There are so many good contents on the web trying to grab the attention of website visitors. No matter how good you write, there is someone who writes better than you.
In order to breakthrough and stand out from the rest, we need to convert your commenters into loyal readers. How to do that? Win their heart!
Tip #1: Meet Your Commenters
Be their friends is one of the best strategy to win commenters’ hearts. Meet Your Commenters is an awesome WordPress plugin that displays web pages and social network profiles of your commenters in the dashboard. You can easily become their friends by clicking through their social network profiles.
Tip #2: Reply To Comments
Let your commenters know you are appreciating them. Reply to their comments, even it is just a simple ‘thank you’. And make sure you install Subscribe To Comment WordPress plugin so that commenter will receive email when you reply.
Tip #3: Use Comment Plugin
Using third party comment plugin such as Disqus allows you to see where else your commenters are visiting. This is a great method to better understand them and know what kind of topic they are interested. In addition, you are able to find out who are your competitors easily!
Tip #4: Use Gravatar In Your Comment
Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatar. Basically it is a image file representing yourself. By showing your gravatar, it makes your readers easier to recognize and remember you.
Tip #5: Leave Comments On The Blogs Of Your Commenters
Check out their blog and leave a comment encouraging them to move forward.
Tip #6: Follow Commenters On Twitter
Twitter is a great tool to know the topics your commenters are talking about. Follow them and do tweet with them.
Tip #7: Email Commenters
Email your commenters has the same effect as replying comments on the blog. Sometimes it is not appropriate to talk about too much of your personal information in the comment section. So email is the right channel for you to give more information to your commenters if you need to.
Tip #8: Answer Queries Of Your Commenters
Very often, you will find your commenters have lots of questions. It is a good time for you to show your expertise in the field by answering their quries.
Tip #9: Promote Your Commenters’ Blog
Promoting your commenters’ blog is a way to share your love and helping them to succeed. Generally it will make you have an advantage to ask for favor in future if you need any help.
Tip #10: Subscribe To Commenters’ RSS Feed
You no need to subscribe to all of their RSS feed as you wouldn’t be able to keep up with them all. Just pick the best and subscribe.
Tip #11: Ask For Subscription
Comment Redirect is a good WordPress plugin which allows you to show a customize page to your first time commenter. In this page, you can actually thank you for their comments and purposely ask for subscription.
Conclusion
We always remember the kind person who offers help. The truly successful bloggers are the ones that take their precious time to promote other. Remember to chase and convert your commenters and website visitors. Networking and building community are the key towards your success.
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Is commenting on blogs that have more visitors also a handy way to gain more visitors?
@Theuntje,
Yes, commenting on other blogs is working for me. I have been using it.
Excellent post, Bey.
The very nature of blogging, being competitive and a busy place to be, means as bloggers we have to go and find our own readers rather than letting them find us. By trying to build a relationship with everyone who comments on our blogs, we stand a much better chance of converting them in to subscribers.
Jamie
@Jamie,
Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that we need to be aggresive in subscriber conversion.
Good tips,
@Robin,
Thanks.
I wholeheartidly agree that interacting with your blog’s commenters is a great way to drive visitor loyalty.
In addition, commenting on other related blogs helps you make connections within the industry. It’s also a good way to gain a bit of exposure.
You are missing something important. Put “Top Commentators” widget. Many think that people will comment just to be in the list but it is not true they will become more loyal and more frequent slowly when they see the list is really helping them.
I advice you to try it out.
By the way thanks for the tips it will be helpful to me. I am currently doing a contest and I know there will be many participating. I want to make them loyal to my blog.
Very informative blog — thanks for sharing.
I’m intrigued by the big subscription boxes at the top of your sidebar and at the bottom of your posts. Is this a plugin? I really like it!
@Tom,
Thanks for your great comment.
For subscription box at the top of the sidebar, I’m using default WordPress Text widget and put in HTML code myself.
For the subscription box at the bottom of each post, I’m using Add Post Footer plugin (http://www.freetimefoto.com/add_post_footer_plugin_wordpress) and put in my own HTML code.
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