Why Your Blog’s Readers Should be Able to Contact You (ProBlogger)
Jul 31st, 2006 by Viviane
Why would you want to be contacted by readers? Isn’t having comments enough?
I find that having a way to be contacted is beneficial on a number of fronts.
- Firstly it gives your readers a way to privately contact you
- It gives readers a sense of power
- It’s about accountability
- It identifies problems
- It opens opportunities
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Great posts – there is often info or requests I do not want the whole world to see in comments. There are plenty of blogs that don’t have comments enabled. That’s a shame, because the comments can often add an extra way to communicate, between the blog author and other readers and bloggers.
I completly agree with you love.
I actually wouldnt mind more contact really. Based on hits and things, you would think more people wouls buck up and want to communicate with you, but I think some fear that we’re intensely personal creatures.
There is one thing that all sex-bloggers have in common; a need to share and a need to connect on the subjects we write about and the photography we indulge in.
Love the post, great reasons. (:
-la petite
Overall I do prefer email, for reasons that are too detailed, and maybe a touch controversial, but I find that in cases where a writer posts frequently, it can be difficult to sit there and respond to every single comment (that’s if the writer receives more than 30 comments per post, or even if it’s less and they’re lengthy comments, a bit like this one
), and at the same time I also would feel terrible if I couldn’t reply as well, and while I’d endeavour to get around to it all, there are times I can miss a couple.
Email isn’t so dangerous as long as a person takes the usual precautionary steps, like setting up a separate email for their blog.
I think comments (rather than being a writer-reader feedback thing) are great for reader discussions where ideas are knocked about, but often times, depending on the genre, commenting can become a means for ‘gaining’ other comments as well, or a networking process, and when it becomes a networking process, that’s where I lose interest.