work. It can take five minutes to get an expert opinion. It can take 5 days or more to get and expert opinion if you wait for an expert to come by and comment on your blog. The more I pushed the boundaries of cultural evolution with the work, the more time I had to spend bringing people up to speed on where I believe the world really stands.
These are two very different growth strategies. Do we want to ask our readers to commit time and energy to commenting on blogs all over the Net when we know for certain that their focus is best spent creating worlds of their own for the digital future? I think so. I want to say a huge thank you to Everett and Pat for voicing these opinions and hanging everything out here. You guys are such awesome examples of how to do things right on the web, albeit in different ways.
You will learn a ridiculous amount of life changing things from each of them. Earn a living doing something you love. Grow an audience and get paid for your work as an independent creator. Fizzle is where creators come to learn, share and make progress toward their online dreams. They show up for me as much as I show up for myself.
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Today is an exciting day for Fizzle. What they are conversing about on your blog too? Understanding your reader's needs will help you to determine what types of "problem-solving" content to create for them in the future.
As you continue to engage more with your readers, you become more connected with them and on a more personal level too. You get to understand them and their needs better. Blog comments can do all of those wonderful things and more. Spam comments used to take me quite a bit of time to sieve through. More often than not, I'd always find a small handful of good comments caught up in the spam folder too. Disabling comments made all of those spammy comments disappear.
And as for the time I've saved not moderating those comments, well, that has been priceless. If you have a blog that gets a lot of comments, then that's great.
However, if your blog doesn't actually get many comments, to begin with, that's not so great. I know many new blogs struggle to get comments in the beginning, however, they will come with time, and as long as your content is good and your marketing and promotion strategy is on cue. The problem sometimes with having a blog with lots of 'zero comments' in posts is that some people will instantly think that your blog is NOT popular, or inactive.
When people visit your blog and they see big fat zeros in your comment counter, this can sometimes discourage them from breaking the ice and making the first comment.
Here's a good tip: In this instance, turning off comments on posts that have not received any comments after a while. If you want to avoid getting tons of comment spam, then you know you have to pay for something like Akismet. By disabling comments, you have the advantage and option to move all of the engagement on the social channels that work best for your blog. For me, those channels happen to be Facebook and Instagram. At the end of the day, and despite the pros and cons, YOU have to make the decision for yourself.
If you think you really need to save time, focus more on the areas of your blog that needs attention, and if you don't care much for engagement or interaction on your blog, then turn off comments. Also, maybe you want to shift the engagement over onto your social media channels, that's another reason why some bloggers and marketers want to disable comments on their blogs. Should you disable comments on your blog? I have disabled commenting on my blog Some time ago, I decided once and for all, to completely disable comments on my blog.
The reason for this is that dealing with comments was taking up too much of my time. OK, let's get on with the post.
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