7 Little Known Ways to Get Your Comments Read

In the previous article on blog commenting I wrote that you should comment on a blog only if you had something valuable to add to the discussion and that only valuable comments would be of benefit to you. If you provide a useful comment, not only will it be approved and posted but there are more chances that it will be noticed by the blog author and other people who can follow your URL and bring more traffic to your site.
But what is a valuable comment? And are good comments always noticed and read? This is what I'd like to talk about in this article.
A good comment is the one which expresses the reader's opinion on the post. Don't write just "Hello, good post". This comment will be considered as pure spam and will likely be deleted. Tell the author that you found the post interesting, useful, providing new information, etc. Share your views on the subject. Add something to the post or dispute with the author or other commentators. If you don't agree with the author, feel free to show your disagreement but do it in a delicate and polite manner. All of this adds value to your comment.
But do all valuable comments get read and get clicks? There is no definite answer. Yes, if you comment on a blog that is not very popular. If you comment on a very popular blog which gets many comments on every post, your comment may be lost among others and may not be noticed.
So, if you want to make your comment stand out and attract the reader's attention, follow these quick tips when you're commenting on a blog:

• Comment the first. This gives you a great advantage over other commentators. If your comment is the first in the list, the blog author and other commentators will definitely see it. When someone reads the post, he most likely reads the comments too. People actually read the first few comments only. Then they run through the next few comments and skip all the comments that follow. For example, if 100 people read your comment, there is great chance that a few of them will click on your URL and come to your website.
• A comment length does matter. Write a longer comment to attract the readers. If you write much, they will think you give some valuable information and will surely read your comment. Note that long comments don't mean writing a poem or another post in the comment itself. When you write a long comment, you should provide good and relevant information in it. You can scan other comments if the blog has them already and write one or two paragraphs more than the usual comments have.
• Make the comment easy to read. If you follow the previous tip and write a long comment, think about making it easy to read. Don't lump everything together. Make two or more paragraphs, better if you make a bulleted list (if appropriate). In this way people will easily read your long comment to the end. Otherwise, if the comment is unreadable, nobody will stop at it.
• Commenting on a list post wins. You know list posts get more readers. And the comments on such posts get read by more people. Why not add your own points to the list? Imagine that you read the article "Top 10 Funniest Creative Website Promotion Tips". You can add the 11th, 12th, etc.
• Add humor to your comment. This is a good way to make people read your comment to the end. But I suggest you get involved into a controversy only if you know how to do it.
• Add quotes to the comment. If you can enrich your comment with relevant quotes, it is only a plus for you. The readers will believe that you are really competent in the subject and treat you as an expert. If you can create your own good quotes, go on and do it. Probably you'll gain a popularity due to your quotes.
• Have a unique avatar. On some blogs you can upload an avatar that will be associated with your name. So, take time to create an exclusive avatar. This can be your photo. If you don't want to upload your photo, select another interesting avatar. A nice and effective idea is to place your website link on the avatar. The reader may imprint your URL in his/her memory and want to visit your website later.

Finally, the last yet maybe the most important tip – write a comment only after you read the post. Don't comment if you don't know what the post is about because it will be seen very well that you commented through ignorance.

How to Add Google Authorship to Your WordPress Thesis Website

In this post I would like to share how I have added google authorship/ profile picture/ avatar next to my sites. And this can be done very easily using your wordpress thesis site. Some of you may think your avatar can only be shown next to your blog posts and this feature is available only to blog articles, but it is not you can show up your picture next to any page you have and it’s gives an advantage to your site over your competitors:

So let’s begin.

Now before I go further I want to thank Marco from How to Make My Blogwho put together this tutorial in the first place. I am just improving his method he shared.

Step 1: Sign up for a google plus profile

You should have one by now but if you don’t then go and setup a new profile on google plus.

Step 2: Create a profile

Create a profile, bulk it up with your info and a profile picture. The profile you set on your plus account is the one that will show up on the search results. There is a +1 tab on your profile. Just edit and you will see it, select “Show this tab on your profile” and save. Now you need to +1 at least one page from the web. +1 this article by clicking the +1 button to the left. You are done now for this!

Now you need to put a link to your blog from your google plus profile. Go to “about” section and select “Contributor to” and add your blog address. It doesn’t matters where you link, just make sure it’s a link to your domain.

Save changes!

Step 3: Adding code to your Thesis site

Go to your wordpress dashboard and click thesis > custom file editor.

Now select custom_functions.php and click edit selected.

Now at the very end of the code add these codes:

function change_author_link( $link, $author_id, $author ) {  if ( 'your-wordpress-username-here' == $author )  return 'http://www.yourdomain.com/';  return $link;  }  add_filter( 'author_link', 'change_author_link', 10, 3 );

-In the author part just replace this default text with your username. Yourusername is the same as what you type in to log in. For many users it is “admin”. Also add your own domain there.

And also add this other code:

function custom_headline_catcher() { ob_start(); } function custom_headline_catcher_end() { global $thesis_design; if ($thesis_design->display['byline']['author']['nofollow']) $output = str_replace( 'rel="nofollow"', 'rel="nofollow author"', ob_get_contents() ); else $output = str_replace( 'class="url fn"', 'class="url fn" rel="author"', ob_get_contents() ); ob_end_clean(); echo $output; } add_action( 'thesis_hook_post_box_top', 'custom_headline_catcher' ); add_action( 'thesis_hook_before_post' , 'custom_headline_catcher_end' );

So that everything together will look something like this:

Save the changes.

Step 4: Link to your Google+ profile from your website

Now add a link to your google+ profile. To find this link just open your profile and copy that link.

Now add this code to your footer. If we add this on the footer, all of your pages will show up the picture, since the footer appears on every page!

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Type anything you want but make sure your name and url is the same as it appears on the google+ profile. To add it on the footer, add a plugin called “Thesis Open Hook” go to appearance > thesis open hook and then footer hook (way down on the page).

You may try different things like I did on mine, just want that name and link to appear on the footer:

Step 5: Check if everything worked

Go to this page called rich snippets and type in your web url. If you did according to what I wrote, you should see it positive.

Okay so it works. But if it doesn’t, then redo the steps above.

Step 6: Submit your authorship to google

Now all you have to do is to apply for your author picture. Use this google form and click submit. Then wait a few days and you should be able to see your picture next to your google listings!

Have your say

Do let me know what you think and if you had success after using this tutorial. Also +1 this post if you find it helpful.

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