The Complete Guide to Combating Comment Spam

by Kevin on August 24, 2008

Technically, you can’t have a blog without comment and trackback spam.  There is no doubt that spam is one of the biggest hurdles of blogging, right behind networking, commenting, and promoting your blog.  ”Spammers”, if you want to define the (…)

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What is Meant by Being an Authority Blogger?

by Kevin on August 21, 2008

Bloggers will often refer to other bloggers, and sometimes themselves, as the “authority” in their niche.  Often people, both offline and online, compete to become the most “powerful” and respected person/company in respect to the entire group.  In a sense, (…)

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How to Keep Your Posts to the Point

by Kevin on August 20, 2008

Content should be kept simple.  Most people would rather read a single paragraph, containing all the key points, than have to stay on the same post for a period of ten minutes or more to read an elongated post, leaving (…)

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Web Statistics and Analytics Roundup

by Kevin on August 17, 2008

Web analytics on any level is an important aspect of marketing your website.  The information that these services provides is crucial, as you can analyze the visitor paths, most popular posts, demographics of readers, and more simply by applying these (…)

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Five Additional Ways to Reinvigorate Your Blog

by Kevin on August 15, 2008

One of the main ways to avoid having your blog enter the ever-increasing list of “dead” blogs is having new content displayed at the top of your blog nearly every day.  Achieving this is an important step in the right (…)

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