Of course Google checks comments.

The web crawlers just index everything on the page, they don’t make any distinction between posts and comments. The only reason a comment would not be indexed is if it was added after the last time the page was crawled.

@ Griever

Well, depends on whose statistics you believe, but the majority of blogs that are created die within a month, many with only one or two posts. Of those that actually go beyond that, all but a very few close down before they reach the 6 month mark.

These days if a blog reaches 3 years, especially if it’s a site that doesn’t bring in any income, it’s practically ancient.

As for “genuinely commenting”…even if your comment isn’t particularly informative, as long as what you post are your actual thoughts about what you read, I think it’s plenty genuine, and that’s exactly what most bloggers want to find out - how people reacted to their post.

Burn out…isn’t the average life of a website something like 3 years? Doesn’t surprise me that people give up or their blogging interests change.

Just kidding. Google doesn’t check comments AFAIK. Or DO THEY!? If they do, then feel free to delete this comment.

LOL, I can’t even imagine. >_>

And thanks for the great advice! It seems like probably the fastest way to burn out as a blogger is to make it into a competition and get caught up in the numbers.

I’ve been a blog reader long enough to have seen quite a few rises and falls myself, and while sometimes it’s just a matter of moving on in life, I definitely agree that a lot of people burn themselves out unnecessarily because they forget that it’s supposed to be fun. n_nv

Once you’ve been through those, #animeblogger is just pretty much mild…

I’ll give you a tip about my longevity in blogging though, since I like you guys so much, don’t take your blogging as serious business. It’ll burn you out real fast. Then and again, I have not much of a real life, so blogging to me is already something intuitive, haha.

Funnily though, I never did care much about the comments each of posts get. I post with a mindset of expressing something I want to express, but I’m not hoping to get comments much. Of course it makes me happy when I get lots of them, but I don’t feel discouraged when I don’t get any at all.

Anyways, keep up the good work, but don’t go over board. I’ve seen much rises and falls of anime blogs in the years I’ve been around the aniblogosphere, and I hope I won’t count you guys in that category as well :).

1. I’m also guilty of this. I really didn’t start posting on other blogs until I started blogging myself, and I’ve now tried to comment on most of the stuff I read. Actually, in the same way, I’m kind of intimidated by posts with a lot of comments on them. I almost never post on RandomC even though I read it everyday. 100+ comments makes me scared, lol. Just remember that most people will not comment even if they read your post, and you should just enjoy writing.

2. It comes with practice! Why don’t you look at my first couple of posts (as HORRIBLE as they are)….my writing has no doubt gotten better since I’ve started blogging regularly, and that comes to no surprise. I admit that I like a funny blog much better than a omfgwtf serious business one though.

3. Oh~ isn’t it just lovely?

4. hentai hentai hentai hentai hentai……actually someone searched for their lost shoe on my blog once. It was pretty freaking awesome.

I chuckled quite thoroughly at the search results…poor Google, the pain it must endure through the fanaticism of random searches.

It’s good to be feeling somewhat coherent again.

Thanks for stopping by! I actually really enjoy the variety of your site. It’s always nice to mix things up a little bit.

@ Owen

Oh, so now you’re going to mention it in my posts instead, is that it?