As a blogger, you know that before you can write, you must READ first. You must read to get some ideas of what you are going to present to your readers on your next posting. Unless of course, you only want to run a personal where you only blog about your personal lives, i.e, what happens to you on a daily basis, then reading will become unnecessary for you.
So where do you look for ideas? Books, Magazine, Blogs, and Online Portals… the list are long and extensive. If you try to bookmark all the blogs and online portals, you will find that there are millions of them that you can use as your references. But not all the contents might interest you. So you will have to select a few that you might use for your next writing. But checking on millions of blogs and portals will take a lot of your precious times. So what’s the best thing that you can do?
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Blog Commenting
Do you like to comment on other peoples’ blogs? Well many people do. Whether as self-promotion (of your own blog) or you just love to express your thoughts on certain topics that you feel connected to. Nonetheless, there are a few things that you need to know before commenting on other people’s blog. While most blogs are quite straight forward, there are a few which will put you in a little bit of trouble and might send your comments into the spam folders before the blog owner can even read it.
Many bloggers (myself included) are quite lazy to maintain their blogs. The main reason is we don’t have staffs to do the house cleaning for our blogs. So, we try to put many things in as fully automated modes as possible. The development of WordPress and Web 2.0 and with the many plugins available today has made it more possible for us to ask for certain computer programs to do the work for us. Installing plugin such as Akismet and WP-Spam Free helps eliminate spam, but could also possibly eliminate your comment as well if not carefully posted. So what should you do?
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