Comments on: 6 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers

By: DemoGeek

DemoGeek — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:55:02 +0000

I noticed an issue (or a feature if you want to call it that way) with WP-GreetBox that it won't show up instantly but rather have a little JavaScript effect that let's it fade open with a little delay time. And mostly by that time the reader must have scrolled past that section to read about the content.

Is there a way to turn this effect off?

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:50:53 +0000

That's the WP Greetbox plugin.

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:49:35 +0000

Excellent list and very nice questions. I didn't knew few of them and i am thankful that you have posted here.

I have one question
How do you show "First time vistor, subscribe now" box ? Does that help in getting more subscribers ? Are you using any plugin?

By: jdesignz (Jhay Gamba)

jdesignz (Jhay Gamba) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:53:25 +0000

RT @jdevalk: 6 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers http://tinyurl.com/5x3j9y

By: jdevalk (Joost de Valk)

jdevalk (Joost de Valk) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:05:27 +0000

Test tweet: http://tinyurl.com/5x3j9y

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:31:04 +0000

I appreciate all the info provided in this post. I was not aware of such things like the comment redirect and the 404 redirection. I will get those installed on my blog tonight.

The hosting is a biggie and I realized that recently when I tried a new host that seemed to constantly been slow or down. So I've moved to another new host that is much quicker and has been performing well for me.

By: naden

naden — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:54:56 +0000

I use http://mon.itor.us for Website surveillance. You can add as many servers as you want. It's not limited to http(s). You can monitor DNS, POP, SMTP, you name it. Unfortunately the server get only checked every 30 minutes.

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By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:18:52 +0000

I didn't know you could get a service like that for free with Pingdom. I'm definitely going to sign up for it, thanks for the tip! :D

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:40:31 +0000

Good article. Thank you. It's made me think a little about my 'customers' and I will look to implement your suggestions. Happy to have any feedback on my site if you get a moment.
Mike

By: Edwin

Edwin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:09:09 +0000

1. No I don't, because my blog isn't supplying an income I don't feel the need to stay alert...
2. Yes
3. No special treatment, due to lack of time and the kind of people that visit my blog on a regular bases. ( non-professionals )
4. Yes..everybody loves free stuff...
5. I usually know very well when a page is removed...can't imagine why it could happen without my knowledge.
6. Yes and No.. I do use a small section for linkbuilding projects I'm working on
Nice tips for intense bloggers, some are a little bit fanatic. I would consider a down alert if I would have an ecommerce website, but for a blog...

By: Oggy

Oggy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:19:17 +0000

Haha my tweet on your post is too funny! But seriously, thanks for your blog it's really helped me a lot.

Out of all the blogs I subscribe to, this one is the cleanest looking. Congrats!

By: Inge Janse

Inge Janse — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:05:52 +0000

Nice one.

Reliable hosting is a bliss. We got the friendly guys from Freshheads taking care of that for us. Downtime is dreadful, because every second you think 'oh my, which visitor that could mean something to us will never return again?'

404 redirect is something I'm going to install right now. I've recently implemented something similar in my 404 page, but this only tells me which 404's are made, not a way of solving this automatically.

The sidebar is something we talk a lot about internally on our blog. It's a great way to bind readers - and indeed to reject them. I try to reconsider this bar every month atleast once.

By: andymurd

andymurd — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:39:55 +0000

Tip #4 is very important for beginner bloggers. I have Google Alerts coupled with Twitter, FriendFeed, Technorati, Digg, del.icio.us, and Reddit searches all mashed up into a single RSS feed that get's Twittered to me as soon as there's any update. That way I can join in the conversation as it's happening, wherever it's happening.I have no problems with the conversation being distributed across several sites because my RSS feed makes me look omnipresent!