Using Blogger- Comment Control

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Readers of your blog would like to be able to air their views on it—
they might agree or disagree with what you’ve expressed, or they
might just want to offer words of appreciation. The Comments link
grants the ability to manage readers’ comments. If you would like
what others have to say about your thoughts to appear on your blog,
you can choose to Show, otherwise, Hide them. Under the “Who
Can Comment?” title, you can decide whether all readers should be
given the power to comment, or whether it should be restricted to
registered members of the blog.
If you’d like to be informed whenever a comment is added to your
blog, you can enter the e-mail ID you’d prefer the alerts to be sent to
in the Comment Notification Address field. To avoid irresponsible
comments or spam turning up on your blog, it is best to enable
Comment Moderation. This way, every time a reader who is not a
member of the blog adds a comment, you are informed by e-mail, and
the comment doesn’t show up on the blog unless you choose so.
The popularity of your blog can be determined by the number
of other sites linking to it: say someone with a blog of his own reads
your blog and likes what you have said, and offers a link to your
blog on his. This would be called a back-link. Enabling back-links
will reveal the number of other sites that have linked to your post.
Word Verification is a feature that can prevent the use of
software programs to enter comments, mostly spam, to your
blog. Word Verification uses an image containing a series of dig-
its or letters as a part of the commenting process. Since only
human beings can decipher the content of the image, such com-
menting programs can be blocked. Enabling Word Verification
is recommended.