How to Deal with Negative Comments on your Blog?

Negative comments on your blog are one of the most demotivating things for any blogger. Read on this blog post of mine to understand how to deal with negative comments on your blog?

Did you ever face a negative comment on your blog?

I did face it so many times. Spam comments and negative comments are two entirely different things.

Spam comments are those which try to publish a link to their spammy website or garbage site. They might write so many things on your blog and thus get the attention from you. They quite probably use positive words only, so that bloggers can approve their comments on their blog.

Although it is not the case with the negative comments, those who will post it on your blog will try to demoralize you with their language. They will try to think negative about your own ability of blogging.

You can easily identify the spam comments, if you do see the name and URL of a particular comment, but the main content of their comments will almost remain same. On the other hand in case of negative comments it will definitely vary and identified through main content only.

You might be surprised about why did I chose this topic for blogging today?

Those who are not much aware about me and my writing can actually check this post on how to do comments on blogs, so that they can understand how important comments on a blog have in my life.

I do always support sharing positive things, feedbacks, etc. if I ever plan to write something on some other blog. Neither I like sharing negative comments, nor I ever do appreciate others who do so.

Reason being a blog is the hard work of someone, and if by any chance we did not like something on it, it simply is not going us the right to humiliate that particular blogger and stop them from doing hard work in future.

Point out some flaws is fine, you can suggest whatever you felt bad about a particular blog, but then you don’t have the rights to humiliate the blogger.

How to Deal with Negative Comments then?

I know the simplest way to deal with negative comments is to delete them and never allow them to display on your blog. But it is not the best ways to handle them.

So what is the best ways to handle the negative comments on any blog?

Take Them Positively

Though it is really difficult to tackle a negative comment as there are sentiments of the blogger associated with their blog, but still you can find out positivity from a negative comment. Just giving you an example, many of my blog readers commented on my blogs that my English knowledge is too poor, and I do have so many grammatical errors on my blogs. The way they write these comments can easily be considered as a harsh way to do so.

But, when I take them positively, I realize the fact that my English is really poor and I need to improve upon it. You can also read a blog which I wrote in the year 2008, 9, 10 or even in 2011 as well and you will understand the fact. If you compare them with the blogs which I am publishing these days you will surely understand the differences.

You can understand how much improvement I accomplished on my writing aspect. Who became the source of motivation for me? Obviously those negative comments only inspired me to upgrade my English knowledge and I even know this fact that still I need to travel a lot of distance to become one of the best.

Do understand the fact that a negative comment can also give you insight about something which you were not seeing earlier. Do understand the fact that most of the time we are unable to find out our own mistakes. If someone is pointing out that particular mistake, then you can even consider them as one of the best buddies of yourself.

If you see the negative comments or reviews in this way then you can handle them with a certain maturity level; discarding a negative comment or review is the simplest things to do, but the real bravery is to fight against them.

Respond Them Properly

As I said that we can easily delete a negative comment from our database, but to respond them properly is the real ways to tackle them properly. Do have the patience and nail them with your response on their comments.

I am sure your confidence will force them to change their opinion about your blog or business. I am sure you all will support me if I say that hiding away from problems is not the best approach to handle problems, so let us face them and respond them.

Confidence is the Key

No doubt your confidence is the key while handling the negative comments. If you lose your confidence after reading the negative comments then it is actually supporting the person who is posting negative comment on your site.

I suppose no one would ever want to do so. Hence, the best thing which you can do is to bring the confidence along your response and catch them in the moment. Let us feel them the heat of the reply.

Have Patience

Do you know the reason why I do love Sachin Tendulkar as a sportsperson? The reason of my love towards him is being his patience level. I do have the feeling that he never lost his calm against any allegations made by anyone in his entire career. This was the reason why when he left cricket, tears came from my eyes.

I normally had the same approach. I do believe that everyone has the rights to criticize someone. There is no one in this world that did not ever face any criticism in their life. But the winner is the one who kept their patience and responded through their work only.

Being a blogger, writing is our main strength. We can also respond to our critics with the help of our writings only.

So that is the all about how to handle the negative comments on your blog. Though as I said that I am open to all sort of suggestions, I must say you all too please share your honest opinion about my blog post. If you don’t like something on my blog, or some portions of my blog, you can easily suggest me the same. I would be happy to discuss about it, and I can even change it if I realize that I am doing some sort of mistake with it.

One more important thing which I missed discussing about blog comments is the fact that many a times people doubt on the trueness of the same. It is a general thinking that are these comments are real and coming from real people?

This is the reason why I appreciate the readers of my blog to share their feelings with us. If real people were commenting on your blog then no one will be able to mark it as a false comment. Honestly speaking if you will read the comments or recommendations properly you can easily understand if it is in fact being written by the person mentioned in that comment or not. Please do must share your opinion about it over here in the form of comments.