It is a very nice thing to have a steady flow of new visitors coming to your blog every day. But even better is if your visitors come back. You want your blog to be interesting enough so that your readers will come back. An excellent way to achieve this is having a lively discussion about your posts. But how often did you find a an interesting blog, posted a comment to the post because the topic of the post was interesting, perhaps even asking a question, and then you forgot about this blog? I reckon that happened to you, too. At least it did for me quite often. And probably this will happen to quite a few of your visitors, too. And it means that you have lost a visitor, because the commenter will not find back to your blog. Now at least for WordPress blogs there is a easy solution: Mark Jaquith wrote a wonderful wordpress plugin called “subscribe to comments“. Just go his page and install it on your blog. From that on your commenters can check whethter they want to be informed about a new comment on the topic they commented, too. That means they will probably drop by as soon as their question was answered or if a new interesting comment was made.
If you want to see this plugin in action, just make a (sensible) comment to this post on www.seo-traffic-guide.de and check the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” -Field below…
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That is wonderful of wordpress plugin.. Do the free wordpress.com has same feature? I’m still using blogspot and still waiting to have my own wordpress domain.
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I have never used the free wordpress.com site, as I always had my own web server, check out on their site, wether it is possible to install plugins….
that’s a great plugin. I’d recomend that to anyone using a blog. As long as it’s humans subscribing to the comments and not spam bots errrr.
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yeah that could be handy but a lot of the time i dont tick the box for that just because i might end up with to much emails :S
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Does anyone know anything similar for Drupal?
You are right, this plugin is a good idea. I would also add the top commenters, keywordLuv, etc…
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Good Idea! The top commenters plugin is something that inspires others a lot. KeywordLUv is something I planned to implement in the next few weeks… Not only on the blog, but also on the search…
i couldn’t agree with you anymore and in order for something like that to continue o n doing that is by writing interesting blog posts as well as letting them comment on your blog by benefitting them with a backlink to their site which is the better option
Any blog owner looking to make their blog ‘sticky’ and get more return visitors should really think about this plugin.
i will definatly give it a try
Hi there, I don’t usually comment much on blogs
but I love the post and wanted to tell you. i have installed the plugin on my blog now.
Cheers
Keep up the good work
Tom Horton
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I agree that this is a great plugin to get your commenters to come back and give your website more traffic and on top of that some great commenting
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Hi,
Thanks for this great post mate, I’ll have to search out that plugin and add it to my blog, anything that keeps people coming back sounds good to me.
I’ve been lucky enough to build a few relationships with some of my visitors though replying to their comments, and we now regularly comment on each others posts.
I’ll be sure to stop by here again soon, keep up the good work.
Take care,
Paul
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