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If someone comments on your blog post, one thing is for sure: someone is reading your blog. Congratulations, it turns out that some people really are reading your content! You’re doing something right.

While comments are a good thing overall in terms of measuring your readership, they can also spell trouble for bloggers that don’t know how to handle them. Engaging with commenters is a strange process for many bloggers: one minute you’re spending the entirety of your time writing content to an unknown audience, and the next you’re interacting with actual people over what you’ve written. It can be an awkward process at first, but its part and parcel of the duties of a proper blogger. I can’t stress enough how important it is to interact with your commenters, especially if your blog is relatively new.