When I got started with blogging a couple of months ago, one of the first "tips" I read said that one sign of a dying blog was a lack of comments. I've been wrestling with that notion ever since. My public blog (aimed at real estate professionals in my local area) gets very few comments and sometimes I think back on that tip and doubt starts to creep in. Is anyone reading my public blog?
A few days ago I attended the local IREBN (Independent Brokers) meeting. As I sat waiting for the meeting to begin, a broker who has never commented on my blog stopped by to compliment me on a post and to provide a referral to another broker who was sitting next to me. Then a broker behind us chimed in, talking about how it had taken him several days to catch up on all my posts.
I hadn't received a single comment on my blog from anyone in the room, yet it turned out that several of them were avid readers who were providing referrals. This made me think of something I read many years ago: Less than 5% of talk radio listeners will ever call in to the show. I don't know what the statistics are for blog comments, we get lots of them here at AR, but I wouldn't worry too much about not getting comments on your public blog because I think many readers are unlikely to comment.
In the end we can only do our best to market our public blog and consistently deliver value to our readers. If you build it, promote it, and stick to it, they will come and they will tell their friends, even if they don't tell you.
And if you need more feedback than you can shake a stick at, ActiveRain has you covered.
Thanks!
Frank Jewett
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Interesting post! I often wondered why some posts get many comments while others get none at all. I don't worry too much about the comments. I have set the tags so that they feed back to my site or other topics. If you do a search on google for brentwood home insepctions, I come up at the top of page 2! I was at the bottom of page 1 yesterday! Go figure!
Keep on posting!