 How do you encourage more people to commentate your posts?
Two ways:
Content
You need to work your content so that people have a reason to comment. These are three ways that have done well for me.
Call To Action / Question
If you end your post with a call to action or a question (Now is the time to do XYZ. Are YOU up for it? etc), people are more likely to comment, especially if it's a topic that they have an opinion on. A good example is writing a post about traffic generation methods, and then asking your readers what they use to drive traffic to their blogs.
Rewards
Everyone likes rewards, and blog readers are no different. All bloggers wouldn't mind a link or two back to their blog(s), and you can encourage them to comment by offering it.
Install a) Comment Luv (shows commenters last post) and b) Top Commentators widget (shows top commenters in your sidebar) - this will help. If you wanted to go further, you could show some link love to your top commenters in an end of month post.
Hot topic
Picking a hot or controversial topic is guaranteed comments if you have traffic. Bashing John Chow / Entrecard helps.
Another way, I've found to get people to reply to what I have written is to outright ask them questions.
Questions like:
Has this ever happened to you?
Have you ever used this resource/application/program/object/whatever?
What do you think about this?
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
-Wiz! | 
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