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If you have ever been on a school playground with a bunch of first graders, you noticed something right away. 6-year-olds are social creatures—highly verbal—but they have not yet learned to settle their differences without adult intervention. When I was a first grade teacher, in one of my many former lives, I saw a certain [...]
For many bloggers, comments are the currency on which they base their blog’s success. Sure, traffic is key, and selling products – premium or affiliate – may also be a factor they look to for their success. Comments, though? That’s a whole other ball game – just search for “how do I get more blog [...]
Much of the learning on your blog happens with the rich interactions in the comments section. And the more comments, the more readers and subscribers you get. When it comes to blog comments—and user participation online in general— researcher Jakob Nielsen found something called the 90-9-1 rule. On average, 90 percent of your blog’s readers [...]
Day in and day out, I land on WordPress blogs and websites. Whether it’s to look for resources, read a great blog post, explore someone’s business, or just keep tabs on certain industries, I’ve seen it all. But there are a few things that drive me crazy when I see them. They are the simple, [...]
Whenever I coach a client or teach a workshop, I am amazed at how many people either ignore their WordPress settings or just leave them all as default. I’m talking about: General Writing Reading Discussion Media Privacy and Permalinks (for those of you self-hosted) Most bloggers set up their general settings, or at least check [...]
One of the key goals when I started blogging was to encourage a healthy discussion area in the comments. I’ve always been a firm believer that the real gold to any blog post can (and does) come from the comments left afterward. Depending on how encouraging the blogger is to foster open discussion, the comments [...]
Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime. It might be true of invisibility, too. I know. I was invisible for 15 minutes. Never happened before that, hasn’t happened since. All I can say is that it was a surreal experience. Several years ago my husband Bob and I walked [...]
Has your kid ever dissed you? You know, talked back, had that certain ‘tone’ in their voice, gotten a little sassy? Children can be contrary. The longer we do this parenting thing, the better we get at coping. Some of us even learned how to defuse an angry child with the tools of psychology that [...]
Why Your Blog Commenting Has No Results
The most common thing I hear about blog commenting is how you simply have to do it for links… Let me clear it for you straight away. That is the most stupid reason to comment on a blog. If you want links, how about actually working for them and writing a good guest post? So [...]