Blog Comments

  
     

Blogs are more than just one-way posts on a web page. Instead, your XSite Blog allows readers to add their own comments about your posts. This can lead to a robust discussion of topics in an open forum. Of course, as the Blog owner, you have the ability to delete comments you feel are inappropriate for your site. Also, any reader who posts a comment to your Blog is added to your Contacts database, so you can add them to your marketing efforts.

     
 

Commenting on Posts

  
     
  1. While reading the posts on your Blog page, click the Comments link below that post.
  2. Complete the contact information and then add your thoughts in the Comment field.
  3. Click Submit.

Once submitted, this comment is either posted to your Blog page immediately or - if you have Moderate Comments turned on in your Blog Settings - it is placed in your Moderate list until you either approve or delete the comment. Either way, an e-mail is sent, notifying you of this new contact.

As the Blog owner, you can follow this procedure to add your own comments to your blog. Or, you can:

  1. From the XSites toolbar, click Blogging in the XSite drop-down menu.
  2. From the Blogging menu, click Previous Posts.
  3. The number of comments submitted on each post is listed in the Comments column of the Previous Posts list. Click this number to view those comments.
  4. Scroll down below any existing comments to display the Submit Comment field. Enter your comment here and click Submit.
     
 

Moderating Comments

  
     

If you have comment moderation turned on, any comment left on your Blog page is first posted to the Moderate section of your Blogging tools page.

  1. From the XSites toolbar, click Blogging in the XSite drop-down menu.
  2. From the Blogging menu, click Moderate.

  3. Scroll through the list of comments users have left. For each one, click:
    • Approve - Immediately posts that comment to your Blog page.
    • Delete - Removes that comment from your site.
    • Ban - Removes that comment from your site, and prohibits that person from submitting future comments, It also deletes all previous comments from that person.
     
 

Managing Previous Comments

 
     

Once a comment has been approved, or if you have Moderate Comments turned off, you can still delete it - or ban that poster - at any time.

  1. From the XSites toolbar, click Blogging in the XSite drop-down menu.
  2. From the Blogging menu, click Previous Posts.
  3. The number of comments submitted on each post is listed in the Comments column of the Previous Posts list. Click this number to view those comments.
  4. Scroll through the list of Comments to read them. For any unapproved comment, click Approve to add it to your Blog page. Or, click Delete or Ban for any existing comment.

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