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[...] I had some great ideas to get the passive reader into some action some of you are still suffering from major inertia, I guess To be frank, it’s not anything [...]

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:40:57 +0000

@Downloadic, the vice versa is true as well… you need to involve with your readers + need to be regular on a couple of dozen blogs as well…

By: Downloadic

Downloadic — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:29:12 +0000

FollowIng up and participating in comment discussions are the most important…

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:56:01 +0000

@Kim, Manytimes we write based on prejudictions and expectations. What we think as well explained may be ‘greek and latin’ for many In fact, after I added a ‘What is RSS’ page a lot of people are actually clicking it… Also, i you carefully analyze the Google Analytics, you may understand a lot more on what people are expecting or finding interesting…

Thanks for your comment.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:29:12 +0000

It’s true that many visitors never leave comments. One of my most visited articles is about converting a video clip into an animated gif. People only comment when they can’t follow the instructions and get stuck.

Who knew that so many people would want to know how to do this? It was fun for me to figure out how to do but overall it seems to be a pretty useless skill

Great list Ajith!

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By: Nagraj

Nagraj — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:49:28 +0000

thats another great list ajith….thanks……its true that when people start responding u will get more interest in writing also……….;and again it depends on the energy level of the blogger as u mentioned ……….many things to learn here for me…………thanks again……….

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:39:34 +0000

Yes susan, absolutely! The reciprocal should also hold good… ie. the readers coming back and following up on their/others’ comments

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:21:38 +0000

FollowIng up and participating in comment discussions is quite important as you noted

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:15:27 +0000

@Rajiv, thanks for your views and compliments. Yes, even I am convinced that conducting a competition or contest every other week to attract readership is not at all a great idea. They should be used as jump-starters only!

@Bruno, you are welcome… I am just writing a few things that I have personally found good and few other things taught by some of the experienced bloggers.

@Barbara, I know that your secret of involving readers is in tip #1 Probably I learned it from bloggers like you. I kind of like your daily assignments in every post. By the way, I liked your A.S.K post this week with Darren Rowse!

@Ramesh, it’s true that when people talk about blogging, seo and especially ‘make money online’ etc, there will be a lot of interest and involvement from the readers. But at the same time any other niche blog can also have involvement as long as the readers are not information junkies (read and use information but won’t appreciate/comment/involve). The key is to ask the readers something out of their experience or ask for clarity wherever you may need some information. Also, I found that technical sites where people provide a lot of code snippets, tricks, hacks etc attract a lot of comments. In your particular case, I guess you have way too many good quality RSS subscribers that many of them don’t want to come and comment. But they are really appreciating your good content for sure.

(And as for the post image, I just quickly edited something to sound positive. Incidentally, my blood group is B+ve as well and that’s how the idea came )

@Akhil, thank you very much for the compliments. I am glad that you found this blog’s interaction levels very good… Thanks for your visit and I see that your blog has really positively changed its outlook

Thanks everyone! Please keep writing!!

By: Akhil

Akhil — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:50:10 +0000

very good and informative list of tips!!!
but I think, that your layout and theme play a vital role as far as comment section is concern.
blogger.com is not very friendly for readers to leave their comments.
even many celebrities, who are writing their blogs on blogger.com, they are getting only 2-3 comments per post.
So, we can imagine about the common people.
if one is writing an interactive post, the chances of comments increase rapidly.
I can see that all of your posts are very interactive, and it seems that writer is trying to talk to us face to face.
I’ve lernt allot, and thanks for this nice post again.

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