Magnetize Your Blog: Always Reply to Comments!

As a blogger, it goes without saying that you love to write! You would have to love writing to continue to provide, day after day, fresh, new material to keep your readers engaged and keep them coming back. After all, your goal is to develop a base of loyal readers, who bookmark and return to your blog again and again. Yet it's just as important to cultivate a relationship with first-time visitors to your site--to attract and hold new readers, adding them to your current fan base.

Content May Be King, But Responsiveness Is the Real Ruler!

If your blog is highly informative, providing valuable, helpful information and insight to your readers, many people will initially be attracted to your site, and many may return again and again. But, there's a limit to how long informative content alone will hold readers and cause them to remain in the fold of a blog which lacks other, equally important components.

Let's not forget that there are many thousands--even many tens of thousands--of other informative blogs, in addition to yours, on the internet today. Another fantastic blog is always only a click away. In other words, in the world of blogging, competition is fierce!

Your Readers Are Your Success!

In short, after content, one of the major secrets to building a viable, dynamic blog is demonstrating a responsiveness to your readers, who are, after all, the foundation of your success. The critical importance of, first, appreciating, and then showing that appreciation to your readers simply cannot be stressed enough! If you think that writing wonderfully informative and brilliantly eloquent blog posts is all that you owe your readers, think again!


Comments: Your Key to Magnetizing Your Blog

The quickest way to entice a reader back to your blog again and again is to demonstrate that you value his or her input--all of it! (Of course, by all of it, I am not referring to abusive, discourteous, or vulgar comments!) By replying to every reader's comments--and every comment of every reader--in a timely, friendly, courteous, and professional--yes, I said professional--manner, you will draw your readers back to your blog like a magnet!


A New Day for Your Blog

If you've been slack in replying to comments, if you have your comment capability turned off, or if commenting is active on your blog and yet you've been ignoring your readers' feedback entirely, today is the day to try something new. The time for implementing a fascinating little experiment is now.

(Look at it this way: If your little foray into two-way communication with your readers, via comments, doesn't prove, to your personal satisfaction, that validating, appreciating, and engaging your blog's readers in conversation about the topics expounded upon in your posts benefits your blog's popularity and increases its traffic, you will be perfectly free to revert back to your previous, non-responsive method of writing at your readers. But, give it a chance. If you never try it, you'll never know.)


A Little Better Every Day

If you have been responding to reader comments, good for you! Keep up the good work! (You may want to check out my recent post, The iReply Revolution: Join It, where you'll find info on where to get the You Comment, I Reply logo to post on your blog.)

But, if your replies to reader feedback have been somewhat hit-or-miss, giving you the nagging feeling that you haven't been as responsive as you should be, determine to do something about it. Decide today to make your blog a little bit better every single day!

Always remember: Tomorrow is a brand new day, a day when you can make positive, lasting, changes to your blog--and your life!

What have you got to lose?
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Original posted By :
Jeanne Dininni