Switching your blog to https has a significant impact on the social proof related to all published posts.
While the share count buttons for Twitter and LinkedIn will preserve the figures they previously displayed, the buttons for Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and Stumbleupon will reset to zero.
That’s because the latter social media networks don’t consider https pages as being the same thing as their relevant http versions. (more…)
CommentLuv is a popular WordPress plugin that unfortunately hasn’t been updated lately.
More and more bloggers switch their blogs to https. But CommentLuv doesn’t like these links. And it displays errors in some specific cases.
I can hear you saying that you didn’t switch to https yet, so CommentLuv works fine for you.
No, it doesn’t. So keep reading, this article is useful also for you. (more…)
Both the bloggers and the other email marketers send their emails via professional email marketing services. So what’s so specific to bloggers?
Well, some blogs send emails… “New blog post” email notifications. Or “Your comment on the post X has a new reply.”
No third party service to help your email deliverability. You’re on your own. (more…)
Several days ago I logged into my Pinterest account. Quite many messages were waiting for me in the Messages tab.
All of them were claiming that X or Y sent me a pin. Geez, everyone suddenly started to spam me?
Very unlikely. I said to myself, “There’s something fishy here, Pinterest.”
So I took a break and I pinned something to a group board that I created.
Huge surprise… I got a message that claimed that I sent a pin. It even had the option of reporting it as spam. Kind of reporting myself for the spam I didn’t send. (more…)
