I see alot of new blogs that are being started, but they lack commentators. Even though Balkhis was launched only two months ago , I have manage to get a fairly decent amount of comments, and as you can see the comments are increasing as my reader base grows. I have put together a list of what I have seen a trend with Balkhis that increases the number of comments on post and in general.

Offer Incentives to commentators

Offering incentives to your commentators will keep them coming back to your blog and post comments daily. One of the most easiest and effective incentive you can offer is listing your top commentators, in your sidebar or some other place (Sitewide) and do-follow. I hate blogs who actually pretend to list the commentators but then you see they are no following all the links. If I come in and post a half comment, ofcourse the blogger won’t like it. Just like I don’t like that happening. Though I will say that when there is nice content, I leave a reply regardless of this top commentator incentive or not. Another effective technique is having a contest. You can give out prizes to your top 3 commentators. This might increase your spam a little, but you will get alot of valuable comments as well.

Offer helpful advices / tutorials

Offering helpful advices will definately increase comments on your website. How? Well if you follow all the SEO Advices that I have given then you are very well likely to get decent rankings for some good long-tailed keywords. Which will bring new users to your site, and most will say thanks if they like your advice and even stay on the blog to read more. Example of an advice article I wrote was 5 things that can hurt the Search Engine Ranking Positions of your Website. Now always be prepared to get some negative feedback also. Some people might come and put their opinion that might completely disagree with your article which is fine. Also tutorial type articles like How to add a dynamic sidebar in wordpress? will lead people to ask you questions. You can reply to those questions and have an entire conversation.

Interact with your users

Bringing me to my next point which is interacting with your users. Always ask questions in your post that readers can reply to. Answer questions asked in the comments by your users. Such acts lead to a conversation to build up and more people can participate in it, and put their opinion there. For that you need the special comment mod that I have discussed in this post. It is called Brian’s Threaded Comment plugin which allows user to reply to a particular comment.

Controversial Topics

Controversial topics are another comment attractor type posts. I try to stay away from it for the most part, but they do get tons of comments, and alot of people get heated in the comments which is a downside because blogs are friendly places not a place to start a fight. One of my posts which I wrote about Host Gator scamming people with their marketing technique… actually resulted in 34 comments and even got big enough to have the admin of Host Gator visit the blog and reply. Topics of this sort tend to get alot of comments, but due to the fights and anger I try to stay away from those for the most part.

Offer Freebies

Freebies are one of the biggest user/commentator attractor to your website. Everyone love free stuff right. When they are happy with your free products, they will reply, and when they are not happy they will also reply. You are getting more comments either way plus more page views for your website.

Above are some of the things that I have noticed with Balkhis that attracted more commentators to my posts. You can use the same techniques and get more comments on your posts as well because I am sure people don’t like seeing a 0 comments next to their posts.

A few days back I wrote about Balkhis at Entrecard. Now after 5 days of being at entrecard, I have collected a resource for you. This post will show the results I recieved from entrecard (Increase in traffic), Tips on how to power drop, meaning how to drop 300 cards within 30 minutes. Why everyone should entrecard and more.

First of all let me begin by saying, I am very happy with the 30 minutes – 1 hour I spent on Entrecard. My traffic has increased by 200 unique visitors, and I am seeing a trend that the traffic is increasing even more. My entrecard credits are increasing every day because I am dropping 300 cards every day, and it doesn’t take me more than 30 minutes. The other 30 minutes I spent on spending my entrecard credits by advertising on other sites.

How to drop 300 cards in 30 minutes?

Well first thing you need to do is and then you need to login to your entrecard account. Why do I say firefox because it allows faster tab browsing then internet explorer, and doesnot just shut off on you like Internet explorer would if you try to open too many tabs at once.

The next thing you need to do is find your category. Visit all the sites that are related to your site and bookmark them. So now you are bookmarking 300 sites total. The first time will take you long because you are visiting sites and looking to find the right one. Then the next day it will be less than 30 minutes. Ok so now when you are bookmarking sites, don’t bookmark all of them in just one bookmark folder. Split it in 10 bookmark folders and have 30 in each, so when you go onto do this the next day and after you will just click open all in each folder. Give 1 minute for each site to load, and then begin power dropping. Drop your article in all. Now repeat this same thing with the rest 9 of your bookmark folders. You can begin powerdropping with Balkhis

If your blog is webmaster related, then while I was collecting the list for me I have saved it in an html file. Which contains a link to 300 sites. Just use this page and open each link in multiple tabs if you don’t want the lengthy process.

List of 300 sites by Balkhis Powerdrop Entrecard

For those who don’t know how to do this quickly. Get a mouse if you don’t have one. Hold on to the key Ctrl + T and click on all the links and it will open itself in tabs.

Above are two very fast ways that will take you around 30 minutes or less to drop 300 cards every day. (The time will vary if you are on a slower internet connection)

Don’t forget when you drop at Balkhis, I will follow and drop on yours. I try to follow each drop. (So start by dropping at Balkhis).

Why should everyone use Entrecard?

Entrecard increases traffic as I mentioned above because the traffic of Balkhis has increased by 200 uniques every day from entrecard. Entrecard is an unique opportunity for branding your business logo. I don’t know why people use default cards when they can just upload their site’s logo. You can use entrecard to advertise your site on other sites in your niche. By advertising daily, you don’t realize how much you are saving because you might spend 200 entrecards and advertise on about 11 sites. Thats less than 30 minutes of work if you look at the technique above. Also it is great for bloggers who want to advertise on sites like Balkhis, or Problogger, they can use entrecard credits and advertise. If your logo appears on Balkhis or other huge blogs like Problogger then you will get alot of branding for your company.

Advertise on Balkhis using Entrecard

Also Entrecard have a shop that will allow users to buy bunch of other products for entrecard credits. I believe that entrecard credits will become a future currency of Blogosphere, so everyone should join it.

Entrecard, the new generation of Business Cards has been used by many of the professional bloggers, but I kind of stayed away for a bit. You can call it my lazyness and lack of interest. I was talking to one of my close friend on instant messenger, and the topic came up. I decided that I should just sign up. After signing up, I started dropping my card on all of my favorite blogs that are using the feature. I also put the codes on Balkhis. Today is the first day, I have had over 100 cards dropped at my site, and 5 ad purchases. Pretty darn sweet.

Well here is the deal, you drop cards on mine, and I will follow (will try to keep up with everyone). The button is located on the sidebar, right above the alexa button, and one more reason you should leave a card for me is I am surfing with an Alexa Toolbar on. So it will effect your alexa.

Why should bloggers use this feature? It increases your traffic enormously. Another thing it does, is brand your logo. I see so many people using the default style cards. People come on. Brand your logo so you can your brand out there on your business cards. Not your business card companies brand.

Unexpectedly, The price for Balkhis ad is at 32 ecredit. Which means your ad will show on my page for one day. There is a 4 day wait right now. Get in the line before you have to wait for more than that !

http://entrecard.com/details/32551

Above is my entrecard profile link. Get entrecard now for those who are interested in increasing your traffic.