Question for Bloggers: Who Gives A Bleep About Comments?

Posted by Mike Richard on July 20, 2007
Filed under: Blogging

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Since burning my feeds a couple months ago, I’ve noticed a real disproportionate number of folks signing up for my regular blog feed versus those signing up for my comments RSS feed. It’s like a 100-to-1 ratio.

I’m wondering if I’m not promoting the comments feed well enough or do people just not really care to read it?

What have your experiences been? As a blog reader, do you read the comment feeds at other sites?

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

sam
July 20th, 2007 - 10:42 am

This is just my take, Mike. I’m subscribed to your post feed only. And I do read comments, but only on the posts that I click through to. For me, comment interest is entirely dependent upon interest in the post, itself.

Plus, I’m having trouble keeping up with all of the blogs I subscribe to in Google Reader, never mind the Opera and Flock subscriptions. Adding comment feeds to that would make me just a little bit more nuts than I already am.

I do, however, subscribe to the follow-up emails any time I leave a comment. :)


nina
July 20th, 2007 - 2:53 pm

I never sign up for comment rss. I’m mainly interested in the entry itself. I *do* read the comments, but sometimes they’re mostly just conversation and one-liners that doesn’t really add much to the entry. If I leave a comment on a blog, I check back to see if the auther replies. But other than that, I don’t see much of a point of subscribing to the comments feed.


Jeremy David
July 20th, 2007 - 11:48 pm

Yeah I’ve never signed up for a comments feed either - and I’ve never really heard of many people doing the same. So don’t worry about it.


Mike
July 23rd, 2007 - 10:13 am

I agree with y’all. I never sign up for comment feeds either, but I didn’t want to post my opinion until I’d heard everyone else’s.

For me, it’s just a matter of being already subscribed to too many post feeds myself. I’ve plenty to read already!