The Best Way to Track Blog Conversations

If you read blogs, you probably engage in blog conversations by commenting. There are three ways that I know of to stay up with Internet conversations. First, you can revisit the website, which is cumbersome, of course. Next, you can usually click a box that allows you to subscribe to the thread. The major downside of this is that you probably already get too many emails. The other flaw with this system is that you have to drop what you’re doing to check ten different conversations at ten separate times. Perhaps the best way to track Internet conversations is to use co.mments.com.

Co.mments.com is free, and it allows you to track all of your Internet conversations in one place. That means a lot less stopping and starting because you can stay up with your Internet conversations by going to your tracking page once a day or even once a week instead of every time an email hits your inbox. And you don’t miss anything because it’s all being tracked for you.

All you do is sign up for a free account. Then you simply copy and paste the URL for the conversation you want to follow into your tracking page. You can view all comments from all conversations on this one page. You can clear comments that you’ve read, delete conversations altogether and even see how many people are participating in the dialogue — all from one page. The name of the blog is shown, and the date of the last comment is displayed, allowing you to easily judge if a conversation has come to an end.

Wade Young is a Denver mortgage broker.