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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
Use a link in your comments or replies!
Post comments on other blogs
Many website owners and bloggers visit their peers or other websites that are related to their own site. Posting relevant comments to articles on other sites is a great way to get some attention and give your website some exposure. Most commenting systems ask for your URL and will automatically link your name to your website, but there is another often under utilized resource that many people are missing out on.
Use a link inside your comments!
The default settings for WordPress allow one hyperlink before routing a comment to the moderation queue. Use your available hyperlink! You can do this via a signature style entry as you are accustomed to seeing on forums or by slipping it into your reply in another way. If you have an available hyperlink, why wouldn't you use it? This commenting strategy could bring in some highly targeted visitors to your website and can be very beneficial. You probably want to incorporate this in with the threaded comments trick.
Thank you,
Webchief
Many website owners and bloggers visit their peers or other websites that are related to their own site. Posting relevant comments to articles on other sites is a great way to get some attention and give your website some exposure. Most commenting systems ask for your URL and will automatically link your name to your website, but there is another often under utilized resource that many people are missing out on.
Use a link inside your comments!
The default settings for WordPress allow one hyperlink before routing a comment to the moderation queue. Use your available hyperlink! You can do this via a signature style entry as you are accustomed to seeing on forums or by slipping it into your reply in another way. If you have an available hyperlink, why wouldn't you use it? This commenting strategy could bring in some highly targeted visitors to your website and can be very beneficial. You probably want to incorporate this in with the threaded comments trick.Thank you,
Webchief
Friday, April 6, 2007
New Blogger Datestamp bug
New Blogger Datestamp bug
The new blogger system allows you to type out a post and "Save As Draft" before publishing. This feature is very helpful as it allows you to work on upcoming, future posts, reread your posts, preview posts and fine tune posts before you set them live for the world to see. Unfortunately, if you publish one of your drafts days later, the article will retain the date stamp of the first time that you saved the post.
Just take this post for example! I started writing this post on April 6th, 2007 and saved a draft. I did not publish the post until April 7th, 2007, but it still retains a date stamp of April 6th! The new blogger system definitely has some bugs and nuances that the Blogger development team needs to work out.
The new blogger system allows you to type out a post and "Save As Draft" before publishing. This feature is very helpful as it allows you to work on upcoming, future posts, reread your posts, preview posts and fine tune posts before you set them live for the world to see. Unfortunately, if you publish one of your drafts days later, the article will retain the date stamp of the first time that you saved the post.
Just take this post for example! I started writing this post on April 6th, 2007 and saved a draft. I did not publish the post until April 7th, 2007, but it still retains a date stamp of April 6th! The new blogger system definitely has some bugs and nuances that the Blogger development team needs to work out.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Threaded Comments Trick
What are Threaded Comments?
Websites like Digg.com, Slashdot.org, DailyTech.com and others use a threaded comments system to show user replies to articles and posts. These threaded comments allow "conversations" to be grouped together and allows users to reply to a specific comment that has already been made (instead of generally replying to the article). Some WordPress blogs also use threaded comments systems via the Brian's Threaded Comments plugin or another modification.
Threaded comments: Always reply to a top comment
If you are leaving comments or posting replies on a website that uses threaded comments, you can make sure that your comment gets the most exposure and stays as close to the top of the comment list as possible by following a few simple strategies. If the article already has some user comments present, always reply to a specific comment instead of using the "general" reply feature. If comments are already present on an article and you use the "general" reply, your comment will be thrown to the very bottom of the comments section. But you don't want to be at the very bottom of the list! If the first, already present comment has no direct replies to it, you should reply to that comment. This will ensure that your comment stays as high to the top of the comment list as possible, even if others reply to the top comment after you.
Threaded comments, theoretically speaking
Let's say you do not use my recommended strategy and you are the second person to reply to an article, posting a comment to the general article (and not in reply to a specific comment). You might be thinking, "Sweet! I got here quick and I am the second reply to the article, everyone will see my comment!". WRONG! If threaded comments are enabled, multiple people would be able come in later and explicitly reply to the FIRST comment on the article, bumping your comment lower and lower down the page and out of view. The higher your comment is on the website, the more likely it will be read.
Use Threaded Comments Strategy
I use strategy when replying in a threaded comments environment. This allows me to get to an article hours after it has already been published and still post a comment that will be retained near the top of the article, for many people to view. Do you also use threaded comment strategies? If so, let me know by replying to this article and leaving a comment (sorry, no threading here). Thanks!
Websites like Digg.com, Slashdot.org, DailyTech.com and others use a threaded comments system to show user replies to articles and posts. These threaded comments allow "conversations" to be grouped together and allows users to reply to a specific comment that has already been made (instead of generally replying to the article). Some WordPress blogs also use threaded comments systems via the Brian's Threaded Comments plugin or another modification.
Threaded comments: Always reply to a top comment
If you are leaving comments or posting replies on a website that uses threaded comments, you can make sure that your comment gets the most exposure and stays as close to the top of the comment list as possible by following a few simple strategies. If the article already has some user comments present, always reply to a specific comment instead of using the "general" reply feature. If comments are already present on an article and you use the "general" reply, your comment will be thrown to the very bottom of the comments section. But you don't want to be at the very bottom of the list! If the first, already present comment has no direct replies to it, you should reply to that comment. This will ensure that your comment stays as high to the top of the comment list as possible, even if others reply to the top comment after you.
Threaded comments, theoretically speaking
Let's say you do not use my recommended strategy and you are the second person to reply to an article, posting a comment to the general article (and not in reply to a specific comment). You might be thinking, "Sweet! I got here quick and I am the second reply to the article, everyone will see my comment!". WRONG! If threaded comments are enabled, multiple people would be able come in later and explicitly reply to the FIRST comment on the article, bumping your comment lower and lower down the page and out of view. The higher your comment is on the website, the more likely it will be read.
Use Threaded Comments Strategy
I use strategy when replying in a threaded comments environment. This allows me to get to an article hours after it has already been published and still post a comment that will be retained near the top of the article, for many people to view. Do you also use threaded comment strategies? If so, let me know by replying to this article and leaving a comment (sorry, no threading here). Thanks!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
ReviewMe Problems
ReviewMe Problems
ReviewMe is a service that connects publishers with product owners (advertisers). As a publisher, you can join ReviewMe and be entered into their database of available websites that a product owner can request a paid review on.
I joined ReviewMe months ago, and so far I have not received one ReviewMe request. The site that is listed in the ReviewMe publishers database is not this one, it is another blog that I own that is fairly popular and receives a lot of link-backs and traffic from around the web.
With a fairly popular blog that covers some software and consumer electronics devices, I was wondering why in the world I had not received even one ReviewMe request. Is this a ReviewMe Problem? I did some research and I found out why.
ReviewMe search missing results
I navigated to the ReviewMe website as a visitor and attempted to find my site by using the ReviewMe search engine. I used the precise keywords that are listed in my ReviewMe entries' description and tag fields, and the search result came up with absolutely nothing! The search function on ReviewMe.com is horribly broken.
ReviewMe Support
As a ReviewMe publisher, I am concerned about the broken search functionality and ReviewMe problems. If the problems continue with the search function, it means that I will have a much lower chance of receiving a ReviewMe request from an advertiser. I emailed ReviewMe support over a week ago describing the issue in detail. ReviewMe support did respond letting me know that they will look into the problem, but so far the issue has not been corrected.
Have you also noticed these ReviewMe search function problems? If so let me know by replying below.
ReviewMe is a service that connects publishers with product owners (advertisers). As a publisher, you can join ReviewMe and be entered into their database of available websites that a product owner can request a paid review on.
I joined ReviewMe months ago, and so far I have not received one ReviewMe request. The site that is listed in the ReviewMe publishers database is not this one, it is another blog that I own that is fairly popular and receives a lot of link-backs and traffic from around the web.
With a fairly popular blog that covers some software and consumer electronics devices, I was wondering why in the world I had not received even one ReviewMe request. Is this a ReviewMe Problem? I did some research and I found out why.
ReviewMe search missing results
I navigated to the ReviewMe website as a visitor and attempted to find my site by using the ReviewMe search engine. I used the precise keywords that are listed in my ReviewMe entries' description and tag fields, and the search result came up with absolutely nothing! The search function on ReviewMe.com is horribly broken.
ReviewMe Support
As a ReviewMe publisher, I am concerned about the broken search functionality and ReviewMe problems. If the problems continue with the search function, it means that I will have a much lower chance of receiving a ReviewMe request from an advertiser. I emailed ReviewMe support over a week ago describing the issue in detail. ReviewMe support did respond letting me know that they will look into the problem, but so far the issue has not been corrected.
Have you also noticed these ReviewMe search function problems? If so let me know by replying below.
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