The book is moving as well
I am almost complete with merging all my blogs. Look for all the content from thebook.eliotpearson.com here. I will post a follow up to this message soon.
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In time for the NBA Finals
This years NBA Finals are set to kick off tomorrow night. Before it does I dug up this vintage clip. Micheal Jordan hands down has been the best finals players I watched in my lifetime so enjoy.
“You reach I will teach…”
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A Little Spring Cleaning
Just in time for summer I was able to remove spam that was submitted to my blog before I started using Askimet. Askimet is a great SPAM filter. If you have a WordPress blog and don’t have an Askimet key, get one! Trust me it’s totally worth it.
Keith Bluestone
I assume you’re hosting your own blog Eliot. Is it really worth the hassle? I have WordPress-hosted blogs and all of the spam filtering and other goodies are taken care of…
Eliot
Yes, I am hosting my own blog. Yes, you are right, its not worth the hassle. A couple years back I decided to start blogging and wrote my own blogging software. That was fun but a lot of work. I switched to WordPress because of this. A WordPress hosted blog might be in my future. We will see. So far I haven’t gotten fed up with doing it old school.
Learn Basic Programming
really nice article..
greetings..
Eliot
Hi! I checked out your site. There is tons of useful information there. Thanks for stopping by.
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Should I switch my site to DoFollow comments?
I have been thinking about this recently. I wanted to encourage more comments on my site and I believe this will help. I will probably have to moderate the comments but I think its worth it. I have to read the comments anyway to response.:) I would like to hear your thoughts about the topic.
Klaus @ TechPatio
Well, I’m mostly “for” do-follow, but on my blog I only offer do-follow on links created by CommentLuv, that way I’m sure that at least its other bloggers getting something out of it, and not people trying to take advantage by putting keywords as their name when commenting.
So if you decide to go fully do-follow, I’d recommend you setup a comment policy and not allow people to use keywords as name – unless of course you just want a ton of comments, because you’ll get sooo many “nice post, very informative, thank you”-comments.
Eliot
Klaus, thanks for the great advice. I will have to look at a developing a good comment policy. Right now I am using Askimet for SPAM filtering and reviewing what gets through that. I really like CommentLuv. I think its a great feature and will look to integrate it in my blog in the future. Are you using a WordPress plugin for CommentLuv?
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Getting Passive Followers on Digg
I have been a member of the Digg community since 2006. I was never a part of a Digg mob. I know some of the top users were using Digg to make a lot of money in the past by promoting stories to the front page. That didn’t really interest me. So I didn’t follow many people and people didn’t follow me back.
I only recently started receiving followers. I started to Digg again in September of last year. Since then I have over 100 followers. Most are trully passive pickups. Below are some of tips that help me pickup more followers with minimal effort.
Make Strategic Comments
I have noticed if I reply to a comment with a lot of Diggs and add value people I can pickup a few followers. I am pretty sure it has to do with recognizing you aren’t out to spam links and have something to say.
Digg Daily
When you Digg a story, your name can show up on the story summary page. The section is called, “Users Who Dugg This.” Exposure is key to passive followers.
Get a Profile Picture
I don’t have definitive proof about this. I can only go by my thoughts. I am less likely to follow someone back without a profile picture. Most spammers will not take the time to properly setup an account.
Be Active
The first two points touched on this. Being a part of the community by reading articles and voting will get you more followers. For me its wasn’t any fancy techniques. To get more followers on Digg is very simple… just Digg.
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kam
nice girl. sporty woman are sexxy
Eliot
I am glad you liked the picture.
Whole Body Vibration 8:37 pm on June 1, 2011 Permalink |
That’s cool that you are organizing all your blogs into one central location.
Eliot 10:36 am on June 2, 2011 Permalink |
Thanks for thinking so. Maintaining multiple blogs wasn’t easy for me. Updates were very painful. For now, one blog. I checked out your site. The vibeplate looks really cool. Thanks for stopping by.