Take a look at a “Top Commentators” widget I recently stumbled upon: All it takes is a look at this list to see how much the owner cares about his blog. Clearly, the top commentators are just trying to get links to their sites from a well-ranked blog. Now, do you get comments from people [...]
Every blogger experiences “writer’s block,” and many have written about it. Often the work-around is to find inspiration in unlikely places. Take a break, sing a song, think of something else to free your mind – it will return refreshed. This process involves some serendipity. “Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something [...]
Who does not want a blog that encourages readers to stay for a while, subscribe, click or share? Everyone wants it, but not everyone is getting it! What’s the problem? The problem is that we are not being what we are, Humans! We think like bots, designers and what-not, but not like normal human beings! [...]
Proofreading your work is a sign that you seek excellence for your blog. Often, however, it’s hard to proofread your own writing because you know what you want to say, and that’s what you see. If English is your second language, or if you didn’t really pay that much attention to the details when you [...]
Ever had that itchy feeling of a jumping idea in head? Many times, we have a sudden burst of creativity and want to write about something totally irrelevant to current niche. Most bloggers go out there and start another blog on that topic only to find that the the motivation was temporary. What to do [...]
For the past two months, we have been experimenting with content strategies to see what works best. Did you notice the changes? In June, we set a different content topic for each week. All posts for that week related to keywords in that topic. The Content theme for the week of June 1 was “125 [...]
One of the main problems with Bloggers is that they write poor quality content. Would you like to know how you can avoid such content and improve?
Image via Wikipedia The TinyMCE editor of WordPress is feature rich and easy to use. But by default, it does not have any options to add and edit tables, a headache for beginners who do not know much HTML. If you always wanted to add nice tables in your blog posts, then one of the [...]
Content theft(scraping) is one of the biggest headaches for bloggers. It doesn’t feel good when you see your article on another blog. Most of the time, the blogs that scrape content are Made For AdSense with no original content. Last week, we conducted a small poll about content scraping. The question was “Has Your Content [...]
How to Spot Clueless Idiotic Human Spam Comments
by SBA · 5 comments
It started quite innocently with a short and sweet comment on one of our blog posts. But after a few weeks, it turned into a curious battle of sorts between post author (SBA) and a particularly clueless spammer. Normally, there’s no contest between spam bots and spam defender plugins that stop them at the door. [...]