Which is why I don’t have a lot of comments on my blog posts. :D

If your blog’s format is the provide technical articles and guides, the last thing you want to do is leave something out that has your audience scratching their heads. If you want a conversation on your blog, leave room for others to participate.

When you are clear about the purpose and intent of your blog, you write accordingly and attract an appropriate audience. When you want comments, yet close the door on them by your writing style – it’s a little self-defeating.

At the end of your posts, all I ever wanted to say is “Thank you!”.

And you are missing the point. Sure, there is always a different angle, but not every blog writer writes in a way that just makes you want to sit up, break all your rules about not commenting on blogs, and comment. One of these is appearing to cover a subject so well, the work to find something to comment on is tiresome.

If you aren’t getting comments on your blog, and you want them, write in such a way as to let your audience have room to comment easily and enjoyably.

Many. Many still write blog posts like they are writing a high school paper. They cover everything. Even if they don’t, it feels like it, and you feel like there is no room to add anything more.

Do you mean the irony that I write for a blog that breaks some of the things I and others find annoying? They pay me to write, not to design. :D See, lessons can be learned by everyone.

After reading this post, I have learned that there are other ways to convince readers to comment.

Thanks for the post. Happy blogging!

Yes. If your comments are being picked up by Akismet, which is actually not a mystery but something that does happen, keep commenting and marking it as not spam. Akismet learns. It may take a day or so, or maybe a week, but it does learn.

And do take care with the words and links you put in the comments. If they are spammy, Akismet will mark it. But I’ve been picked up in Akismet and this is how I trained it to remove me from its list.

Support just said keep commenting and asking the blog to de-spam me.

That’s nice.