Blogger

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I get a bit tired of people dissing Blogger.com, it's a fantastic blog platform, it's easy to use, and it's a great way to make oodles of free websites and make money from them using AdSense. Why pay for expensive domain names and hosting when Google gives us everything we need free?

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This is one of those things that really annoys me about some blogspot users, (and for that matter, people who use Typepad), please, please, for heaven's sake allow people who aren't blogspot users to make a comment on your blog.

This is particularly annoying when these people have signed up for Entrecard, they obviously want traffic, I assume they want people to revisit, perhaps even become fans who subscribe to their feed, and they do allow comments, but they're idiots! They only allow fellow blogspot users to make comments. Why? This makes no sense.

Now listen, I have a blogspot account, in fact several to showcase the themes I've done, but this is my main blog, this is where I want you to visit, and if I leave a comment on your blog I don't want you or any other potential visitors going to my blogspot profile page first. I have this blog for a reason, so people can read what I have to say and so I can build my own group of online friends.

Not allowing me to comment on your blogspot blog unless I login into blogger just annoys me and probably thousands of other people who might like to comment on your posts. Remember, if you've written something good enough or interesting enough that I want to comment, this is a good thing. It means more readers for you, and if you monetise your blog as so many of you do, then you should want people like me to comment.

So, please do me and everyone else a favor, enable comments. It's really easy to do, here's how;

If you're a blogger who uses Google's blogspot to host your blog here's a quick suggestion that might help you get some traffic that stays long enough to make a comment, maybe even become a regular subscriber. Reduce the number of posts on your front page.

Believe me when I tell it is not cool, or trendy, or helping your SEO, or making your site more user friendly to have a 30 or 40 posts on your homepage, all of them filled with images or YouTube videos, and your siderbars filled with so many widgets you can't actually see the content for them.

Take a hint, reduce the number of posts on your page, and seriously think about how many widgets you really need. I understand that some of them might make you some money, by all means keep these, but do you really need to display every award your friends have given you or those stupid widgets like the purring pussy cat that follows your mouse cursor I've seen.

No, you don't! Please listen to this advice, a lot of you have the Entrecard widget on your blog, or you offer make money online ebooks for sale, so I know traffic is important to you, so make it easier for your site visitors to appreciate your blog. You may think your site loads pretty quickly, but remember, most of the stuff on your blog is cached by your browser so of course your page loads quickly for you, but it sure doesn't for your visitors.

I leave a lot of comments scattered around the place. But when I come across a blog that takes too long to load, heck I hit the close tab button so fast... I would stop and make a comment, but not if your site takes a couple of minutes or more to download.

You see, many of you use fancy themes that mean a visitor can't actually read your posts until the page is fully downloaded, usually because the text is the same color as the page border, yeah I know, you're thinking but I have white background behind the text, yeah, you may very well, but that white background doesn't show until the whole page is downloaded and you know what that means, I can't read your post until the white background is there because your text is the same color as the page border.

So, to help you out, here's a really quick tutorial on how to reduce the number of posts on your page.