Art of Blogging

I have mentioned comments are important and should be encouraged before, right? Pretty sure I have said something or another about the importance of comments and how to make you commentators feel special at least once or twice.

JohnTP has a list of the Top 5 WordPress Plugins That Help Increase Comments. I already use a couple on this list and agree with the rest.

I won’t go into a lot of detail here but I will run down the list quickly since they are all aimed at normal WordPress and I use WordPress MU (at least for now).

I will add a couple to the list though.

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What lead to this particular babble is a series of comments on this blog and another that I was involved in.

Unfortunately, the comments I was a part of are mostly off topic, so I won’t link them here. (There really are times I am such a bad blogger.) The other blog, however is wordpress

I will speak regularly on the importance of comments to a blog, I am sure. Today, I am going to keep it basic.

Comments are part of what makes blogs such a successful method to convey ideas. They are also a major part in that new-fangled Web 2.0 stuff.

Since blog comments are important, the people making them are important too, right?

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Simply put, a Trackback is a way for sites to link to each other automatically.

For an example of a Trackback in action, take a look at what happens when I link to this inspirational article on how nothing is impossible.

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In order for a blog to work fully as a viral web site, you need to utilize the comment system. Getting people to post comments helps bring people back and make them feel as if they are a part of the site and help set the direction it is going. This leads to telling other people about your site and getting even more people involved with your site and gracing you with traffic. Comments also are free content for your site. More key words, more updates, more links, more of everything a blog is supposed to have.

WordPress has the comment system enabled by default but that does not mean you will actually get comments other then spam. Before we go further, enable the WordPress spam filters and look at and install comment spam tools. I will write about them soon.

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