This is a part of the Blog Topic Idea series.
The comment section can be a treasure trove for getting topic ideas. Every now and then, one of your blog posts would garner a lot of comments. This shows that your readers care more about that particular part of your niche more than the rest. This is quite an obvious hint that you should elaborate and write more about it.
Also, a post loaded with comments, gives you more than a handful of perspectives for a particular topic. These individual perspectives can themselves be blog post on their own.
For example, at KalaaLog, I wrote a blog posts: No More Photoshop – Use GIMP. I got a lot of comments there – and they were in depth views of the readers. Just reading through those comments, I could make out some of the strong points that people raise to justify piracy, and it was quite easy for me to write another spin off – Top 3 Reasons To Pirate Photoshop.
I guess there will be some new bloggers who think that they cannot use this tip. You see – I said Reader Comments – and they may not be readers of your blog. Go ahead, and look at other established blogs in your niche. See which one got more comments that the other posts and you can apply the same technique.
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Nice article there. Thankfully, I get a lot of comments on my blog. Interaction helps.
Thanks Shankar.
Yes, interaction helps in more than one ways.
Great post and I’m sure it will turn into a great series! Comments help a lot as you mentioned in the post. It tells you that what exactly the readers want and your blog will rock if you can deliver what your readers want.
I hope so too. :)
Yes, we need to get on the readers pulse. Find out what they need, and deliver that. And comments paint a good picture of your readers.