Comments on: Blog Participation

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:09:01 +0000

Glad to have you here Pablo! Always good to meet another Pablo =) As far as posting stuff on digg, I only ever posted one of my own articles on digg, and that was when I scooped the freepay(gratis) nano site the day after the nano was announced. Got about 12 referrals off of that, none of them completed thier offer though LOL

I defintely think a service like coComment is going to help with something like this. I know I have the same problem every once in a while, but I have always tried to keep it in check =)

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:59:09 +0000

Well, I found your blog from coComment as you were one of the “recent posters”. I think that also posting other articles (or your own) to Digg.com can generate some traffic – even if they don’t comment.

I just signed up for coComment today – so I’m really looking forward to keeping track of my comments! It’ll make following other people’s blogs a whole lot easier!

By: Dewayne Mikkelson

Dewayne Mikkelson — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:59:15 +0000

Pablo – I have found that the most consistent way to get visitors to your site is to do this, comment on other peoples sites and start the community on their blog and it just seems to draw them back to your site. I also think that coComment is going to ease a lot of the comment tracking issues that I used to have. I could never easily track where I had left a message until now.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:11:15 +0000

Breigh: It’s not that I ‘care’ per se … and it’s not that I do this for validation from my web peer’s. I write this stuff because I think it is interesting and hoepfully someone else will too. I just like the feeling of being part a community is all.

By: Breigh

Breigh — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:58:34 +0000

Maybe you just worry about it more than other people. Nobody wants to read about your blog statistics. Who cares how popular your blog is, I’m sure only about 6 people read mine and I couldn’t give a rats ass either way. *Shrugs*

By: Jorgeq

Jorgeq — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:46:40 +0000

Good point Kristin. Being as how RSS has popularized, more web surfers avoid visiting their favorite sites per say, and opt to check their news aggregator for new info. Talk about a second job. Going through everyone’s reading is not so much a hassle for me but time consuming so I try to keep up with everyone’s writing.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:47:22 +0000

So I have RSS to blame huh? I gotta say I love RSS too … but I usually find the time to comment on posts I like or have an opinion about. Keeps people writing =)

By: kristin

kristin — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:41:02 +0000

Same here. I’ve been trying to get better about leaving comments on peoples blogs. I think RSS is to blame. I used to have to actually visit every site to read them. Now I can just load up bloglines.

Because of that I’ve started to read about 200 personal blogs on a regular basis and I try really hard to read everyones blog who reads mine! But sometimes it just doesn’t always work out :)

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:19:56 +0000

LOL, well thank you for blessing me with the privelage of one of your comments :-P That doesn’t explain everyone else though! heh

By: Matt Read

Matt Read — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:54:39 +0000

It’s not you, it’s me. :)

Really it is. Between the many blogs I read semi-regularly and the little projects/plugins I work on, I rarely ever, if at all, leave comments; as it’s quite hard to follow up with disscussions in the fast passed world of teh blog. In fact, this is only the 3rd comment I have left at a blog in the last 2 months ;).

But I did browse through your site a bit and you have great content. Keep up the good work and they will come… or something like that :).