Blogging 101

Comments to your blog posts are what makes your blog a blog and different than just a static web page. Comments from readers help create the conversation and allow immediate and direct feedback to your thoughts. Allowing comments on your blog should be a no-brainer but you need to becareful about spam comments. If you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, you can install a plug-in to help stop spam comments automatically or at least help you monitor them efficiently. AKISMET is a plug-in which comes with WordPress — you just need to activate it and you will start seeing less junky comments.

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