Do comments drive interest?

I have been running a bit of an experiment recently. I’ve decided that I need to be less of a viewer and do more interacting. So I’ve been adding comments to posts a lot more. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is that I would like more comments on my post and you can’t expect what you don’t do yourself. the second is that I was intrigued to see whether my interactions would drive any traffic back to my site. I suppose I was seeing it as a bit of a mutual response and respect thing.

In normal conversation it’s polite to respond when someone makes a comment and I wondered whether we had naturally built the same etiquette in blogs.

The results have been quite mixed to be honest, but mostly people don’t check back. They certainly don’t leave any comments on my site, some respond on their own site but that’s really difficult to know if they have a long comment list.

The real question, though, is whether I care. Well on one level I don’t, because I have no massive aspirations to be a super-blogger or anything like that. On another level I do care because I want to know I am noticed, but that just some deep seated insecurity complex that most of us experience every day.  Does it puzzle me why some people get noticed and others don’t – definitely; but that isn’t limited to blogging it’s always been a mystery to me.