Blogging 201 – Respond to comments on your blog
I will fully admit that sometimes it takes me a while to get to respond to comments on my blog. More recently, because I have hosted contests and giveaways on my blog, and because I have also done a lot of restaurant reviews, I had neglected to respond to comments on my blog. As you know, I am the organizer of the Vancouver Blogger Meetup, and someone who often gives talks about blogging and building online communities.
Given this, I think I had legitimate reasons to feel embarrassed today as I was browsing some of my well-established blogger friends’ blogs and realized how much I had neglected my own comments. The practice of responding to comments is one of the pillars (as I often have emphasized) of building strong, healthy online communities. So I went back and responded to a number of comments that my readers had left on this blog.
This is a good reminder that, no matter how well-established your blog is, the only way to sustain and grow a robust online community is to pay attention to the most important people who joins you in the conversation: your readers. I would not be where I am (in terms of how much my blog has grown) if it were not because of all of you who continue to read my blog!
Related posts:
- Blogging 201- Write your blog entry ideas on paper
- Build a blog entry around a photograph (Blogging 201)
- Blogging 201 Reconnect with old blogging friends
- Who is responsible for blog comments
- Blogging 201 – Leave meaningful comments
I made myself a twitter plugin for workpress that sends me a DM everytime someone leaves a (nonspam) comment on my blog. That way i can see when people respond to msgs and I can read over them and comment on them. Granted not all comments warrant a response though.
Now, if there was an easier way to keep up-to-date with leaving comments on another person’s blog without having to subscribe via email to that post’s comments, it would be easier to remember where I have left comments so go back and check. Perhaps I need to design something people can use so they don’t need to leave their email addresses behind. *shrug*
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