Comments on: How To Generate More Discussion and Comments On Your Travel Blog

By: 13 Recommended Wordpress Plugins For Travel Blogs | Travel Blog Advice

13 Recommended Wordpress Plugins For Travel Blogs | Travel Blog Advice — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:36:59 +0000

[...] plugins, it emails people who leave a comment of any follow up comments. It’s a great way to generate discussion and comments on your travel blog since most people who leave a comment don’t come back to look for replies. (Download [...]

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:34:42 +0000

Good luck, let me know how it goes…

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:05:47 +0000

Thanks for all the tips, I don’t get enough comments, I will try some of your ideas and ones that have been added in comments and hopefully I can get more comments flowing and discussions happening.

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:12:26 +0000

Hi Dina,

Commentluv is a good one – so is the ‘top commenters’ plugin which adds a link to the top (5,6,etc.) commenters on your site. Glad you’re enjoying this site!

By: Dina

Dina — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:43:28 +0000

Hi Anil! I’m glad you introduced me to this blog earlier today, I already find it useful! So far I encourage comments in my blog by having a closing paragraph that encourage the reader to share there experience. I have the notify reply check button, as well as commentluv.

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:42:48 +0000

As authors of our sites we usually get to read every comment but most everyone else doesn’t get to catch all of them. I’m glad you like the idea, also nice to have a set blogging topic once a month to refresh the mind.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:27:33 +0000

Lately I’ve started asking questions at the end of posts (not on every post though) to encourage readers to comment. I like your idea of highlighting different comments once a month and am seriously considering doing the same at the end of January on my blog.

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:04:35 +0000

The travel community is pretty friendly

By: Shannon OD

Shannon OD — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:06:05 +0000

Commenting on other blogs was pretty much the fastest way for me to join the travel blogging community and get conversations generated on my site! Everyone is great about reciprocating the love

By: Anil P.

Anil P. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:58 +0000

There’s got to be a curve of that somewhere online. Where people are reluctant to comment on a post with 0, 1, etc. comments to where people get lost in the discussion and give up (30, 40 comments)?

You brought up something I forgot to mention, the more comments you have on a post the more people are inclined to comment (up to a point). Getting that first comment is usually the toughest.