Ari Herzog

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Thinking About Disabling Blog Comments

Ari Herzog

This brings me to blogs… When I mentioned Seth, Dave, and Dan at the bottom of my post the other day about blogging every day , their blogs don’t enable comments. In this way, readers who want to converse with Dan and other readers can do it in the same place.). Bloggers in 2020 are a mix of Dans and Julias.

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Rethinking Blog Comments Again

Ari Herzog

If you look at every blog post I wrote in 2014 in reverse chronological order from yesterday’s post rationalizing why I tweet to my first post on branding , the above numeric series indicates how many comments people wrote on each post. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email. People are sharing it, though.

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Reintroducing Blog Comment Moderation

Ari Herzog

It is common for companies (who don’t comprehend a blog comment is akin to having a conversation) to hire people to write manual comments on blogs all over the place in the hope an unsuspecting reader will click to learn more about the company product. Did You Approve That Blog Comment? The future is unknown.

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Got Community? 5 Ways To Foster It On Your Blog

Ari Herzog

This is even true when it comes to your blog. Here are 5 ways to foster community on your blog: 1. Commenting is the #1 way community is built on a blog. There has been a long debate about whether you as the blog owner should respond to every comment posted. I still respond to every commenter on blog posts that I write.

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Case Study of 2 Blog Commenting Truths

Ari Herzog

In his latest article on blog comments , Dave writes: Why I have comments: I hope I might learn something new from the people who read the blog. I realized while I was gone that perhaps the most important thing I could ever do to help you, is to turn comments off on my blog. Tags: Case Studies blogging comments.

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Did You Approve That Blog Comment?

Ari Herzog

I’m sure the folks at New York-based JKAhosting.com don’t know what’s going on around the blogopshere, so they and other companies should pay attention to a series of blog comments I’ve received in recent days — that are identical to the following screenshot: If the text is too small, you may click the image to zoom.

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Meet Everett Bogue: A Blogger Who Only Wants Blog Readers Who Tweet Because Everyone Else is a Low-life

Ari Herzog

I first wrote about Everett Bogue six months ago when I was displeased he turned off the ability for people to comment on his blog. Everett only wants people to read his blog if they have Twitter accounts. Many blogs will encourage you to ‘join the conversation’ in a place called “The Comments”. The links are dead.

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