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What are the blogging tips you can share with me to increase the number of comments on my blog posts?

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Question added by Samar Saleh , Community Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2016/02/23
Khalid Ghaffar
by Khalid Ghaffar , Consultant for Business Development , Waters Corporation USA

Hello Samar First of all thanks for inviting me to answer. 

My two cents as follow:

 

1. Get ideas from your audience

Create blog posts that answer the most interesting questions from people you engage with on social media.

This can be a great way to gather ideas of what topics people would most like to read about, which will help your blog, grow! One of the best ways I’ve seen this in action is through blog comments or Tweets.

2. Understand your audience

Understand your audience better than they understand themselves. It takes a lot of upfront research, and often means being a member of the very tribe you’re trying to lead – but it pays off.

Understanding your audience better means you’ll have a better idea of what blog content will resonate with them, which is a good start when you get to writing blog posts.

A great technique for doing this is to simply ask your readers first on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn with an engaging quote. If people respond well to it, than this is probably a great topic to write about. An example for this comes from Andrew Chen who famously “tests” his blogpost ideas on Twitter first.

3. Write for yourself first

Write for yourself first & foremost. Ignore the fact that anyone else will read what you write; just focus on your thoughts, ideas, opinions and figure out how to put those into words. Write it and they will come.

4. Give stuff away

Give away free content that adds value to people’s lives “until it hurts” and they will love you and become loyal fans.

5. Be consistent

Consistency is one of the most important things that bloggers tend to forget. It’s much easier to lose your traffic than it is to build it up, so make sure you consistently blog.

6. Give away your knowledge

Don’t be afraid to showcase what you know. Too many bloggers hold back the good stuff out of fear of giving away the “secret sauce.” There is no secret sauce in a world where everyone has high speed Internet access at all times. Today, you want to give away information snacks to sell knowledge meals.

7. Be true to your voice

Stay true to yourself and your voice. People don’t care to follow sites so much as they care to follow people.

8. Give it time – This is why

Plan to invest in blogging for a long time before you see a return. The web is a big, noisy place and unless you’re willing to invest more over a greater period of time than others, you’ll find success nearly impossible. If you’re seeking short-term ROI, or a quick path to recognition, blogging is the wrong path. But if you can stick it out for years without results and constantly learn, iterate, and improve, you can achieve something remarkable.

9. Write catchy headlines

No matter how great your content is, it won’t matter unless you have an amazing headline. People have a split second to decide if they should click on your post, and your headline will make them decide. The headline is also essential in making it easy and desirable for people to share your post. Keep your headlines SPUB: simple, powerful, useful and bold.

10. Keep it short

Biggest lesson I learned in my past year of blogging. Keep it in the 1–2 minutes read-time length.

 

Working out the best length for your blog posts can be tricky. You generally need about 300 words minimum to get indexed by search engines, but otherwise the length of your post is up to what you think feels best.

Sidrah Nadeem
by Sidrah Nadeem , Global Marketing Manager , Hill+Knowlton Strategies

  1. Ask simple questions
  2. Share structured information

Shadi Al-Majthoob
by Shadi Al-Majthoob , Trainer and Sales , Tahboub Bros for int'l Supplies Company

More comments and interactions means your article have more impact and touches readers heart and interests.

 

I visited your blog, I think females are more interested in reading about poetry and quotes and thoughts...

So you must find out  what are the social media channels the female audience prefer .

 

70% of Pinterest users are females.

 

Check this Writer's link https://www.pinterest.com/christyamartine/

and her Instagram also https://www.instagram.com/christy_ann_martine/

 

This is how you give your product a voice or a life. so you need Visuals, Images.

 

Notice how she put her blog/site address on both profiles of Pinterst and Instagram : "www.etsy.com/shop/ChristyAnnMartine" this will drive clikcs and traffic to her original site.

 

I think you also need to add Pinterest and Instagram social sharing buttons after each article you post in your blog.

The majority of English blog readers are between the ages of 30 and 55, so don't target younger or older than that because they don't like to read.

 

Don't forget Facebook, it is always good, in every digital marketing path.

Twitter is good for bloggers and for real time engagement with your followers.

 

Why you don't you have a link on Byte profile for your blog, you need to be everywhere to success.

 

Good luck and keep up the good work.

 

 

ALAMGEER HUSSAIN HASHMI
by ALAMGEER HUSSAIN HASHMI , REGIONAL SALES & OPERATIONS MANAGER , Uth Healthcare Pvt., Ltd

Respect Love and appreciate your existing audience/ users.

Get ideas from your audience.

Understand your audience.

Write for yourself first.

Build your email list.

Focus on building an amazing and comprehensive all to action.

Be consistent.

Share & Give away your knowledge

Be true to your voice.

Ahmad Alhusainy
by Ahmad Alhusainy , consulting , Self-employed

hahaha, I know a guy who writes conflict matters that isn't political, but cultural to gain more comments, it's unethical, but works for him, as for me, I would go write about latest information and technology, and provide free questions info, i would hold some info, so that if they want to know, they would ask, it's total ethical, because I can't write about everything, just at the end, asking what they want to know or learn.

Nijabdeen Mohammed Naleem
by Nijabdeen Mohammed Naleem , Senior Sales Manager , Realtor Lanka Properties (Pvt) Ltd

  1. When you expect people to comment on your blog, you got to have contents that catches their attention.
  2. Ask a question at the end of the post.
  3. Make a top number list
  4. Give them the privilege to share their tip.
  5. Ask the readers to leave their comment.
  6. Writing a controversial topic.
  7. Design your blog without too much Ad and leave a lot of white space.

تحسين صوان
by تحسين صوان , محاسب رئيسي , ش العربيه لصناعه المواسير (شركه مساهمه عامه )

Agreed with the response of Professor Khaled

Vikas Bachhuka
by Vikas Bachhuka , Sales Manager - Tire, Lubs & Batteries , ALI ALGHANIM & SONS AUTOMOTIVE CO.

Its basic few step;

1) Write something rough.

2) get it checked by professional

3) correction whereever required.

4) Check for attractive language/words.

5) Finally you are good to go.

 

 

It will take time for you to attract people,  for start choose topic which are popular to blog so that you get attraction from crowd. Slowly gradually your blog will start getting increased views.

Mahmoud Zaher Tarakji
by Mahmoud Zaher Tarakji , مدير , أوال جاليري

Thanks , i agree with MR Ahmed Alhussaini

Thanks for the call agreed with the answers rest

 

Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

I fully agree with the answers been added by EXPERTS...............Thanks.

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