Darren Rowse recently shared the secret of anticipation to get new RSS feed subscribers. Now I'm sharing some of the methods I use to write great content.

Great content will fuel the anticipation because readers will subscribe to your feed because of what you may write, based on what you have already written.

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This one goes into Policy. ;)

Recently, while happening to post a comment on a friend's blog I happened to notice that Blogger.com blogs no longer allow me to identify myself with a URL while commenting. To me (and a lot of other bloggers), posting a comment on a Blogger.com blog has always been like jumping through an obstacle course. An

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A blog I wrote that encourages viewers to comments on blogs they read. If you've taken the time to view a blog, why not take the time to comment? Not only will you make the blogger feel good but you can receive a one-way link back to your site aka good Google juice! Sponsor good communication by commenting.

"I blog because I have somethi

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It’s a fact of life when you’re a blogger. Sometimes you’re going to get negative comments to a post on your site. While these certainly aren’t easy to read or deal with, doing so will make you a better blogger in the long run.

Note that I’m not talking about abusive or obscenity-laden comments here. A comment like that on my sit

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This is a detailed, step by step walk through on how to setup an RSS feed on your BANS site. Why do this? To help you get more anchor links from blog sites that have the comment luv plug-in installed. Brian did a great job explaining everything and why you should do it. Many blog owners will delete or even spam comments when th

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Blogger/Google has once again out-done themselves. They have apparently taken away the ability of non-blogger users to comment on blogger users blogs and include a linkback url. Actually they haven't they've just made it a painful experience, but this short guide should have you up and running in no time at all.

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Google has recently made an unannounced change to the way commenting on Blogger blogs is handled. Anyone who has a Blogger blog should acquaint themselves with this change and consider what it will mean to the future of their blogs. The importance of the feature they've removed cannot be underestimated. And you may find yourself in the marke

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This is the next part in my WordPress series. So far we have created a local web server, installed a local copy of WordPress and copied the theme and plugins to it. In this part we duplicate the database on the local mirror of your blog.

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We all know the amazing power of commenting. In a nutshell, commenting on other blogs not only helps build relationships but also gets you some traffic. You must have heard me say that commenting on other blogs should be a part of your marketing strategy. I’ve also said sometimes that you should try to leave insightful comments on as many blo

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It seems I am. This post has been written in response to my first negative comment on Blogging Outlook. The comment was left on the first post I wrote for this blog.

I wrote about some of the mistakes that I had been making whilst trying to make money online blogging. Rob Leslie suggested that my writing style may slowly be turning my read

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Did you know that you may be unknowingly discouraging comments to your blog? At least that is the default behaviour if you use WordPress or other popular blog platforms. Here’s the inside scoop on what it is and how to fix it.

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Here’s a competition with a difference. Most blog comments type of competitions want you to leave the most number of comments at the host’s blog - I don’t, in fact I only NEED to see ONE comment from you and that’s your entry comment.

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Free traffic with minimum effort is a fairy tale! In this 3 month of blogging, I've learned that free traffic requires hard work. And by this, I mean free traffic requires a lot of time to get it. I've tried different ways to bring to my blog free traffic. I'll list here what I've tried with some good results.

What method do you use to

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Well, this site has been up for about 5 weeks and it's changing, just some tweaks. I've had some spammy comments recently and I've changed things around to deal with them.

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There are all sorts of idiosyncrasies coming from bloggers. Tricks and treats are everywhere. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Will following the path of Zen help you in the art of blogging?

Let's face it, there's always the good,

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Recently, Google's free Blogger service angered much of the blogosphere for disallowing links to commenter's who did not have sites hosted at Blogger. Apparently this was not Blogger's intention. Rather Blogger was in the process of implementing a service called OpenID. The effect of this service at Blogger will be to reduce comment spam.

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All of us bloggers need to change some of our bad habits. It doesn't matter if the habits are forced upon us or if we've developed them out of sheer laziness. One of the bad habits is not commenting and/or replying to comments. While I'd like to blame feedreaders for the lack of commenting that's going on, it's really just a bad habit we

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Something I have noticed so often with social online activity is that some people misconstrue the meaning of comments sometimes, whether its on a blog, social bookmarking site or video site. I’m sure you will agree with me that it is so easy to mist

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