On 5th November, I post my first ‘fight’ post and it is about traffic vs comment. As we know traffic and comment are the most important aspect of blogging. All blogger looking forward to either traffic or comment and mostly both. But sometime to have both is difficult, and catching two rabbits you might lose both, so with that in mind I ask reader to vote either the prefer traffic or they prefer comment.
I could say the fight is very-very close one, you can give much difference to the winner. After four days of voting time, I gladly to announce that 58% of you prefer comment, and 42% traffic, it close call if we look at the number which is 33 person vote and 19 vote comment, meanwhile traffic have the rest which is 14, the margin only 5 vote that pretty close.
From this fight I could conclude that both traffic and comment are important, it is what make the blog what it is. How popular your blog is you can take traffic and comment as benchmark. Bloggers that prefer comment over traffic are bloggers that looking more to sharing idea, and expand it, only way to do it is by receive comment from reader. Here some comment from my the fight that prefer comment -
Comment
comment is much more value to me. it means there are people who like reading my entries. when there r people leaving comments on the blog, traffic ensues. so it’s nothing to worry about at the beginning for having low traffic.
but i know some bloggers are really crazy to create entries just to attract visitors to the point of cracking their head. i simply don’t see the point. blogging an entry has to come natural. cooking an entry just to attract visitors… is not a window to the writer’s soul and character.
so i will just stick to comments.
by Renaye
Before, I thought that more comments show more traffic. But later, I noticed that it is not always the case. Like you said, it is hard to have both. I prefer comments because I would know that I have visitors who like what I write about. But I just wish that the comments are genuine and not just for comment’s sake.
by Marlene
I choose comment rather than traffic. Why? Comments will help me improve my writing and have more ideas to write about. Comments also contribute to increase traffic
by Tinh
Comments are very important for a blog and I comment more because it gives writer confidence. And also gives back traffic.
by Sahil Kotak
Both are very important. But i love a comment from a reader more.
I ve seen a blog with a great traffic with low number of comments. Those into monetizing their blogs, probably have good number of traffic due to Adgitize, entrecard and other programs as such.
You can get traffic easily, but to get a reader to comment, that would need some extra tremendous work, especially if your blog has a wide range of demographics.
And i see in Malaysia, most ipt bloggers do have a large number of readers due to “friends” contributions.
Comments let you know that your blog is building up a community.
That is some comment that prefer comment over traffic, you can read more on the original post. But traffic not lost without a fight, bloggers that prefer traffic over comment mostly bloggers that looking to generate income from the blog, and the important thing about making money with blog is traffic. Here some comment that prefer traffic -
Traffic
I blog for money, so I prefer traffic. However, getting comment always boost you. I must say getting comment on tech-software-gadget related blog is tough because blogger not think about it much. They invest their time to get new source but you can easily see lot of comment on blogging base site or some off topic site, because they post 1 or 2 post daily where tech blogger have to post more and cover their niche as much as possible to stay in competition.
Traffic is definitely more important than comments. A few of the top professional bloggers don’t allow comments in their blog. Perhaps too busy to moderate comments!
But healthy comments do provide some insight to your post & may lead to some discussion/conclusion. comments must not be planted just for the sake of commenting. There’s little or no use of comments like: great post…nice post…keep it up etc.by Basant Singh
As for me, I prefer traffic. But of course a blog without comments is like a dead blog. Most blogs that I’ve seen that doesn’t have comments on them are merely blogs used to make money online. Sometimes, those kinds of blogs are like trash.
But still I believe if I put another option for the pool which is ‘both’, i’m positive that this fight absolutely win by ‘both’ that the reason why I didn’t put it in the first place. Even there is no option both, but still there are comments that prefer both -
Both
I would say that I need both for my blog. Traffic means that my content is being found and comments means that I’m building a community around my blog and the interaction is good.
Agree with George . . why don’t have both?
Traffic to ensure people are reading your work and comments to build a discussion around it. Both are not mutually exclusive, they are actually mutually linked.by SK
I too think that both comments and traffic are equally important. Comments show that the reader liked your article or they have some good input for you and the comments are their spontaneous response. But the traffic is a different case, it shows that what you write is reaching out to how many visitors. And every blogger wishes that many people should read his/her post and there should be some true reactions also. Well, great that you started this poll, it is really interesting and a brainstorming topic.
by Tejaswini
This has been great discussion for me, I really appreciate all that give though in this issues. Just make sure that you give more thought on next fight that I will publish maybe next week. If you still have some opinion about this topic, just voice it out it never too late.
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Comment by Arafat Hossain Piyada · November 10, 2009 @ 10:18 am
The result is expected to me. This is a personal blog and most of the people visit here actually love to make new friends and to me comment is best procedure to build relationship with fellow bloggers. So, the result is expected.
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Comment by Alique Azmi · November 10, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Depends on the blog type. For personal, fun or entertainment, comment is the main source like icanhazcheeseburger. For blog that focus main on business or making money, of course traffic is the priority.
Comment by Dana @ Online Knowledge · November 10, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Yeah, you sure have great discussion on that fight posting.
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Comment by nazra · November 10, 2009 @ 12:59 pm
oh me forgot what did I’ve voted on that post. but congrats to comment that win this fight
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Comment by samanosuke_04 · November 10, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
for me, comments are a bit more encouraging. they show how your visitors love your posts and responds to them.. sometimes traffic aren’t that valuable when some of them are random, or stumble upon traffic.. hehehe
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Comment by zuls · November 10, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
I do agree with Encik RnR comment, we can get traffic by using those blog advertising networks. But to get comments is not that easy.
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Comment by cikepal · November 10, 2009 @ 5:47 pm
Both are very important. But i love a comment from a reader more…because their comment sometimes more valuable rather than my entry..weeee~
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Comment by ikanstim · November 10, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
comment is essentials to one’s blog. that the reason why i made up the comment and win competition. haha
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
but it still close fight though..
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
yup, it very true.. what happen to your blog?
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
i will publish another fight, hope it will be the same..
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
agree with you..
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
yup, especially to get quality comment and quality traffic..
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
yay, sometime comment can expand the topic even further.
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
wat the prize uh? hehe
Comment by izzat aziz · November 10, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
it tough fight though..
Comment by Incik RestNrilekS · November 11, 2009 @ 1:10 am
I am going to spam here. Lol.
Salam Zul, nampak juga hang di sini.
I am spamming here to build a community.
Maaf ya Izzat
Comment by Incik RestNrilekS · November 11, 2009 @ 1:12 am
Izzat
thanks for the linky love. : )
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Comment by Michael Aulia · November 11, 2009 @ 6:38 am
I guess it depends on what you want from your blog. If you want recognition, then go for comment. If you want money or ranking, go for traffic
I’d prefer a bit of both but if I have to choose, I’ll choose traffic. You can definitely get some comments automatically once you’ve made friends in the blogosphere
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Comment by izzat aziz · November 11, 2009 @ 11:53 am
you deserve it..
Comment by izzat aziz · November 11, 2009 @ 11:54 am
it true, traffic have lot more usage than comment, but to get both it just like feel the sun from front and back..
Comment by av8erPrince · November 11, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Hi Izzat. I saw your comment on problogger and thought I’d stop by at your blog. And this is the first post that I read. To be honest with you, I never even thought about it this way, traffic vs comments. I used to have business websites, with no user interaction, but a lot of traffic. But then I had a product to sell as well. Moreover, back then the user interaction (web 2.0) was never even heard of. So, my take on this would be that definitely need traffic like we used to, but now that web 2.0 has enhanced the experience with comments, so we should absolutely try to get the maximum of comments as well. I use a wordpress plugin which actually “utilizes” my site comments for SEO ranking as well. Nice topic and nice post. I just couldn’t help but leave you a comment here.
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Comment by izzat aziz · November 11, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
thank for willing to come, and hope you will come again next time.
with web 3.0 is coming through, so web 2.0, interaction as you say should already
become important aspect and on of it is comment. I think we need to maximize our comment and also traffic, together.
Comment by Alique Azmi · November 11, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
Someone close hacked it. Social engineering at its best. Haha. Aku pasrah.
Comment by Sahil Kotak · November 12, 2009 @ 3:30 am
Waiting for your next fight post izzat.
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Comment by Dennis Edell · November 12, 2009 @ 3:55 am
Sorry to bust in with an OT comment, but this is a very unique theme, what is it?
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Comment by Gaurav · November 12, 2009 @ 6:32 am
blog comments inspired me to focus on my writing, this blog is a inspiration for those who require comments on their posts.
Just follow the dedication Aziz is putting over it.
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Comment by Hicham Maged · November 12, 2009 @ 9:00 am
I expected that and beside my previously mentioned comment, I liked George Serradinho’s too.
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Comment by izzat aziz · November 12, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
@Dennis Edell it free theme byt wp-them.es and design by mentariworks you can check the footer link
@Gaurav yup it actually push us to write more and more content.
Comment by Dennis Edell · November 13, 2009 @ 2:40 am
Thanks for that, I’ll check hem out. I’m so a new subscriber here.
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Comment by Dennis Edell · November 13, 2009 @ 2:42 am
Oops, you also need an edit comments plugin. LOL
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Comment by Pallab · November 14, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
I would take traffic over comments any day. After, traffic is what you are really after. And in general, if you have traffic, comments will come.
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Comment by Ruchi · November 17, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
I love both traffic and comment and if i have to choose one i love to choose comments.
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Comment by Rian · November 18, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
I think comments are much better because it means someone has read whatever you have written. For ever comment it means traffic. But not all traffic means comments.
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