If I get more ideas after looking at your blog I’ll tell you. :)

By the way I think bloggers are focused on other blogger bit too much. Natural because a lot of people leaving comments are bloggers (even more so in tech niche) but bulk of visitors actually aren’t.

I do pay a lot of attention and time when it comes to people who comment on my blog. At times I tend to also lack in the personality which attracts people like a magnet.

I made comments on your blog because you offer things which I am interested in and because they are related to my blogs niche.
I spend much time looking for other blogs which I can learn from and that helps me to improve my blog as well. The reaction I wanted is that if you found my comments to contain substance, then you would take the time to respond to my comments.

The benefit that I am aiming for myself is to make new blogging friends which I can network with.

I’ve covered related topic of getting questions from readers:
http://www.rarst.net/web/encouraging-questions/

I think building up comments require a lot of:
- attention
- time
- personality

I lack in personality so I make sure that I pay attention to every single comment and keep it going. It takes weeks and even months for lurking regular visitors to drop their first comment, it’s important to make them aware it was appreciated.

Let’s flip this – you had made three good relevant comments here today (thank you!). Why had you decided to do this? What reaction you expected from me? What benefit you expect for yourself?

Think what makes you leave comments.

I know for me it’s when blogger cares about me as reader (that wasted some time to actually make comment) and is willing to keep discussion going. So that’s exactly what I try to offer my readers.

Need to check your blog later this evening. :) I had it bookmarked (seen you at nice2all I think)… Somewhere… Sometimes I save stuff for later and it becomes realyl long later.

However it is a good thing that my web directories are the money makers which keeps the blog alive. I plan to give things another six months to see what my next move is as in continuing the present format of the blog.

It would be quick to change if whole freaking CSS, widgets and some more weren’t tied directly to those specific tags. :(

I will get to it… Eventually. :)

Yep, I talked about the H1 heading. I understand it’s all part of design, but it’s fairly quick to change. By the way, I’ve seen some websites using two H1 heading on the same page, one for the name of the website and one for the title of the post.

Good luck with the design! ;)

Nah, post with most comments (47) is Dropbox invites giveaway. If not forever then for a very long time. :)

Thanks for being faithful reader!

H1 heading you mean, title is fine. I am aware that headings (and rest of that stuff) are totally screwed. This theme is natively very weak for SEO it seems.

That would all need fixing after I am done with design. :(

I think you are on the right path for 2009.

I just had a quick look at your page’s source (because I care about your Google traffic) and noticed that for all your pages, the title is actually your blog name or more precisely http://www.Rarst.net. This is good for your home page, but in single posts like this one, you want your H1 to be the title of your post. By having your blog’s name as the H1 on all your pages, it’s more or less like saying to Google your pages are about the same subject: http://www.rarst.net.