I know I’m not the only one. Comment spam is frustrating people all across the blogoshpere. I moderate comments and have even gone through the hoops of using great plugins such as Akismet, Bad Behavior, Comments Post Rewriter, and Spam Karma 2.
Unfortunately, the issue has nothing to do with the amount of comment spam that [...]
Well, I’m pretty sure that Emily Post has never written a blogging etiquette book, but there are definitely a number of written and unwritten rules. One unwritten rule that I would like to see more in practice is the etiquette of updating post content.
I haven’t seen it written, yet. But I highly doubt that I’m [...]
In blogging, your sidebar is a great place to provide a list of links. Here’s a quick tip: keep it relevant.
Think about it. Are links to every real estate agent or mortgage broker really helpful to your potential clients? Probably not.
You have to give your visitors what they need. Don’t devalue your site with meaningless [...]
Duplicate content is becoming a very big deal. A lot of people copy-n-paste articles because it’s easy. Even if you’re trying to share good information with your readers, it’s not a good idea to copy. You’ll get banned from search engines and it infringes on others’ rights.
One legitimate way of getting unique content is [...]
Okay, it’s my fault. I broke it. As I tested my Talkr podcast, I broke my Feedburner feeds. So sorry to all you RSS feeders.
What happened?
All my feeds are forwarded to FeedBurner. This allows me to better manage my feed statistics as well as offload the [minimal] feed bandwidth. When I Talkr-enabled my site, I [...]
Are you a victim of a splogger? Maybe a spinger? Got comment spam?
Here are a few ways that you can fight back. Please share if you have other ideas!
Install quality anti-spam plugins to your blog
Enable comment moderation
Ask to be removed from their feeds
Add the culprit to SplogSpot, a listing of spam blogs, ad blogs, [...]
Well, I’ve finally done it. I’m now officially podcasting.
(Okay, maybe I should probably say that it’s in beta.) I’m using the Talkr blog-to-podcast service. It automatically converts my entire blog into an audio podcast. This means I don’t have to say a word!
If you listen to the podcast, let me assure you that it’s not [...]
Well it looks like I’m signing up for yet another service, coComment. coComment is a comment management application (yep another web2.0 app) to help you track where you’ve commented.
I’ve tried in the past but thought it was rather limiting and impractical. However, Jim mentions that there have been some great upgrades. In addition to helping [...]
Like in most arenas, there are a number of seemingly unwrittens rules of conduct for blogging. My question is “Are they really unwritten?”. Well to answer that, I did a quick search for “blogging etiquette” and found that, yes, they are written.
If you’re even a bit curious about how to properly blog, check out these [...]
Copying-n-pasting content is one of the quickest ways to get a new site up and running. However, duplicate content like this is also one the best ways to be delisted, ignored, or devalued by search engines. And I’m not even referring to issues of copyright infringement. Duplicate content is a common issue for many sites, [...]