Hug a Blogger

by Scott Jangro on 15 October 2006

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Do you know what bloggers love more than anything (besides getting a link)?

That’s right, comments.

People are reading, but when the bottom of the page is as enthusiastic as a CJ Appreciation Day on ABW, it can get pretty darned depressing.

What’s your daily blogs-read-to-comment ratio? I bet it’s close to zero.

Make someone’s day today. Give a comment.

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  • Scott
    Graham, I think your experience is more the norm.

    Blogs seem to develop a commenting culture, or not, where the readers start to treat it like a forum.
    I'm lucky that this blog does seem to have crossed that threshold. I don't know how or when that happened though.
  • Blogging can be a lonely existence. I don't get that many posts on my blog yet people are saving my posts in social bookmarking sites on a regular basis. Very strange. If they liked the post that much why not say so? Has anyone else experienced this?
  • Scott
    Post is too old to be in BUMPzee.

    But you couldn't find me?

    http://www.bumpzee.com/users/view/jangro/
  • Tried to give you a bump and couldn't get it to work, nor could I find you in BumpZee. What gives?
  • Very interesting info. I couldn't agree more!
  • Scott
    Case in point Durk. I've never seen your blog before and will now check it out. Be sure to comment in the "have you got an aff blog" blog post here. Thanks for reading, and especially commenting. (And thanks to Adam as well.)

    edited: oh, I see you did ;)
  • I was fortunate enough to have a lengthy conversation with Dave Taylor discussing blogging. He said his number one tip to bloggers was to comment on other people's blogs. He encouraged bloggers to spend more time commenting, and by that he meant participating, than blogging. While that may not be possible or practical the intent of being an active participant in the blogosphere of your target audience is without a doubt an important factor in the growth of "your" own work.

    And with the knockout list of quality people commenting on this blog you can see that success is following successful people. Thanks to Adam Viener for pointing me to you.

    Why you've even got Shmuly!
  • Kick in the ass....I have a reputation to uphold. ;) Real work?? You act like it's Q4 or something. :)
  • Scott
    aww, thanks Kellie.

    It's been one of those dry spells, compounded by a ton of "real work".

    thanks for the inspiration, or kick in the ass, whichever you prefer. :)
  • Comment blog hug so Scott will feel loved and blog something new soon. It's been awhile now and I'm starting to get the first signs of Jangro withdrawl.
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