JointComments is a Disqus alternative, a free comment plugin for WordPress and non CMS websites. Adding a comment solution to your website has a lot benefits, and we will talk about them in this article.

Comments don’t always lead to traffic or engagement : When I ran my experiment, I found that some traffic did come from my comments section. But this isn’t always the case for every blog or blogger. In a 2016 report, one security firm found that 51.8% of all website traffic comes from bots. This includes good bots, like Facebook’s Newsfeed Crawler and other web crawlers that collect helpful information (like Google’s bots). But it also includes spam bots. There’s a good chance that a lot of your site traffic generated from your comments section is from bots (whose comments get blocked anyway). Another thing to consider is the widely adopted “90-9-1” rule, which states that 90% of people will have nothing to say, 9% will have something to say, and 1% will have the most to say. Essentially, 90% of the traffic coming to your site will most likely be “lurkers” who won’t comment at all. Only 1-9% of your traffic will account for the most participation. So you might have 1,000 readers for your post, but maybe only 10 who comment. Those few commenters may or may not represent your ideal audience, or they may not provide helpful feedback.

However, to figure out how much additional traffic he was receiving from those rankings, Neil took a look at the actual number of impressions and clicks that those rankings received. Overall, he found that the comments section brought in 16% of all search traffic. Neil concludes, “Comments didn’t drive as many visitors as I wanted, but considering that it’s user-generated content, it’s not that bad. It could be that Google may not be placing as much value on text created through comments or words appearing lower on a page (since comments are located below each blog post) as it does on the post itself.” I should note that Neil only analyzed 560 blog posts–so far less data than the 100,000+ blog posts from the HubSpot study–but it is interesting information nonetheless.

It leads to higher conversations. When you see a random person giving his or her opinion, you care less about it. But if that person is someone you know, you are much more likely to get over the inertia and type out what you think. This is the same reason why JointComments comments leads to more dialogues in websites. Also another important thing you should note is that the Quality of conversations drastically increases with JointComments comments. More over, you will get rid of people commenting on your blog just for the sake of links, instead you will be getting genuine users commenting because of your write-up. Being a blogger I know, how important it is to get a genuine comment, than just another comment.

Embeddable Comment Widget: Get more engagement with our easy to use commenting system. The setup takes just a few clicks. How It Works? 1. Fill our simple registration form to access the dashboard. 2. Copy & Paste the widget code into your website. 3. Engage with your community & moderate comments. 4. Earn JOINT tokens based on your traffic & engagement. JOINT Token Rewards: JOINT is a tradable cryptocurrency which works on Ethereum blockchain. JOINT also the fuel of Joint Comments platform. – Acquire traffic from other publishers – Reward your team members & writers – Hold it to get future profit from Joint Comments. See extra info at Comment Widget for websites.