Blog Commenting on Blogger

by Neena · 2 comments

If your blog is hosted on Blogger and you do not receive many comments – this might be the reason why.

Under the blog settings tab – there is a section called Comments (click the picture for a larger view).Blogger Comments 1By default the “Who Can Comment” section is set to “Registered Users”. This only includes people who have Google, AIM, LiveJournal, TypePad, Wordpress.com, or OpenID accounts.

But a very large number of potential commenters have self hosted blogs that are not part of any of these services. You may argue that surely, the commenter has one of these accounts – whether or not their site is actually hosted there. And yes that is probably true.

But I know from experience that when I take the time to leave a thoughtful comment – I want both the author and readers of that blog to be able to find me at my online home. That is the whole premise behind the blogosphere – encouraging conversations.

Luckily there is a simple solution to this problem. Simply change the settings to “Anyone” – like this (click the image to get a bigger view):


Now – anyone can leave a comment either anonymously or with a name/url of any other site, regardless of where it is hosted.

If you are worried about spam – don’t. In Blogger settings – you can turn on moderation, where you will receive an email and be able to approve each comment before it is published. Or if this is too tedious – you can at least require word verification – where the commenter has to type in a captcha image before the comment can go live.

This is a small price to pay for the increase in comments and potential traffic that you will receive to your website.

I for one, do not leave comments on Blogger blogs if they only allow registered users. And I find this to be a shame.

Also – I am a big advocate of the SITS girls – a site dedicated to increasing traffic via conversation. Yet I find that many of the ladies that participate have restricted commenting options.

Please check out your settings – you may inadvertently turning valuable traffic away.

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