Comments on: 8 Tips for Building Community on Your Blog

By: Inchirieri Masini

Inchirieri Masini — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:11:46 +0000

Hello people! This article was very usefull to me. I will come back frequently.

By: desiree fawn

desiree fawn — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:44:18 +0000

Great post — as always :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:35:34 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Sarah

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By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:44:11 +0000

These tips are super helpful as i think about starting my own blog.

I recently had the chance to interview BlogHer founder Lisa Stone and her story was such an inspiration. She described how she created this powerful community out of thin air – what a triumph.

By: used rvs

used rvs — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:27:22 +0000

This is the very interesting post I think that this is all good advice, but it only seems viable if you have a very popular blog to begin with and an already strong readership.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:36:59 +0000

Hey great tips I will surely try it out to form a community on my blog :)

By: Shreejana Hickman

Shreejana Hickman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:16:56 +0000

I just launched my blog today, I know it’s a long way to go, but I look forward to following these and lot of your other tips. As you mentioned in one of your posts, on ways to generate comments. I’ll be asking questions at the end of the post and see how that goes. Thanks Darren for all the great tips and inspiration.

By: Chaunna Brooke

Chaunna Brooke — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:13:46 +0000

Wow what a great article. Building a community in a blog or site I guess can really make them more engaging. This would mean more traffic plus better page ranking.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:07:30 +0000

Some really interesting ideas of how to engage with your sites audience. Looking forward to testing some of these out on my own blog/site.

It must be pretty exciting once you get a site past start-up phase and feel like the leader of fair sized tribe of readers…

I found the section about reader centered posts really interesting and has helped me to prise comments out of readers and visitors

Thanks Darren

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:44:22 +0000

Getting people to leave comments is rather difficult if you are a small blog. So thanks for the great post.

By: Royal Blogger

Royal Blogger — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:19:43 +0000

Really building a successful web blog community is the key element for securing the future stability of web traffic. I can see almost a majority percentage of professional bloggers (high traffic and successful) like problogger.net have a strong community.. that brings us back to the website everyday ..

By: Royal Blogger

Royal Blogger — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:19:24 +0000

Really building a successful web blog community in the key element for securing the future stability of web traffic. I can see almost a majority percentage of professional bloggers (high traffic and successful) like problogger.net have a strong community.. that brings us back to the website everyday ..

By: Rahman Mehraby

Rahman Mehraby — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:56:56 +0000

Linda,
I agree with you. Asking for registration means asking readers for more of their time while others don’t require it.

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:08:35 +0000

If me and my blog were to disappear overnite, I would still have warm fuzzies. Even with a paltry 28 subscribers, they are the BEST community I have seen in a great while. Organically grow your community, feel good about it, and other successes will follow.

George

By: Nancy Juetten

Nancy Juetten — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:37:00 +0000

One of the ways I build community at my Do-It-Yourself Publicity Blog is by writing feature stories about Publici-Tea™ Workshop Graduates who have used the tips, tools, and resources I offer to earn favorable publicity. I categorize these posts as Publici-Tea™ Graduate Success stories. People love to be seen, heard, and celebrated in the media, and they enjoy being seen, heard, and celebrated at the DIY publicity blog, too.

DIY publicity should be an ongoing element of any business owner’s marketing mix, so keeping the success stories fresh and fabulous helps lend inspiration to the effort.

Thanks Darren for being such a fabulous source of useful tips and inspiration about blogging. I just finished reading your book and enjoyed it tremendously. I know I’ll benefit as I apply your excellent tips in service to my growing readership.

May you sell a million of them!

Sincerely,

Nancy S. Juetten

By: Vishal

Vishal — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:52:25 +0000

Thank you for such precious advice. It will definitely help me to improve interaction with the visitors of my blog:

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By: Make Money Online Tips

Make Money Online Tips — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:01:19 +0000

Its usually not a good idea to have user generated posts in some fields. I just read somewhere that people find it unprofessional.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:08:52 +0000

As usual, a very helpful article and I appreciate how everyone here shares their knowledge so generously.

While on the subject of comments and the importance of building community, what are the advantages/disadvantages of making it a requirement for readers to register before commenting?

I’m new to this and read that you should require subscribers to register (mostly to prevent spam), but on the other side I’ve read that requiring registration can discourage commenting.

What do you recommend, Darren?

Comments??? ;-)

By: ExtraBlogger

ExtraBlogger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:13:59 +0000

Hi,
thank you I’ll try this on my blog, I think it’s going to work (75%)
but I don’t know…

later…

http://www.extrablogger.com

By: Mohammad Afaq

Mohammad Afaq — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:23:54 +0000

Great post, I really appreciate it. I helped me know a lot of stuff I should have known.
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