<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179375506560043976.post2516600685252941362..comments</id><updated>2010-02-03T02:15:23.194-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Scratching out a living: Taking care of your blog's comments</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com/feeds/2516600685252941362/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/2516600685252941362/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com/2010/01/taking-care-of-your-blogs-comments.html'/><author><name>Jan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179375506560043976.post-4562683295880833330</id><published>2010-02-01T22:46:52.242-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T22:46:52.242-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I have personally found that most of my traffic co...</title><summary type='text'>I have personally found that most of my traffic comes from Stumble, Twitter and the search engines. I leave very few comments on other blogs nowadays. I use to leave comments when I started up this blog over 2 years ago now and noticed that it really did not improve traffic or PageRank. My readers come because they like what I have to say, not because I leave comments all over the place.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/2516600685252941362/comments/default/4562683295880833330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/2516600685252941362/comments/default/4562683295880833330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com/2010/01/taking-care-of-your-blogs-comments.html?showComment=1265093212242#c4562683295880833330' title=''/><author><name>The Knowledge Lady</name><uri>http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com/2010/01/taking-care-of-your-blogs-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179375506560043976.post-2516600685252941362' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/posts/default/2516600685252941362' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179375506560043976.post-2001149404569110023</id><published>2010-01-31T08:17:02.576-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-31T08:17:02.576-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This was great advice about taking care of comment...</title><summary type='text'>This was great advice about taking care of comments. I guess we do get a little carried sometimes in wanting people to come to our blogs and will leave comments anywhere. I try to only comment if the post or article has had something that I found interesting for myself or offered tips that I thought were of value.&lt;br /&gt;www.wantingtowork.today.com</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/2516600685252941362/comments/default/2001149404569110023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/2516600685252941362/comments/default/2001149404569110023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com/2010/01/taking-care-of-your-blogs-comments.html?showComment=1264954622576#c2001149404569110023' title=''/><author><name>Meandu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03909852056920788559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.scratching-out-a-living.com/2010/01/taking-care-of-your-blogs-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179375506560043976.post-2516600685252941362' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2179375506560043976/posts/default/2516600685252941362' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>