Blog Features
The War Against Blog Commentors Who Use Keywords as Names
A couple months ago, I followed an interesting discussion at Remarkablogger related to a new comment policy that Michael Martine posted for his blog. It seems that Michael had become frustrated with the increasing number of comments on his blog that appeared to be more interested in plugging their websites keywords than adding to […]
How’s Your Blogging Spam Filter Working?
One of the joys of blogging is screening the comments for the idiot spammers. You know…those fools that actually think people find their porn and Viagra by reading blog comments. Really, how successful is your online business if you have to resort to sticking ads on blogs by way of spamming comments?
Oh well, […]
The Easy Way to Create a Privacy Policy for Your Blog
I was doing my daily read of other blogs and came across a post at Aaron Cook Dot Com about the new Adsense policies that got me thinking about my need for a privacy policy. One of the issues in the recently updated Google Adsense policies is the requirement to inform visitors of the […]
Should New Blogs Allow Comments?
There is a thought that a new blog should have the comments feature turned off so savvy visitors can’t tell if you have very little traffic. So, is this a good strategy? Over a year ago, Randfish at SEOmoz recommended this strategy in his article, “21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic“. […]
New Changes Coming to Blogging Startup
Since the purpose of this blog is to help new bloggers, I figured I’d do a little self examination of my blog to let you inside the design process. To start with, let me say that I broke one of my own blogging rules when starting this blog. I didn’t have the final […]
Five Ways to Find Things at Blogging Startup
Hey, if you’re looking for a particular post on Blogging Startup, you can find it a few different ways:
Use the new “Archives” page at the top of this blog. This page lists everything ever posted at BloggingStartup.com. By the way, the page is created with a wonderful plugin called SRG Clean Archives […]