Mar 08, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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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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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 02, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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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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Dec 19, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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The native English-speakers have it easy online. English is the “universal” language on the Internet and those speaking other languages have to adapt.
Many English natives take so many things for granted, that I wanted to share some of the challenges we “foreigners” phase online, running our blogs and building our presence in the social media.
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Nov 30, 2009
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Guest Blogger
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This is a guest post by Matt “Matticus” Low, who runs one of the most successful blogs about massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, World of Matticus. Matt also runs several other websites around the same subject, including forum and other blogs.
As Matt also writes for WoW.com (a top 500 blog in the world, the new WoW Insider), he’s the right man to explain how to build a warcraft blog by telling his story, how he started blogging and how he built a super popular World of Warcraft blog from scratch. Don’t let the gaming topic fool you even if you’re not even remotely interested in games or WoW, as there’s a whole lot to learn for all of us from Matt’s advice.
This amazing post emerged when Matt announced his limited Want a Free Guest Post? -offer and I jumped on the opportunity. As my own blogging more and less started by blogging about World of Warcraft, I was intrigued on how he built a successful WoW blog, so I asked if he could share how he ended up building a blog around WoW and how it all has turned out for him…
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Nov 20, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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There are hundreds of social media sites out there. There is no way you can be active member and contributor in all of them, so you will have to choose the ones you focus on. However, there are ways to automate certain tasks, making things easier for yourself AND help all your social media followers at the same time.
For example, it is very likely that you want to share the new blog post you just published, your new YouTube video, etc. In addition to my own content, I also want to share the best blog posts, articles and videos I’ve read or watched.
As I want to send these to Twitter anyway, I should make that process as easy for myself as possible, right? I’m thinking automation! And in the end, it’s quite easy too! So if you want to send the “standard” updates automatically too, this the post is for you!
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