One continued complaint that many bloggers routinely have is that they can’t get their visitors to comment on the blog postings. New blogs find this especially difficult. Is there a reason for this? Well, there are a few. New blogs run into this...
Topics: Design, Plugins

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I like to consider myself pretty knowledgeable when it comes to blogs and the internet. By no stretch am I some uber genius, but, I do like to think I have a pretty vast knowledge of the blog-o-sphere. However, recently I was informed by a good friend of.
Topics: Blogging Basics, Design, Maintenance, News, Plugins

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Not that long ago, browsing the internet on your cell phone was reserved for only those with fancy Blackberry’s and other smart media phones. However with the introduction of the IPhone, Android, Voyager, and many other new phone releases the...
Topics: Design, Plugins

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One of, if not the most important pieces of advice that I can provide to a blogger would be to backup their blog. I unfortunately have been on the wrong side of this advice more than I’d like to recall and it took me a while to learn from my...
Topics: Backing up, Blog, Blogging, Blogging Basics, Maintenance

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One of the most notorious difficulties when it comes to blogging is spam. Companies launch these text “robots” that will ping your comments, filling them up with useless and annoying advertisements that you will spend hours removing. And be...
Topics: Blogger, Blogging, Comments, Platforms, Spam, Spam Prevention, Wordpress, Wordpress.org

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