Do you give comments on blogs? Well, it is surely good for any blog owner who only wishes to see more people participating in the communication. Many blogs out there have been thinking of ways and means to get those comments on their blogs. They organized contests, free gifts giveaway (usually an ebook or software), asking a question at the end of the blog in the hope to get the readers to engage in the activity, or just another creative idea to get that comment of yours!
Just Another Idea To Increase Activity In the Blog
Now, there is yet another idea of increasing those comments on your blog.
I happened to see this post from Chris Pirillo talking about his uninterested blog plugin where they provide a way to get the readers involved in comments passively… They called it the “click comments”. A way where the readers just have to click their emotions about the blog, and the software will write the comments for them.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnqBvSb0OlI[/youtube]
About ClickComments
Warning: This is just a plugin which only adds interactivity in your blog. It doesn’t add a new comment in your blog. I was puzzled by how it is going to work actually. But if you see a clickcomments plugin which I have just installed, you are just clicking on what you do think about how I am writing. And you will also instantly see the number of people who felt the same as you. It gives me a great insight about my own blog and whether I am doing fine with what I am blogging while you are still in anonymous.
Percentage of People Commenting In A Typical Blog
It may sound so ugly to do such an automated reply but it seems like a good idea to activate that other 95% of your readers who are not commenting… In almost any blog that you see, it is stated by the plugin people that typically only 5% of the total readers in that blog give comments. I do agree with that myself too! It could be even lesser. Just imagine the most liveliest blog I know (John Chow) who claims to have 200,000 unique visitors but only up to 500 users give comments? It is possibly less than that… And almost all of his posts have repeated commentators in it. That’s even less than 5%… I wonder if John does put in that plugin, is it going to make his blog even more livelier? Or maybe he wouldn’t install because his comments are simply flooding his database already! There is no need for such a plugin at all?
No RSS Support Yet
One very bad thing I saw in the ClickComments blog’s comments is that they don’t seem to support RSS subscribers to click their comments yet… While it is impossible to give a comment in the blog already, a click to give their voice in the comments sound like a logical approach to use this plugin since they are all reading from the RSS readers. Yo, ClickComments people, are you hearing this? Maybe we can find a way to work around to support RSS…
What this plugin is useful at
- If your blog is more towards writing about something and involves replying, I would not advise you to install this plugin.
- But if your blog only needs a reply such as “Cool Stuff”, “Inspired Me”, “Entertaining”, “Write More”, “Creative”, “Insightful”, “Touched My Heart” or “Great Find” (I find Christian’s blog is very suitable since he only needs such relaxing interactivity in it, and not those critics mainly like mine.), I think such plugin is cool in that situation.
- Sometimes, you just wish to know you are right on track without the need to give their identity.
What this plugin might not be useful at
- If you have a seasoned blog with a fair amount of comments, you might not think about it anyway.
- If you have a blog which talks about news and commenting on news, you might not want to see “Touched My Heart” comment… It has successfully been converted into a spam instead…
- If you are doing some contests in your blog, you might not want an anonymous comment which is not useful.
- If you wrote an article which is involving a discussion, you might not want to see just such a comment, and would rather leave it 0 comment.
I gonna give it a try
Just like any business, when your blog is still small and growing you can still try out new things with the “privilege” of making mistakes. Sometimes, who knows something might work? What usually works for one person, might not work for another… And what usually don’t work for one person, might work for another…
Anyway, this blog is all about myself and to try new things to learn and to benefit everyone of us. You will know the results instantly by the comments in my blog.
I just wish to know from my readers if I am improving in my blog career.. 
