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I love my readers, truly I do
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I love my readers, truly I do

May 6, 2008 by SmockLady  
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Arianne over at To think is to create wrote a great post about readers and commenting.

I could have almost totally written that post myself. So go read it. Go ahead, I’ll wait right here for you.

Did you read it? All of it? Good.

Like she said

comments matter. . . . This blog is not written for money, and while I do enjoy the opportunities this blog brings my way–at the end of the day it’s still just me and my thoughts and I don’t like talking to my dog. Because that’s what it feels like when a bunch of you read and only a handful leave your thoughts…like speaking out into a foggy night when everyone’s already in their houses and I’m standing alone on the street. When I talk to my dog, she stares at me then walks off completely unaffected.

And as I said in her comments

I so could have written this entry myself. But at my house it wouldn’t be the dawg -she loves me – it would be the cat licking his, well, you know, but none the less not caring about my thoughts or words at all. He might even send a little tail jigging marky-marky my way just to share his thoughts about my words. . . . I want my readers to know that I read them and appreciate that they “leave their mark”, good or bad.

I do try to respond to every commenter, usually in one comment like this one. Some times if it’s been a few days or the post is an older one I respond to the commenter via e-mail instead.

I have a few things up my sleeve for showing my love a bit to my lovely readers who “Leave their mark”. First, I want you all to note that I use two different wonderful plugins that share the luv when you comment. I use Commentluv by FiddyP that parses your last post title and a link to it if you have a public feed. This is great way to get more readers to your blogs, not just mine. Then I also use a plugin called Lucia’sLinkLuv by Lucia of Big Bucks Blogger which allows me not only to better control the commenters and spam, but follows the DoFollow movement for comment. Here, she says it better:

This is a variety of “dofollow” plugin. It’s main function is to strip “nofollow” tags from links in comments. The purpose is to encourage comments by rewarding commenters with “dofollow” links which boosts their rank in search engine. However, this particular plugin also has features that thwart human’s who are paid to visit blogs and leave insipid comments simply to boost their companies back links.

Secondly, I am planning a contest/drawing for the very near future, I just have to get the final details worked out and decide how I am going to do it. It will, no matter what, require a little luv on your part to. So stay tuned and don’t forget to start “leaving your mark” more often.

OH, by the way, go get a gravatar. I am so tired of looking at just mine in the comment section. ;)

Comments

20 Responses to “I love my readers, truly I do”
  1. 1
    Chef says:

    Gravatar, check.
    Comment, check.

    Chefs last blog post..5-3-04

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    Chef says:

    LOL. If I had known a photo of Grand Prismatic Spring would get a “woot”, I would have done it a long time ago.

    Chefs last blog post..5-3-04

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    I absolutely love my Gravatar.

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    SmockLady says:

    Craig Ferguson – WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? I have missed you so. The last time you commented was almost two years ago. It’s been so long; and you are, like, a US citizen now and everything. OH, congratulations on that, by the way.

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    Carol says:

    I have to laugh when I see my latest post title come up. I always wish it had been more profound. By the way, do you still have readers register for private posts? I started doing that with my new site. See ya.

    Carols last blog post..Breastfeeding Cuts Risk of Crib Death by Third

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    Holley says:

    I know I have asked this before, but, where do I get a gravatar? Is it one of those Japanese anime’ things?

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    Holley says:

    Nevermind, I read the site info. I think I like the monster thingy. It expresses exactly how I’m feeling lately.

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    Carol says:

    I wonder why mine is showing a monster. Cute, but it showed my picture last night. Hmmm… Hope you don’t mind if I test here again.

    Carols last blog post..Women Who Breastfeed Are Brighter?

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    SmockLady says:

    Carol – I read your comment in my admin panel last night so I didn’t see who had a Gravatar and who didn’t (other than those I already knew, of course). I’ll clear the monsterID cache in my database and see what happens. I do have it set to use Gravatar.com and MonsterID when no Gravatar e-mail ID is found.

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