If you have a blog, I bet you love it when people leave comments on it. Who doesn’t? It feels great!

However, most blog posts have zero comments. If this happens to your blog, don’t freak out; there’s a way you can revert it right away.

Promote Your Content
The #1 reason most blog posts have zero comments is that nobody reads them. Unless your site gets a lot of traffic every day, posting and hoping that people will come isn’t a good strategy. You need to promote your content. Use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email and every tool you can think of to drive as many people as you can to your blog posts.

Ask Questions
The best way to get people to comment on your blog is to ask a question. If you’re a great blogger, people admire you and want to give you their opinion. Encourage them to do so.

Speak Up Your Mind
Don’t be controversial for the sake of being controversial, but if your opinion is not the most popular one, you shouldn’t be afraid of saying what you really think. People appreciate honesty. Give them a chance to disagree and tell you why.

Notify Commenters When Other Comments Are Posted
Most blogs allow people to subscribe to comments for a given blog post. That way, when John leaves a comment and Jane replies to it, John gets notified and has the opportunity to comment back.

Thank Those Who Comment
When people comment on your blog, answer their questions and thank them for leaving a comment.

Choose the Right Topics
If you’re driving a lot of traffic to your blog posts but nobody is leaving comments, maybe you’re writing about the wrong topics or your articles are hard to read. This post teaches you how to create killer content.

Make It Easy to Comment
Some blogs make you jump through hoops in order to comment. This is insane. Don’t ask people to register and try to avoid CAPTCHA devices.

Author: Zeke Camusio

Zeke Camusio is a serial entrepreneur, marketing speaker, author of The Internet Marketing Bible and CEO of The Outsourcing Company, an Internet marketing agency based out of Portland, Oregon.

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   Terri Ream 
   

   Zeke,
   Great ideas. I am going to make an effort to work these suggestions into my plan.
   Terri

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   David Green 
   

   Zeke,

   Just wondering about the use of CAPTCHA devices to prevent blog spammers – what’s your experience been with this? I have my blog setup to use a CAPTCHA for those who don’t login to leave a comment. Do you get much additional spam without the CAPTCHA?

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   Zeke Camusio 
   

   Great! Let me know if you have any questions.

   Zeke

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   Miles Austin 
   

   David, from my experience and others that I learn from, Captcha use will cut your comments down by 50% or more instantly. If you have good spam filtering going on (Akismet if your are using WordPress) you should be well protected most of the spam.

   I rarely get a comment through to my blog that is spam. Important to set your limits properly in the admin area. As an example, I have mine set to move comments to Spam if there is more than two links in it. If a comment gets into spam with this filter, I can approve it. Try this out with different settings until you find the best fit for your blog, your readers and your topic.

   Miles

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   enrique gavilán 
   

   Your suggestions works!!! There are at the moment 3 comments!
   
   Enrique, from Spain

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   Zeke Camusio 
   

   Hi David,

   Akismet, WordPress’ default spam filter, eliminates 95% of my spam and I take care of the rest manually.

   Zeke

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   Alisani Brazil 
   

   Thanks so much Zeke. This has been one of my challenges. People have been emailing me with comments but they have not been posting comments on my blog. Also, people will post there comments on the link I placed on FB but not on the blog. I’m going to start implementing your suggestions.

   Alisani

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   Zeke Camusio 
   

   Great. Let me know how it goes!

   Zeke

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   Zeke Camusio 
   

   Great. Let me know how it goes!

   Zeke