Chapter 10
Building Community with Comments
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering what comments are and how to use them
Maintaining and managing your blogging community
Dealing with spammy comments on your blog
Handling negative comments on other blogs
In my opinion, every blog should have comments. Love them or hate them, they're an integral part of blogging. In the days before the explosive popularity of social media, comments on blog provided the main source of interaction between bloggers and their readers. Now comments in response to blog posts often live on Facebook Pages or even on Twitter or Instagram. Comments allow visitors to your blog to ask you questions, share their opinion of your post, suggest your next blog topic, or even just leave a note to say hello. This personal connection to the blog author is still part of what makes blogs special.
Unfortunately, as interesting and thought-provoking as comment conversations can be, they're not without their challenges. Comment spam and negative commentary can take the joy out of blogging and make managing comments on your blog feel ...
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