Bloggers for Dollars

I don't leave comments on blogs as often as I might like to. The main reason I don't comment is because I try to be polite to the blog owner by not leaving off topic comments. Sometimes I read every post on the front page just to see if I can in some way relate my comment to a given topic. Most of the time I can't.

For instance, I might want to drop by What Ever I Feel Like to say hello and to respond to a comment Amy left on my For the Heck of It blog earlier this evening. In this case a "just passing through" comment would be totally out of place in any of the posts that Amy made today. So instead of leaving an off-topic comment I didn't say anything.

Here is a little trick I've used on most of my sites to engage my readers. It is really easy.

Just create a new page and call it something creative that fits your personality. I'm going to call mine "Graffiti" because, well, I always call my comment page "Graffiti" and old habits die hard. You can simply name your page "Comments" or you can get creative with it. Maybe Amy would call her comment page "Whatever You Feel Like". Get it? hehe

Make sure your page is set up to accept comments and write some text inviting your visitors to leave a comment. I always invite my visitors to "spew", hehe, but that's my personality, you don't have to be so, er, tacky. I've been meaning to set up my graffiti page for a while now but didn't get around to it until now.

Let me know what you think of this idea by leaving a comment to this post, or by golly spew yer graffiti here. *grin*