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Yeah I generally like WordPress and have built two sites with it thus far, but I have heard really good things about Drupal and have done some testing on it in the past. For my GA site, I just need something relatively static because I don't have to keep adding pages. But I'll still probably go with WP for that anyway.Oh, and I have tried to direct some traffic to WCF from GA, and I think it has worked to a degree thus far.
I think compiling bibliographic data, articles on the GA, and other informative things will get visitors.
I got nailed by spammers yesterday for the first time. I got home and checked the back end of my WP installation and it said I had 50 comments waiting for approval. I was excited at first until I saw that all 50 were the same with minor variations on the email address. Luckily the anti-spam plugin I have running caught every single one of them.
That sucks. There should be different anti-spam extensions you can install on WordPress to prevent that, at least to some degree. Have you thought of posting comments on other military history blogs? Or at least adding them to your blogroll? Might the best way to get visibility among your target audience. You may already know about this guy, but he also links to a number of other military history/affairs blogs:http://warhistorian.org/wordpress/
Right now I am concentrating on adding posts to my blog. The more content I have the higher it gets in search results. I havent decided how or even if I am going to do a blogroll. Currently I only link to WCF, WOH, AMU, the WOH frontpgae, and a couple of scholarly societies. I will probably add more as I stumble across them. However, the blog is actually secondary and I play with it in my spare time because I am busy writing my thesis. I imagine once my thesis is done I will spend way more time on the blog as well as getting my business site up and running. It has only been up for a month so traffic is slow coming. But then as I said at the beginning, the blog is more for me than anyone else. If others find it interesting and want to comment I am more than happy to let them do that, and I will engage in limited debate. It is a dictatorship though and I will cut comments off if they get outrageous. I want to model any comments on the civil tone here at WCF, that is my example. This forum and WOH are probably the most civil forums I have ever seen on the internet. Most others are full of people cursing and going off on each other when they disagree, but not here.
Off topic somewhat: This link, Blog them Out of the Stone Age, from your blog is very good!
Actually that is the blog that Phid pointed me at. I added it because I saw it and though it had some excellent content as well. I will probably add some more blogs later as I find good ones. I have a couple in mind, I am going to try and stay away from politics blogs though.
I would like to invite all the regular gang her at WCF to register at my blog to be contributors of randome Military history posts. I realize that me and Vulture are probably the only dedicated Military historians here but all of you have something to add. Just please register and I ewill fix permissions on the back end as my default is registering as a subscriber. You would not believe how many spammers try to register as contributors and send mw nasty emails when they can't. If you pick a different user name than what you have here just let me know what it is. I use my real name on the site.
I would like to invite all the regular gang her at WCF to register at my blog to be contributors of randome Military history posts. I realize that me and Vulture are probably the only dedicated Military historians here but all of you have something to add. Just please register and I ewill fix permissions on the back end as my default is registering as a subscriber. You would not believe how many spammers try to register as contributors and send mw nasty emails when they can't. If you pick a different user name than what you have here just let me know what it is. I use my real name on the site.
I'll get over there and register today after I get home from work. 🙂
OK, I have made both you and Donnie editors which gives you these abilities “Editor – Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users' posts, etc.” I am absolutely not trying to steal Phids thunder here; I am looking for posts that deal exclusively with military history. Ken, I would imagine you can contribute stuff on the Greeks and Romans and Donnie you would probably be excellent at Civil War stuff. I am not looking to start discussions similar to a forum, we have that here. What I am looking for is some though provoking posts that would generate some discussion but mainly stand on their own. This is a your opinion type thing. I don't want hugely long posts, it aint school ;D but somewhere in the neighborhood of 400-1000 words that discusses a battle or specific point. Lastly, nobody should feel obligated to post. If anybody wants to, great and if not that is also good. What I absolutely don't want is the blog to turn into some type of me navel-gazing type exercise; that is why I am asking you guys to contribute something if you want. I would like it to be interesting and also present different views than perhaps I would present. That gets me to thinking and perhaps gets me and other to change our opinions about certain battles or campaigns.
Well give me some time. Let me get ILS where I want it, and then I'll put together a submission for you. I haven't written anything uber serious in a while and I look forward to doing so before I get back in school (which I've made up my mind is very very soon if I have to borrow the money to do so).
Phid, just to inform you, I updated you to an editor at Military-history.us. Thanks for registeringThe invitation for others to register and post is till open as well.
By the way I checked out your “other” blog. ;Dhttp://patricksworldusa.blogspot.com/2011/01/political-assassination-of-sarah-palin.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
