Comments on: Encouraging Visitor Interaction – part 2

By: Prechha Narongthai

Prechha Narongthai — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:57:26 +0000

Hi!! Thank you for sharing. I would say it got a ton of interest from search engines and the comments started coming in.

By: Paul.

Paul. — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:32:15 +0000

I’m in the process of adding wiki type features to my site as well as reviews. That should encourage a little more interaction.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:55:06 +0000

I love that Skoda ad! Ha Ha

By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Site Changes

Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Site Changes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:35:51 +0000

[...] and Commentators Links After fair bit of feedback on this post, on whether using keywords in names looks spammy I’ve modified the comment system and added a [...]

By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Getting your Subscribers to visit your Blog

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:54:15 +0000

[...] (again) Make you site encourage interaction, feedback via comments or polls again, need a site [...]

By: Scott, but not that Scott

Scott, but not that Scott — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:13:12 +0000

I just noticed, I don’t think that you should autosubscribe people to the follow up comments. I personally don’t like getting a lot of them in my e-mail and prefer just to check back at the site to see what people have written

If I really want to read the comments I’ll subscribe to the RSS.

However when you autosubscribe often people (me) forget to unclick it.

Just a thought
Scott

By: Scott, but not that Scott

Scott, but not that Scott — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:11:44 +0000

I really like your threaded comments. They seem to be a great way of encouraging discussions that might otherwise be lost in the fold. I’ll have to enable that for my own blog. Thanks for all the ideas you’ve inspired in me

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:40:26 +0000

I like that idea quite a lot. That way the use of alternate anchor text is condoned by the site, so it doesn’t feel quite so much like you’re abusing the comment system for SEO purposes.

By: Al

Al — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:25:29 +0000

Yeah different audiences work in different ways. My gadget site gets about 50 times the traffic we get here but this place gets way more comments. I still find the suggestions made here do work just to a lesser degree.

By: Al

Al — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:23:16 +0000

That's actually an interesting idea, so we could have an extra field called site title which would be used as the anchor text, so it would look like Matt - Gadget Venue (20)