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[greylister]

my site thegreylist.com is not getting any comments, the traffic is starting to rise but I feel like the traffic is fairweather.

Is this because I'm not building a strong enough fan-base? Or is it due to the fact that a person needs to register with wordpress before they can leave a comment?

let me know from your experience.

also. I have McAfee site advisor and because the previous owner of my site domain was a putz and sent out spammy emails I can't get rid of that awful red "x" next to our site. whats up with that.

[brokencode]

most people love to leave a comment without any rules and will more love if you give them award. moderating comments is better enough than you ask user to register before leave a comment. if possible award them with do-follow link. controlled by moderate incoming comments and trackbacks.

[FHM]

Asking people to register before commenting is a really efficient way of keeping down the number of comments.

[Cryxellis]

Broken code and FHM are right, when you let your visitors registered this will help you avoid the spammers that will post a comment to your blog.

[tristangemus]

I havn't read any of your blog, but maybe try making better posts. My blog is about 4 days old, I just paid people $0.50 for a blog comment, and a few others came as I got it featured on stumbleupon. Good luck buddy.

[FHM]

Tristangemus,
You paid people to post comments on your own blog?
Why?

[websushil]

Originally Posted by tristangemus

I havn't read any of your blog, but maybe try making better posts. My blog is about 4 days old, I just paid people $0.50 for a blog comment, and a few others came as I got it featured on stumbleupon. Good luck buddy.

Really, well this is unbelievable. why you paid people for comment to your blog?

[teampower]

try to use pay to comment

[Utexas]

pay me and i'll post comments lol.

[x3mario]

Visitors will tend to comment your site if your post are good. I mean you have to post some interesting topic that can catch the attention of your readers.

[arcel]

agree with x3mario... better check first your topics if its worth posting a comment.

[zeruel]

Most users want to make it easier to comment on your posts. Making them register just for them to comment would be really time consuming on their part. Comment moderation I think is enough... And the most important thing, consider your post to be catchy and worth commenting for...

[amous]

pay for comment? really ?

why?
i left u comment!
ur about page n't working !

[francis84]

Originally Posted by greylister

my site thegreylist.com is not getting any comments, the traffic is starting to rise but I feel like the traffic is fairweather.

Is this because I'm not building a strong enough fan-base? Or is it due to the fact that a person needs to register with wordpress before they can leave a comment?

Comments from your visitors is a thing you cant control on. You want you posts to have comments, you must write a very interesting post that after reading it, lots of reactions may arise.

Requiring registration before leaving a comment is good so you can lessen the spammers on your blog.

[TravisT]

According to Shoemoney, his most faithful visitors do not leave comments at his blog. And less than 1% of his visitors do leave any comments at all. I wouldn't personally worry about it too much.

[matt.bush]

Have you experimented with polls? Or asking in a stronger way for visitor interaction? I know that sometimes I just blindly search the internet, not even thinking about giving my opinion. But if someone asked...

Matt

[AmySueN]

As a reader, I won't comment if I have to register first, and I'm more likely to comment if you ask a question, for my opinion, etc.

[camp185]

I agree, making people register is almost like saying please don't comment. Make it so anyone can, and because you have a WP blog, just use aski plugin to kill the spam. It works very good. Also, you might want to try making one of your posts just a question, to see if any of your readers are alive. Maybe make a small contest or something.

[HeathMan]

I too do not comment on a blog if I have to register. You can still moderate the comments before they go live, so unless you are trying to build a registered user base making the users register greatly reduces the likely hood of a comment.

I just paid people $0.50 for a blog comment

Shoot me a PM tristangemus and I can get you some comments

[cldnails]

1 in 50 blogs will I ever register to leave a comment, dump it, that's what akismet is for.