Leave imperfections, tolerate incompleteness. I often remove up to a third of my points so that commentators could make those points. If all that’s left to say in a comment is “nice post” you’ve failed! Last week on Lid‘s guest post (What Public Relations 1.0 Teaches Us About Business Blogging), Deb mentioned in the comments…
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Follow-up to Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted
Last week I wrote a guide for how to move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted setup. Some of the comments on that post were so helpful that I wanted to highlight them in a new post. Lid said: Great post Michael – thanks! One thing I did want to mention – because we have just…
Controversial Comment Policy Update
A few days ago I changed my comment policy and it caused a bit of a stir, to say the least: I’m getting annoyed. I don’t like it when people put keywords where their name goes in the comments. I know the tone of the post was, well, kinda bitchy, and the truth is that’s…
Blogging Ethics 101b – Commenting
Ethical Commenting is a great way to drive traffic back to your blog and network with other bloggers. In fact, that is ALL it does. Links in comments do not affect your search engine rankings, as 99.99% of them will not be seen by Google (it’s called “no-follow” and it’s code your blog automatically adds…
Overheard in the Blogosphere 15
You’ll have to take my word for it, but the more popular the Blogger is, the slower they are respond and, for the most part, I often don’t get a response at all. ~ Mitch Joel If you are selling creative services, one of the things that can get in the way of clear pricing…
New Comment Policy: No Keywords in Comments
I’m getting annoyed. I don’t like it when people put keywords where their name goes in the comments. Aside from my personal preferences, it’s just not a good idea. Here’s why: It makes it difficult for me to respond to you properly–how am I supposed to address you? It makes you look like a cheap…