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Blogging 118: Trackbacks
As I said in Blogging 117, blogs enable conversations, and one key way those happen is through comments. And comments you leave on other blogs have the additional benefit, if you comment thoughtfully, of encouraging readers of those blogs (and perhaps the authors) to visit your blog and see what you have to say. Trackbacks [...]
Posted in Blogging | Also tagged blog, Blogging, Blogs, Comment Spam, comments, linking, Spam, trackback spam, trackbacks, wordpress, wordpress.com | 3 Comments
Blogging 117: Attracting Blog Visitors through Comments
Blogs are a conversational medium. As we learned in Blogging 101, a blog is essentially a newspaper. Two major factors that set blogs apart are: Anyone can be a publisher, and Within reason, every letter to the editor is published. I say “within reason” because some people go out and leave meaningless or off-topic comments [...]
Blogging 103: Commenting on Blogs
In one sense, a blog is just a Web site. A Web site that, because of easy-to-use and free software like WordPress, anyone can publish. You could decide to use WordPress.com as your content-management system, to produce your own one-way Web site. All you would have to do is turn off the comments feature, either [...]
Posted in Blogging | Also tagged blog, Blog Comments, Blogging, Blogs, Comment Moderation, Comment Spam, Commenting, comments, Forrester, Ladder of Participation | 9 Comments
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