SEOJs 11 Most Commented On Blog Posts

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 25 of November , 2007 at 2:36 am

After 410 posts on Search Engine Optimization Journal, I thought I’d go back and take a look at some of my most commented on blog posts. I wanted to put together a top 10 list of blog posts that have attracted the most comments. I started off counting blog posts that had at least 4 comments. After surpassing 15 popular blog posts I dropped those with only 4 comments and started focusing on posts with at least 5 comments. Again, I went over 20 posts and ended up dropping all the 5. Below are the top 11 blog posts - those SEOJ blog posts with 6 or more comments.

• Blog Comments Make For Some Good SEO 11 comments
• If Content Is King, Who’s Wearing The Crown 9 comments
• Yahoo Vs. Google On Search Fulfillment 9 comments
• PR Update? The SEO Community Is Expecting 9 comments
• Why Do Bloggers Make Commentators Sign In? 8 comments
• Article Marketing Beats Out Link Exchanges For High Quality Links 7 comments
• How To Ensure You Never Get Link Love 7 comments
• Word Documents Insert Bad Code Into Blog Posts 6 comments
• How To Improve Organic CTR Through Two Important Meta Tags 6 comments
• Is It Fair To Use Other Brands To Promote Oneself? 6 comments
• “Click Here” vs. SEO: Clark 1, Miller 0 6 comments

When I survey this list I notice three things. First, all of these blog posts are after June 2007 despite the fact that I started this blog in March 2007. That just goes to show that there is a time value to SEO. Older posts are not necessarily as popular as the newer posts. They likely received less traffic when they were new than the newer posts received when they were new. That accounts for the increase in popularity among those posts in June and after.

The second thing I notice about this list is that the blog posts that attract the most comments are the controversial ones. Humor doesn’t get me many comments. But make a stand on something that someone is likely to disagree with and you are almost assured a good number of comments.

Thirdly, 6 of the 11 blog posts were written in August or later. 10 of 11 were written in July or later. This could be an indication that my skills are improving. What do you think?

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