Our MyST Blogsite generates highly qualified leads compared to other venues of online lead generation. One of the primary reasons is we have a trust factor, which we built (and continue to build) by providing dependable and accurate information through the blogsite. As a result, actions are more meaningful for business and the customer."
Today we released a new integrated commenting feature making it easier for your blogsite visitors to provide feedback and participate in your weblog conversations.
The Blogsite integrated commenting system provides commenting services for both private and public content. Today's upgrade applies to public commenting and is available to all Blogsite customers without charge.
Public comments are created by visitors and automatically placed into a moderated workflow allowing you to decide if a comment should be shared openly, ignored, or deleted. Moderation can be done with a web browser through administrative options in the blogsite or through a secure RSS feed using a newsreader.
Fully integrated with your blogsite’s weblog channels.
Capture visitor name, e-mail, and web URL.
Remembers commenters information to reduce commenting friction.
Monitor new comments via RSS.
Anti-spam protection (visitors must type the letters they see in a “captcha” images).
Comment moderation (comments do not appear publicly until you approve them)
Ability to edit and/or delete undesired comments.
Access to contact information through user-definable XML feeds.
Public commenting is an optional feature; please contact support if you want this feature enabled on your blogsite.
For most advertorial blogsite clients I would discourage the enabling of comments. With moderated commenting though, I'm tempted. When do you think it makes sense to enable comments?
Bill,
Thanks for the new feature. When does it make sense? When doesn't it make sense, to encourage blogsite customers to turn on commenting?
Please consider adding a link that explains how to use this interface. It's easy for me, because it's so similar to the interface I use when I post. To most viewers of posts though it might be confusing.
Thanks for continuing to improve the product. It's greatly appreciated.
When is really not at issue - it's more about your blogsite objectives and whether there's an advantage to conversational feedback.
I believe that commenting is an excellent way to increase the understanding and awareness of your audience. But it also represents a new task for authors and management. In my view, feedback (in general) is always helpful, but you don't have to publish comments in any case, or ever.
BTW - you don't have to add a link to your website - we do that for you (click on your name). ;-)
I spoke with a group of bloggers in Phoenix recently. What I found is that very few had any business from their blogs despite a lot of effort. I have 5 closings and 7 active buyers directly from [our MyST blogsite] in 2008. I know because I ask. One person told me they have been reading my blog for almost a year before they called me to buy a property."
