In the first place there has to be people visiting your blog. I’ve dealt with that elsewhere. But when you have readers, you will want them to come back, often, and hopefully click on your ads. How can you do that?

People love to be heard

People just love to be heard. So let them speak, and you’ll have them returning to your blog.

Be sure that it’s possible to leave a comment with your blog posts. Make it easy to write a comment. Yes, it’s true, there’s a lot of spam coming to the blogs, but anyway, don’t force people to signup as a member, before they can write a comment.

Often the envy to write a comment comes as an impulse - if you kill it immediately by not allowing people to write at once, but signup first, confirm etc., many will prefer not to write. They’ll just go away and not bother you again. I know it. I’ve tried it myself. Until reasently I only allowed members to write comments, and I rarely got any. I’ve also tried being on the other site: Wanting to leave a comment, but not wanting to take the time to join.

Ask them a question

If you want some comments, you can always ask your readers a question and let them answer in the comments. Often it works.

Do you have other ideas? Please tell me in the comments

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