Many bloggers love readers who leave a lot of comments. If a person leaves a lot of comments, that probably means that the person is adding more value to your site compared to people who leave fewer comments. While it is nice to appreciate the people who leave a lot of comments, it is also [...]
Archive | March, 2007
About Ronald Huereca
My name is Ronald Huereca. I decided to join the Reader Appreciation Project because I felt that readers were being looked over and taken for granted. I hope to add my own take on blogging, as well as write technical articles relating to WordPress and WordPress plugins that directly benefit the readers of blogs. You [...]
Blogger Anxiety – Hosting and Themes
This is the second post in a series called Blogger Anxiety. Please read the previous post on Blogging and Comments. These next forms of blogger anxieties deal with blog hosting and blog themes. The topics that will be covered are hosting problems, theme manipulation, and stats packages.
Acknowledging Comments vs. Responding to Comments
Slowly, more bloggers are starting to respond to comments. While comment responses are good for bloggers, comment responses are different than comment acknowledgments. You should figure out if you are acknowledging comments or responding to them. That way, you can set a style on your blog so that people do not think that you are [...]
Blogger Anxiety – Blogging and Comments
This is the first post in a series called Blogger Anxiety. The series will talk about the causes and possible solutions to various forms of blogger anxiety. Bloggers have a lot of pressure put on them to keep up with post counts, comments, and a wealth of other factors. This post will go into several [...]
Avoid ignoring commentors without notifying them first
You probably know how it feels to see a comment where someone disagrees with you over something you passionately believe in. It could be a comment left by someone who probably got offended over something you said, or you got offended by their comment. Just as in real life, sometimes there are people you do [...]
Three Ways to Manipulate Readers
To engage in manipulation is to use your influence on the behavior of others. One official definition of manipulation is as follows: Exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one’s own advantage; “his manipulation of his friends was scandalous.”WordNet So what is reader manipulation? Reader manipulation — according to my personal definition — is to [...]
Invite Guest Bloggers To Disagree With You
Guest blogging is the concept of inviting commentors, other bloggers or someone else to blog on your site temporarily. Carolyn from Thoughts and Philosophies did this recently, and that gave me a small idea. If you want to appreciate readers who disagree with you a lot, invite them to guest blog on your site on [...]
Focusing on appreciating your current readers more than prospective readers is good
On your blog, you may be tempted to focus on marketing a lot. Marketing your blog to new readers is a good thing. Keeping your current readers happy is an even better thing. You should focus more on interacting with the people you already know and on developing more bonds with your current readers. Otherwise, [...]
WP Categories and Posts
WP Categories and Posts now has a new page and author. Please visit the new WP Categories and Posts Page on the Phill McDonnell website. WP Categories and Posts is an extension of the core WordPress function called wp_list_categories. This plugin adds in a template tag you can use to display categories and sub categories [...]
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