Mar 08, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: WordPress
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Many WordPress themes display the number of comments. The number of comments is a way to show which posts are popular and which are not. The number of comments show a social proof. For a new blogger, or a blog which doesn’t receive many comments, this can be a challenge.
Unfortunately many of the themes are too blunt when there are no comments. For new bloggers and blogs, it’s not uncommon to see “No comments” or “0 comments” on a blog post. Wouldnt’ it be better if it would say “Leave a comment” or “Start the discussion” instead? This post will show you how to do it…
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Mar 06, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: WordPress
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If you’re looking to get more blog comments, you should display the number of comments in your blog to act as a social proof. You should also encourage and ask people to leave comments. Both of these can be done via simple hacks to your WordPress theme.
In this post, I’ll show how to show number of comments in WordPress, and the next post shows specifically how to add call to action into comment links by modifying the “No comments” into something like “Start a discussion” instead.
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Mar 04, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Group of bloggers challenge themselves to create 2 weeks worth of blog posts, and getting them ready for publishing, on top of their normal posting schedule. Here are the updates for the challenge…
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Mar 02, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Tracking website traffic, gathering statistics and analyzing them is very important part of any online activity, even if you’re just doing this for fun, but especially if you’re running an online business or otherwise making money online.
Either case, you should add some sort of tracking to your blog or website from day 1 (or day zero to be exact). There are many ways to handle tracking traffic stats for your blog or website, but Google Analytics is the most popular one, it’s free and relatively simple to use.
In this simple Google Analytics tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up Google Analytics account to track your website traffic, visitors and other statistics. This is true beginner’s stuff, step-by-step style…
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Many bloggers review and recommend products and services they use. For example, books they’ve read. But these reviews are often positive, why is that?
Is it because it is not worth it to craft the review, if you’re not gonna recommend it? Is it because, you don’t dare to say bad things about the product? Are you afraid you’ll lose the advertisers and/or partners if you publish a bad review?
This is the topic of the day for this discussion. I’d like to hear what you think. Join the discussion on the comments.
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What we have done to our planet, we are now doing to the Internet. We are filling it with waste. And the saddest thing is that online, making waste can pay off.
In order to get seen online, we desperately look for means to get in front of people. We want to be in the search engines, the social media, forums, blogs, video and whatnot. These are the things you read about, how to get traffic, SEO, using Twitter and all that. These are the games we play. The games we have to play. Even if we don’t like to.
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How to get more blog comments and discussion
On this post I will show 15 tips you can use to encourage discussion on your blog. The first step is to setup your blog in a way that it encourages the right kind of comments and when the platform is in order, it is building a discussion culture to your blog and start building a community.
If you are looking to encourage interaction between the readers, a bit like in forums, you need to encourage comments and replies as well. The number of comments in itself doesn’t do anything. The purpose of this post is not only to get more blog comments, but to get the right kind of blog comments.
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