Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Comment Rankings

Gary King has created a new plugin called Comment Rankings which displays stars in a post’s comments next to a comment authors name. The stars correspond to the total number of comments the person has made. The default setting is 10 comments per star. If you hover over the star count it will also […]

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Link Love

I found this plugin while browsing Andy Beard’s blog. He is a big supporter of the dofollow movement. I’m not quite sold on it yet but Andy’s passion is slowly winning me over.
Link Love is a nice middle ground for people who are cautious of completely removing nofollow, but who want to encourage commenting […]

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Open Comments - 31st March 2007

This is a new thing I’m going to be doing every Saturday.
I’m going to leave the comments open for you to talk about anything you like.
If you’ve found something interesting on the web, if you have a question you want answered, or maybe you just want to vent. This is the place to do it. […]

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Six Effective Ways To Build Backlinks

Building quality backlinks is an important step in the development of your blog, or any type of website for that matter.
It can be a boring and time consuming process but the success or failure of a site can depend on it.
What is a backlink?A backlink is a link from another website to yours.
Why do I need backlinks?Backlinks […]

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Attention Comment Whores

The Top Commentators plugin has now been installed.
I actually thought quite a bit about whether or not to install this plugin. It has helped a lot of people increase the amount of comments made on their blog but the quality hasn’t always followed suite.
The comments that people have left on this blog so far have all been of a high quality […]

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Blogging is harder than you think

I should qualify that statement. Successful blogging is harder than you think.
And not as fun either.
I could probably write over 50 posts a day if I had to, but the content would be hollow and unimaginative, and no one would want to read it. On the other hand I might be able to write one well […]

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Want to be more productive with your blog?

Stop checking your stats!
I’ll admit it, I check my stats way too often. But I’m betting you do too.
The success of a blog these days seems to be defined through the amount of traffic it receives so it’s natural to be anxious about how many visitors you’re getting. The problem is this time could be better spent actually […]

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Speedlinking - 4th March 2007

Matt over at Take More Risks gives us a look at what was happening at the domains of some of the biggest sites on the web before the current owners took over.
Ever heard of the Alexa Dance? Neither had I until I came across a post at everybody go to explaining how some sites get […]

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