Regarding your question: if one of my blogging goals is to get comments, I’d focus on that. There is no such thing as “wrong type of content”, but wrong approach of the readers. You have to discover needs, which then you can fulfill with your content. You could write in such a way that readers feel they are important, and that their thoughts are wanted, appreciated and helpful.

I suppose that the number of comments depends very much on the niche of the blog. Definitely, bloggers and internet marketers are talkative people, while gardners might only read the information on gardening and go away to put it in practice, without thinking to write on other people’s websites.

Speaking from a personal point of view, I don’t see why somebody would seek tons of comments on the site. For me it is more important to see that people are sending my content by email to their friends. This is the most rewarding in my opinion. It means I was memorable and helpful and this makes me happy.

Majority of the blogosphere which revolves around the goal of gaining more traffic defines success based on traffic. How does traffic come to a site? Through a search engine most of the time, and the other channels also revolve around search engines. Search engines help those sites that get more incoming links and have more keyword density in the right places. Thus, the very measure of success is based on things like traffic, search engines and a few other things for many sites. The traffic, in turn, will only go to a few sites that they find easily, resulting in many other sites that are out there, but not high on the visibility radar, to not get much attention even if they are better.

In your view, what if a blogger is following their goal and it is still not working, and also, does not getting comments mean someone is producing the wrong type of content or producing content the wrong in the wrong manner?