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The Dangers of Integrating Your Blog w/ Facebook
Social Networking For bloggers, Facebook has provided an unprecedented way for us to connect with out readers. Not only does it give us a chance to be where our readers are naturally, but it is much more personal than email newsletters, RSS subscriptions, etc. Best of all, it gives our readers an excellent chance to share and spread our content, something that’s much more difficult over other means. However, integrating a blog with Facebook, especially when ...
Continue readingWhy I Went Back To Basics With WordPress Comments
Blogging If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that I’ve had an experiment running for a couple of months to dress up the comments on my WordPress blog by adding a bit of extra functionality. I have now declared that experiment a failure and have gone back to basics. Here’s why. Almost, But Not Quite After I switched from Echo to IntenseDebate, I must admit that I was happy for a while. IntenseDebate did a lot of things right and ...
Continue readingWhy IntenseDebate Beats Echo
Blogging I’ve changed the commenting system on my WordPress blog again, and this time I’ve chosen IntenseDebate. In the end the niggles in JS-Kit Echo proved too much, though I still think it has a lot of potential. So, after a couple of weeks with ID, how does it stack up? Let’s start at the beginning. First of all, here’s a quick roundup of the main features of IntenseDebate: It works with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and Tumblr ...
Continue readingTwo Weeks With Echo
Blogging With a tagline like ‘the next generating commenting system’ how could I resist trying out JS-Kit Echo? I’d been thinking about a comment upgrade for a while, as I liked the easy options I’d seen on other sites for logging in with different social media accounts. But what sold Echo to me in the end was the comment synchronization feature – all my comments would stay in WordPress even if I later uninstalled it. Echo ...
Continue reading4 Kinds of Comments You Don’t Want
Blogging Yesterday, Ryan posted a an article entitled “Show You Moderate Your Comments?” in which he concludes that one should not moderate comments, if avoidable, or delete negative ones. Though I agree with Ryan’s take about commenting, it is worth noting that there are some dangers that come with allowing comments on your site. Though often discussed are annoyances that come with opening up comments, flame wars, spam, etc., there are ...
Continue readingFive wordpress plugins to attract more traffic
WordPress Plugins Of late, tons and tons of people have resorted to blogging to hit a fortune. It might be one of the most lucrative means to earn by expressing what’s in your mind, but you just can not possibly win an audience by mere writing posts. You need to accessorize your blog with plugins and widgets for attracting every single person who is interested in the written genre. Here goes a compilation of 5 most helpful plugins to gain traffic to your ...
Continue readingMake Blogger Comments Reader Friendly!
Blogger Blogger’s comment system is quite different to that of other blogging services, and is not so “friendly” to regular readers who may not understand how this system works. When faced with a default comment form, visitors to Blogger blogs may feel rather daunted and unwilling to participate in the conversation. However, there are many settings which Blogger authors can change which makes commenting more enticing for readers who ...
Continue readingComments, Balancing Risks and Benefits
Blogging As you set up your first blog, you’ll need to decide how you’ll want to manage the comments that come in. As most experienced bloggers have learned, an open “anything goes” policy has some significant drawbacks. One of the main reasons you’ll want to monitor and filter comments is to combat comment spam, which has become a significant problem for bloggers. Comment spammers use automated Web “robots” that ...
Continue readingDefining The Conversation
Blogging While fostering conversation is one compelling reason to begin a blog, it should be recognized that bloggers have the ability to define the discussion and steer the dialogat least on their own sites. Beyond that, it can be argued that they have a responsibility to their readers to make sure contributions by others add value and insight to the online conversation. Not everyone agrees with the idea of moderation and filtering of comments. Some ...
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Comment Form Leads to 404 Page?
WordPress I was having a problem on my Work In My Pajamas blog where people could leave comments, but then they’d be directed to a 404 page. The comments were working okay, but the visitors didn’t know if they were or not, therefore I was getting duplicate comments and messages that my site was “broken”. So when I was trying to figure out the problem, I then noticed the links listed under “Recent Comments” did not work ...
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