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Comments on blog posts are like stimulants that give extra energy and motivation for bloggers to continue posting contents. They are no different to basketball players who play inspired basketball when fans keep on cheering and yelling for them.

Having said that, getting a comment is not just as simple as picking a gold bar along the street, the same way it’s not that easy to gain a fan in basketball.

Of course, it takes time, effort and a lot of hard work.

Based on my experience, I had some posts that got at least 30 comments including my own responses. At the same time, I also had other posts that got 5 comments or less.

After analyzing the ins and outs of these results plus reading other’s blogs, I came up with my  “Top 10 Reasons Why Some Posts Get No Comments”.

Here is my Top 10 list:

1)      Post Gets No Exposure

a.       I think this is obvious. If nobody sees your post, of course nobody can comment. The idea here lies on two factors, blog traffic and post visibility.

Blog Traffic. If you don’t have so much traffic, you should act now (try this one: How to win regular visitors on your blog in 10 ways?). In the first place no one is an island in the blogosphere.

Post Visibility. Granting you have a good web traffic, but if your post is not exposed to readers then you’re doing nothing. Put your valuable posts on the very popular place in your blog preferably on the front page or put some links in the top most part or sidebars if your post is in the inner pages. Archives and sitemaps would also help.                                                       

2)      Poor Post Title

a.       As I have said on my post (Write great posts and Get No readers), one of the best ways to get attention or readers for that matter is to have an eye-baiting title. I know, even you can attest to this. No matter how great your content is, if you’re primary driver (title / headline) leaves no power, then you would end up with a reader ignoring your post and go away.

3)      Post sounds too perfect

a.       In my case, if the writer says that such post contains “the complete solution or information”, then I assume the writer needs no feedback at all. In order to get comments, you must encourage your readers to participate. Just don’t tune your post to leave a voice that implies “exactness or completeness or sharpness of your ideas“. I think phrases like, “What about your idea?”, “Can you add some more?” and the likes give good intuition.

4)      Post sounds too good to be true

a.       I pertain to spam like posts. It’s very evident that no one likes spam because most of us hate them. My worry about this is, if your journalistic and marketing style go beyond the limits, then you’re readers might think you are a spammer or in other words scammer. I suggest that you should be honest and sincere on what you write. Avoid any spam like phrases such as “Read this Post and Get Millions of Comments”.

5)      Post leaves no human interest

a.       Are readers interested on what you post? Are you making sense whenever someone reads your content? Although there’s nothing wrong in making some unrelated stuffs sometimes with respect to your niche, but still such post must still in anyway bring interest to your readers. Humor-packed videos in most instances really appeal the blogosphere regardless of niche especially when they feel a little bit bored on what they do. It may be totally different to your topics but still entertains your readers.

6)      Poor Post Lay-out

a.       This is elementary but I myself has proven this. I usually don’t read post that are too long yet has poor post lay-out. For me, there’s no problem with a long post as long as it is pleasing to the eye. I like bulleted, numbered or segmented posts. I also prefer short paragraphs. What about you? (Just add on this ok?).

7)      Comment Never on Other’s Blog

a.       The problem with other blog is that, they feel lazy on reading and commenting on other’s post. If you really want to succeed in blogging, you should build good relationship with your fellow. One thing to do that is to continuously visit sites and write comments on posts that you think are valuable. If this is the case, you’ll have more friends and at the same time will have possible regular commenters.

8 – 10) I leave the final three (or even more) to all of you to complete the list. I know you have something in pocket that you want to share. Feel free to speak. The blogsophere is waiting for your ideas.