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For any blog – personal or business – one of the key factors in its success is the community that’s built around it. From readers to single-time visitors, subscribers to social network sharers, lurkers to frequent commenters – everyone that visits a blog makes up any success that the blog enjoys. Without our communities, we’d [...]
Bloggers are a breed apart from many other online outlets. That’s not meant in a grand or condescending way – just that it takes a very different mindset to be a blogger, and one that stays the course. Of course, a large part of this success comes from the readers a blogger attracts. These readers [...]
Dear blogger, Lately your posts have become more difficult to read. Your sentences no longer flow and I struggle to make sense of your words. So much so that I know instantly what you are attempting to rank for in the search engines by reading your first paragraph. It didn’t make much sense, but hey, [...]
Here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, we have talked a lot about Livefyre, our preferred commenting system. And we proudly use it here on this blog. If you compare Livefyre to the WordPress vanilla commenting system, social sharing and realtime conversations are only two of the reasons to use Livefyre to turn your readers and [...]
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 [...]
A while back I did a post on the discussion settings in WordPress. I explained how these areas are often overlooked, or neglected. We set up our blog, get the basics going, then write our little brains out. Occasionally, we find another useful widget or plugin to install. But often it stops there. In your [...]
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 [...]
If you are using WordPress, or thinking about it, once it’s installed, you are given an administrative role. What does that mean? Well, you can do anything and everything to your site because you have full access. One question I get a lot is, “Why are there different user roles and what are they good [...]
Don’t Comment On This Post
Really, don’t. I’m sure you have better things to do. To be honest, you probably shouldn’t even be reading this because you’re taking your billable hours away from something else that will make you money. So stop right now. You’re still reading it seems. Why? We’ve already decided that you’re not going to comment and [...]