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	<title>Comments on: The Benefits of Blog Participation</title>
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	<description>How To Grow Your Blog Traffic</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Monique&#8217;s Scrappin&#8217; Blog! &#187; Blog Archive &#187; So you want your blog to grow huh?</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-1546</link>
		<author>Monique&#8217;s Scrappin&#8217; Blog! &#187; Blog Archive &#187; So you want your blog to grow huh?</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] The Benefits of Blog Participation [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Ankesh Kothari</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-249</link>
		<author>Ankesh Kothari</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Brian.
&lt;br&gt;
You may want to ask a few regular readers to start commenting.  Once 2-3 regulars start commenting, others will join in too.
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One note: if your traffic is low, it'll be very hard to increase the number of comments.  So focus on increasing your traffic and the number of comments will automatically increase.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Brian.<br />
<br />
You may want to ask a few regular readers to start commenting.  Once 2-3 regulars start commenting, others will join in too.<br />
<br />
One note: if your traffic is low, it&#8217;ll be very hard to increase the number of comments.  So focus on increasing your traffic and the number of comments will automatically increase.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Vaughan</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-248</link>
		<author>Brian Vaughan</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-248</guid>
		<description>Getting people to comment has always been one of my trouble areas. I have tried a few of the methods you have listed on a few of my blogs,  maybe I just need to give them more time. 

And as always another great post from you, keep up the great work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting people to comment has always been one of my trouble areas. I have tried a few of the methods you have listed on a few of my blogs,  maybe I just need to give them more time. </p>
<p>And as always another great post from you, keep up the great work.</p>
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		<title>By: Ankesh Kothari</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-247</link>
		<author>Ankesh Kothari</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-247</guid>
		<description>Thanks Jamie.  Excellent idea.  More people should end up commenting if they know that commenting will help their search engine rankings too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Jamie.  Excellent idea.  More people should end up commenting if they know that commenting will help their search engine rankings too.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-246</link>
		<author>Jamie</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-246</guid>
		<description>Another good post Ankesh.
One more idea is to let the search engines crawl the links in the comments by removing the nofollow tag.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another good post Ankesh.<br />
One more idea is to let the search engines crawl the links in the comments by removing the nofollow tag.</p>
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		<title>By: Ankesh Kothari</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-245</link>
		<author>Ankesh Kothari</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-245</guid>
		<description>Thanks Damien.  Always appreciate your feedback.
&lt;br&gt;
Shinil - thanks for mentioning contests.  It is a wonderful idea for involving readers as well as for creating a buzz and increasing your blog traffic.  You can search this blog for a post on "contests" too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Damien.  Always appreciate your feedback.<br />
<br />
Shinil - thanks for mentioning contests.  It is a wonderful idea for involving readers as well as for creating a buzz and increasing your blog traffic.  You can search this blog for a post on &#8220;contests&#8221; too.</p>
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		<title>By: Shinil</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-244</link>
		<author>Shinil</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-244</guid>
		<description>Hi Ankesh,

Thanks again for a wonderful post.

I think another way to ensure visitor participation is to have contests. I simply love them!

Regards,

Shinil.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ankesh,</p>
<p>Thanks again for a wonderful post.</p>
<p>I think another way to ensure visitor participation is to have contests. I simply love them!</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Shinil.</p>
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		<title>By: Damien</title>
		<link>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-243</link>
		<author>Damien</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/the-benefits-of-blog-participation/#comment-243</guid>
		<description>There is some great stuff there.  Thanks for the info!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is some great stuff there.  Thanks for the info!</p>
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