A great question has come up over at the recently retired BloggingBlog: Is Blogging Blog Really Dead? The real question is what does it really take to keep a blog alive and it came up as a result of Garry’s comment on Leroy’s final post there. Garry runs an Online Marketing blog with lots of [...]

Most readers will know that I regularly follow ProBlogger’s posts and often link to them and add my commentary. If you’re not yet familiar with Darren Rowse, the Aussie author of ProBlogger.net, his articles pretty much set the standard in the blogging world. ProBlogger is all about blogging and most specifically about blogging for money. [...]

I’ve been using Akismet to fight comment spam here on FreshBlogger and I have to say that it’s working great. Out of the literally hundreds of spam comments this blog receives each day, only one or two make it through to moderation, if any. Considering the absolute deluge of spam, this is a pretty good [...]