Good Blogging Practice Part-40

Good Blogging Practice successfully touched its 40th post mark. Previously our discussion was on, how getting engaged in some forums or discussion boards helps blogger’s to share thoughts, ideas, perceptions, etc. as well as helps promoting blogs also. So, apart from engaging in forums or discussion boards there is another way to get involved with other blogger’s, and i.e. genuine on-the-topic commenting on other blogs. Suppose, you have gadget blog and written a post on lcd tv reviews, then some one have commented as, “nice review”. What will be your reaction? Would you respond the comment or not? 

As we have seen that comment is a vital part of every blog. A comment in a blog post shows a posts impact on a visitor. It means how much the post touched someone.

When a blogger finds a comment in his blog post he usually gets excited, because it compel him/her to open the comment to see, who is that person, and the comment body. In effect the blogger gets more motivated seeing positive comment rather negative comment. So, getting positive or negative comments depends upon posts, how it’s been written on a particular topic; its writing style, coverage, presentation, etc.

But, sometimes negative comment is helpful to a blogger, because that negative comment may help blogger to correct his fault, ignorance, mistake, etc. Let’s show you an example, in my previous post Control Phishing With Iconix eMail ID Software I had written - Iconix eMail ID Software is in beta stage, but later I came to know that this software is under GA, and that I came to know from a comment which was commented by one of Iconix’s team member.

So, this comment may look negative, but it’s positive comment for me, because that comment helped me to correct the big mistake.

Here, you may notice that, comment made by of Iconix’s team member was genuine and on-the topic comment. just look at the comment,

Hey, I work at Iconix. The software isn?t Beta, its GA.

This type of comment help bloggers understand the impact of their posts toward visitors.

So, whenever we will comment on a blog we should know,

• why am I commenting?
• what am I commenting?

And of course a comment should be genuine and on-the topic, because that comment may prove to be driving force for the author of commented blog or other commentators to visit your blog too.

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