Guest post by Paul Wallis, an Australian freelance writer and journalist. He writes extensively in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the US. Why are some blogs incredibly popular? Why do great blogs get barely noticed? Why do some pretty banal looking things get millions of hits when something which is bordering on genius is ignored? It’s… Read More »
Quick Online Tips recently had a nice post on approving blog comments which I want to touch on as well. First up, I know many people with their own sites or blogs comment frequently to get backlinks, which in and of itself is not a bad thing; everyone wants to promote their sites, including myself.
I think I mentioned myself being a part time domain investor, and I own a number of domains, which I’ve either bought from others or registered myself. So it stands to reason why I’ve rambled about domains in the past. If you’ve been planning to have an online presence, remember, the first smart step is… Read More »
I’ve been intending to touch on this, for a while now. When you talk about making money online (it’s a much spammed term but highly popular, I must say) I see a lot of misguided people as well as opportunists who are taking advantage of desperate folks, especially during these trying economic times. A lot… Read More »
I’ve written on dofollow blogs and nofollow blogs in the past. Dofollow blogs are pretty much a minority (even today), and today I want to touch on the issue. The reason most blogs are nofollow is because of the amount of comment spam or low quality comments they keep getting. I could recall many blogs… Read More »
Ah, BlogRush is dead officially. It was coming since a long way off, but now at least it’s official. John Reese, the guy behind BlogRush, claimed it was an ill conceived venture conceived at 4 in the morning, which is not really much of an excuse, but then again, not many bloggers will be batting… Read More »
Problogger Darren Rowse had an interesting post talking about what many bloggers experience. He posed the question of, “Is writing great, unique content enough to build a successful blog?” I think this is a prevalent problem affecting many good blogs out there, in that they hardly get recognized for what they are worth, and break… Read More »
I have decided not to use MyBlogLog anymore due to a number of issues with it. Firstly, I just ran across a post by Shoemoney that the tracking by MyBlogLog is wide open to interpretation and may be against Adsense TOS. Then again, Google has never come out and said anything against MyBlogLog. So, as… Read More »
I read this article a couple of days ago, and wanted to write what I thought about it since, because it would have sounded quite absurd a few years ago. I mean, you see this with video games, and other activities which I can easily imagine as being detrimental to health if overdone, but blogging?… Read More »
One of the traditional boons of blogging is the whole comment thingy. Meaning leaving a comment and having the possibility of getting extra visitors to your blog, or receiving comments, and therefore not feeling like it’s just a one sided conversation. I wouldn’t think of any blogger who wouldn’t appreciate comments on their blog. The… Read More »