Tags and social bookmarking services are similar. Social bookmarking refers to users recommending which topics are most popular with them. This is done through votes and by tags.
Public bookmarking sites show the world what you think is important information, and asks others to “vote” for your recommendations as you vote on theirs, and the winners rise to the top.
Tags are like mini-categories for blog content, tagged by the blog owner or visitor. Together in combination with social bookmarking, you can search through tags for the most popular posts within a specific category based upon traffic, voting, or other recommendations.
Tags and social bookmarking help your readers to talk to each other, and to share favorite posts and articles.
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to be regular with your posting. Whatever frequency you can, do it the same throughout. Be regular – every day, or every other day or every 2 days…even once a week… but regular..
If you have to leave for a while tell the readers why and for how long or when you will be back.
Where necessary use the post dating facility to prepare blogs ahead of time so that they upload t a specific time even if you aren’t a the computer.
Did you know that 8 out of 10 people read the headline, but only 2 out of 10 go further and read the actual blog post?1. Grab attention Your headline may be the only impression you make on a prospective reader. Unless your headline turns a browser into a reader, the rest of your words may as well not exist.
2. Communicate with key words A headline must also communicate a full message to its intended audience, and it absolutely must
3. Lure the reader into your body text. A compelling headline must promise some kind of benefit or reward for the reader, in trade for the valuable time it takes to read more.
Comments are a critical means of having that important conversation with your visitors. You need to mange the comments in your blog to avoid receiving spam or hate mail.
Bloggers have several options for setting the way comments are to be handled and whether they should be moderated or not (that means whether they should be approved by the blog owner or not).
At WildlifeDirect we set all blogs not to be moderated unless a commentator attempts to leave 2 or more links. This is just one mechanism to prevent spam (we also have other tools). However, you might still have a valid commentator trying to leave more than 2 links because they have some important contribution to a conversation.
You need to monitor these comments which will not appear on the blog, but can be viewed and approved in the back end.
To do this simply log in and look at the right hand side of the dashboard. It will give you information on latest comments. Look at whether there are any comments in moderation. If there are comments in moderation, go to Comments and click on Awaiting moderation. This will allow you to approve, or delete any comment. It’s a good practice to clear your comments in moderation every week or so.
If you are getting comments that are disturbing, hate mail or that kind of thing, or just plain rubbish, you can turn on the moderation by going to Options, and then click on Discussion – here you can change various settings
To make it easy for you to track what’s happening I recommend you try the following settings which will minimize your need to actively manage or moderate
Usual settings for an article: (These settings may be overridden for individual articles.)
Born and raised in Kenya, educated in UK and USA, with research, management and policy background in wildlife conservation Paula Kahumbu has created this blog to share and exchange conservation tools and tips for the benefit of wildlife everywhere.
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Using your blog's rss feed and some pretty great text-to-speech technology, instantly make your blog or a blog you just want to listen too into a podcast.
Take it to feed2podcast.com, register, and they give some code for your blog side bar to let people subscribe to it or "listen" while people browse your blog.
Tips
One fun thing to do is to convert all of the blogs you regularly read into podcasts to listen to on the road with your ipod.
Another cool thing to do, if you are a blogger is to do a google blog search for your blogs tag and take the rss feed from the search results and make that into a podcast, now you can listen to what peope are saying about your blogging, :)
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