No Comments: Are You Sending Conflicting Messages?
As a child through to now, how many times have you seen warning signs telling you not to do something?
‘No Entry‘
‘No Swimming‘
‘No Climbing‘
I know for a fact that when I see a sign telling me NOT to do something, being a law-abiding citizen, I don’t.
So why am I telling my visitors:
‘No Comments‘
If you visit a post on this site that has yet to receive a comment, you are greeted with a message that says ‘no comments’.
I know it says ‘leave a comment’ underneath but, as a visitor, what do you do?
It may just be me, but no comment sounds too much like ‘no comments are accepted here so please keep your opinions to yourself’. 
Now, regular bloggers and blog visitors will know that you can add a comment but what about a person visiting the site for the very first time?
I’ve now changed the phrase to say ‘be the first to comment’ as I think this is much more inviting.
Whether this gets me more comments or not, ‘be the first to comment’ looks nicer and sounds much more inviting.
What do you think?
What would you say?
Let me know by leaving a comment below.
To your success,
Karl Foxley
photo credit: markhillary
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Thank you all for the feedback.
Wow nice one man. Being one that always “got it”, I never looked at it that way. I would probably make mine funny or snarky, but that’s me. LOL
And yes, it is the little things that make all the difference.
I actually like the comment opening thing, how is that done?
It is interesting to find out how the result of this changes. I never thought that no comment meant we can not comment — but yeah — I am a blogger as well — so I am familiar with it.
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