The biggest means to increasing regular readership is involving your occasional readers through a better comment experience.  These five pugins will do just that if you do it right.
1) Nofollow Free:  Without going nofollow free few small blogs have a hope in hell of drawing lots of comments straight out of the box.  You will [...]

Every blogger wants a reaction to their posts.  Whether or not everyone will admit, this is the whole reason we do what we do it.  It is no fun talking out of your ass if everyone ignores you.  So ask yourself what are you doing for those people?
I have put a lot of thought into [...]

I was recently had the unfortunate experience of using a one of my local libraries computers to access one of my blogs.  Not only are they still using IE 5.X they have very limited resolution.  Despite 17″ monitors and a couple of 19″ for the really blind folks the resolution was horrible.  They were all [...]

If you read my blog, it is most likely you are either a) a friend who is trying to get inside my head, or b) want to make money from blogging. I am going with the latter. You, like me, may be frustrated with Google for a variety of reasons that we won’t go into, [...]

BlogBoy doesn’t often make political stands when it comes to the online world, but this is one that can’t be ignored.  There isn’t a blogger alive who doesn’t need to consider freedom of speech issues in fact.  In Yahoo news this morning they write about public online spaces not having the same freedom of speech [...]

Something is up at Technorati.  For more than a month now I have been having problems with them properly indexing one of my blogs.  Despite the fact that it was being updated either manually or automatically with daily digest posts, http://www.bradsotherblog.com was simply not getting its ping through to Technorati.  This just isn’t me, either.
The [...]

This morning HostGator has made everyone change their passwords to a strong password. This is no big deal until you go to access anything that uses your mysql database. Just a heads up, this can royally screw your blog access. Being the administrator for more than half a dozen blogs and bbs hosted on HostGator. [...]

All blogs have their problems and niche blogs are no exceptions, especially micro niche blogs. The biggest problem is the amount of content one person can write about. Darren Rowse of ProBlooger mentioned last week that one of the emerging trends were multiple author blogs for smaller blogs. This is one of the solutions to [...]

This is going to be a regularly updated list of people fraudulently advertising the U Comment I Follow banner without having their nofollow turned off for commentors.  The whole purpose of the system is to provide those people with a link for search engines to follow.  While crap can happen and the nofollow can accidentally [...]

There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether. Fear not there are replacements out there. Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work in WordPress 2.5 the only version of the [...]