Is Your Blog’s Community Dying? Use these tips

Community is one of the best parts in blogging. Having a good community on your blog is one of the visible signs that your blog is thriving. Many blogs don’t have a good community and this does not really mean that nobody is reading their blogs, it only reflects the type of community the blog has. What could make a blog’s community suffer? How can a blog’s community grow? You might love to ask these types of questions.

One thing I can tell you about blogging is that most blogs won’t survive without a good community on it, and hardly does any do. If you want your blog to survive, you’ll want to make sure its community is strong enough to inspire you to forge ahead. In this post, I’m going to be sharing some tips on how to do that.

Start Giving what is Worth a Reader’s Comment

One thing most bloggers aren’t aware of is that it takes a good blog content to get a comment. If you haven’t realized this, I would suggest that you go to your blog or any other blog and compare the articles that get the most comments and reader engagement and compare them to those that didn’t perform well. What you’ll notice is that the ones with high reader engagement are the ones that are of higher quality when compared to others.

If you can step up the quality of articles you write on your blog, you’ll notice that you’ll start getting more comments and thus revive the community of your blog.

Comment on other blogs

Commenting on other blogs is another great way people get their blogs’ community going. This is mainly because people love to repay each other. If you comment on my site for instance, there is no way I won’t come over to comment on yours’.

Another benefit of commenting on other blogs on your blog community is that you get new people from that blog to visit your blog. These people are going to read your blog posts and are likely going to leave a comment on your blog.

If you want to create a better community for your blog, you better start commenting on other blogs in your niche.

Build Relationship With other Bloggers

Building relationship with bloggers is another smart way to build a community for your blog. If you have blogger friends and you just finished writing an article for your blog, you’ll want to tell that blogger to visit your blog and say what he feels about your latest post, isn’t that right? This way, not only have you had someone read your post, but have also been able to get him to comment on your post.

You can do this with two, three, four or more bloggers and the result will multiply. Mind you, it’s not everybody is going to leave a comment on your blog post.

Building relationship with bloggers is easy! You can start by writing guest posts for them, by asking them to follow you on twitter or by adding them as your friend on facebook.

Ask your readers to comment on your posts

If you have a good amount of readers reading your blog, it will become much easier to set your blog community on fire. The easiest but effective way to do it is by asking them for it. Sometimes, you might not get something until you ask for it.

You can write a great blog post and ask your readers to tell you what they feel about it or ask a provocative question and the make them answer your question in the comment section. This will even make others want to leave a comment or argument on your blog.