#1. Ask and encourage readers to leave comments after reading posts

Asking and encouraging readers to leave their genuine comments after reading posts are working strategies.

In as much as the popularity or influence of your blog is not directly proportional to the number of comments you receive, and that the number of readers who leave comments on your posts may not be greater than that on little known blogs, you need to implement this strategy with others so that you can commit more readers to comment on your blog posts and improve your rankings in search engines.

Ask your readers to leave their comments after reading posts and promise to send a response as soon as you receive their comments. Experience shows that more readers leave comments when they're asked or encouraged to do so than when they're not. So, you can see that it's a working strategy that you must implement to increase the number of comments you receive on your posts at all times.

#2. Leave your comments on other bloggers' blog posts

This is another strategy that works realistically like the first one mentioned above. But it's unfortunate that many bloggers do not implement this at all referring to it as an old blogging strategy. I've come across several bloggers on forums, at social media and elsewhere who viewed commenting on other bloggers' posts as a waste of time.

Well, the fact is that it's not a waste of time at all as most bloggers ignorantly called it. It's really a working strategy (If not one of the best) as far as getting more comments from real people and receiving higher rankings for audience engagement is concerned.

You may want to ask how it works to receive more comments by commenting on other people's blog posts. Great! You should know about that.

When you comment genuinely and regularly on a pro blogger's posts, you get noticed by that blogger with time. And the law of reciprocity takes effect. Someday, you start receiving the visitation of the pro blogger at your own blog, reading your posts and leaving a quality comment. Other bloggers who follow the pro blogger in blog posts, in comments, and at social media will follow you too and will read and comment on your blog posts.