Comments on: Should I Add Fake Comments to My Blog?

By: P2P

P2P — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:38:06 +0000

Maybe you can just concentrate on this part… Content Content Content Contents and much more contentss. You know what I mean, a qualified quality content. and that content… doesn’t mean it always need start pouring down from your own brain, because sometimes, most of the time bloggers have a very brilliant idea but they wrote it badly, or maybe the content is not so bad but still messy, or maybe the content is too short, maybe too complicated, maybe too plain, maybe too discrete… and unease… to read/understand, so use that failure from other bloggers and change it as a winner content for your own blog.

By: nafi

nafi — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:13:17 +0000

Aawww! I guess no-one ever practiced kissing on the back of their hands either then?

Come on! No-one starts out as a “pro blogger”. You will (and should) be like a kid with a new toy. Create posts, try different themes, break your blog (and all the others on the shared host) with your first plugin, fake a comment when things are slow, and get accused of spamming for (manually) dropping a link to your pride and joy in a well intentioned comment on someone else’s blog.

Try it all. And if you really “never even thought of doing that”, then you probably have a rather boring blog and SHOULD schedule doing something spontaneous, imaginative or even down-right crazy once a month!

Just my 2c. Fake it / don’t fake it…

By: Dirty Girl

Dirty Girl — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:42:21 +0000

Well I started blogging a few years ago at the time it was starting pick up but it was really fresh I faked one comment on about two post and after that I was bombarded with post I was new to blogging & had to learn that it wasn’t the best thing to do I never done it since. Since then I have four successful blogs under different factious names but I have noticed that blogs went from a swimming pool to an ocean & right now readers really don’t take as much time to stop & post a comment like they use to they get the information they want & rush on the blogs with fresh new really great content will win them over but it is hard to compete in this ocean I feel

By: rob

rob — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:54:57 +0000

i agree :D spend more time building links!

By: Maureen McCabe

Maureen McCabe — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:32:44 +0000

I’d love to know how Preston’s blog is doing almost a year later and what course he took… whether he listened to this advice or not. Whether he tried the fake comments… to ‘prime the pump”

I have a friend who admitted to posting fake comments on his blog post. He posts comments that are opposed to his viewpoint and then he argued with the antagonist… Point Counterpoint…type dramas.

By: How to blog for money

How to blog for money — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:21:43 +0000

There’s no need to fake comments. You could spend your time advertising and building links to draw traffic. It’s probably wise to continue posting as often as you do. Eventually, as people stumble across your blog, they will hopefully take note of the huge amount of interesting content and maybe bookmark your site.

Also, make sure that people don’t have to register to comment as it’s a big turn off. Another turn off for some is having to type in the word verification.

IF you blog is brand new you may even consider turning off the comments moderation. Make it as easy as possible to leave a comment on your blog and even the lazy people will start leaving them.

By: Ann L.

Ann L. — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:13:58 +0000

I will write a comment back to a comment that I feel is useful to all my readers (as I was taught) but I feel that’s a method to expand on the information being given.
Fake one, though? No.

By: Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:04:45 +0000

I’m not really tempted to do so because I write my blog for others to read it and as long as I know from page views that they’re reading it I dont mind if I have comments or not

By: SEO

SEO — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:30:12 +0000

My main concern is that you can’t guarantee every page of your website will be included in the SERPs. Considering I’m constantly adding new products to my company’s website, I need to be sure that customers can find them as soon as possible.http://www.seoptimizerz.com

By: Is Faking Comments On Your Blog a Good Idea ?

Is Faking Comments On Your Blog a Good Idea ? — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:16:08 +0000

[...] Now one of the very sneaky and dishonest techniques (in my opinion) some bloggers use when their blogs are relatively new is to fake comments. The thought of actually faking comments on my blog had never crossed my mind until i read a reply darren rowse made to a reader question that asks should i add fake comments to my blog [...]

By: info@aksiaal.ee

info@aksiaal.ee — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:42:11 +0000

Heh, to TS- you is right!o

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:42:42 +0000

(Dang computer …)
Although I am newer to the blog scene, i think that faking comments is more of a waste of time rather than a help for you blog. There are thousands of things that you could better spend your resources on, like better content, making more posts etc. if you would like the satisfaction of seeing people read your blog try introducing your posts to Digg or any other social network.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:39:15 +0000

Although i am newer to the blogg sceen, i think that fakeing comments is more of a waste of time rather than a help for you blogg. there are thousands of things that you could better spend your resources on, like better content, making more posts etc. if you would like the satisfaction of seeing people

By: Tine

Tine — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:24:17 +0000

I’ve never even thought of fake comments till I read this. I naturally assumed that all of the comments I read on other blogs are authentic. Sometimes it’s best to give these bloggers (especially the new ones) the benefit of the doubt. I’ve been blogging for two years now, and the first year, I rarely get comments. It’s a matter of sticking around, and blogging because, above all else, you enjoy it. Don’t be too caught up in the comments and such. Do check your stats; you may have more readers than you think you do. A lot of readers I know are lurkers :)

A good way to gain readership and comments would be to comment on your favourite blogs consistently. Show them that you return to their blogs because you enjoy their content. More of than not, they’ll reciprocate. It is, after all, a blogging community :)

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:00:44 +0000

I think time would be better spent commenting on some other sites. And when someone comments, answer their comment and visit their blog and leave a comment there, as well. After awhile, people realize that you do this and will come back just to see what your response was and you can get quite a conversation going.

At one time when I had more free time on my hands, I would visit sites I liked, visit their commenters’ sites and comment on them. People who already leave comments on sites are more likely to comment on yours, should they visit.

Some blogs I read do occasionally update in their comment box rather than in the post itself…like by adding links to other blogs, or including some other point they thought of. I never thought of it as “faking comments” but some do seem to frequently add a comment to the end of a post. Since they identify themselves, I never thought about it as faking or manipulative or anything. Of course, I did consider striking up conversations with myself in the early, very quiet days of blogging! Me talking to myself probably would have turned away anyone stumbling across my blog, however, and I resisted the urge.

By: Sunlust

Sunlust — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:25:08 +0000

In my own experience writing a controversial posts helped, I was blogging on my first blog for over a month without any comments, and then after submitting one controversial post to reddit I got 6 comments on it.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:26:27 +0000

alright, I confess that I’ve done it before on some of my other blogs. But I would never do it consistently. Spend time doing other things to bring people in. Its true that sometimes people don’t want to be the first commenter, but enough people don’t care and so if you can get the traffic you’ll have less to worry about in this area.

By: Pear

Pear — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:14:36 +0000

I’ve been going two months – never faked a comment, never even thought of it. I’ve had about 160 comments.
My biggest suggestion would be to make sure you are letting your friends know about your blog and to encourage them to a) subscribe, via RSS or else email if their eyes glaze over at the mention of syndication and b) leave comments.
I think if you explain why you would like some comments (stimulate other potential comments; give you self-confidence that someone is reading your stuff), most good friends would be happy to help out. Mine have been.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:31:46 +0000

My goodness! Am I the only one who occasionally leaves fake comments on my blog?

I have done it and it has helped to generate more comments. People visiting my blog are generally not bloggers and as a result are not likely to be the first person to comment. Therefore, I’ll leave one or two comments to get people to feel comfortable with commenting.

People are less likely to comment if there are no comments. It is simply a psychological response. People come to your blog, they dont see comments and as a result they dont comment themselves. People judge your site by the number of comments. Even if you have a really good post many people will refrain from commenting if there are no comments. They tend to question the quality of your post and begin to think that maybe your post isnt so good. Or worse, they tend to think “Am I the only one here reading this blog?” There have been many studies in the social arena to prove this in fact happens.

Havent you ever heard of the phrase “If you want to feel important then you should dress important”?

Its the same thing with faking comments on your blog. You are simply fighting the negative social labeling your blog gets because it doesnt have any comments.

Try it out. Add a few comments to a post you think is really good and you know people are reading and see if people start leaving comments.

By: Laura Athavale Fitton

Laura Athavale Fitton — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:22:18 +0000

Gee, why not just start up a conversation? Reach out to other bloggers whose work you find useful, and ask them to talk about their experiences starting up. Especially reach out to bloggers with related subjects.

Also be sure that you are using trackbacks and links to get traffic to your site. The comments will eventually come, give it time…