Visits or Comments?
January 16, 2009 by BloggerNewbie
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“Question of the Week? Vote in our Poll!”
Visits or Comments? Which number are you trying to increase? Why? What is more important to you. Are they both important for different reasons?
Visits:
Do you strive to increase the number of visitors to your site every day? Some bloggers are really into the whole numbers part of blogging. Always checking their stats, comparing their charts. They need to see the visitor numbers steadily increase. Are you trying to get as many people to your site as possible? If that is your goal, then I have 5 tips to increase blog traffic.
There are two kinds of traffic. Bounce rate traffic and Quality traffic.
You can get a large number of visits with bounce rate traffic by using “hot topic” words in your title or article to get traffic to your site. If the title does not reflect the post content of your site content, your visitors will bounce from your blog as fast as they came.
The quality traffic is brought to your site through recommendations, links, and search engines. The search engine traffic is determined by keywords. It is important that you use relevant keywords. Quality traffic can turn visitors into loyal readers. If people like what they see, they will come back.
Comments:
Some blogs have 50,000 visits a day and get 50-60 comments on each post. Yet some blogs get 100 – 200 visits per day and get 5-10 comments on each post. Some days this blogging just doesn’t make sense!
Commenting from your visitors gives you feedback. When you know you have visitors to your site yet you don’t get any comments, most bloggers get concerned. They become anxious about their writing. Don’t take it personally. Sometimes the post doesn’t ask for comments.
Is it your goal to increase your comments? I also have 6 tips on how to write killer blog comments. The interaction between the reader and the blogger and even between the readers themselves is what makes a blog a blog.
There is no right or wrong answer for this series. Simply polls and opinions. So if you had to choose, what do you prefer? More visits or more comments?
Toodles – Blog Happy!
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“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious…”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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What do you prefer - More Visits or More Comments
- More Comments (100%, 4 Votes)
- More Visits (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 4
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Haha. “Some days this blogging just doesn’t make sense!”
I’m all about finding out when it DOES make sense. When you know, let me know!
Comments, please. My poor little ego gets hurt when me thinks no one is paying contention, um I mean attention
George
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George,
I have been thinking about this subject for a while. I’m a numbers person. The more visitor numbers you get the better your chance of making money, more people more clicks, but that doesn’t mean they will stay or come back. On the other hand, the people that stay or come back are probably the commentors but not the “clickers”.
hmmm, maybe the answer is 2 blogs, one that focuses on making money and the other on community, comments, readers, etc?
OH!, OH! I know! (raises his hand, Horshack style)
I need an app that does not allow a visitor to leave the site until they post a comment!!!
Hehe. I crack myself up. Any programmers listening out there?
George
i don’t check stats so the comments tell me a lot or all i need or care to know.
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George:
You have the same sense of humor as me. I am always saying “I am SO funny”. Not everyone agrees with me though (for some reason).
Natural:
After giving the question even more thought, as I said to George, I guess it depends on what you want out of your blog. And at least for this one, I prefer comments, so thanks for your comment!