Posted by Patrick Moreau on December 10, 2019 in Software
JointComments is a Disqus comment like system, a free comment solution for WordPress. Adding a comment plugin to your website has many benefits, and we will talk about them in this post.
Blogging is often a one-way street. You talk a lot about a topic, but without the comments, it’s like shouting into an empty room. If you want to give your site a little life, add comments. Turn a static article into a real conversation. It’s not all glitter and gold, though. There are a few occasions when comments can backfire. Here are some of the top ones. When having comments doesn’t really help: Do comments work 100% of the time for every blog? Not necessarily. Several high profile bloggers don’t have comment sections and still survive. Seth Godin doesn’t allow comments on his blog. Never has and never will. Zen Habits is another popular blog without a comment section. So there’s no clear consensus that blog comments are always helpful. In some cases, it may be more of an effort than it’s worth.
Michael Hyatt made the decision to eliminate his comments section due to the sheer amount of low-quality comments he was receiving, plus the fact that social media is where most meaningful conversations seem to be happening nowadays. In his announcement, he shared the following graph of blog comments compared to blog traffic. As you can see, his traffic shot up by 74% while his average comments per post steadily declined year after year. While Michael did later bring his comments section back, he explained that it was not because it had a huge negative effect on his blog traffic. It was because he wanted his blog to feel more hospitable.
Comments bring in credibility. Normal comments have a ‘Name’ field. Now think what happens if I put in ‘Bill Gates’ in that field. Everyone will assume its a fake person. But what happens is often there are popular people who might like your content. These are not necessarily billionaires, but people with authority in their chosen fields. What you want to do is to give credibility to people who are commenting on your blog. If the same comment I was talking about earlier was from Bill Gates’s authorized JointComments account, people would automatically trust it. Have you integrated JointComments comments on your blog? What benefits you have seen after using it, and any cons you know of? Also, do share which method you used to add JointComments comments on your blog?
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