Six Improvements to Your Blog

Much of what you have suggested I have recently implements but you did raise one I hadn’t considered (contact info)but will fix up right away … thanks

As for comment spam, I’ve found that Akismet combined with Bad Behavior 2 block 99.999% of all comment spam without the need for a capcha.

I’d recommend separating trackbacks from actual comments.

It is difficult for readers to locate real comments among trackback pings which look like real comment text but are mostly just resyndications/summaries (often non-human automated summaries produced by blogging tools) of what the reader has already read – a real turn-off. They aren’t high quality comments.

Turn off trackbacks or help the reader by giving real comments a separate space.

Don’t treat your community’s comment space as a garbage can for back-links.

Interesting tips, but I found it amusing that your ‘contact us’ page is hardly prominent – your no.1 rule. Oh, and you use Captcha – your no.2 rule.

Tagging is very useful. However, using Technorati tags benefits Technorati more so than a blogger or blog readers. For that reason, I’ve created TagBuildr which builds tags adhering to the rel-tag microformat. These tags will be picked up by blog search engines like Technorati but instead of building up backlinks for Technorati, I’ll keep the links on my site. The tag links also go to a TagSummary page which lists resources for Flickr, del.icio.us, and Squidoo, as well as Technorati.

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You are way off on the captcha…if you have a moderately trafficked blog even, you can get pounded with spam (as well as any comment contributors who have subscribed to the post). I mean, your post already has a porn link at the very top of the comments (at the moment)…how does this improve the level of conversation. Yes, it is a nuisance, but I like it better even than comment moderation which causes very stilted conversations. I went as far as to make my captcha extremely simple to ease the experience and ended up getting loads of spam…so until a better solution presents itself…

Full-text RSS feeds.

Unbelievable. A typo in a comment about spelling and grammar.

Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style”. Here is direct evidence of how hard it can be to write well consistently, but it’s still worth the effort.

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This is a great list of improvements. We often get lazy and stop doing the basics. Reminders are exactly what we need.

Do you know Seth Godin’s blog does not have comments on every post. According to him it is more distracting for him.

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Tagging makes you a target for sploggers. Keep that seriously in mind.

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Great information. I would like to add to the list:
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