Two ideas and tips for comments

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Hi all,

I love the way that in WA you can write a page or post and ask for comments. However, on my site which is only three weeks old, I get all the comments within a short time of asking for them, and then nothing - as my site isn't really creating traffic yet.

It occurred to me that this is probably happening to a lot of us, so I decided that it might be nice to randomly go to the sites of people who are following me and leave a comment even though it wasn't asked for. That would mean they could have comment activity outside of when they ask for it - which could come across as less pre-planned - if you follow my thinking.

To do this, I go to the profile page of those who are following, get the link to their website and Bob's your Uncle.

However, I found that some members profiles didn't have a link to their website. I thought this odd that they hadn't published their websites until I noticed on my own profile that no website was listed. It was only then that I realised that having a link to your website on your profile page is not automatic. You must do it yourself. No big deal. It's dead easy.

With this in mind, I believe it may be in the better interests of members to ensure that they post their website link on their profile page. I'm not sure if there are other benefits, but I know that if I decide to leave a random comment somewhere - I need to have a link to that somewhere.

I also feel that when building a network, I am interested in finding out a bit about their gig in the event that there may be common ground and the possibility of building a mutually beneficial relationship - but again, without that link????

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Great thinking on your part and could be a great contribution to our community! Good luck in implementing your idea! Cheers! Bunny

This is a great post and a great idea!

You've given me a great tip Eoin, thanks so much...and yes we may not have enough time to follow up everyone, but I definitely will return every follow on my link. Bless you,Shirley

Good idea, and great advice, Eoin, but you are following 43 persons, that's doing, I follow 1210, a bit to much to go over such thing, incl all questions and blogs:)

Your right there Loes and believe you me I'm not going to be going to the site of everyone I follow. I just go to one or two when I get the notion. I don't think I'd even have the time top get around to all my follows - not to mind 1210.
Mind you, it's also a good way of getting random comments for my own site. People will often give comment in return.

I guess my main point is that, it might be useful for members to post their sites on their profile page. I'm not so sure that all members realise that it's not there unless they put it there. I didn't.

I will write a blog about it, I reach up to 1200+ :)

You're right. Many WA members don't place links for their sites. I only have one site listed myself. You're right about going to a listed site and post a comment, it would be a great way of collecting comments.

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