WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Because you refused to read the Comment Guidelines! I find it quite incredible how people CHOOSE to waste their time by leaving a comment on blog that is guaranteed to go to SPAM.

And yes, I say CHOOSE because failure to read a very small and self explanatory guidelines right above the comment form will get your comment directly into SPAM folder. I provide multiple ways to give value to commenters by sharing Link Love and providing DoFollow but you have to follow guidelines to enjoy the benefits!

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Comment spam is quite annoying and while plugins such as Akismet do a fair job of reducing it - they still a lot to be desired. As result we see a whole lot of plugins coming out to address the missing functionality and add even more protection to Comments on WordPress blog. Problem is…

Sometimes We End Up Fightings Commenters and Not Spam!

In this quick post I want to address this issue and ask for your feedback…

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“Comments” provide interactivity levels to blogs, creating one of the major attractions to this particular style of web publishing. But comments are actually a lot more than that. Comments are not just a means of communicating, providing backlinks and a way of sharing opinions… but they’re also a way for you - as a blog owner - to receive the recognition you deserve and the traffic you need.

With a great wealth of plugins available for WordPress, it makes it really easy to show your “commenters” just how much you appreciate the time they took to express their opinions by commenting on your blog. And by showing this in the most meaningful way possible you get to benefit through increased numbers of comments, bigger community, larger reader base and as a result - more options for you to earn $$$ from your blog.

Yep, in the end, “earning” from your efforts is still very important for most of us!

In this post I will provide a list of plugins for WordPress that I found to be most useful and beneficial.

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