Blog Tips
How to Make Your WordPress Blog’s Comments Section More Appealing to the Commenter
Did you know that by default, your WordPress blog has the rel=”nofollow” attribute enabled by default? This means that anybody who comments on your blog will not receive a backlink from your website. It takes time and effort to provide an insightful comment, and many people who comment hope that your blog will in return provide a backlink to their blog for their efforts.
Have no fear! There are many plug-ins available to spruce up your comments section. The plug-ins suggested below will add a lot of functionality beyond the WordPress basic comments feature, and entice your readers to actually leave comments, rather than just read and move on. Continue reading
15 Reasons Why Your Blog Will Fail
Everybody and their brother seem to be blogging these days. According to pingdom.com, by the end of 2010 there are 152 million blogs on the internet with many more blogs created each day. Obviously there is no way that all of these blogs will succeed on the internet. As a matter of fact, most blogs will not live to be a year old. Why is that, you ask? There are so many reasons a blog will fail, that I have chosen the top 15 to write about today. I warn you, this is not the shortest post I have written, but at least I have broken them down to points so you can scan the headlines and find the reasons that interest you. Continue reading
