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Hey, Poets, Come Get Some Comment Luv
29 June 2008, the poet @ 4:13 pm

This is the 300th post for the World Class Poetry Blog and to commemorate this historic event I’ve made a few administrative changes that I hope will be welcome improvements. For starters, I’ve changed my tag line. You’ll notice that the header of this blog now says, under the blog title, “Intelligent Commentary On 21st Century Poetics”. I believe this more accurately describes my intent for this blog and where I plan to take it from here. I hope my readers will agree that it is what I provide.

My first blog post was published on September 10, 2007. Since then I’ve only missed a few days, but I’ve made up for those losses by posting multiple posts on other days. My second post, made on September 12, 2007 is still, to this day, the fourth most popular blog post I’ve written and still gets a respectable amount of traffic from time to time.

By way of trivia, my three most popular blog posts are:

• Poetics: The 7 Essential Elements Of Poetry
• How To Market Your Poetry Online
• Ushering In Black History Month With Poetry By Langston Hughes

The common element in all of these blog posts is that they in some way discuss poetics in the rawest sense. That’s good. It happens to be a passion of mine and something I enjoy writing about. Judging by the popularity of these posts, and some comments I’ve received over the months, that seems to be what my readers are interested in. Therefore, the new tag line fits.

The two most commented on posts during the past nine months have been:

• How Pretentious Can Poetry Be?
• Are You A Member Of The School Of Quietude?

Again, both address issues and problems of poetics in some way. Special thanks to Ron Silliman who has been an inspiration and his influence in the blogosphere has been a big help. His periodic links to this blog result in traffic spikes that increase my overall visitor count and lead to great discussions as is evidenced by the post on the school of quietude. Ron’s link to that post on June 23, 2008 resulted in the second highest traffic day since I started this blog.

I’d Like To Thank The Academy
I’d also like to thank my regular readers and commentators for keeping things active. You all have kept me going and inspire me to keep going. As of this writing my monthly visitor count hovers around 3,000, where it has been for a few months now.

I love comments. I like to read the comments posted by my readers and am privileged in being the first to read them. To facilitate more comments and to reward those brave souls who make their way to the World Class Poetry Blog, I’ve made two changes that I believe will foster more community here at the WCP blog. Those two additions are:

• The installation of the CommentLuv plugin
• The implementation of do-follow links

These are important developments. The CommentLuv plugin adds a link to commentators’ last blog post. If you write a blog and you post here on my blog then a link to your last blog post will appear directly after your comments. That’s a huge benefit to you and I hope you get additional traffic to your blog as a result of it.

The do-follow attribute on the links is good for search ranking reasons. WordPress automatically makes all links no-follow, which tells search engine robots not to crawl those links and give credit to webmasters for those inbound links. Readers who are aware of SEO tactics will know that inbound links count as points with the search engines. I’ve decided to reward my commentators with those points. For a deeper treatment of that subject you can read my comment policy, which I encourage everyone to read anyway.

There may be more changes forthcoming, but I hope you’ll take the time to read through some of my archives and leave a comment or two. Make some friends and join the discussion.

4 Comments a “Hey, Poets, Come Get Some Comment Luv”

1. Jim Murdoch — June 30, 2008 @ 4:02 am
   

   Well, more power to your elbow. It’s a hard slog to keep going the way you do. I simply can’t do it. Two or three a week tops is as much as I can cope with and, for some reason, I’ve never thought to keep a count of how many I actually have written. Anyway, here’s to the next 300.

   Jim Murdochs last blog post..Movie meme

2. Gary R. Hess — June 30, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
   

   The changes sound good. I haven’t read much on this blog, but thank you for posting the links about poetry… I’m headed over to read them now.

3. the poet — July 1, 2008 @ 9:04 am
   

   Thanks for stopping in Gary. And thank you, Jim, for the encouragement.

4. cynthia — July 7, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
   

   =)

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