Responding to Blog Comments is Good or Bad?

What do you say; responding to blog comments on your site is good or bad? You can meet many bloggers who are doing so, but is it worth? Read more to know responding to blog comments is Good or bad?

Those who are regular visitors of my blog I News India must be aware of the thing that I usually respond to each and every comment on my blog. Timing can be a bit delayed, but response will surely be given to each and every comment on my site.

Do you think am I doing well?

Is it worth giving so much time on replying to comments on our blog?

Usually I don’t only respond to comments on my blog, but to the replies I mostly receive on my comments on other blogs as well. Commenting on other blog is not something which I am going to discuss over here, but certainly commenting on our blog is a serious matter of concern.

To be very frank, you must be aware of this mobile app of WordPress for Android, I was unable to install on my tablet, and I switched to ASUS Zenfone 4, just to use this app, so that I can even access the comments on my blog through my cell phone.

In my opinion it is one of the coolest apps and every blogger should use it. You can create blog posts easily through this app, you can easily write, edit and publish your blog posts through this app and you can also access the comments on your blog through this app easily.

Responding to Blog Comments is Good or Bad? 

Coming back to our original discussion, normally it won’t take much time of ours to respond to a comment. Sometimes it can take a bit extra time, if the reader might have asked something difficult question, but normally responding a comment hardly takes more than two minutes.

Though still there are few bloggers who don’t even want to give that much amount of time for their readers. A per visits your blog, reads it, and then gives a comment on your blog, and you don’t even think about the time which he or she invested in giving a comment to your blog?

Do you think your one or two minute is more valuable than the ten minutes which your reader has invested on your blog?

So I guess those were some of the bloggers who think responding to the comments on their blog is a waste of time and it is a bad thing to do, and hence prefer not to do so.

Now coming back to the bloggers of my type. My types of bloggers are those who prefer responding to each and every comments on their blog. Why do we consider it as good? Why do we feel that responding to each and every comment on our blog is going to benefit our website?

Let me give you a few reasons why I do consider responding comments as good:

Strengthening the Bond with Readers 

This is a process which helps us to strengthen our bond with our readers. When we do respond to their comments they feel good about us and our blog.

Thus soon they become regular visitors of our blog and which blogger is there who don’t want to get loyal followers?

We all want loyal followers, and if giving a minute can strengthen the bond between blogger and its reader then I think it is worthwhile.

SEO Benefits 

It is quite an obvious benefit which we bloggers can get through it. When you have so many comments on a blog post, it will surely increase the text on your post. This way it will increase the SEO ranking of your page. Thus through search engines you will start getting more and more visitors.

Who else don’t want search engine traffic?

I doubt there will be anyone.

Increase in Repeated Visitors 

Those who comment on some blog and get responses from there must visit your blog to see the same post again and again. Thus blog owners who respond to comments are sure to get increased number of repeated visitors.

Increase in Income 

As you are aware now that responding back to the blog comments will increase the traffic on your blog. This is one of the sure ways to increase the revenue of your blog. With increased traffic you are sure to get increase revenue.

In addition, since this visitor base will be loyal towards you, it will have higher chance that this follow base will follow whatever you recommend to them and thus you can earn through affiliate marketing as well.

So those were some of the benefits which you can get through responding to your comments. I very much understand that it consumes a bit of time, but then after considering all this benefits, I am sure it is more beneficial only.

Other than all those benefits you can also get social mentions from your comments response. You can also have the ability to link to any page of your blog from those comments, thus you can have an additional flow of traffic to your blog through those links.

In my opinion responding to comments is worthwhile, what do you think about it? Please do share your opinion about this blog post. I would be glad to see your comments on this post as it will reveal the pros and cons of responding to blog comments.