How Can You Tell If They Are Real

Don’t you love getting comments on your blog? I know I do.
Unfortunately when I last checked, my spam comments outnumbered my real comments by almost three to one (Akismet has caught 14,628 spam comments thus far)
Today’s Lesson
When I first started blogging, I would have welcomed some of these comments.
Here’s a [...]

How To Get Your Blog Blacklisted

If your blog is blacklisted, you may not know it, but you’ll “feel” it.
How?
Your blog stops getting traffic and/or comments, or you’ll see a drastic decrease in your statistics.
Why?
1) You may have left a derogatory comment on another blog. All of those who read it, stop visiting you. In a sense, they [...]

Plugins, Questions and Open Mic

It’s been another busy week here at BWAB and for me in my real life. As the week comes to a close, it’s time to recap what we’ve learned.
This week’s posts included:
1) A.S.K. Liz - How do You Inspire Your Readers To Join Your Community
2) New Blog Of The Week - Writer Dad
3) [...]

Parties, Spam and Hanging Chads

Do you remember the 2000 U. S. presidential election? In Florida, many ballots were punched incorrectly resulting in what was deemed as “hanging chads”. It was quite controversial as a huge number of votes weren’t being counted. Several recounts were performed and the situation ended with many disgruntled people.
As I was reviewing the [...]

A.S.K. - Liz Strauss - How Do You Inspire Your Readers To Join Your Community

Building our blog communities is accomplished in our comment section.
Last week Liz Strauss, author Successful And Outstanding Bloggers and “The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog (the book), answered the question, “How To Format A Blog Post To Maximize Comments”.
As we all know, part of receiving comments is answering them. Our readers [...]

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