5 Reasons We Should Be Leaving Comments

(The value of commenting)

As an English professor, I’m used to writing comments on student essays. I was taught that comments are how students learn to improve.

Online article and blog writing is different though.

Nevertheless, comments on online articles are important and, in my opinion, valuable to both the writer and the commenters.

Comments allow writers and readers to communicate and let each other discuss the topic in more depths, with details which may not have been appropriate in the original article.

Comments also allow readers to engage with each other. Like-minded people get to discuss ideas brought up in the article or in the comment.

Comments gives readers the “social proof” that the article is providing the audience with valuable information. The greater the number of comments on an article, the more other readers become curious about what’s going on.

Comments, especially ones that may contain backlinks, can help an article gain traction in a Google search. I am not an expert on SEO, but I have seen that many of the articles ranking highly on Google searches also have large amounts of comments.

Comments, when well-developed, can spur ideas for new articles. The engagement between author, commenter, and the topic are perfect…

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