Competing Your Number of Comments With Your Posts

If you have noticed my sidebar showing the number of posts I have published and the number of comments people has written, I feel especially happy when my comments have finally exceeded the number of posts I have done. Everyday, it’s a challenge for any new blog out there to create a buzz in their blog so as to invite someone to make some noise in the comments. And each day the posts are published, the comments tend to lose out easily.

The Ethical Way of getting comments
Sometimes, it makes me wonder why a blog gets to be commented. Where I see John Chow’s blog having so many visits and yet the percentage of people commenting is just bearly 10%. So for a blog to encourage the commentators to make some noise, it somehow requires some skill on our part as bloggers.

So how ethical can a blog be ethical in getting people to comment in his blog? As I focus more and more on my contents and following up with another commentator who happens to write in, it seems like it’s growing in numbers naturally now. Thank you everybody for your support in commenting in Charles Lau dot Com. This blog is basically a blog for everyone of you as it is writing reviews about all of you…

The CashQuests way
Though I don’t think she did it this way on purpose, her way of disabling comments all together at the initial stage is simply getting people to come in and enjoy the posts she has published, rather than handling the unnecessary mess the commentators might create in her blog. As a result of her quality postings, she finally released her blog for comments and it burst like crazy now.

The Rajawang way
Though I find it funny to have such a way, he is making a contest amongst the top two commentators in his blog. Though I only see 18 readers in the RSS feed, I see the top 8 commentators can go as many comments as 41, 38 and 17. It’s like a blog which is encouraging the crowd to make some noise at his comment box. And he seems to have managed it well with the commentators in his blog.

The John Cow way
Somehow, I always get to see quarrels and commotions in his blog comments. People are simply start taking sides and scolding each other. And it creates lots of crowd and people watching the comments grow by itself with lots of reasonings and side comments and even some stories trying to tarnish another blogger’s reputation. While such a mess is hard to manage, John Cow seems to take it well in his hand.

The John Chow way
I think he started it all about the blog contest. Simply write your comment at his blog and you get one chance to win some prizes in his blog contest. People have been enjoying winning prizes at his blog, and they keep on writing in their comments. And when John Chow shows his monthly earnings, another massive comments come in again. Basically, he’s leading the crowd to where he thinks is interesting enough to keep them coming back.

The Problogger way
Problogger always writes quality posts in his blog. And that really lets us learn more about how to get our blog to the next level. And because of his quality postings, people simply write in to say it’s good! So this blog comments belongs to the “good feedback blog”… A blog which attracts bloggers like everyone of us to come and read if there’s anything we have not applied properly in our blog.

Conclusion
Whichever way you are trying to adopt for your comments to exceed your posts, it is always good to let it grow much naturally as possible. It wouldn’t be nice if you can only get massive comments today, and no comments tomorrow… right?