Funny spam groupies on your WordPress blog

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spam comments, wordpress blog

My finger pauses on the delete button before I empty out the spam folder. Some comments are way too entertaining to flush down the drain.

I can roughly slot them as below –

A]  Breathless admirer – This spammer pours every existing superlative adjective on you. You are the next best writer to Lee/ Christie/ Dostoevsky/ Chekov et al. Your every post gives him a literary orgasm, detonates a delightful bomb within his mind (or wherever he likes it detonated).

Of course, it could also be a She.   

B] Good Samaritan – A mixture of protective brother/Mom and future best friend

How to add Goodreads book reviews to WordPress blog post

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At last your book is open to public eyes, minds and opinions …Yay! Slow & steady begins the trickle of those heady reviews which officially stamp you as an Author.

For once, it is perfectly sane to gather all your eggs in one basket.  Those precious reviews lie scattered across Amazon, blogger sites and on Goodreads – and you want’em all under one umbrella – namely under your WordPress domain.

This is how you get a link to the Goodreads review onto your WordPress blogpost.

How to transfer WordPress blogposts to Goodreads Author blog

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Author blog, blogging tips, convert HTML to visual format, Goodreads Author blog, Goodreads author tips, how to, HTML formatting made easy, Wordpress Author, writing tips

Goodreads is every published Author’s sacred space. Reviews, events, videos – and your Goodreads Author blog all condensed under one roof.

However, tedious formatting is a major hurdle in composing a Goodreads blog post. Get an eyeful of the HTML codes required for italics, bold, paragraph, underline and image!

Are all authors techno-savvy? I’m not.

So, how do you bypass the HTML formatting on Goodreads? How to share posts from WordPress to Goodreads? Here’s my method …

Dear Blogger … with regards from WordPress

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Dear Blogger Long time no see. Hope this finds you in the pinkest of health.

I know 2 competitors are rarely friends, but I’m your ardent follower. I’m amazed at the creative population who populates your kingdom.  It is this rich variety of wordsmiths who drag me to your door time and again.

P.S: On getting feedback, let me clarify. This post is a loving complaint by WordPress users (xxx.wordpress.com) to Blogger users (yyy.BlogSpot.com), with regards to the tedious and lengthy procedure required to post a comment on BlogSpot.com type of blogs.

With all due respect to your multi-talented citizens, please allow me to state …

1. I am NOT a Robot. Isn’t there a simpler method to prove my flesh n blood existence? I mean, how do you know a robot cannot type the 3 numbers you flash at me for ‘Verification’?

2. I’m not a virus. Why do you live in such an impregnable virtual fortress?

WordPress – How to use the Reader

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Powerbloggers stay clear. This is strictly for newbies.

I discovered Reader a year into blogging on WordPress.

• What is Reader?

Its that icon up there sandwitched between ‘blog name’ and ‘follow’ on your blog site.

Its the window that permits you to peer into your peers – I mean, fellow bloggers.

It lists

a] Latest posts by the Blogs you follow get updated here. You can either glimpse a preview or read entire post, depending on walls erected by that WordPress Blogger.

P.S- You can hit ‘like’ or ‘comment’ directly via Reader. Be warned – this indirect route however, does not add up to