Blogging

Blogs and Web Sites - How Many Should You Have?
During the course of my consulting work with lawyers and other small business service providers, an issue that often comes up has to do with how many web sites or blogs should the business owner maintain. My response: as many as you can maintain. (…)

Eliminating Comment Spam - Part Two
Yesterday, I uploaded a screen capture video that demonstrated how you might get rid of comment spam by using the "mass edit" mode moderation function in WordPress. Of course, not all comments that appear in the moderation queue are spam - how do you quickly identify which comments are spam and which are legitimate. (…)

How to Deal With 10,000 Unmoderated Spam Comments in WordPress
Comment spam can take a lot of the enjoyment out of blogging. Comment spammers operate in the same manner as email spammers - they use automated scripts to disperse their wares. Comment spammers use the comment capability of most blogs to distribute links to their web sites. If your blog has the "no_follow" attribute of comments disabled, then you may be unwittingly providing the comment spammers with some of your "link juice."
At a minimum, every blogger should enable the moderation feature for all blog comments. If your comments are unmoderated, you will soon see hundreds, if not thousands of irrelevant, spammy, link-filled comments on your blog posts. (…)

Linking Techniques for Bloggers
If you blog frequently, you will have many opportunities to link to other web sites and blogs. I created the following video for my colleagues in the Bankruptcy Law Network. The BLN consists of a group of bankruptcy lawyers who work in various cities throughout the country. The BLN blog is a collaborative effort to provide consumers with multiple perspectives about the bankruptcy process and to allow member attorneys to showcase their knowledge. (…)

Expert Blogging Tips - How to Deal with Stolen Content
Lorelle VanFossen publishes a very readable and useful blog about WordPress and blogging in general called Lorelle on Wordpress. Lorelle recently attended a WordPress event in Israel and she has published a helpful post containing tips and suggestions about how to get the most out of Wordpress. I recommend this post to all bloggers - new or experienced. (…)

Getting Started With Audio Recording on Your Blog or Web Site
I have previously written about the benefits of adding multi-media to your blogs and web sites. One of the first questions I hear from colleagues and consulting clients relates to the technology issues that arising from including audio and video. I can certainly understand why a new or non-technical blogger or web site owner would be confused about how to record, edit and post audio and video. (…)

Add Audio and Video to Your Blog Easily
I have long been a proponent of including audio and video in blog posts and on web sites. (…)

How to Be a Good Citizen in the Blogosphere
Future lawyer Andrew Flusche has written a very useful post entitled "Top 11 Ways to Give by Blogging" on his Legal Andrew blog. Andrew is both a programmer and a law student at the University of Virginia and he concisely sets out eleven specific actions that blog visitors can take to support their favorite blogs. (…)

Creating a Blog for Your Business - Does it Make Sense?
Does it make sense for you to create a blog for your business? (…)

Blogs a Great Way to Collaborate With Virtual Mastermind Colleagues
The more time I spend updating and tweaking my blogs, the more impressed I have become with the technology. (…)

Sound Advice for Promoting Your Blogs
I have been publishing a lot of posts on my law blogs - Social Security Disability blog and Georgia Bankruptcy blog and I have been encouraging my lawyer colleagues to get on the blog bandwagon. (…)