I think there are too many automated commenting software tools around lately. I am using the Askimet plugin and another one to stop spam called:  WP-Spam Free, but they aren’t stopping the flood of ridiculous comments. I am about to make sure I am upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.  (I am not but will be as soon as I post this.)

I’ll try to post again to see if upgrading to WordPress 3.0.1 helps at all. I really don’t want to turn off the commenting features of my blog. So, if anyone has a tip to make these dumb comments stop, please let me know! Also, if I marked someone’s legitimate comment as spam, let me know and I will fix my error.

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For those who are new to these things offered on the world wide web, we’ll start with some information about blogs.

What is a blog?

You’ve probably been to one and didn’t even know it was a blog. Technically, a blog consists of pages on the Internet that are made with special software (in the case of this website, it’s made using WordPress). I won’t bore you with a list of all of the different software that is used, but the well-known blog writing tools are: WordPress, TypePad and Blogger.

What was once the main way to make pages for websites is changing. At one time most pages were written in a language called HTML. People could write pages using HTML code from scratch or using software that helps create the pages (such as DreamWeaver). This type of code isn’t that easy-to-use.

The inception of blogs made the whole process of writing content for the internet far easier because once the blog software is installed, the blogger only needed to select a template and start adding pages. No expertise in web writing code is necessary. This is why people can just post daily or weekly about any topic they want to write about (something that a static HTML website can not provide).

Another great thing about blog sites is the immediacy of feedback due to the way comments can be posted by readers.

Why do people make blogs?

We’ve all seen numerous blogs about celebrities and news. Some of my favorite blogs are about food, cooking and recipes. Or, those that show photos, jokes or artwork are always fun to look at. Some people’s blogs seem a bit egotistic in that they just talk about what they are doing and things they like. Basically blogging is about publishing. It helps if you have something of interest to talk about.

A newer trend in blogging is to blog about products and services and to sell them (to make money using a blog). And other sites are for providing interesting articles and education for the readers (and often also trying to make some money in the process.)

Why do companies have blogs on their websites?

Now that blogging has become so popular, businesses are starting to create blogs that discuss issues that are of interest to people in their company or industry. This is the newest trend – professional blogs. Many of these have content that has been written by paid professional writers. These business blogs are being made to increase traffic to websites. It has been found that creating a regular flow of articles and content on a site will make the searches for those topics being written about (based on the keywords used) show up in search engines (such as Google, Yahoo and MSN).

A good blog will attract readers and people will make links from their sites to it. The more the blog (or any other website for that matter) has sites linking to it – the more the search engines think the blog has importance. This will make the search engines give the site a better result in what is shown in search engine results.

This article is barely scratching the surface on the topic of blogging (but then we did say this was for internet “newbies”).

There will be more in-depth articles about how to make a successful blog and other more technical things such as how to install a blog. If you are interested in reading more, subscribe to our RSS feed or bookmark this site and visit us again.

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