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The first blog I ever maintained was at the blog community website Gather. For a while, when I was blogging everyday, all of the time, my posts became pretty popular. My pieces were usually on the front page as the highest rated or highest viewed. It made me realize that this blogging business is a lot of work. At Gather, you built up goodwill by reading and commenting on other people’s posts. They would reciprocate and read your posts, leave a comment, and rate. The thing is, sites like gather end up being their own little community portal—extremely insular. But regular blogging sites aren’t much different really. You might be interested in knowing that almost all of my hits come from links on other sites. Most of the links on those other sites are the work trackback plugins on websites. When I make a comment, their website let’s all its readers know about my article.

It’s a great little way to build some easy backlinks (although I’ll admit, I’m not really sure how much of a difference trackback links and comment links make in your overall Searchability). The thing is, if you make good comments on other sites, often times people are inclined to jump on over to your site. The problem is, however, getting other people to comment on your posts when they do saunter over. This article on proBlogger discusses how to get people engaged with your blog’s content. Now, I’m wondering if coaxing people to leave their comments is any different when their reading blogs or magazines online. Regardless, I’m going to try to implements some of the suggestions (like asking people to leave comments after articles to see if it works. I’ll update you in the coming days as to whether it worked or not.

In the meantime, I want to know if you have had any successes getting more visitors to comment on your magazine or blog articles.