So your comment stats are barren (or pretty close) and you want more people to offer feedback, but you don’t know where to start without sounding desperate — in steps 10 Tips For Getting More Comments on Your Blog [PDF 150k].

These tips were designed to get your creative juices flowing and stimulate ideas to get your readers to comment on your blog entries, assuming you’ve enabled commenting.

So who are you anyway?
Tip 1: Have an about page

I have to do what to leave a comment?
Tip 2: Make it easier on your readers by not requiring readers to register in order to comment

What did you just say about who?
Tip 3: Evoke emotion. Preferably joy, but any extreme emotion will do.

Fill in the blank…
Tip 4: End your posts with an open ended question

Cat got their tongue?
Tip 5: Make sure your topic actually warrants commentary

Don’t be stingy with the linky.
Tip 6: Link to other blogs and share the PR goodness.

The Golden Rule applies to comments too.
Tip 7: Comment on other blogs as you’d have them comment on yours

No, really, I’m not a horny gambling drug pimp
Tip 8: Make sure your spam measures are properly configured.

When all else fails…
Tip 9: Ask.

When flat out asking fails…
Tip 10: Try bribery.

Enjoy!