That should be an interesting topic to consider or discuss also: treating online visitors vs. treating online people who are family members or close friends.

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Good content and a reward are usually the most common ways, and probably extremely effective ways also, to spur interest and comments. From what I have seen on your site so far, you are so far already good at having good content.

Thanks for the comment again, Cade.

Also, do not worry about owing me any comments. I am glad you took the time to post this comment.

Actually, I do expect comments, but in a different way. I don’t expect comments in that I think everyone who stops by should comment, but I expect that if someone has something they want to say, they should say it.

(i owe you comments to a bunch of your other posts from the last ~20 days, but that’s going to have to wait till i have the time again.)

I like how you express clearly which posts raise expectations, and which posts raise hope. By your most interesting posts, do you mean the ones you spend the most time on, or some specific topics you are passionate about, or something else?

Yes, comments do provide feedback. Some posts with no comments, as Andrew and SP noted above, probably show what the readers are looking for. If no one comments on a site, and a blogger gets no e-mail or any kind of response/communication from readers, it will be hard to figure out what readers want other than to look at the blog stats and see which things attract people and which do not.

I also post my posts with the hope that each post will get the message across. If something does not get any attention, it can be an interesting feeling that something that is important is not being recognized well, though there could be many reasons for that, like the post not being clear or people coming to a tech site looking for tech articles, and instead reading about soft drinks being better than water or something.

Thanks Vivien, I really like the “talking to walls” label. That is what many bloggers do, doing it again and again hoping that some day traffic or attention [or even money] will start flowing in.

Sometimes, when I don’t expect to get any comments, I get plenty of them, and when I do expect them eagerly, I get none. Other times, I do get comments as expected.

In general, I need comments to get some feedback on what I write, so I could evolve as a blogger and make my blog more useful and interesting to read.

I don’t belong to that category of people who like “talking to walls”, I don’t like hearing no sound of the stone reaching the bottom of a deep well.

On the other hand, getting no comments when usually I do get comments tells me that this particular post didn’t really resonate with my readers.

Wow, I did not know you were blogging for 3 months. You write so well on such interesting topics, I was under the impression that you had been blogging for years.

So basically, many of your posts go with the flow, focusing on having the quality depend on your actual feelings and experiences, instead of methods that force one to write only to spur traffic. Yes, commenting is like real interacting, only online.

Many stats programs like Mint will actually track how many people read actual posts, and some plugins like WP-Stats will also do the same. Maybe you can try them out and see. I see that your main blog is on blogspot, however. I am not sure what would work on that other than Mint, probably.

Thanks again Carma.