- The content within comments - keywords, language structure, length etc
- The number of comments
- Update frequency of the page (gaining additional comments over time)
Tag Archives: comments
Why Have Blogs At All? – The Race To Kill Blogging
How would a human differentiate between the original source for a piece of content on the web, and a syndicated or splogged copy?
One of the most important factors would almost certainly be the comments.
What is one of the primary reasons people click through from an RSS feed to actually visit a blog?
Almost certainly it is either to read comments others have made, or to make one of their own. It is not to view advertising... at least for most.
How would a machine, such as Google differentiate between original source and whether a piece of content is valuable to include in its search index?
Factors could include:-
Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged aol, blogging, blogs, cix, compuserve, disqus, fidonet, friendfeed, greasemonkey, prodigy, rss, usenet Comments closed
The Ultimate Way To Show Reader Appreciation
If you weren’t already aware, this week is reader appreciation week. Now the idea of reader appreciation is fairly good, give out some prizes, give a reader a link, etc etc.
Posted in blogging tips, plugins, themes, wordpress Also tagged ajax, ajax_comments, brians_threaded_comments, btc, buttonsnap, dofollow, myavatars, nofollow, plugin, reader_appreciation, wordpress, wordpress plugins Comments closed
How to Show Top Commenters Only On Your Index Page
I recently wrote that I don’t like Top Commenters plugins, in fact I used a very strong word… loathe. There are some benefits to introducing Top Commenters to give some level of special recognition, but whatever SEO benefits you think it might offer are discounted by having it placed in your sidebar across the whole of your site including your duplicate content pages.
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Posted in blogging tips, plugins, themes, wordpress Also tagged code, hack, top_commenters, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress themes, wordpress_commands, wordpress_logic Comments closed
Comment System Changed – No More Cookies
My experimental comments system has now been reverted to a system that doesn’t use cookies. I introduced the system 3 weeks ago to try to eliminate manual spam. This was important, because I wanted to also allow people to use email subscription to comments.
MyBlogLog Spam Hack Update & Widget Performance | Linkbait Idea
MyBlogLog Spam
Lots of people are aware that there was a problem over the weekend with co-author requests being sent out, and some forced adding as authors to communities.
It was a long weekend in the US, but it seems the MyBlogLog team have already fixed it, rolled back any changes, and hopefully it won’t happen again.
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How to Force People to Read Your Comments Policy
As recently shown, people don’t read your terms of service. My stats also show that people don’t read my comments policy before posting a comment. Sometimes I am forced to delete comments from possibly well meaning people who don’t realise that their comment might be looked on as spam .
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Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don’t use it)
Akismet is a very smart and effective system for controlling comment spam on blogs, and I know thousands of bloggers swear by it, listing it as their number one plugin for their blogging platform.
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Posted in blogging tips, marketing Also tagged akismet, artificial_intelligence, blacklist, blog_spam, collective_intelligence, commenting, geotargeting, spam Comments closed
The Tale of Little Linkalot and Some Blogging Thoughts
I just read a wonderful story over at SEO Scoop
In fact in many ways it shows the nature of the majority of SEOs far better than Danny Sullivan’s excellent counter-punch to Jason Calacanis.
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Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips Also tagged blogging, blogging tips, SEO Blog, traffic Comments closed
Comments Policy How To
Ezine Articles are in the process of implementing a new comments policy for their blog, and the good part is that they are also removing nofollow from the comments.
I love Ezine Articles, and the blog is one I read “religiously”. Bloggers can learn an awful lot from Article Marketing, and in fact I recommend that all bloggers also use article marketing especially when they have a new blog with low readership.
Heads up: Problogger.net and comments
For anyone trying to make a comment on Problogger.net
Darren is aware of the problem, I phoned him with Skype a few hours ago. It is believed to be a server problem and hopefully will be fixed soon.
Comment Spam Warning Signs
As I have just sent a similar list to someone whose comments were held automatically for moderation (like all new commenters), and whose comments will not be appearing (I have yet to decide whether I will flag them as spam or just delete them), I thought I would post them here for reference.
This is a list of warning signs, which generally I spend just a few seconds on, though looking at a new commenter's blog or website is something I try to do even if they leave a great comment.