I posted this originally on AboutBlogging, but I thought I’d post it here too for those of you Bitter Readers who don’t go to both, because I want you to know that I’ve added a couple of things to make commenting here just that much more rewarding!

#1 … I’ve installed Lucia’s Linky Love on both this blog and the AboutBlogging blog. It’s a dofollow wordpress plugin that will enable commenters to get linkbacks to their own sites. (Currently, if you leave a comment on a blog, you do not get link “juice” for it in Google/Technorati with relation to their rankings. This plugin fixes that.) However, to prevent “human comment spammers leaving insipid, irrelevant comments just to get link-juice”, I’m setting this plugin to reward only users who comment 3 times. This way if you’re a regular participant, you get some linky love!

Another thing I’ve added is what I decided to call “Be A Community Builder”. It’s just a way of letting new commenters know that you will show them some love!

Here’s the “pledge”:

…for every new person who leaves a comment on my blog for the first time. I will:

1) Visit your blog or website
2) Visit Several Pages
3) Leave a comment on a post if have something to say
4) If I like your articles/posts, I will bookmark them in Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, or other appropriate Social Network.
5) If you tell me that you have subscribed to my RSS feed then I will subscribe to yours as well.

If you’re willing to take the Community Builder pledge(ish), saying that you’re willing to make an effort to do these things for your readers, then why not make a post or put up an icon saying so?

I created some icons which you can see here, and if you email me (my address is on my About page), I will also send you the png files with the layers if you want to edit them yourself to match your website or background a little better. Also, if you comment either here or over at AboutBlogging on the appropriate posts saying that you want to join up, I’ll add your website link to that post on AboutBlogging.

Which I think it’s just pretty darned cool. Thanks Fish!

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Just a short post today, everyone!

Mike Thomas from BlogInterviewer.com wrote to me and asked me to submit an interview for Bitter Women. So you can read more facts about us if you like, although I have to warn you, I did try to play it straight a bit, since … well… since I’m basically a coward about being outrageous in public.

You can read the interview and even vote for our blog (either thumbs up or thumbs down kind of voting). He gives out some kind of prizes for the most popular blogs, but I’m not really holding out, since I have tried these types of competitions before, and I usually end up having to nominate myself , and I never get any votes. Haha… oh well.

However, I’m posting about this one because I’ve actually found some cool blogs featured over there, so you never know.. you might stumble across someone great in the pages of his blog.

P.S. I was going to post a rant today about Mommybloggers, but since I don’t want to offend half my 29-member readerbase, I am going to sleep on it. If good judgement doesn’t overcome me, watch this space for some first-class ranting tomorrow.

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