If you love comments and are looking for a fun blogging challenge to participate in this summer, then the Comment Challenge is for you. Hosted by Lonna @ FLYLēF and Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense, the Comment Challenge was created as a way to increase comment activity on your blog and help you forge new connections with other book bloggers. For every month this summer (June through August), we will be pairing different bloggers together and asking them to engage and encourage one another through comments on each other’s blogs. And you are formally invited to join us!
- This challenge will run June through August.
- You are welcome to sign up for one, two, or all three months (a sign-up post will go up a month in advance for each month and will be open for three weeks).
- Bloggers will be paired up for one month and will be required to comment on each other’s blog posts.
- If you sign up for more than one month, you will have a different comment partner each month.
- To allow a bit of freedom, you will be able to choose how often you would like to comment on your partner’s blog (options include 5-10 or 11-20 posts).
- Social Media Option: If you’d like to give your partner further encouragement through social media, we will do our best to connect you with bloggers who are active on the same platforms.
- Giveaway: at the end of August, we will be giving away two bookish prizes. Please note: this giveaway will only be open to participants.
- Sign Up: Starting today through the 21st, you can sign up for this challenge for June. Just answer a few questions on the Google Doc below. We will be emailing you a couple of days before June 1st to inform you of your partner.
- Create a Sign-up Post: We will be posting a link-up as sign-ups are closing for participants to share their posts. What you should include:
- Announce your intention to participate and what you’re looking forward to for this challenge
- Let us know how often you intend to comment on your partner’s blog
- Link back to your hosts: Lonna @ FLYLēF and Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense
- Include the Comment Challenge banner
- Spread the Word: We’d love to see this challenge take off, so let other bloggers know about it. We’ll be using the Twitter hashtag #commentchallenge2016
- Comment: When June 1st rolls around, get to commenting on your partner’s blog!
May 1st: June Sign-up Post (that’s this one)
May 15th: June Link-up + Giveaway Post
June 1st: July Sign-up Post
June 15th: July Link-up + Giveaway Post
July 1st: August Sign-up Post
July 15th: August Link-up + Giveaway Post
UPDATE: If you cannot view the Google Doc below, or are having trouble filling it out, click here for a direct link.
A Kernel of Nonsense 
Idk if it’s just me but I can’t click on the slots for the extra questions?
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So sorry, not sure why it isn’t working for everyone, but here is a direct link to the
google doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ITp5rYXlr08fM5eqkxgjVVmgqafzvt4_CDm02KhNcKY/viewform Let me know if you are still having issues filling it out.
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It works! Thanks! And I’m excited to participate =)
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Great! So happy to have you join us!
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I would love to sign up! But I can’t find the Google Docs form. 🙈
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That’s my bad, I should have added a direct link just in case it was viewable for some readers. Here is the direct link to the Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ITp5rYXlr08fM5eqkxgjVVmgqafzvt4_CDm02KhNcKY/viewform Let me know if you have any other issues.
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Okay thanks! 🙂
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This sounds really cool – I’m definitely signing up! Just to be clear, but when do I need to post my Sign-up post? 🙂 Thanks!
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We’ll be posting the link-up for sign-up posts on the 15th, so anytime between then and the 31st of May. So glad to have you, Lauren!
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That’s what I thought! Thanks – it looks like it will be a great link-up!
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We’ve made it, Alicia! This feels incredible! And, we didn’t strangle each other. Ha ha. You’ve been amazing to work with…so accommodating, thoughtful, bossy…no wait that was someone else by the alias @booknonsense. >_< All jokes aside, cheers to our new venture!! I'm so excited to launch this with you, and thrilled that the sign-ups are rolling in. You're sign-up page looks so lovely. Yay! ❤
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And hear I thought I’d reined in my bossiness 😛 We still have plenty of time to strangle one another, so don’t lose hope. Of course my sign-up page looks amazing, you did the graphics!
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Alicia, this sounds fantastic! I’m worried about my commitment to join though
seeing how I am in the process of moving and finding time to settle in Texas I wouldn’t want to start off on the wrong foot. I would love to join next time around though! 😀
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No problem, I hope everything goes smoothly and maybe you’ll be able to join us in July or August 🙂
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How do I add the banner? I’m not the greatest at adding things like that to my blog posts.
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You can either save the image to your computer and then upload it onto WordPress or here is the code for this particular banner which you just need to copy and paste into your post (make sure it’s in text mode):
Hope that helps!
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I think I’ll save it to my computer and then upload it to WordPress for my post about the comment challenge. I’m not good with codes and such. I don’t even know what text mode is.
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Don’t worry about it too much. I knew nothing when I first started the blog. It’s just a whole learning process.
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It really is. I’ve actually had this blog for a while, but I’ve been keeping up with it a lot more.
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I wish I had a tutorial to link you to, but whenever I’m trying to figure it out, I just use Google, like “htlm image” or “html link” in order to get the code. When you’re putting together a post, there should be a “visual” tab and “html” tab, the latter is where you want your code to go.
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Whoops, it just uploaded it instead of showing the code. Here is the code, just add the symbol for less than at the beginning and the symbol for greater than at the end:
img class=”size-full wp-image-10278 aligncenter” src=”http://www.flylef.com/images/uploads/cc/bnnr-commentchallenge-700.jpg” alt=”commentchallenge-700×350″ width=”640″ height=”320″ /
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such a lovely idea, Alicia! 😀 I am just torn between Young Adult and Adult Fiction! 😀 But i signed up!
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Thanks! Would you like me to let my cohost know you blog about both, so you can be paired with a blogger who posts mostly YA or Adult?
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Yes! 😀 That would be lovely. 🙂
Adult Fiction means those written by Liane Moriarty, Lisa Genova right? 🙂
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Yes, it just means general fiction. I will pass on the info.
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Alright, Alicia! Thank you!
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I’m definitely signing up!
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Yay, the more the merrier!
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How do I link back to the host blogs?
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I’m not currently by a computer, but this link should help you out: https://ithemes.com/tutorials/adding-links-in-wordpress/ We’d like you to mention who’s hosting and provide a link back to our blogs.
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Oh okay, I know how to do that. I thought there was another special way to do it.
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What a stunning idea! I’ve missed the sign-up for June, but will definitely keep checking in not to miss the sign-up for July. Enjoy your challenges for June guys!
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You won’t have to wait too long, our sign-up post goes up on June 1st and we’d love to have you!
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I just signed up for this last night! Thank you so much for putting together something like this! I think it is going to be a blast. I signed up for 11-20 comments and I am going to sign up for all 3 months 🙂
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Yes, you were the last participant and you made our numbers even, so huge thanks for that! Hope you enjoy the challenge all summer long!
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