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January 12, 2021 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

5 WordPress Site Settings Necessary for Successful Blogging

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You’ve set up your website using WordPress. You are almost ready to go live with it and to publish your first blog post. Wait! There are a few settings you need to change first. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), explains which ones to change and why. When you first install WordPress, the default settings make it […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Create Your Blog Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blogging, comments, permalinks, settings, site identity, spam blockers, WordPress settings

December 22, 2020 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

How to Encourage More Comments on Your Blog Posts

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You’ve got blog readers but no comments on your posts. That’s a common problem faced by bloggers. But you know more engagement means higher Google ranking for you website. So… How can you get more comments on your blog posts?  Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, describes two strategies […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blog comments, Blog hop, blog post comments, blogging, blogging a book, comments, engagement

July 12, 2016 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

15 Expert Tips to Increase Reader Comments on Blog Posts

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Have you ever wondered how some bloggers manage to inspire their readers to comment on posts? They have the engagement you seek, but how do they inspire it? I asked four successful bloggers to reveal the needle-moving strategies they use to encourage reader comments. Their answers provide a wealth of information you can put to […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog Tagged With: blog comments, blog post comments, comments, Darren Rowse, engagement, Joel Friedlander, Mary Jaksch, Peg Fitzpatrick, Yaro Starak

March 5, 2013 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Replies to Comments Increase Engagement and Feedback on a Blogged Book

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Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 18 Engagement remains the watchword when it comes to building author platform on social media. That means it’s not just about how many unique visitors—readers—your blogged book attracts, or even about how many followers you have on Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus. It’s about how often they share, talk […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog Tagged With: blogged book, comments, engagement, feedback, replies

July 10, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Rami Shapiro Talks About How to Co-Author a Blogged Book

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A reverend and a rabbi start a blog…stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Actually, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro actually did start a blog called Mount and Mountain. The blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated two […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books Tagged With: blogging a book, co-author, comments, editing, traditional publishing

January 19, 2012 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Liz Strauss’ on How to Get Readers to Comment on Your Posts

Engagement. That’s what every blogger seeks—or should seek. If your blog readers comment on your posts, it means they not only read but get involved in what you write—involved enough to actually have a conversation with you. The blog stops being a one way broadcast, like a printed book, and becomes a conversation. Most bloggers […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog Tagged With: comments, critique group, engagments, Liz Strauss, writing blog posts

May 20, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Keeping Up with Your Blog When Using the Scheduling Option

As you’ve probably realized by now, scheduling your posts offers a definite advantage for the busy blogger or aspiring author. Now that you know how to schedule your blogs, however, you are at risk. You may walk away from your blog all week and pay no attention to what’s going on there. That’s a definite […]

Filed Under: Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blogging, comments, Facebook, live posts, scheduled posts, scheduling, Twitter, Wordpress scheduling function

May 12, 2010 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Writing for the Internet: Increase Ranking and Readers with Links

As you write your blog posts, you will want to consider providing links to resources you might find on the Internet. This also helps your ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs). Actually, everything you do that involves linking into or out of your blog helps SEO your blog. For this reason, you’ll want to […]

Filed Under: Links and Linking, Writing for the Internet, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blog roll, comments, links, linnking, SEO, SERPs

April 1, 2010 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Promotion: This Means Getting Social

For a blogged book, promotion means, “What are you going to do to tell the cyber world your blog exists?” How will you sell your blog? This is where you add your social hat to your business hat, because to gain readers you must promote yourself and your blog via social networking. Otherwise, how will […]

Filed Under: Parts of the Proposal, Promotion, The Proposal Tagged With: blog roll, comments, followers, forums, friends, linking, ping, Promotion, publicity, tweeple, websites

February 22, 2010 by ninaamir 2 Comments

Why Blog a Book? To Get Feedback on Your Writing (Part 7)

The fact that readers have the ability to comment on your book offers you, the blogger, one of the greatest reasons to blog a book. Many writers join critique groups so they can have other writers read or listen to them read their work and offer feedback. However, when you, the blogger, receive comments from […]

Filed Under: Why Blog a Book Tagged With: comments, critique group, dialogue, feedback, readers

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