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Written By Steven Porter

Today we have 5 websites that will help you make money online. Why only 5 websites? Well if your like me and have all kinds of business ideas and jump to this and that I have started to take it alittle slower,  so work on these 5 websites better than having 20 sites to look at  and being all over the place. So here are the five websites for you to look at and you will find lots of resources, forums,directorys,wordpress themes.

www.45n5.com
www.blueverse.com
www.bloggingtips.com
www.digitalpoint.com
www.johnchow.com

So here you have 5 website that will help you find everything you need to make money online.

Thanks

Steven Porter

Well I’m  sure you guys are aware that Entrecard was recently put up for sale, well, apparently it’s not for sale anymore. At least not right now.

When I first read that Entrecard was for sale on Jason’s TUK blog. I  didn’t  think its worth $100,000 starting bid especially the fact that the site makes only $2,000/month which is not that great for an entire network. 

Also, the Entrecard reputation hasn’t been that good especially the fact that a lot of big name bloggers bashed the site for various reasons.

Take a look at the Sitepoint auction , originally it had a whole detailed report on why it was listed, the stats, etc. But now all that information was taken off, the auction was canceled and if you scroll down to comment #24, the seller said “site not for sale anymore.”

 I don’t know what the reason was but if I had to take a guess, it would be one of two conclusions: The owner was getting too much crap because of the worth (or lack of) of the site and decided not to sell it until he figured certain things out or he is back into negotiations with a Venture Capitalist on expanding that into a full company with employees.

Well the site is not for sale anymore  and I bet you’ll see it on auction in the next six months again!

Description:

OUR AD NETWORK DELIVERS:

• 80 MILLION IMPRESSIONS PER MONTH
• 3 MILLION CLICKS PER MONTH
• GROWING AT 16% MONTH-OVER-MONTH without any marketing
  

The Backstory:

I launched Entrecard ad network 11 months ago, and in that time is has spread to 20,000 blogs delivering 80 million impressions per month. We’re growing fast, and in the next year alone we’re on track to sign up between 40,000 to 80,000 more blogs.

The reason so many bloggers love Entrecard is that it brings them traffic! Through our toolbar, the ads they buy on each others blogs, and the thriving community, any blogger joining Entrecard instantly gets a stream of traffic, comments, subscribers that only increases the more they participate! It is a proven system that works, and our growth attests to it.

At the heart of our ad network is a virtual currency that bloggers use to buy ads on each others blogs. The currency is also used to buy all types of products and services in our marketplace. The potential to grow the marketplace is absolutely enormous. Members earn our virtual currency by “dropping their card” on other sites with the widget, commenting on blogs, publishing posts on their blogs, entering and winning contets by other bloggers, or buying them on ebay.

Our core product is our widget network, which serves 125×125 advertising across 56 vertical channels in the blogosphere, doing about 80 million impressions per month.

We also have a Firefox Toolbar - used by our bloggers/publishers to visit other sites, purchase advertising, and pack the power of the site into the browser. This toolbar is used by 7000 bloggers.

We’ve partnered with SezWho, to give people credits when they leave comments, and we’ve partered with OIO publisher to make EC an accepted form of payment on all types of advertising across the blogosphere.

Why am I selling:

Entrecard holds a very special place in my heart. The vision for the company is enormous: aggregating all the advertising inventories across the long tail of the blogosphere, creating a virtual economy for the blogosphere at large, and providing them with a virtual currency that integrates with all other types of services via API.

I am selling because I have come to a stalemate. Entrecard is growing fast, but I do not have the resources to put behind it. I recently met extensively with Venture Capitalists who were going to make a 700k seed investment and a 2-5m follow on Series A investment in 6 months. The deal fell through in the 11th hour, right before the terms sheet, because they lost faith in my ability to execute the plan after a series of tests in which I did not know I was being tested. The valuation we were discussing was 8 million. We were going to open a headquarters, hire 10 people, and go straight to the top. Then it fell apart, and after getting my hopes up, I just haven’t been able to get back on my feet. I’m a wreck and feeling like a failure to come so close only to drop it due to my idiocy.

I also received an Angel investment several months ago at a valuation of $500,000. The network has more than tripled in size since I received that small investment. Month after month the growth rate just increases.

A word about the economy

Entrecard is, in reality, a micro-economy. We have people earning our virtual currency in a totally free market that allows them to spend it as they please, send it to others as they please, and engage in trade and exchange. Our chief product is the advertising that bloggers buy on each others blogs.

Currently, we tax purchases of advertising at a rate of 75%, so the “credit economy” has a 25% accumulation rate. As the new owner, you must roll out virtual goods that people can spend their credits on. I have a whole list of all the virtual products that we wanted to develop and release, but never had the resources. These virtual goods would take credits out of the economy, thus increasing the value and the scarcity of the credit.

Looking for someone with resources and experience who can execute - and take it to the NEXT LEVEL

The vision for this company is enormous, and it will require resources. I want to see it get there, with or without me, and do what’s best for the company and what’s best for the members. With the right team of people at the helm, a VC deal would be a cake walk for Entrecard. Or, if you have resources to invest and don’t need outside Capital, this will easily be a multi-million dollar company. I think that it already is. The VCs I recently worked with thought so too.

Revenue

The ways to generate revenue off this site are endless. I just never had enough resources necessary to implement them. Off the top of my head, here are 4 ways you could instantly generate a large stream of revenue, and in fact 4 things I would have done already if I had the resources:

1.) Credit Transfer Tax: millions of credits are transferred daily through Entrecard. If you charged $1.00 for every thousand credits transferred, you’d be rich.

2.) Monetize the ad network: Currently our widget network is doing about 80 million impressions monthly across 56 vertical channels. The logical thing to do is to take a % of those impressions, probably 25% to 33%, and serve your own advertising through it. The more targeted you can make the ads, the higher CPM you can get.

3.) Implement the credit exchange: right now, people are buying and selling tons of credits on eBay. If you built an exchange where people buy and sell their credits exclusively through the site, and you take a commission, you would make a ton.

4.) Listing fees in marketplace: Right now we have a marketplace where people can buy and sell any type of product or service, and pay with our virtual currency. However, the “shop” as we call it, is incomplete. It needs to be developed to include seller feedback, like ebay, and possibly an escrow so that the seller does not receive payment until it’s received by the buyer. Once you fix the shop system, you can roll out a marketplace-widget to bring the point of sale to the individual blog. From there just charge a small listing fee ~.25 cents for each item listed.

Existing Revenue

We make a small stream of revenue, enough to pay for our servers, currently selling credits and advertising on our site. About 2000 per month, give or take. However, Entrecard is not “monetized” yet, and however you choose to monetize it re: the 4 ways above will determine your success. If you implemented all four methods today, Entrecard would easily make $30,000 per month.

Not looking to sell to just anyone with the money

I want to be very clear that I am not looking to sell this site to anyone who can write a check. I want to be absolutely certain that whoever I let carry on the EC torch is going to fulfill my vision: to fix the marketplace, roll out a shop widget, invest resources into the site to make it better, and monetize it effectively so that it becomes a sustainable business that can thrive. I do not have the resources this requires, or I would do it myself.

The best-fit owner would be someone who is enthusiastic about new media, someone who either has a team of developers or can hire a team of developers, and someone who wants to seek Venture Capital, and maybe has some existing connections.

Once in a lifetime opportunity

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Within a year, Entrecard will be on about 100,000 blogs at it’s current growth rate. That is not a joke, and it’s acquisition territory for some of the giants like IAC, Microsoft, etc. No existing companies can serve display ads across that many blogs.

Whoever buys this site, if you develop it and hold onto it for a year or two, will sell it for 20 million + easily. This is the textbook case of a fast-growing startup that is destined to the top.

Final Words

As I struggle to try to bring this website forward without the resources I need, I can only imagine what someone could do with it if they actually  had the resources to throw behind it. With a designer, a developer, and some capital to invest, and a years time, this is easily worth tens of millions of dollars.

If you are seriously interested, send me a private message and we’ll chat by phone. There is so much to discuss with Entrecard, so many questions that you’ll have about how it works and how to move forward, that email or private messages would just be a waste of time.

Comes with one-year advisors from Me personally

No one knows Entrecard in and out better than me personally, and I will consult you whenever you like, for as long as you like (within reason). I want to see this thing succeed and get to the top, and have very strong opinions of how that will happen.

Revenue Details:

Revenue

The ways to generate revenue off this site are endless. I just never had the resources necessary to implement them. Off the top of my head, here are 4 ways you could instantly generate a large stream of revenue, and in fact 4 things I would have done already if I had the resources:

1.) Credit Transfer Tax: millions of credits are transferred daily through Entrecard. If you charged $1.00 for every thousand credits transferred, you’d be rich.

2.) Monetize the ad network: Currently our widget network is doing about 80 million impressions monthly across 56 vertical channels. The logical thing to do is to take a % of those impressions, probably 25% to 33%, and serve your own advertising through it. The more targeted you can make the ads, the higher CPM you can get.

3.) Implement the credit exchange: right now, people are buying and selling tons of credits on eBay. If you built an exchange where people buy and sell their credits exclusively through the site, and you take a commission, you would make a ton.

4.) Listing fees in marketplace: Right now we have a marketplace where people can buy and sell any type of product or service, and pay with our virtual currency. However, the “shop” as we call it, is incomplete. It needs to be developed to include seller feedback, like ebay, and possibly an escrow so that the seller does not receive payment until it’s received by the buyer. Once you fix the shop system, you can roll out a marketplace-widget to bring the point of sale to the individual blog. From there just charge a small listing fee ~.25 cents for each item listed.

Existing Revenue

We make a small stream of revenue, enough to pay for our servers, currently selling credits and advertising on our site. About 2000 per month, give or take. However, Entrecard is not “monetized” yet, and however you choose to monetize it re: the 4 ways above will determine your success. If you implemented all four methods today, Entrecard would easily make $30,000 per month.

Traffic Details:

The core value of Entrecard is not it’s destination site. The Entrecard.com site is visited only by new media publishers.

The real value of Entrecard is the widget network that spans 20,000 blogs, that is adding 100 more blogs every day, that is delivering about 80,000,000 impressions per month. So the traffic to the actual site doesn’t mean much.

Also, it is worth noting that when we launched our toolbar, traffic to the site dropped dramatically. This is because we have 7000 people using the toolbar now, and the toolbar gives them everything the site gives them, so they no longer need to visit the site as much. So whereas before they had to go to the site to find sites to buy ads on, visit other sites, and purchase the ads, they can do it all now through the toolbar.

Trading visits on our site for perpetual visibility in the browser was a strategic move; it consumes less of our resources and creates a better user experience.

Are you getting ideas for writing your articles from the article directories? If you answer positively, you are not giving any valuable information to your readers. You are just rehashing published materials and spamming the article directories.

Whether you are writing for blogs or article marketing, you must come up with new ideas constantly to create valuable contents that will benefit your readers now and in the future. Coming up with new ideas from the thin air is difficult and time consuming.

If you know quality sources that help you generate new ideas for your contents, you will be able to produce fresh contents that others will refer to and, thereby, help increase the number of backlinks to your posts. This article introduces five must have resources for generating new ideas.

1. Subscribe to Google Alerts. On a piece of paper, write down all the keywords and key phrases that you are passionate about and want to write about those topics. You can use a tool like Google AdWords keyword suggestion tool for researching popular keywords and key phrases.

Once you have a list of keywords, go to Google Alerts and create a Google alerts based on those keywords. Google will send you the latest relevant Google results based on those keywords. You can choose to receive the alert email once a day. You can also opt to receive alerts on topics published only in blogs and news.

2. Subscribe to Meme Tracker. Meme is a thought or behavior that passes from person to person by imitation or learning. It is like viral marketing and it propagates very fast.

Have you ever noticed how top bloggers write about the same topic using different angles? For example, when Apple released 3G iPhone, tech bloggers did not spare any time in explaining their views on the product. And thus 3G iPhone became a hot topic in the blogosphere for a few days,

Some of the popular meme tracking sites are Techmeme, Megite, Tailrank and Technorati. Tweetmeme and Twemes are meme trackers for Twitter, the most popular microblogging site. To track meme from these sites, subscribe to their RSS feeds.

The number of articles from these meme tracker sites may overwhelm your RSS reader because each day these sites track hundreds of posts. So, you need to organize all these feeds in a single folder of your RSS reader. Just scan the titles quickly few times a day and flag the post you are interested in before marking the feeds as read. Go back to the flagged posts to review them further.

3. Subscribe to Online Newspapers and Magazines. Spend a few week-ends building a list of online news papers and magazines that regularly publish topics related to your niche. And subscribe to their topic specific feeds using your feed reader. Put them in one folder and name the folder to identify it by your niche.

Let’s say you want to build a list of magazines related to dog training. Using key phrases “top dog training magazine”, “top cat training magazine”, etc in Google, you can start searching for some top magazines and newspapers in your niche.

Check out the magazine section of your local book store and browse through a few magazines in your niches. Find out their online presence. Many magazines will have RSS feed for subscription. Go to online forums related to your niche and ask members to list a few reputable magazines and newspapers in your topic.

4. Subscribe to Social Media Sites. There are two types of social media sites that you should explore to find articles in your niche. The social bookmarking sites like delicious and furl where users save their bookmarks and tag them. If lots of users save an URL, the site or page becomes popular.

The other type of social media sites are news popularity sites like digg and mixx. Check out these sites and subscribe to the appropriate categories and tags that are related to your topics. Also, search for “Top List of Social Media sites” using Google. You will be able to locate a list of top social media sites and pick a few suited to your niche.

5. Subscribe to News Aggregation Sites. News aggregating sites aggregates news in one location in a website. Find out if there is a news aggregating site in your topic. You can use Google to start your search. For example, if you are into SEO (search engine optimization), search for “SEO News Aggregators”.

Check out Newsflashr, a news aggregation site. It analyzes popular keywords in news headlines and the most popular words show up on the homepage of the site. They also have a tag cloud of hot topics that you can browse to track meme.

Writing good articles that are useful to your readers take time and fresh ideas. However, if you use different sources to generate ideas, you can reduce your article writing time considerably and improve the quality of your article.

Use Dr. Deepak Dutta’s free classifieds and free ads sites for all of your free online marketing needs. Build links and traffic using his free article marketing and social media link building tools.

Thanks

Steven Porter

Written By Steven Porter

I know that many people have always been wondering on how can they earn $1000 in the Internet. Most of them have purchased the “Guru” courses or ebooks, claiming that will provide you with knowledge that will enable you to earn your first $1000 in the Internet. However, in the end, many people realized that they are just learning and learning the same thing, and gradually, their brains are saturated with information. When they want to take actions, they will say, “Wait, hmm… I shouldn’t be doing this because Guru XXX said this and Guru YY said that… blah blah blah blah…” Therefore, after one month, two months, three months, they still earn nothing, or maybe a few dimes from the Internet.

In conclusion, it is really very easy to earn $10 a day, given that you are willing to learn and take action. If you are willing to use your knowledge and convert it into actions, you are already ahead of most of the other people who want to earn money in the Internet. I will cover how to reach $30 a day in the next part of the article.

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Written By Bruce Tucker

As of December 2007, more than 106 million blogs have been tracked which makes one wonder just what blogging is.Blogging is that wonderful world where you can write your personal thoughts about what you think on any subject imaginable, whether good or bad, with or without anonymity, although in reality anonymity really doesn’t exist when it come to the Internet. Your website, your email has an ISP address which is easily traceable to any given computer.

In general, blogs are articles you write and post on the web for the entire world to see. Your blog puts you, your thoughts in the forefront, which lets others see your brilliance or idiocy. You can have your own website dedicated to your thoughts, or you can respond to a particular article that has been written which allows you to voice your opinion about the subject or article, although use tact when responding. Most news media allowing you respond to a written article requires you to provide a valid email address in order for you to make a comment.

Most subscribers to the Internet post there blogs on personal web pages or websites their ISP provides. Other bloggers post their comments on the multitude of websites available for posting their thoughts, usually indexed by subject. To find a blog site, simply type “blog/s” in any search engine and behold you will find thousands of blog sites you can read or post.

Methods for blogging vary which you should consider before doing any posting. Blogging in response to a particular article, as well as posting on dedicated blog sites are permanent blogs, in that they can not be changed once posted. With that in mind, you really need to think about what you want to say before posting your thoughts. It’s somewhat like making a comment, once spoken it can’t be undone.

The other side of posting on an open blog site is the libel issue. At present, blog sites are not libel for what you say, so use caution when blogging.

The other method of blogging is to have your own website or page where you write your own blog. Using this method, you can edit your blog, write about another subject or simply delete the blog entirely. This method in my opinion is perhaps the safest method of blogging, but there is a caveat to this method. When you write something on your computer using a word processor and save the document, even if you delete the article, or document, it still resides on your computer and unless you completely reformat or destroy the hard drive, it remains on you computer forever. If someone wants to prove you wrote the article, with the proper software they can retrieve it.

You may wonder if blogging is without peril. That depends. If you are blogging about your Aunt Tilly’s super fruit cake recipe, you’re safe, but if you’re blogging about a politician, an organization, the government, religious leaders, a company, an individual, you need to be careful about what you have to say, as you just might be libel. Presently, in the US, the courts are undecided about blogging, weighing in on the free speech side of the argument, however; individuals have been imprisoned and/or fined for their blogs.

To be safe when blogging, it’s important to use the correct adjectives, or follow the method the news media use when writing an article. Words like; alleged, subject to, suspected of, and the like may keep you out of trouble. Although, innuendos you make can been seen as an attack, an accusation, by some very sensitive people and they just might decide to take action against you.

Even when using safe words, that doesn’t mean you’re not going to suffer the consequences for your big mouth. Many states have what is known as; “The Right To Work Law,” which simply means employers can fire an employee for any reason, or for no reason. Individuals have been fired from their jobs for posting blogs about their company.

Many blogs are instructional in nature from how to grow a tree, wash a cat to building an explosive device. Here again you need to be careful. Those blogs about explosive devices just might cause a visit from a federal agency. Unfortunate as it is, when it comes to blogging, “Big Brother Is Watching!”

By: James L. Herman
Edited By: Bruce A. Tucker

Written By Steven Porter

What I have been writing so far is on how to create a conventional blog. You write anything that you like in your blog and monetize it using pay per click advertisement such as Adsense, or selling affiliate products related to your topics. However, a blog can actually be used for many other purposes. I will roughly explain some ideas that I think you might be interested in.

1) BANS – Build A Niche tore
Firstly, a blog can be used as a BANS. If you are not familiar with the term BANS, it is basically mini site selling products from eBay or Amazon. The site is automated because it can take the feed directly from eBay or Amazon. You can easily create a BANS using a wordpress blog and some plug-ins. BANS is very easy to earn some good money given that you know how to SEO your BANS and you are able to find a good niche. If you are promoting eBay goods, you will be able to earn $25 for every new eBay member (they are required to bid at least once within 7 days of registration) and commission from the transaction fee. However, I suggest that you can sell some high value products so that you can earn more commission.

2) Affiliated Product Landing Page
Some people use a blog as a landing page for product. They can either post some reviews of the product with a cloaked link to the sales pages or write some good posts to attract more people to opt-in to the newsletter or subscribe to the RSS feed. Blog is a very good landing page because it gives the visitors an appearance that it is created by a “neutral” and real person. Therefore, this can increase the thrust of the visitors and the credibility of your product. Besides, Google loves fresh content. Blog means a platform for regularly updated content. Therefore, you can easily get high rank for some low competitive keywords, given that you update your blog regularly.

3) A Blog Merely To Get High PR And Sell Links And Blog Post
LOL, the name is pretty long. Basically, this is a kind of blog that people created just to achieve a high PR and then sell some sponsored links and blog post linking to other people’s website. You can see this method being widely used at Digitalpoint Forum. I’m not really into this because I find that the return of investment is very low as it is very time consuming. Therefore, I does not research deeply into this area too.

In conclusion, you can actually find more ways to earn money using your blogs. Just keep in mind that it is pretty vital to get some good targeted traffic before you can see a sale. Therefore, I recommend everyone to at least learn some SEO techniques such as keyword research, how to write proper title tag before really get into the world of blogging.

Written By Steven Porter

In a previous article, I have talked about the importance of showing your personality and individuality in all your posts. I have also covered why they are so important. Now, I will like to share some tips and information on how to make YOUR own blog. Of course, I mean a blog that can only be created by you. I will give some examples of famous blogs here.

Firstly, let us take one of the most famous blogger – John Chow as an example. If you have visited his blog before, you will realize that he loves to write about what he ate and some delicacies that he loves. You might think that people who are visiting a “how to earn money” blog are not interested in those side, futile information. However, surprisingly, there are actually many people who comment on the food too. Why is that so? The answer is, by writing what you like or what is happening around you, you visitors actually know you more and feel that this blog is very friendly. If your visitors have similar interest, they will think, “Wow, Steve actually has the same interest as me too, I think we might be able to be friend.” So, automatically, they will comment on your post and hope that they can know you more. Of course, as a result, they will return and visit your blog in the future.

Secondly, besides identifying and branding yourself through writing your interest, you can actually brand yourself as someone who anti something. What do I mean here is you can let other people know that you hate something. Then, you can write posts to criticize that particular thing. If you posts are reasonable, you should be able to attract some visitors who think the same way too. However, do keep in mind you might lose a portion of visitors too. Yet, I feel that this is a good way to brand yourself.

Lastly and the most importantly, you can brand yourself as someone who produces unique and good information. Instead of copying other people’s idea and rewrite them, you should come out with your own ideas. For instance, if you are an affiliate marketer who are experimenting on Adwords, then you can write your journal on your experiment. People who want first hand information will come to you naturally. You will be surprised that by providing some revolutionary idea, you will suddenly have many new visitors and feed subscribers.

In conclusion, there are actually many ways you can brand yourself, for instance writing about your pet et cetera. However, I shall not give you all the examples and limit your imagination. What I’m providing here is just some basic ideas for you to generate your own ideas using your own creativity.

Almost everyone doing some sort of business online seems to have a blog these days, they have become very popular and with good reason: a lot of money can be made with a couple of blogs. If they’re not blogging for fun they are certainly blogging for cash. It has become so popular that a lot of people now use only blogs instead of the traditional website to get things done. Blogs can be used to promote businesses get information about anything or you can even give your opinion about anything. The good thing about blogs is that they are constantly updated with fresh information and ideas, that is, if the blog is maintained correctly by the owner – This is what makes them so popular with the search engines. Blogs usually get high ranking on the search engines because of the constant update of information. Search Engines love fresh content and if it’s on your blog first then your blog will be the first to get listed and ranked. A Few Advantages of having a Blog

1. Blogging can be an excellent form of advertising for your products or business

2. Blogs are so easy to set up and they are free.

3. They usually get very high rankings in the search engines.

4. They usually contain constant updates with relevant information.

5. Blogs can be an excellent cash generator.

Anyone doing business online should by now have a blog or two or three, and if not they should start blogging as soon as they can. It is an excellent way to get your business out there and be noticed. Good Increases in sales usually follow a good blog promotion. There are a lot of ways to make a lot of money using only blogs. You can sell products related to your blog, or even unrelated. People have lots of different interests. You can advertise for someone else by placing their banners or text ad on your blog. You can also use Adsense ads to generate extra income. Creating and starting a blog is very easy, it can be a lot of fun and exciting, especially when you start making some money from your efforts.

For a blog to be effective you must remember to update your blog quite often; every day is good or every other day. It definitely needs to be updated at least once a week. It’s important to update it. Your blog has to be filled with useful and interesting information that makes sense to people and they can use or learn from the information on your blog. Write about your area of expertise, topic or business area.

Blogs are great, but like everything else, in order to be any good at it, you will need to learn about it. Especially if you are a complete newbie at blogging, but don’t worry, it is so fast and easy to learn. If you want to know all you need to know about blogging then I would recommend you take a look the Bloggers Guide below.

David O Connell – How to Start and Maintain Successful Revenue pulling Blogs – http://www.bloggers-guide.com Learn How To Generate Super Targeted Traffic for FREE http://www.traffic-supersurge.com

Written By David Skul

What makes blogging so different about traditional publishing platforms is that it allows visitor interaction - interaction between the blog owner and the visitors as well as interaction amongst visitors.

As a blog owner, you can exert a specific amount of influence on the conversation but you can’t control it entirely. Visitors are free to post their feedback and opinions - good or bad.

While you hope everyone agrees with your content, very often visitors will use your blog as a platform for venting their frustration. This can sometimes be a distinct disadvantage to you as a blogger.

Creating original and interesting content is hard enough. Dealing with the responses to that content is another matter altogether.

Knowing that bad, and good can and will be posted is important. Important enough that you ishould work out a plan to deal with all types before you make your first post.

As a blog owner, there are three typical ways that you can choose to deal with blog comments. You can choose to reply to comment, block certain visitors from posting future comments, or delete comments.

Replying to Comments on Your Blog

Under normal circumstances it is more advantageous to reply on your blog. Why? Because that’s the point of the blog, to interact with and respond to visitors. Having open communication is a good thing.

You should always reply to a positive comment, thanking the visitor. Sometimes people just want to know you pay attention.

Negative ones are a little trickier. There are two types of negative comments. There are those which I call dialog starters and those that are rude, vulgar, or downright not very nice.

Someone who posts a dialog starter may disagree with what you say, add important points that you may have missed, or state that you’re completely wrong. These types are great. No mud slinging involved. You can choose to debate the comments, point by point, or make a small rebuttal and take the conversation offline.

While some bloggers seem to enjoy nasty, negative comments, I believe otherwise. Here’s why. If you have great content and you’ve managed to connect with your visitors, one bad comment can ruin the whole party, especially if they are vulgar. You’re better off deleting these comments.

Blocking Adverse Comments from Visitors

Negative comments, if made in the right spirit can be used as a basis for improvement. However, when negative comments get out of hand, it’s better to ban that visitor from posting comments on your blog altogether.

I always like to give visitors the benefit of the doubt. Give them fair warning and then shut them down. There’s good, healthy interaction and then there’s nonsense. You don’t have to put up with the nonsense, even as a blogger.

Deleting Posts

All blog software, free and paid, gives you the ability to delete comments. If you’re paranod about comments, make visitors register before they can post. Then, don’t allow posts to appear until you’ve moderated them. This method is a little more time-consuming but should remove your “comment” fears.

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