Onboarder's Tips for Blogging Series: Engage with your audience by commenting
As a budding Hiver, one of our immediate and primary objective is likely to get more readers, upvotes and to keep our post earnings high. However, in order to achieve these, one needs to be engaging with the audience. Certainly engage with those who leave comments in our post, but also on their posts.
It should be obvious by now that engaging with our audience via commenting builds relationships with them. In turn, the establishment of a sense of community around our account is important for getting more readership.
There are a few important things that happens when we take the trouble to engage with other Hivers.
The most important thing is that fellowship and trust can be built through such engagements. By actively responding to comments and feedback, we show our readers that we value their opinions and are willing to consider their thoughts. This helps to establish a sense of trust between us and our readers, which makes them more likely to come back to our posts in the future. They may choose to reblog our posts and that is helpful!
Secondly, the more we comment, we inevitably increases visibility of our account name. Other new people may notice us and follow us, and eventually up vote our posts. This is what we wanted isn't it?
Now come the practical bit. How do we operationalise that?
- Try to set a daily goal to comment. Say, 10 per day.
- Make sure these comments are meaningful, and not just short "Thanks", or "I agree". Put some effort to actually connect with the author.
- Respond to people who reply to your post. Try to upvote their comments, if possible.
- Go on a comment spree on #leothreads. Check out https://alpha.leofinance.io/threads. Be a friendly guy or gal, comment to things you find interesting.
It takes a while to build a strong following that ensures good post earnings. Before all these happens, we need to engage more by commenting!
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