How to invite readers to follow the comments section

Blogs become interesting reads especially because of the openness of it and a normal conversational style of it.

What adds these elements to blogs are the comments of readers. When blogs accrue a lot of interested readers, their ideas, suggestions, wraths, opinions is what makes the blog livelier adding colour to it.

Sometimes, a very good article attracts a lot of readers to add their points of view and inturn makes it a gem of an article attacking the core idea from all possible angles.

But many who come to that post of your blog might miss knowing the complete information by not checking the comments section.

There are some ways to introduce your readers to comment section of your post, which I think would be effective in making the comments section visible.


INCLUDE
Write a post which is of conversational style. Need not be always but now and then you could try this style.

Posing questions, asking for opinions, calling your readers to share their experiences etc., are good ways to start once you have good reader base.

Always leave a note inviting reader comments. This would help your readers break that indecision and leave a comment.

This would in turn attract attention to the comments section for people to know what other readers had to say.

SHORT
Don’t keep the blog post too long. Atleast have sub headings, to help your readers to skim through the content at a glance, if in a hurry.

Especially, if your blog post is a list post, don’t tend to make it tooooo exhaustive by giving 100 ways of doing something.

Leave some space for your readers to add upon. In fact, it is impossible to cover all possible points or to arrive at a lovely number like 100  and yet make your post useful and informative.

APPRECIATE
At times, we forget to compliment some valid, inspiring comments. Make it a point to appreciate good comments in following posts or at least where it warrants.

Give regular recognition to your reader inputs. Participate, whenever possible in the conversations happening in the comment section.

Apart from these, you could also make your comments section stand out visibly inviting by proper design usage.

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Check out this related post on why a blogger should comment.
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Have you made your comments sections as interesting as your blog posts? What could make the comments section interesting? How could a valuable conversation could be triggered?

Share your thoughts in the COMMENTS section.