Comments on: Don’t send your readers temporary blog post trash

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:16:43 +0000

These useless blog posts are sometimes one of the results of ‘earn money by blogging’ category!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:03:05 +0000

A way to prove ownership of a site is the add a CNAME rule in your DNS, pointing to the site that want to validate the owner identity.. You can do this on Google apps, for example.

By: Kurtlar Vadisi

Kurtlar Vadisi — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:33:47 +0000

In fact, I think that’s a feature of Google Reader, that it saves RSS posts even if they were deleted from the original feed.

By: April Sonderversicherung

April Sonderversicherung — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:25:42 +0000

About temporary blog posts, I find it stupid too because it shows up in reader’s feed and anybody can read it.

@ delldell, same here, too! useless blog posts also annoys me. There are some blogs that seem interesting but when you get to read their posts, only one or two are meaningful, some posts are already useless.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:15:36 +0000

There are many ways to prove ownership of blog / site including meta tags or image / file on the server. I haven’t seen a system that uses ‘tags / words’ in genuine posts to establish ownership.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:15:13 +0000

If I remember correctly (since it’s been a while since I’ve used WLW), it asks you about a temporary blog post, no mention about leaving something in your RSS feed. In fact, I think that’s a feature of Google Reader, that it saves RSS posts even if they were deleted from the original feed.

Annoying? Absolutely. But I think it’s on Microsoft to come up with a better way to detect your blog style (surely they can use the most recent post and detect it from there rather than having to create a brand new post?).

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:57:51 +0000

Well Ravi WLW does ask the author to confirm that this is OK to do before doing it, so the author at best isn’t reading what they are confirming.

By: delldell

delldell — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:55:22 +0000

aside from these. useless blog posts also annoy me. i’ve unsubscribed from shoemoney and john chows blog because 4 out of 5 of their blog posts are useless. it seems like they post just for the post of posting something.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:04:19 +0000

I don’t think it’s the authors’ fault, I blame Windows Live Writer — when I did this on my own blog, I had no idea it was going to leave a remnant in my RSS feed (only way I knew is because I subscribe to my own feed).

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:54:40 +0000

No, the pingbacks are from new (and usually legitimate) posts, Grog.