I’ll be linking up with the 2024 Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight!
So, I started feeling like I wasn’t commenting enough when some people were commenting all the time on my blog. I’m actually feeling this way right now with all the craziness in my life. But anyway, a year or so ago I started keeping track of it in my blog planner. I would write the names of the blogs I commented on down, so I could keep track of how many times I actually was commenting. Then I started noting which of my own blog posts I would link to when I commented, so I would link a ton of times to the same ones. I feel like I’m maybe getting too invested and spending too much time on that these days.
Do you keep track in any way of commenting on blogs? I have to save a lot of the emails I get so I can click to go back and comment, but I’m wondering if I should stop doing that too. Maybe just go to the blogs I know I comment on a lot because I like their reviews and go through and comment when I can?
Soon my brain started thinking about if those people commented back on my blog. And then I had to stop myself from thinking that way, because that’s not the point! Ugh! My brain goes in circles and stresses about dumb things sometimes. Because I also don’t want to make someone else feel like I am not interested in their blog when they are commenting on mine all the time either!
But I’m curious if anyone else has any kind of tracker they keep on either how many times they comment, or how much time they spend every week commenting, etc. Please share any thoughts you have on this below!
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OK I don’t keep track per se. There is the capability to see comments by post in UBB. This is what I do. I follow 2 types of blogs on Feedly. One is blogs of friends who are people I like even if our reading tastes aren’t always the same. Two is blogs with genres and book reviews of a type I enjoy. I probably have more in the first category.
I review Feedly posts every day and comment when I have things to say. I’ve been sharing review posts to Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. I won’t share to Twitter and if none of the other 3 are an option I’ve stopped sharing them.
Next I get emails for each comment on my blog. I don’t delete the email until I have responded to the comments.
I stopped sharing Deals because people told me they don’t see those posts. I have wondered if the same is true for the friends’ posts I share that no one sees those either?
Hmm, I don’t do much social media really that I see those posts. Occasionally I’ll share on Instagram for PR stuff, but don’t do much on there otherwise. I’ve got to stop being so nitpicky about commenting I think!
WOW! I never kept track of who I commented on or not or who is commenting on my blog. When I first started blogging I tried to comment on every blog I visited, but it got to be too stressful and overwhelming. I want to enjoy blogging, so I only comment when I feel like it and thankful when someone does comment on my blog.
Yeah, I’m feeling overwhelmed with how I’m doing it. I just don’t want people to feel like they visit me and I don’t visit them. 🙁
I understand the felling.
That can be a vicious cycle! I use Feedly to follow blogs that I like to read and/or comment on. Over time, if I notice that a blog I visit doesn’t respond to my comments, I stop commenting, but I will still check out the reviews from time-to-time. If I notice that a blog I visit and comment on doesn’t respond and/or visit my blog (over years), I eventually stop visiting them. I enjoy blogs for reviews and discussions, but it’s also to be social, so there needs to be some back and forth. Does it have to be equal – nope… but there needs to be something.
For my TMST posts, I ask folks to leave links so I can check out their blog. Sometimes if I notice they leave links and visit every week, if they review books I like to read, I’ll add them to my feedly.
It is! Because I feel guilty when I’ve had a month like the past one where I can’t seem to get to blogs to comment. At my last job I could get to most blogs at work, this one they’ve got so much blocked I can’t get to it unless I bring my personal laptop in, so I don’t really bother.
A lot of the same people regularly comment on my blog, but I also get some new ones. I will then glance at their blog, leaving a comment if I see fit.
I do like to go visit new blogs that come to visit me too.
I try to comment back on all the comments made on my blog, but sometimes it won’t be until the end of the week and then I’ll go through an look at a bunch of posts at once. Depends on how busy I am. I have a blog roll (on the right side of my blog) of blogs I like to visit regularly and it shows when there’s a new post, so a lot of times I’ll go through that list and comment. The blogs I visit or keep on that list are ones I like connecting with, even if we don’t read the same kind of books.
Yeah, I usually only have weekends these days to spend time commenting it seems.
I used to be really diligent about this, always replying back when someone commented on my blog as I would feel guilty when I didn’t. And I wanted to thank them for commenting by commenting back. Then life got more stressful and I realized how tough it was to keep up with everything. I do always try to reply to comments on my blog.
Nowadays I just wing it mostly, I subscribe to some blogs like yours by email and then there are some people who comment on my blog and I check out their blogs. I also follow some on social media, but I don’t visit social media as often anymore. When I have time and energy I might visit blogs and leave a comment, but I don’t really keep track of it anymore. Sometimes I do a lot of comments in one go and make a bit of time for that and other times I just see an interesting post or review and comment on just that one post.
I still sometimes feel guilty when someone comments a lot and I don’t comment back as much and I fear people would stop commenting because I don’t always comment back, but so far that hasn’t happened.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who feels guilty if someone comments a lot but then I can’t get back as much. I have all the same thoughts you have, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one! I’ve got to let myself have some grace I think.
I can’t imagine having time to keep track like that. What I do is follow blogs by email (or Feedly if they don’t have an email option). And I blog hop every day, first thing in the morning when I’m up and drinking my coffee. I go through my emails and visit blogs that way. I don’t always comment on every post, it just depends. For the blogs that don’t have any notification system, I just have to remember to visit their blog or comment back if they visit mine.
I’ve been doing this for years so it’s become habit!
I used to have time to visit more often. I follow by email too, and save all the emails in a folder to go back and check out when I have time. I need to just calm down about it and visit for sure when I can.
No, I always visit blogs that comment and still visit blogs that don’t. I follow them, share when I do visit using their links and just do what I can to uplift each other.
I need to just go visit and comment and not worry anymore!
I have tons of subscriptions to blogs!
And when someone leaves a comment (that’s why I set up my blog as accepting a comment manually, not automatically to better keep track), I go visit their blog, and try to leave a comment. If they post about books that have really no connection with my tastes, I just do a like.
I’m also considering redoing a list of all the great articles or whatever posts I visit every week. I used to do that, then stopped.
I do the manual comments too, then I have to go reply on my blog, but it doesn’t always mean I get back to comment to their blog at that same time unfortunately.
I don’t keep track. I follow a lot of blogs on Reader and comment if I have something relevant to say. I try to comment back on comments on my blog and visit those people’s blogs too.
I definitely reply to all comments on my blog, and since I approve them manually, I do it in the back dashboard of the blog, so I don’t necessarily click to go to their sites right away. I need to do better about that I think.
Nope. I used to, but that was… unhealthy. I’d lose my mind trying to keep up. I know that I do not always comment back, or if I do, maybe I don’t always do it at a 1:1 ratio. I try, I do, but sometimes life is hard! So when I have a chance, I take a quick look see whose blogs I’ve not visited in a minute, and then try to get there. I find that now that I don’t post as frequently and rarely engage in link-ups, I have a pretty solid circle of people whose blogs I comment on and who comment on mine, and I try to subscribe to them in some way so they’re always on my radar. But the whole comment-for-comment thing? Nah, I simply can’t handle the stress!
Yeah, I’m stressing myself out so much! I need to just stop it. Maybe keep a list of the blogs I want to comment on and check off when I get the chance every month instead of how many times and etc.
I don’t keep track of the blogs I visit, but I think I’ll have to start doing that soon! I have too many blogs to memorize 😂
When it comes to commenting, I definitely feel you – I always want to make sure all the people who comment on my blog feel welcome and I want to return the favor. I also keep emails saved so I can go back and comment later if I don’t have the time right away. Sometimes life just gets in the way and I don’t visit any blogs for days.
I try to visit as many blogs and comment whenever I feel like it, but sometimes I’m a bit shy and don’t know if I have anything “smart” to say even though logically I know people don’t care and just love getting feedback and talking to others, but still…it’s the introvert in me 😂
I think I save them so I can go back later, but then when I don’t have time for a while it feels like I’m getting backed up and then stress. I know what you mean about feeling like you don’t have anything “smart” to say. I feel like I’m just saying stupid stuff, but want to comment and show them I’m reading their stuff!
I don’t keep track. If someone comments on my blog, I try to comment back, but sometimes I get overwhelmed. I used to be more diligent about it. Now I’m tired. 🙂
Yeah, I was doing really good with it most of this year, then school started back up and a month or so in I just got behind.
I don’t keep track. Being so busy with life I do try to comment on other blogs and respond to those that comment on my blog. Don’t worry about comments anymore. Everyone is busy with their life, that it best to let them move at their own pact.
On side note I do have some regulars that comment on my blog and I do go and comment on theirs’s.
Yeah, I’ve got to just not let myself stress over it! Thanks for joining in the discussion!
I used to be really diligent about commenting back every single time, but I just can’t do it anymore. Nowadays I find I’m having a harder time keeping up with even basic visiting. My strategy has become, “Visit my blogger friends when I can so I don’t lose touch, but don’t overly stress about it.” It’s sad that I’ve lost touch with a lot of people, but I just don’t have the time or energy to keep it up like I used to!
Yeah, it seems like life is just getting busier and busier!