Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out
Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.
Suggestive and Summative Titles Make Bloghoppers Stay
I see the biggest challenge to blog authors today as keeping visitors on their site long enough to have an impact through their writing. I’ve seen and heard the effective traffic brought on by games and gimmicks for shiny items like designer jewelry. I wonder if that traffic really reads their stuff though. [...]
Entrecard’s New Price System: Deal? or No Deal?
I wrote just days ago about how to choose Entrecard advertisers. It’s still valid except for one thing, cheap doesn’t mean what cheap used to mean. Here’s an excerpt from the article on their blog below:
Written on April 7th, 2008 by Graham
Today we release our long-awaited modification to the pricing system.
It’s going to [...]Get More Ads that Count out of Entrecard for less EC’s
What I have read in the FAQ’s at Entrecard, and my own experience bears it out, is that the EC cost to advertise on a site is not proportionate to that site’s traffic. It is based on how many sites they drop on.
For this reason, as you consider what sites to advertise on within Entrecard, [...]“PostCards” is Entrecard Favorites: Blog of the Day
An Entrecard, “Blog of the Day” award was granted to Postcards from the Funny Farm today. (Woo Hoo) This is a real honor for me since anyone who uses Entrecard knows there are so many blogs on there. This award also shows that any blogger, theoretically, could do a “blog of the day” [...]
