For everyone using the comment system.
Quick question,
we all know that interaction on your site is a great sign to search engines that your posts are getting some attention and tends to help with ranking. Honestly I have sites that do just fine and have exactly 0 comments on the entire site lol. But the new site I am building up for my April May challenge (it has one post right now). I think it would be helpful to use the comment system here to get some relevant comments early on.
Does anyone use it on a regular basis and if so how many comments do you aim for at the beginning per post? I was thinking like five over a week per post and then just moving on and letting the rest come naturally. I have noticed people are much more likely to start commenting once they see that others have been commenting on the posts as well.
Just looking for anyones thoughts and opinions.
Thanks,
Jean
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are you finding better results with your twitter or your g+ account so far? for the way i post it seems i get more reposts and therefore ranking (in theory) with g+ but i get more actual interaction and comments with twitter - timing matters with my twitter more than g+ does - then there is the whole global clock thing, which breaks my brain most days - maybe though its a timing thing? :)
i think timing has a lot to do with a lot of the social media stuff. I wont lie though I am terrible about twitter, I don't think ive made a tweet in um a few years though I really need to start working on my social media. Though I have noticed that places like facebook especially an even pinterest are very time based as to when people may actually be on and see things. i haven tried out instagram yet but i hear ppl get great results through there.
i am such a nerd, its patterns in my head, kyle said tweet so i made a twitter account about 6 weeks ago, have without effort gotten almost 600 followers and if i don't neglect it have a base average of 1500 daily "activity" according to their matrix. i have had over 3000 in a 24 hour period but i was actually on twitter at what would have been morning, pre work, coffee break, lunch break, and dinnerish times in north america twice and once between 8 and 10 pm. thats twice the interaction matrixed to the standard north american office hours. so i flipped it, to test my international market there, because those hours don't actually work for me. and end result - yeah, i can actually tell by the twitter accounts what time zone they are all in. i guess know your audience, is still the best advice ever, that zig ziglar was no slacker. for twitter, timing is everything for the rest - not so much, just be there - instagram, shouldn' t expect to see me soon, or maybe ever - i think its creepy, like an snapchap prehistoric thing, and i dont do snapchat either, kinda ewwww should be left to the younguns - not me :)
LOL i still dont know what snapchat is but i have been hearing positive things about instagram so if i ever get into it ill send you a pm about it and maybe it could work in your favor. Def. knowing the time zone of your audience helps lol. does no good to share things when they are off sleeping does it? unless they are like me and sleep opposite hours
lmao, ok, comeradish agreement, go ahead and check them out and let us know, i will go number geek on time zones per media format and we can build a training module on best case scenarios? i just zap between sleep and not sleep anyway so kinda versatile on that here :)
Just get a few for each blog post, that's fine. Spread it out a bit.
But make sure you write thoughtful replied to each one. That then doubles the number of comments.
So far I'm surprised at some of the responses I get to the comments I leave. I always leave a question or an opinion for them to respond to and still ppl just say thanks for reading. I think others are forgetting their comment replies help with content just as much
That's a great point actually, autumn. I have started to realise that myself, and i am trying to put a bit more effort into my replies than I used to.
It is up to you. You have to give 2 to get 1, so if you have time, do it as much as you want. No rules.
yeah i just didnt wanna overfill new posts with a bunch of comments all at once, so i figured as part of my planning i would include leaving enough comments to request a certain amount per review post - if that made sense
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I tend to look for a couple and then add my replies and move on, like you said it opens up the conversation for others to add to it later.