Asking For Comments At WA Flopped
If you want to get comments to your personal blog asking at WA is a flop.
Do you think that members from Wealthy Affiliate read each others personal weblogs?I think blogs that are related to your WA profile https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/mission0ps/blog may get a glimpse, but it's rare that members will actually leave wealthy affiliate and peruse your own web-space.
I'm in the latter stages of crafting my first course here at the WA and it's focused at "Traffic Generation" sort of ...
... As a little experiment last night I asked that the members in the chat area read the post and comment on my blog.
I'm no newbie here at WA and "I hope" that what I add to the members training area add value to whom ever reads it. However my little experiment revealed some stark truths.
Not one member of WA commented on the blog post after I made my request.
I know that a few others have seen it, however members interaction on my web-space ZERO. So what does that tell you? - Just a Q I have no answers as yet.
So blogging and linking to your own content outside of WA isn't likely to get you subscribers to your own weblog.
I suppose we all offer our support, thumbs up and help in different ways! 
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what's the URL? I'll give it a look. I think a blog post is much better for this type of request
The url is no longer important Dom thought thanks for asking - It was just a little test for to see if I should mention Wealthy Affiliate as a means of traffic generation for our own members blogs.
I wasn't online or viewing the chat when this was going on, (I was actually having a few beers and building a rocket stove for a friend last night, Rocket Stove DIY guide would be a great niche).
Anyway if I was online I still may not of left a comment, well it would of depended on what it was all about too.
Well as it happens you have left a comment .. but totally un prompted ;) ... And no more niche ideas you know what I'm like ;p
I would say you more than likely asked at a time where most of the people on chat were new. I would have answered the call for my friend across the pond.
Hi, missed you experiment, but have been to your site in the past. but I must say I did not subscribe. But I don't generally any way, hard sell and all you know. I will have to go back and see what I am I missing. As I remember I liked the site layout. Take Care
I personally think people are bombarded with many things these days. I cannot always get to articles and posts as quickly as I would like, as I do have a life outside of here... I think many people here check the posts as they have time, so it may be over a period of days and not instant. I also scan the headlines(Great Headlines work) and see if it is something relevant to my needs at that particular time.
Thanks for your comments .. again just don't assume that I have an agenda other than helping ..
...We ALL have lives outside of Wealthy Affiliate
The point of the "request" was to see how many that I was chatting to at the time took the instruction.
I am surprised you did not get any comments. I usually do check out content myself. I get many ideas from fellow WA members sites. I will look forward to your course!
One thing I've learned is that the audience is never wrong. If they don't like something or don't want to do something all we can do is look for anything we may have done wrong.
It's much like trading stocks. The market is never wrong. It simply is! We have to find out what the trend is and follow the trend if we want to make money.
If you really believe it what you've done, stick with it regardless of whether or not anyone comments on it. Also, if you believe in what you've done, have faith in it. Sometimes people need time to come around. If that doesn't happen, be willing to accept that maybe you need to make some changes.
I hope this helps. Good luck to you.
Hi John, cheers for dropping by, I appreciate it.. I did read earlier 2day that your back in the saddle..
The issue isn't whether I have faith in my content. I was just observing the behavior of exiting a forum for content when prompted and the comment was a way of me measuring who made it to the bottom & followed through.
I've got a few ideas for your golf blogs to. Your knowledge seems to be there so it's just about getting traffic & conversion right!
People are less likely to comment on something when you ASK them, versus when it's something interesting to them that captivates their interest. Furthermore, WA has never been a place where people are going to leave what they are doing to go subscribe on an external web page...and when we see this kind of thing we generally delete it.
A lot of the time people will actually comment far less if you ask them and especially if they think there is some kind of motive to what you posted (not saying this was the case with your blog).
With this said...
There is the issue at WA where member blogs tend to be popular for a short time, then as they are replaced by new content they lose the exposure. We're working on that because we know there are 1000's of awesome blogs at WA that deserve more eyes on them.
Hi Capt,
It's interesting there is evidence to show that some questioning techniques used in blogs will encourage comments NLP and all that. But not so often in the IM niche.
I actually don't see an issue with members blogs at WA in fact I seem to be chatting to a member then those whom are interesting I end up on their blogs...
.. As you say there is a lot of great content here.
Cheers for popping in ;)
I never expected "So blogging and linking to your own content outside of WA isn't likely to get you subscribers to your own weblog." to happen. odd how hard it is to gain trust in this biz....
I actually am not so sure if it's a trust business or a fact of just wanting to stay within the wall of WA.
But that said I know that there are only about 4 or 5 subscribers from in WA to my out of WA blogs.:)
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Hi Tony
This is how I see it.
1. How many members has WA got? (several thousands at any one time)
2. How many members use the Live Chat regularly? (my guess - about a hundred at any one time)
3. How many members are actually chatting at any one time (my guess no more than 20 -often less)
4. Of the people who use Live Chat - how many have the time and/or experience and/or confidence and/or inclination to look at other people's stuff when asked? .... (Go and figure - but it's small)
You could also ask similar questions around responses to personal blogs within WA.
I think it's unwise for anyone to have any expectations from WA as a traffic generating opportunity.
Beverley
Well deducted
I agree, very logical analysis.
I'm going to test the twitter time frame here