Comments for Epiblogger

Comment on Great Content Needs Readers by Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:56:59 +0000

I read this post kinda late. I went over to Chuck’s blog and saw there 616 comments and 86 track backs. Am I suppose to read all of them, and have to choose 1 every 2 weeks as a recommended reading? Seems like a lot of work.

Unless I miss something, the idea needs tweaking.

Comment on I am part of the problem by Rhett Soveran

Rhett Soveran — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:41:25 +0000

Metabloggging would be blogging about blogging. So guys like Darren Rowse (Problogger), Brian Clark (Copyblogger) and me are metabloggers in many ways.

Comment on I am part of the problem by Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:05:14 +0000

And metablogging is… what? How is it different from blogging?

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors Revisited by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:00:07 +0000

It is a great plugin. I like the fact that it uses Javascript and works well with caching and how easy it is to add new referrer checks. Great job!

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors Revisited by Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:53:47 +0000

My dream is for this plugin to become one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there. Thank you for spreading the word Lee. I really appreciate it!

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors by Ameda

Ameda — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:35:38 +0000

You have beautiful children. Your tips and pointers have been very helpful. I will surely incorporate them in my blog. I didn’t think of them as essential before.Great article thanks for this– you’re bookmarked…

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors by solusiplus

solusiplus — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:32:39 +0000

Thank’s for your article it’s very a nice. I like it

Comment on A Beginners Guide to Blogging - Blogging Platform by megasaint

megasaint — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:50:46 +0000

I need to know what blogging is really all about. I’m a nubee here. What is a blog? How can I make money with it?

Comment on Jott Blogging by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:30:18 +0000

It does have its problems, but it has gotten much better since coming out of beta. I actually use it to make some to do lists lately and it has been great.

Comment on Great Content Needs Readers by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:27:51 +0000

I agree with you Melissa taking part in other blogs and forums will help finding readers. This idea is really not much more than that, bloggers taking part in other blogs. There have been other ideas similar to this from others. Chris Garret had one not long ago that was similar.

Comment on Great Content Needs Readers by Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:59:02 +0000

Chuck Westbrook’s idea is a novel one, and it sounds pretty good. So far, I have found that the best way to build a readership is to participate on other blogs regularly through comments and emails. I hear forums are a great place to find readers (and reading material) as well. But nothing beats finding a compelling voice and topic. That seems to draw the biggest crowds.

Comment on Jott Blogging by Sean Brown

Sean Brown — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:06:21 +0000

You mean “when” they get it good enough.

It is coming.

Comment on Easy Top Post Widget by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:17:36 +0000

No problem Melanie. Nice to find a widget that helps bloggers add a feature to their blogs without much fuss. The widget was a great addition to one of my blogs that I was updating the top ten list by hand.

Comment on Easy Top Post Widget by Melanie Baker

Melanie Baker — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:06:43 +0000

Hi Lee — thanks for the write-up! Glad the widget’s working out for you.

Interestingly enough, overhauling the widget is one of our upcoming projects. No ETA yet, I’m afraid, but we are looking at adding in more flexibility in terms of what information users display with it, as well as adding more options for how it looks on people’s sites.

Should be pretty cool.

Comment on Blogs on the Go - 7 Ways to Make a Mobile Blog by Tamara Field

Tamara Field — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:54:54 +0000

Yes, I agree with you. I just built a complete mobile website in about 30 minutes. It was very easy and they have so many features as well. By the way, they have even launched a build with mobile edition to help people build mobile website on their mobile phones. Cool!

Comment on Blogs on the Go - 7 Ways to Make a Mobile Blog by Jason Lee

Jason Lee — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:50:12 +0000

Excellent analysis. I agree. mobiSiteGalore (www.mobisitegalore.com) is the best. I tried every site builder you mentioned here and I have to say … mobisitegalore is way ahead of the rest of them both by number of features and by depth of features … by far.

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:55:04 +0000

Love the digg.com and reddit.com plugins - customising your content for these visitors!

Comment on A Beginners Guide to Blogging - Choosing a Topic by richard E utlities

richard E utlities — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:57:39 +0000

Great tips for newbie’s, the tips for topic blog on how to do some keyword research are a good guide. An impressive post.

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors by Chris Windows

Chris Windows — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:15:33 +0000

Some fantastic plugins listed there, thanks for your input, but what about Twitter

Comment on Comment Spam Be Gone by Captain Falcon

Captain Falcon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:53:18 +0000

I hate spam! It is horrible!

Comment on Comment Spam Be Gone by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:54:27 +0000

I think people are missing the point. Akismet catches it, but if you have 200-300 automated spam comments do you ever look through them to see if a good comment got caught by mistake? If so how much time do you spend in a day looking through the spam folder at automated comments? WP-SpamFree does not allow automated spam from entering into your blog administration. That way Akismet can do its job and you can actually take the time to look for good comments and approve them.

Comment on Comment Spam Be Gone by David North

David North — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:21:27 +0000

I swear by Akismet no need for captcha and amazingly accurate!

Comment on Comment Spam Be Gone by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:14:19 +0000

Your right captcha’s work to stop automated comment spam. The reason I prefer to not have a captcha on the comment form is because I want to make it as easy as possible for people to comment. Some people if they see a captcha will not leave a comment. It is like that extra field is just to much for them to handle. If I was to use a captcha on the comment form, I would go for one of the simple math question captchas because I think the are easier for people to do. I personally dislike image captchas. I get them wrong all the time on sites.

The automated comment spam was starting to get out of control here at Epiblogger and at my webmaster blog and I was considering a captcha to prevent it, I just prefer the non-captcha methods.

That being said we do use a simple math captcha here on our contact form and it works fine to prevent automated contact form spam.

Oh and it is a gross photo isn’t it! I wanted something that really showed how disgusted I am with comment spammers.

Comment on Comment Spam Be Gone by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:00:24 +0000

True the human spam is almost worse, but the automated comment spam can be overwhelming because there can be so much of it.

We have been getting a lot of one line comments here at Epiblogger lately and sometimes they sit awaiting moderation for a day or two before we decide if they are legitimate comments or not. Interestingly enough, your comment was caught by Akismat and was marked as spam! Don’t know how that happened, but because the WP-SpamFree plugin stopped so many other automated spam comments I actually saw yours and marked it as not spam. If WP-SpamFree was not here your comment would probably have been marked as spam and deleted and since Akismat “learns” all your comments on WordPress blogs could end up being marked as spam. It helped save your great comment today!

Comment on Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors by Lee Robertson

Lee Robertson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:49:17 +0000

It is pretty hard to tell in that photo, but they are great kids. Essential? Some would say they are not essential, but they can certainly help to create a welcoming blog.