Miss W wonders how many comments you have received on your blog. How many are from your teacher or classmates? How many from a commenter in the challenge?
But most importantly, how many are from other people around the world?
When she first began blogging back in 2008, Miss W had a personal blog and after a week of writing posts, she had only 6 comments yet her Clustrmap showed lots of visitors had been there. Why weren’t they commenting?
So she wrote a post titled “Why has no one commented?” Suddenly, Miss W had 16 comments on just that post. Here are some hints from the educators who left comments:
Write for yourself, put your heart into it, and you will start to see your map light up like a Christmas tree!  David
I still find those posts I expect to get a lot of comments don’t – whereas posts I didn’t expect any response to seem to get more.  Tim
What also helps to enhance comments is writing posts that give guidelines, how to’s or provide explicit opinions on things that are relevant. If you keep your posts open to interaction and truthful to yourself, the comments will start coming in. Inge
I’m here because YOU commented on MY blog, so you can see how that can help you make connections! In my experience if you practice what you preach and take the time to read and share on other blogs, more people will be inclined to do the same for you. Kate
Tried and true way to get comments – make comments. Susan
One person told me a couple of ways to develop readers, and this may also help with comments. And that is to treat every post as a conversation. If someone comments on your post, you comment back, and from your own blog. Cathy
Commenting Activities
- Follow Cathy’s example – if someone has commented on your post, comment back. If they have left an URL, check it out and leave a comment there as well
- Follow Kate’s example – read at least 10 blogs and comment on those that really interested you
Visiting Activities
- Follow Susan’s example – visit some blogs from the free choice or global issues posts and leave some comments – include your blog URL if you want them to visit your blog – or leave your post URL if you want them to visit a specific post to comment on. Miss W also included some great posts to visit below.
Writing Post Activities
- Follow Inge’s example – write a post that gives guidelines or how to do something or expresses an opinion. Invite visitors to comment by finishing with a question.
- Follow David’s example – write a post for yourself showing your voice and putting your heart into it.
When you have finished commenting and visiting (doing at least one activity per section) for this week, write a post explaining:
- Which activities you did
- Which blogs you went to: include links
- Which posts you read and /or commented on: include links and why you commented on certain posts
- What you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy about this week’s activities
Great posts Miss W spotted when checking out comments:
- Mrs. Vazquez’s class created a Thinglink explaining about commenting on their blog and also have a great image for their zoom story.
- Give your opinion on pizza by visiting Figgy’s post here.
- Arabella wrote a great story with an unexpected ending
- Ben certainly researched for his expository on dinosaurs.
- Rajyashoril asks what are some of the problems facing democracy and how can they be solved.
- I can tell McKenna wrote with passion on Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Lily notices lots of little things.
- Shanta looked at one topic for her photo gallery – grass.
- Check out the conversation happening between Allison and Shanta – also note how Allison has started her Blog Buddies list on the sidebar of her blog.