Before you get all bent out of shape about how blog commenting is a horrible link building strategy, I want you to take a moment and approach this strategy with an open mind. What I’m talking about ...

Blog owners who install Disqus to replace their default commenting system get the added benefit of creating a separate forum for each post that mirrors whatever discussion is on the comment thread ...

Sure, I’ve gotten some spam comments, but I always remove them. Just because it’s a do-follow blog doesn’t mean I have to approve every comment or allow every link.

In addition to leaving more comments, people using pseudonyms are more likely to leave comments that get “likes” from other readers, according to Disqus, which operates blog commenting ...

Another argument for comments is that blog owners can show they listen to their audience by joining in the discussion. This can create interactions that increase time spent on site, page views ...

Are comments (and the number of them) the measure of a successful blog? Or are traffic, subscribers and sales leads more important? This question was originally answered on Quora by Mark Hughes.

The benefits of blog comments may be indirect, but that does not make them any less powerful. Encourage Conversation. Above all, blog comments encourage individual readers to connect with each other.

If you are one of the 164 million-plus people or businesses that publish a blog, you may be interested to hear that, according to social-media experts, blog comments are dead. Over. Nada.