Pedasi Panama
The most difficult aspect of blogging may be distrusting bullshit.
Everyone who experiences fear spreads BS at times.
I do it.
You do it.
Spotting, disproving and proceeding onward from untrue assumptions accelerates your blogging success like no one’s business.
On Monday, April 6, I opened blog comments at 11:30 PM.
On Wednesday, April 8, at 6 AM, 25 approved comments sit on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
Why is this significant?
Any blogger who’s been online for a year let alone 18 years like me gets it; when you close comments for 3 or more years like I had……you and your blog are basically dead in engagement terms.
At the very least, it takes 1-2 good weeks to get a few people to comment on your blog after such a long time.
25 bad boys sit approved in my backoffice after a little more than a day and a half.
What does this prove?
Human beings deeply desire:
- cyber human contact
- speaking their mind
- asking questions
- listening to people
- engaging with people
- having fun, bonding and sharing the love
- co-creating through engagement
- empowering others to succeed in 1-1 fashion
- building a sense of community
From basically early Tuesday morning to mid Wednesday morning a good 25 comments popped up here through natural engagement.
This is what we call “proof”.
People want to interact with people.
Why not migrate people from:
to your blog?
You own your blog. People want to start discussions on your blog. People want to be a part of something special on your blog.
Commentors increase time spent onsite. Commentors lower your bounce rate. People who stick around are more likely to:
- buy your products
- hire you
- drive referral traffic
- drive referral business
The benefits of blog commenting far outweigh the downsides.
Being bitch-slapped with spam and eating up a little bit of storage can slow down your blog potentially.
But I need to be honest here.
After visiting a few blogs over the past week, dynamic ads bog down blogs far more frequently than a lively comments field.
The Proof Is in the People
I do not buy that AI will improve blogging significantly because people prove otherwise.
Humans ran to my blog pronto to share thoughts, ask questions, offer feedback and express concerns.
Why?
A real human being who runs an authentic blog opened blog comments.
People want my blogging help. People want to chat with me. People want me to listen. I want your help. I want to chat with you. I want to listen to your hopes, dreams and problems to help improve your life.
AI is horse shit in this regard because using it to spin content and reply to people completely:
- disrespects human beings who gave you the gift of your attention
- robs you and other people of opportunities to serve, connect and empathize through the skill of listening and writing
When bloggers use AI to respond to human beings, I think it sucks. I also believe that well-meaning, kind bloggers fear running out of time and money, goading these generous souls to make the common error of replacing what the world needs most – Love – with fear, greed, desperation, manipulation, mindlessness and sloppy scale, all in the name of time loss fear.
Open Your Blog Comments
Or feel free to let everyone stop by Blogging From Paradise Dot Com to share your thoughts.
I will happily take your readers off of your hands.
Joking, of course; I wish you immense success.
But my post is a clear indicator that opening blog comments may be a very important step for you to take now in a world of AI fatigue.
Most people are so excited about the applications of AI that only a few have stopped to ask: why?
Certain uses can be truly helpful.
But do you have any idea how fun it’s been to interact with humans 1-1 and in our community the split second I opened comments? People started commenting a few minutes after I opened ’em up again.
Not only that, pretty much every commentor thanked me for getting comments up and running again.
Humans really do appreciate establishing lines of communication.
Real communication does NOT exist with artificial intelligence because the real aspect is one-sided. A thing “listens” to humans then spins some reply based on manipulation, not compassion, empathy, love and fun.
Feel free to use AI to get your answers.
But you miss out on the opportunity to connect with someone who desperately needs your connection now.
The World Is a Lonely Cold Place without Love
The world of separation, of AI, of using things to “communicate and help”, is cold and lonely because it removes reality and replaces it with an illusion.
When I say “Love”, I mean the one mind that binds us.
We appear to be different in form.
But we are all the same in mind.
Have you wondered by it feels good to help other people?
That good feeling is you helping yourself on the level of mind.
Quantum physics proves it.
Opening blog comments gets that good-feeling self help vibe back again.
Put the comments (which are content), lower bounce rate, organic traffic and blogging income in your pocket.
I am pretty sure Zuck and Elon have enough dough.
More power to ’em!
But versus building their fortune……why not build your own?
Off to Redwood City Soon
My wife Kelli and I will visit Redwood City, California in about a week.
Google, Facebook and Apple are among the tech titans right there in Silicon Valley.
Tech people have pretty much become the most powerful people in the world based on this simple strategy: keep people onsite with content and comments to make money off these users.
Yet most of us bloggers are so afraid to succeed that we send readers away from our blogs.
Pay close attention to this painful form of self-sabotage.
Look at your blog.
Is it sticky?
Opening comments is the fastest way to make it sticky. People want to talk. People want to ask you questions. People want to be heard. People want to share their thoughts.
Open blog comments.
People will stick around.
Every split second a highly interested human being spends on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com, everything amplifies as far as potential – and actual – business.
Keep people in the store and you bet your sweet booty they are more likely to buy.
But I suggest doing things different than tech titans.
Never de-humanize people to make money off of them.
Publish highly detailed, targeted posts.
Open blog comments.
Start a dialog.
Put the ball in their court.
Allow them to pull the buy trigger when they want to.
Never use fear to manipulate people to buy.
Never deceive.
Be helpful.
Be honest.
Listen.
Give readers a platform through blog comments.
Allow organic blogging income to build passively as you get lost in helping, discussing and having fun with the blogging process.
Conclusion
People are talking.
Why not bring these folks over to your blog?
What’s the downside?
Having fun and thriving?
Your Turn
Do you keep comments open or closed?
Do you close comments because you fear being spammed?
Do you close comments because you fear that people do not comment on blogs anymore? Are you willing to challenge that limiting belief?
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