Getting your Blog Posts Noticed
After you have composed and posted your blog entry, what next? Do you just leave and hope that people will browse to your website or do you promote your entry and let the greater community know, what has been written?
I use WordPress to manage my blog, a benefit of using WordPress is to be able to install plugins to automate required actions. Twitpost is a plugin that automatically updates my twitter account with the post’s link once it has been published. If you don’t have a WordPress site, you may need to make the twitter entry manually.
I also have a Digg account, where my I submit the details of every blog post, this only takes a couple of minutes as you place the url of your website and add details of the post and the category of the entry.
My favourite is to add my entry to Ezine Articles, the same information posted on their website will quite often rank higher and sooner on Google than your actual blog entry. The article at Ezine Articles will have a link back to your website, you will be able to track and measure your traffic flow from Ezine to your website. Another benefit of Ezine is that fellow bloggers and article writers can use your article as long as they acknowledge you as the author. You can see the visited links showing Ezine Articles above my actual blog post.
Facebook is a favourite for many, I use Facebook for my business, any posts that are relevant to my business are shared on Facebook.
Having RSS Feeds available on your website will allow previous visitors to recieve updates from your site. Your visitor will need to be signed to a feed service to receive the updates.
After every new post it will be automatically updated on Twitter. Posted by myself on Digg, Ezine Articles and if relevant added to Facebook. All subscribers to my RSS Feed will be notified with in 24 hours of the posting.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Credible Blog Comments
Credible Blog Comments
Sunday morning and I am browsing the WordPress Dashboard, checking for upgrades and viewing the stats for this website while having the mandatory cup of coffee.
WordPress has a plug-in called Akismet, which comes as part of the standard install. This plug-in monitors the comments left and separates the spam from the bona-fide comments.
While savouring my second coffee I started to ponder which of the thousands of spammed comments could have been suitable for approval to this website. Having comments on your Blog improves the websites accountability. It shows that people are reading your blog, and helps provide a sense of community. The comments increase the content of your blog and also offers someone else’s opinion to your blog, which could either agree or disagree with your post.
Below is a sample of what is picked up by Akismet, does it sound credible to you, and would you allow it to be posted on your website?
“Just had to take the two seconds to post a thank you. Read through through your website and really liked the written content, bookmarked and I plan on coming back soon!”
For me, well it just doesn’t sound all that credible, and in my personal opinion I can not see it enhancing my websites accountability.
At the moment this site is starving for meaningful comments, I am asking my readers, should I be less fussy and accept comments like the above or should I stay true and only accept on topic comments?
Sunday morning and I am browsing the WordPress Dashboard, checking for upgrades and viewing the stats for this website while having the mandatory cup of coffee.
WordPress has a plug-in called Akismet, which comes as part of the standard install. This plug-in monitors the comments left and separates the spam from the bona-fide comments.
While savouring my second coffee I started to ponder which of the thousands of spammed comments could have been suitable for approval to this website. Having comments on your Blog improves the websites accountability. It shows that people are reading your blog, and helps provide a sense of community. The comments increase the content of your blog and also offers someone else’s opinion to your blog, which could either agree or disagree with your post.
Below is a sample of what is picked up by Akismet, does it sound credible to you, and would you allow it to be posted on your website?
“Just had to take the two seconds to post a thank you. Read through through your website and really liked the written content, bookmarked and I plan on coming back soon!”
For me, well it just doesn’t sound all that credible, and in my personal opinion I can not see it enhancing my websites accountability.
At the moment this site is starving for meaningful comments, I am asking my readers, should I be less fussy and accept comments like the above or should I stay true and only accept on topic comments?
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