A Blog without Comments is Social Media without the Social

I’ve been a long time subscriber of GarryConn.com who blogs about making money online, blogging, and affiliate marketing and other similar topics. Today he announced that he is going to stop accepting comments on his blog.

Sure it’s his blog, he can do whatever he please with it – but a blog that doesn’t accept comments is a blog that doesn’t believe in ‘social media‘. It ceases to become a blog and starts to just become a one man rant.

I personally find this to be a disconnect from what the whole purpose behind blogging is. Blogging is about building a community and sharing insights with one another.

I bet if you asked any of the other A-List bloggers out there how important they think their commenters are they will all agree that they are extremely important to their success.

The web is becoming more and more social everyday. I myself am trying to bring more and more social interaction into my blog by using Disqus and Backtype plugins, as well as integrating twitter as often as possible.

A blogger who doesn’t understand or get the ’social’ aspect of blogging, isn’t a professional blogger at all.

Garry Conn’s current alexa rank is 32,000 and he has a google PR of 4, I currently hover around 200,000 for alexa, and 3 for PR. Sure he has more clout where it comes to his blog’s rankings. I’d like to see what happens in the next 3-5 months. I’ll be sure to check back and do an update. I would even suggest that removing comments from his blog could kill his blog altogether.

If you remember Kumiko’s Cashquests – she removed commenting, and then gave up blogging and sold her blog a couple months later. (i’m happy to say I now have a much higher Alexa rank than Cashquests which used to be in the top 100,000 – not that I’m gloating -lol).

One thing I can be sure of  -as long There’s a blog in MY Soup this blog will Always have open comments.

What do you think? Will removing Comments kill his blog?

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