Blogging

  • Do Blog Comments Matter?

    Do Blog Comments Matter?

    Blogging is great for business, and comments are often a part of blogs. Does it follow that blog comments are great for business? Many prominent blogs have removed the commenting option, post comments only after monitoring, or require registration through a service like Disqus before allowing comments. Other bloggers reach out and request comments, trade…

  • Traffic Loss

    Traffic Loss

    Over the past six months, we’ve lost 3% of our traffic at this website every month. This is depressing, of course. How did it happen? Life. We were super busy taking care of our paying clients and we were working on our new redesign (we hope you like it). We figured we would get the…

  • Copyright and AI Content

    Copyright and AI Content

    We’ve watched the growth of artificial intelligence tools that generate web content with interest. Our focus has been on whether it works or not — is it a good way to save money on web content, for example? There’s another issue, though: copyright and AI content.  Check out our experiences with these tools: Autogenerated Content…

  • Trying out Bertha AI

    Trying out Bertha AI

    For Tool Tryout Tuesday, we tried out Bertha.ai, a new content generating plugin for WordPress. We paid for the tool and have been testing it for about a month now.  Bertha claims to be able to write full websites and blog posts. We’ve tested its ability to write blog posts. The content of your website…

  • Is “Blog” Declining in Search Popularity?

    Is “Blog” Declining in Search Popularity?

      In the podcast shared below, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy talks about a question she gets all the time: “What are we going to do about the fact that the term ‘blog’ is declining in search popularity?” It is,  by the way. Or it has. Interest in that word peaked about a decade…

  • Can You Take the Summer off from Blogging?

    Can You Take the Summer off from Blogging?

    There’s a lot packed into “summer.” That one word is bursting with floral shorts, cold glasses of lemonade, fireflies blipping in the darkness, white sands and tropical beaches, cars brimming with luggage and family, and refreshing mojitos on balmy nights. Summer and vacations go hand-in-hand. One thing that people don’t associate with summer is a…