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Are you a blogger who feels boredom on writing? Beware! It will kill your passion on writing someday. Find out the problem behind it. Perhaps, the problem is about finding idea. Or, if you are not a blog star, so your blog post has a small amount of comments.

If your problem is the 2nd one, you don’t ever need to be a blog star to get a large amount of comments. Here some tips how to get more comments on your blog post.

1. Write a simple and informative blog post. The power of your blog is in the content itself. People will love to read your blog post if it offered them a good information, useful and understandably. So, write a post with a simple topic, so your visitors will able to understand your idea easily and then interested in sharing their ideas, too.
2. Ask a question to the end of your post. This is a simple trick to make your post more interactive and impressive. Ask a simple question. It will make your visitors interested in sharing their ideas or opinions.
3. Be a commenter of comments. Other way to interact with your visitors is by replying or responding their comments. It would be nice if you can address some of them directly.
4. Be controversial. Being a controversial blogger is not easy, indeed. It will need a big responsibility and last but not least, skill. However this is the fastest way to get comments from readers of your blog post.
5. Blogwalking and leave comments. Blogwalking is one of the easy way to promote your blog. Visit others blogs, read their blog posts, and add comments or your opinion to that posts. Simply write your name and URL of your blog. The owner and visitors of that blog will see your comments. It will be a good chance to get more visitors as well as commenters, for your blog.
6. Create your community. You can start making a small community of bloggers or commenters. This is only a virtual community. The members are the bloggers who periodically write comments to other member’s blog.

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Mustamar, 22 years old. A freelancer, college student, hard thinker, debater, and ordinary person. Living in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Blogger’s block is something which almost every blogger experiences in his blogging career. It is something every blogger hates because if they cannot write posts for their blog, they are going to miss so many new visitors, lose old subscribers and also get a big drip in the income.

This has become a big problem for a blogger that many bloggers have written posts on how to come out of the bloggers block. I have read a lot of posts and have also tried them to overcome bloggers block. In most cases they work but not always. I always feel that:

“Prevention is better than cure”

Why should you fall in bloggers block and then go for a cure. Most people don’t know why they fall in the bloggers block. If you are doing one of the below, you are sure to have bloggers block:

1. Develop Interest In Other Things

If you are developing interest in some other thing, you are going lose interest in what you are doing already. Though few people still manage to continue blogging even though they have developed interest, many cannot do it. They either have to stop blogging for few days and continue with their new interest or dump the new interest and continue blogging. Developing interest in new things is not bad. If you can keep it in control and continue blogging, it will pay off well.

2. Fix Unachievable Goals

Planning and working accordingly is a good habit. People, who plan their work, also set goals. Setting goals will help you achieve almost anything in a less time. But fixing unachievable goals will give bad results.

Say, you can set a goal like this:
I want to earn $1000 per month from blogging by the end of third month.
This is achievable.

But something like the below is not achievable.
I want to earn a five figure income by blogging from first month.

Though few people earn five figure incomes per month, they have worked tremendously hard to achieve this. It didn’t happen for them in single month. There are months of hard work behind it.

So fix goals that are achievable. If you are fixing unachievable goals, you will be frustrated and this might prevent you from blogging. It will create hate towards your blog. Always fix goals that are achievable.

3. Hate Your Blog

Hating your blog is the main reason why you fall into bloggers block. Don’t develop hate towards your blog. This hate towards your blog comes when you are comparing your blog with other people’s blog, or when you are not satisfied with your blog’s performance.

Instead of comparing your blog with others’, compare it with your blog itself. Compare your yesterday’s statistics with today’s. Compare your earnings of last month’s with this month’s. This is the right way of comparing. Always be satisfied with what you get. Don’t have too many expectations from your blog. If your blog is not performing well this month, try working hard to make it perform well in the next month. Don’t feel upset.

If you are falling into the bloggers block, the person to be blamed is you. The reason also lies within you. If you feel encouraged, you will never get trapped in the bloggers block. One of your reasons for blogging can be earning from it. But it should not be the only reason. Blogging is more than that. You can develop trust, brand and friendship. If you are not getting what you expected from your blog, feeling annoyed and getting yourself trapped in the bloggers block won’t help you. Be confident that you can achieve.

Have you ever fallen in the bloggers block? What was the reason behind it? Please share it in the comments.

Ramkarthik is an 18 year old blogger and freelance writer. He writes also has a blog that gives tips on blogging. You can visit his blog, Blogging Tune.

Ryan Caldwell of Performancing shared his experience in creating successfull list-oriented linkbaits.

Ah, yes.  Please keep in mind that a linkbait is not only in form of a list, but also in another writing style.

Linkbaiting (link baiting, linkbait, link bait etc) is a term that has increasingly being used around the blogosphere. Linkbait is a strategy when writing a post which was intended to withdraw other readers as well ad bloggers attention and then link it into their own blogs.

In term of posting’s topic or entry, Randfish of SEOMoz pointed out that there are two kinds of linkbait: (1) Linkbait - “Link-Worthy, Linkerati-Targeted Content“; and (2) “Attracting Link Attention with Controversy”

Ryan said that the key to writing bait is not objectivity, but being comfortable with subjectivity and opinion.

Here are he usually does when he writes a listbait:

1. come up with headline (defines the concept)
2. brainstorm list until I’m exhausted
3. remind myself that this is not a mid-term exam
4. write 1 sentence per item in the list (the “justification” for each item)
5. remove any items I can’t write 1 sentence for
6. pray that the sentence writing helped clarify my line of thought and jogs my mind for a few more items
7. remove the chaff
8. flesh out content with pics, videos, links
9. identify a number
10. refine the headline to fit the final content

# 3 is really an interesting point!

Thanks for sharing, Ryan! I will try to write my own soon!

When you have been blogging for several times, finally you would reach the limit of what topics you would like to share with your readers.

I personally experienced this problem. I was freshed out of ideas. I can’t think of anything new that I want to share with my audiences.

One of my own blog’s topics is about brand campaign website and other examples of best practise websites as a business. Usually I commented and criticized about those websites.

Then I got this idea, why not let the website’s owner share his/her ideas of the website he/she built? So, I started to contact some of them (fortunately, a few of them I know quite well), offering them interviews as a post in my blog. They respond happily. This probably would also be a good chance for them to promote their business through different audiences.

I made some questions and send them through email. After receiving the answer, I edited few words and started posting it as a blog post.

So then, you get your post with others writing them out for you. My blog readers were also excited, since they found different perceptions in my blog.

You can also do this by interviewing others that related to your blog topics. Usually, readers would love to read the experience of others in the particular fields.

The readers need to have some inspirations to do the same thing. That’s what they love when they’re reading interviews.

This post written by Pitra Satvika. He is currently active in his own company, Stratego, as client service manager and creative strategy.

My last article talked about some reasons why company should start blogging. This time, I want to share my opinion about another topic — it’s still related to my previous one. This time, I will write something a little bit technical, and — of course — it’s related to blogging activities.

If someone (or even a company) wants to start blogging (after having the concept), the very first questions to answer is: “What’s the best platform?”. The simple answer should be: “Use a blog engine as its platform. Period.” But, sometime, some companies go to an opposite direction. They created their own platform, getting someone make a custom content management, etc. For what reason? Because “it’s just cool to have our own application”? Think again! Personally, if it’s related to — again! — blog, it’s useless to build blogging application from zero, especially today. Why?

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