Just like water to a fish, are comments to a blog. To begin with, let me ask you a simple question: what’s the purpose of establishing a blog? Normally, blogs are created to share interesting and useful information among the readers… But is blog creation just a one-sided deal? To get it straight, bloggers own interests are also involved in creating a blog which includes higher search engine rankings, building their group of followers, being acknowledged in the community as an expert and promoting their business through their writings. You can also involve expert Internet Marketing Services to help you in this respect.
Naturally, every blogger wants their readers to comment on their blog post, not just to achieve good search engine ranking but to also feel praised and delightful. If you’re looking to increase your blog comments, here are the plugins you can’t miss out on:
1. Visual Text Editor
To make your comments less boring and more interactive, use a visual text editor like NicEdit. Regular commenting is a restricted and dull approach to comment unless your commenter’s can employ their own HTML tags within the comments field, but who’d bother doing that right?
2. Give users an opportunity to edit comments
To err is human. Many times the users make a comment and then realize little grammatical or other mistakes after it has been submitted. To relieve the users’ agony, give them a chance to undo their mistake by providing them with an edit option.
3. Let Users Subscribe To Comments
Give users the opportunity to subscribe to the comments so they can keep track of the comment thread generated after they’ve left a comment. You can use the plugin Comment Notifier. This is also a good way to keep the user coming back to your blog and commenting again.
4. Threaded Replies for Ease
If you receive a sizeable amount of comments, this technique is essential. It allows you to directly reply beneath a certain comment and start your individual conversation with the person who has commented.
5. Commenting through AJAX
Using AJAX software is a good way to post a comment without the page being reloaded. This way, the reader can comment on your post and instantly start exploring other pages without having to wait.
6. Show your current blog Comments
You can use a sidebar widget to show the latest comments on your blog. This will not just prove your blog’s workability, but will also show your level of interactivity with the blog readers.
7. Use of Smiley’s
To make it more interesting and expressive, add the option for users to insert smiley’s with their comment. A comment saying, “What a stupid thing!” might appear rude, but if the same statement is given with a smiley, the tone automatically changes.
8. To Hell with Google – Use Dofollow!
Are users more important to you or Google? If “users” is your answer, then pass on some link juice to their blogs and let them know they’re comments are appreciated.
9. Using Avatars
Avatar icons can be used to distinguish one user from another, and may also make you recognize your regular readers. Easy Gravatars is one of the plugins employing globally acknowledged avatars over the internet.
10. CommentLuv
It is possible that the blog users can see the status of their comments at your blog with the help of this plugin. You will actually see the most recent blog post of the commentators listed at the end of each comment and the commentators have to fills in their blog URL in the “Websites” input box.
Hope these plugins will help you to enhance your blog traffic. To unravel more “traffic-generating” plugins, keep your fingers crossed for “Best Plugins To Get More Comments on Your Blog (Part-II)”.
You too can be a part of our second chapter by sharing any useful plugins you have in mind, and we’ll make sure to include those in the next part of this connecting post…along with your name of course 
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3 comments ↓
Dofollow and CommentLuv. They’re all you need to entice users!
I like to think of it as a little reward for people kind enough to read posts to the end.
But still, all the plugins in the world won’t beat relevant, interesting and engaging content!
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CommentLuv and dofollow – a winning combination in anyone’s book. Glad to see you’ve not followed your own advice with Smileys though – I can’t think of anything less professional!
Andy @ FirstFound´s last blog ..Is Twitter the future of law enforcement? http://ow.ly/1Mrsn
These are really some useful plugins that will definitely help you to get more comments or more visitors to your blog. Using “Dofollow” will definitely encourage users to comment on your blog.
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