Blogging Tip #26

An important part of blog success goes beyond daily blogging. Someone has to visit your blog and read your posts. Even better, they should comment. The search engines love that. So how do you encourage commenting, beyond asking a question at the end of your post? There are four ways that pop to mind:

• Add a status update to your Facebook page with a link and share button to your blog
• Go to Twitter several times during the day and leave a teaser with a clickable link
• Notify friends in online groups and leave a clickable link and ask them to comment
• Email people on your whitelist who might relate to the post especially if you are writing about them in that post, and then ask them to share with their friends

You could also call in a few markers, but I wouldn't recommend that. Save those for something bigger. ;)