Just Starting Out Blogging? Consider Launching Without Comments

By admin | Oct 22, 2009

So I was reading around like I do, and the crew out at seomoz gave me a great idea to whomp up and pass around to you.

No doubt many of you are seasoned blogging professionals. This advice may not be so helpful to you. But to those of you just getting started, consider this: don’t let people comment on your blog.

You might wonder if this isn’t counterproductive. Didn’t I, after all, spend several posts railing on the concept of building community? I did, no mistake there, but if you’re too new to have a community, showing that you have no community makes your blog look weak and unprofessional. So what they recommend you do is wait to add a comments section until you have one or both of the following:

1. At least one hundred RSS subscribers per day

2. At least seven hundred fifty unique visitors per day.

There’s definitely something to be said for keeping the lid on commentary until your audience justifies such a measure, though I’m not sure it’s the best. After all, it does something of a disservice to your early readership, the ones you’re counting on most, to not allow them to comment on your posts.

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