tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969655276426498512012-02-22T13:18:19.325+01:00Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.Benjamin Auffarthhttps://profiles.google.com/118440342400845052454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196965527642649851.post-47647911787122024342010-12-16T23:57:00.012+01:002011-01-01T20:01:40.043+01:00

In an earlier article on the importance of comments for a blog I summarized studies about blog comments, concluding that blog comments lead to more traffic, better search engine optimization (SEO), apart from being personally rewarding to the blog writer. I worked on many optimizations for this blog to make commenting more attractive. Recently I made a major change on this blog and changed the

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My Outsourced Brain again has made a great improvement in visitor statistics last month. Most importantly it had an increase of about 300 percent in visitors, many new comments, the recent google pagerank update gave it three upgrades to currently 3, and it is now at 120,000 Alexa rank (3 month statistics). Thanks to everybody who visits and comments here, especially to people from entrecard who

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Comments are an important part of blogs. In this post I summarize several scientific studies on blogging and commenting. Two conclusions are that comments are important for feedback and self-expression and to build social links. Furthermore they are related to inbound links and and traffic, they contribute content and are useful for search engine optimization. In one of my last posts I asked how

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My Outsourced Brain has made a great improvement in visitor statistics last month. Thanks to everybody who visits and comments here. Thanks especially to people from entrecard who drop here as often as possible. Hopefully we've been able to give you some interesting time with our content. If you like our posts, please consider getting updates via feed, e-mail, or twitter. In this post I am

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Remark: This post explains how to create special pages by making changes to the blogger template. As of January 2010, blogger provides a simpler way for the creation of special pages than the way explained here. This feature can be found in the blogger draft dashboard, under posting->edit pages. Special pages are pages such as contact, feedback, or information for advertisers. The standard way

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If you don't use pre-moderation of comments in your blog, inevitably some comment will sooner or later appear that you rather not wish on your site whether it contains obscenities, linkspam, or for other reasons. The problem is that if you delete the comment, there will be a message "this comment was deleted by a blog administrator." How not to show the comment at all? There is a simple solution

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I think one of the principal motivations for people to maintain a blog is to exchange opinions and improve your thinking. By leaving comments, visitors can improve your article and give you pointers that you can follow. I think most bloggers are happy to receive comments, in fact it's unusual to find a blog that has comments deactivated. This post discusses how to get more comments. Comments

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This post is about making your site more attractive by adding social features and generating more traffic by social features by inbound links. Social networking features make it easy for people to follow your blog, contribute content, link to it, and generate publicity through social media, online communities, and community websites. Social features include feed syndication, social network

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