We all hope that our blogs will eventually transition from ‘just another blog,’ into an active community discussion platform. This largely starts with readers beginning to actively participate in the comments. But how do you encourage your readers to leave comments (without personally hunting them down and begging them, of course)? Discuss, Don’t Lecture There’s
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SeededBuzz.com – Bringing Back Inspiration To Blog
Lately I have been falling into a wealth of discovering or being told about new websites that help bloggers. I am usually not one to blog back-to-back about websites, but hey… it is a useful site and could prove to be helpful. SeededBuzz.com is a site that allows people to submit their post and allow
[Continue Reading...]Bring A Fresh Face To Your Blog With MyBlogGuest.com
I recently wrote Guest Blogging: Does It Really Help Your Site? One of the commenters informed me of a site that allows website owners to find others interested in writing for their blog. The site they mentioned was MyBlogGuest.com. So, I checked it out. The community is fairly new, but filled with eager people either
[Continue Reading...]The Right To Comment
I recently read an article called Censorship? at The Krazy Train, a fairly new blog. The woman had her comments deleted from another person’s blog because she disagreed with the site owner. Now, this is not a rant post, but something out of years of blogging that I have come to know. There really are
[Continue Reading...]Guest Blogging: Does It Really Help Your Site?
Yes it does! Guest blogs, can really spice up your site and allow your visitors learn more. Of course, it takes a lot of guts for a site owner to open their blog up to another person, but if the person that is guest posting is knowledgeable in their field, the post itself could prove
[Continue Reading...]How To Identify Tricky Comment Spammers
Now, this post has been brewing for a while, but I was not sure how I wanted to go about addressing comment spam. First off, comment spam is what you would think it is. It is the unwanted, off topic comment of either a bot, a person hired by a company, or someone who dropped
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