To Reply or Not To Reply

I truly belief a lot of bloggers out there had talk about this stuff. It is with regard the issue of whether the owner of a particular blog should reply the comments which were dropped by his readers by writing the such replies on his own entries as shown in the following example.

In white box is the reader's comment and 

in the red box is the blog owner's reply to the comment. 

Some bloggers suggested that the owner of a particular blog shouldn't reply the comments left by his readers because it will be reflecting the attitude of the owner of the blog trying to make his entries are actually getting a lot of comments. In fact half of the comments were written by the owner of the blog himself. These groups of bloggers belief such attitude will not help the bloggers to improve their writings.

On the other hand, there are bloggers who belief to reply the readers' comment is something that the blog owner "must" do. The reason is simple - to show that you are aware of their present on your blog and to show your appreciation to them for spending some times reading and commenting your blog entries.Thus, which opinion is better and more relevant?

I choose to say both opinion maybe true depend on the "blog reputation" itself. If you are having the well recognized blog where each time you posted something on your blog, you'll get a lot of comments from you readers, you may be not obliged to reply every comment. People already know your blog and they don't care whether you rely or not their comments.

But, if it is otherwise where you are still climbing up in the blogosphere, then you better take the responsibility to reply all your readers comments to show how much you appreciate them and it will help you to improve your blog reputation and your reputation as well. So I truly belief there is no issue of wanting more comments and whatsoever.

For me, I take the second suggestion - replying all comments - not because to make the entries receiving a lot of comments, but to appreciate my readers, visitors, commenters, and followers. People are spending their time reading and commenting. Therefore by replying those comments, it likes that we're saying thank you for commenting and please come again.

Have a nice day fellas! :D Lets smile with sincerity and honesty.

p/s: Senyum itu sedekah dan itulah sedekah paling mudah. Jadi mengapa tidak merebut pahala yang mudah diperoleh itu?