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You leave a comment but the author doesn't give a hoot, do you visit that blog again?

I have visited a lot of blogs, left comments in good faith but never got a hi or a ho. It's kind of sad. I felt unappreciated. I came back 2x on others, the others I just never visited again. Is this right?

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Permalink Reply by Nessa on August 18, 2008 at 12:51pm

Wow, i'm sort of surprised by some of the replies to this. I'm awful about not replying to comments. First it was because blogger makes that difficult. I had to respond to all at once and that never seemed to be personal enough for me. I changed to another service for comments thinking they DID allow it and guess what? They don't. So i'm trying to find a way to make that better for me and the commenters on my blog.

However, I can say i have NEVER commented on anyone hoping to get anything back. I comment on what I enjoy or what I find interesting. I have certain blogs I read daily and i comment on them when i feel like it and i'm sure they do the same for me.

Maybe my blogging philosophy is different than others. I blog for ME. If someone out there gets something out of my blog that's fantastic, I love comments and people reaching out, because i do the same. I don't take my commenters for granted though and i'll never tell them i'm too busy to acknowledge them. Hence the reason I started the top commenters contest. I tell my readers I appreciate them and I try to do special things for them to prove it.

Luckily, there's room in cyberspace for all types of bloggers, and generally we're all good to one another.

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Permalink Reply by Jen on August 18, 2008 at 12:53pm

I do go back if they are funny. When I comment, most times I'm not "expecting" a return although I do see some comments back on some posts. I try and reply to their email about their comment on my blog if I can or I eventually go and visit their site and try and comment back. Sometimes though, I just get busy and forget!

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Permalink Reply by Nessa on August 18, 2008 at 12:55pm

LMAOOOOOOOo, I wonder how many people went to see how often you comment on their blogs after reading this..

Lori said:

That's called being a comment whore...when you leave comments on high traffic blogs just to gain traffic yourself. I'm a comment whore on one blog and that's because I really don't like her but I get tons of traffic. My readers probably know who she is......

And while I may not get hundreds of comments on my blog, I do get quite a bit across all 4 and I read EVERY single one them;) It's my job.

Mutha Mae said:
Oh and as far as checking out the blogs of people who leave comments, I need to get better about that, too.

Altho I have to say that I've been told a way to increase traffic is to leave comments on the popular blogs. It just seems insincere to me. Leaving a comment in a blog just to get traffic to mine? Maybe some of the more popular bloggers have figured this out and think people are just fishing for readers?