Controlling WordPress Comment Spam – 3 Must-have Plug-ins

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

Enabling comments to be posted on a WordPress blog allows readers to interact with yourself and others. A healthy following of visitors builds a sense of community and increases the popularity of your blog. Comments also create unique content, something the search engines love. A blog without comments appears dead and stagnant, however allowing comments can also open the door to comment spammers. Here’s how to get it under control.Comment spam typically comes from online marketers wanting a backlink to their own site. It mainly consists of low quality content with no added value or contains blatant advertising.Turning Commenting OffCan WordPress comment spam be stopped? Yes, if you turn commenting off in the WordPress Dashboard: Settings: Discussion: Default article settings: Allow people to post comments on new articles.Trackback SpamAnother form of spamming comes in the form of trackbacks. Trackbacks can also be turned off in the Dashboard in Discussion: Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks). Trackbacks inform a blog owner when another site has linked to theirs. It’s interesting to see which sites are linking, but not all trackbacks are real because they can be faked by robot scripts.Using Plug-ins to Control SpammingCaptcha codes, those little numbers

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Why Blogs Are Great for Marketing Your Business

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

When marketing your business online it is important to position yourself for the greatest growth potential due to the competitiveness of the internet environment! This is why many have chosen blogs as their primary marketing platform! The best bet to succeed online is to first capture the attention of your targeted audience and then to build trust which will eventually make all your efforts easier!Here are 3 BIG reasons blogging can give your business a competitive edge in the highly competitive internet environment!Attracts Like Minded PeopleVisitors will be more targeted due to their ‘general’ interest in the topic you write about! Here you’re able to initiate a ‘weeding out’ process! What’s so cool about blogging sites is that they can actually ‘attract’ those interested in the topic being written about! This is a huge benefit when working within the immense internet environment! On the other hand this is not to say you don’t need to promote your site in a more proactive manner but incremental traffic like this sure helps!Interaction Reveals NeedsBy allowing comments any blog can become that much more effective as a marketing platform! Further interactions help to better define or target the wants and needs of people

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The Basics of Article Syndication

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

Sharing your content across different websites and blogs was considered to be a very effective internet marketing strategy even before the rise of social media. While Facebook and Twitter facilitates the sharing of content, if you want your website to attract potential readers, then you should aim for having your blog posts and articles syndicated on other websites. For example, if you have a blog on training dogs and if you could have some of your content syndicated on a very popular blog for pets, then your post will instantly have, hundreds, if not thousands of readers! Even in terms of SEO, the back link that you insert in the syndicated content makes a very high authority link that is going to give you a lot of link juice.In short, content syndication is what you need to do to ensure the growth of organic traffic for your website. As your readership base continues to grow, your blog becomes more popular and eventually becomes an authority in the niche.I first came across the term “syndication” in a business class where it was defined as an association of individuals or firms whose job was to transact a specific business or to conduct

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog!

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

Blogs can be a marketable and profitable tool if used correctly. Successful blogs are able to grab the attention of the reader while providing informative content without selling. Experts say to blog daily in order to have a successful blog and to create a web presence and name recognition. However, blogging daily is much more than a notion. It takes dedication, insight and effort to do so!Finding the right topics to write about and then to wordsmith that writing into something that someone wants to read is not always easy. I decided to use a practical method of finding the right things to say, effectively and without too much headache. Try following these steps to gain a little momentum in your quest to blogging… daily!Step One: Create a List of IdeasKeep a notebook with you at all times to jot down any ideas that pop into your head. (If you’re not a pen and paper person, use your iPad, phone or computer.) Your ideas can focus on ANYTHING! But, make sure you can provide relevant information to your audience. Life is relative; so there are many themes or ideas that are relevant to any topic.Step Two: Find a NicheA niche

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How to Blog After the Great Google Panda Slap

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

If you knew how to blog a few years ago it was easy to throw up a few posts and call it a, ‘Blog’. It would get indexed fairly quickly and you could make some easy money. Many bloggers were able to create a free blog and make money left, right and centre. Well, those times have now changed. Google Panda has just delivered some serious blows and many bloggers are suffering. So if you want to make some great cash from your blogs you need to know more than just how to blog. You have got to change with the times.The first thing that has changed is the way that the search engines view blogs. A few years ago search engines could not get enough of the constant freshly updated content that was being, ‘Churned’ out everywhere. This was great the search engines could not get enough.Now things are different. Blogs are everywhere. Content is being updated everywhere. The search engines have caught on. There are still people that believe that just setting a blog up is the way to go.SORRY!If you want to build a successful business on-line that is going to last and that will create a

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Ways That Blogging Can Boost Website Rankings!

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

Any webmaster who wants the best visibility and search ranking knows the amount of time and effort required to achieve that goal. It is well-known that such work is ever-present, since rank and SEO change daily which requires continued effort to keep or better search rank results. No one method will work for every site or company, so help may be needed from the services of a professional SEO company. Sometimes just using more effective methods can reduce the amount of work and blogging is one those ways.ReasonsMany business owners question why a blog should be established to sell a product or service. The two main reasons are to increase traffic to a website and to have a better opportunity to be seen. One way to look at it is that a website with a forum about a product or service has twice as many chances of being noticed by a browser or having links passed around than a site with only products and a shopping cart. Do not overlook that information is also a product and one continuously sought. Using information to draw searchers to a website is not only free but creates a good image as well.Simply posting

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A Guide to Starting Your Own Blog

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

Blogging is on something of an unstoppable trajectory. Since the arrival of the Internet, diaries were cast aside in favour of a platform that not only allowed people to record their thoughts, memories and plans quickly and easily but also allowed them to share these with people from all over the globe. The majority of us will have read or know someone who writes a blog. But if you are yet to get started but are keen to discover the benefits and enjoyment that blogging can bring, here’s a short guide on how to get started.Choose a topic you enjoy: There really is nothing worse than trying to write about subject you have no interest in. Saying that, you needn’t necessarily know much about the subject of your blog – some of the world’s most successful bloggers have made their name by charting their experiences as they learn a new skill or embrace a completely different way of life. It is important, however, that you will get enjoyment from writing your blog so picking a topic that is exciting, intriguing and interesting is a good start as this will shine through in your writing.Make time for your blog: Like the

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3 Rules for Composing Content for Blogs

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 13th, 2012

Developing content for blogs is a necessary and ongoing task that is required by anyone wanting to build themselves a strong following! The very definition of a successful blog is one that has a lot of traffic with much of it returning on a regular basis! Obviously creating unique content is a strong start which will allow you to get more traffic but once again you also want people to return!Here are 3 simple rules every successful blog follows in preparing updates that helps to steadily grow the site in terms of popularity!Keep It RelevantIt is always important to keep in mind why people were originally attracted to your site in the first place! Whenever you are ‘pressing’ to create unique content avoid the temptation of drifting away from the topic around which you’ve built your platform! Although you can probably still get more traffic by going ‘off course’ when composing any new updates you’ll likely confuse and possibly repel current readers! A successful blog is one that can attract and retain readers and in doing so earn their loyalty and this is done by maintaining relevancy insofar as to what is posted on the site!Make It UsefulThe more useful

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Platinum Blogging Prowess

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 12th, 2012

Blogging is defined as posting certain subject matter while sharing your opinions on a website. Starting a blog means finding a web host that is easy to customize and use. This article offers some great ways to customize your blog without complicating it. Read on for some savvy platinum article writing tips!Blogging requires more than a simple approach. You need to always be researching, learning and working it like a business. See what other successful bloggers are doing, you should adjust your strategies as needed. If you keep learning and improving with your blogging you will stay on a successful path with it.PLATINUM TIP! Your blog should not be overly simple. You should approach blogging as a business and should always be researching and learning.Blogging is a very exciting social experience. As a result, you should be very accessible to any readers. You should establish your presence and get in touch with others who blog within your niche. You cannot expect to create a successful blog by doing nothing. Your blog’s success depends on being proactive and remaining consistent.It is important that you don’t overdo your use of keywords, imaging and plug-ins. These things cause search engines to lower your

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Giving Longevity to Your Online Content

Published by in Bloggers Digest on April 12th, 2012

Content marketing (and content itself) is a basic, fundamental, critical contributing factor to the success of your business. It is at the heart of communications with your business connections and without it, you couldn’t relate with anyone on any level.With online business interactions, an unbelievable volume of content is necessary if you want to make any kind of a dent at all. Starting with the basics, the first thing that you need is top-quality writing on topics that challenge, compel, and fascinate other people. You need to produce scads of excellent content. Of course, the more great content you share with other people, the more they are going to crave. Next, you need to post and syndicate it properly and appropriately. Fresh content is necessary at all times. You need to be on top of your game at all times. Now that you have those critical elements in place, you need to figure out a formula that works for making the content live longer. Distribute your content carefully: Because of the fact that social media is constantly doing something, it is critical that you always share what you feel is important and valuable with your online business connections. It is

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