Comments on: Blogging tips

By: Laurie Bluedorn

Laurie Bluedorn — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:26:32 +0000

Do you think it is important to respond to all comments?

By: Farrago Line

Farrago Line — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:39:12 +0000

Blogging Rules

Late that evening I asked my companion, who had proved her ability to get her brain to work for her earlier when she calculated the optimum wine for our bacon cheeseburger dinner and then calculated (in her head!) what 20

By: Spunky

Spunky — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:46:47 +0000

Another helpful tip is to find your voice and your niche. That’s a slightly different aspect than just not copying other blogs. I find that I usually read blogs that have a more identfiable purpose to them and not just random posts.

Another helpful tool is Bloglines. This allows you to read many blogs and news sites quickly. http://www.bloglines.com

I agree with the post on carnivals. Also keep in mind that the more links to your site the higher you rise in the search engines. So the more outside links that are linking to you the better.

If you can use the technorati tags that also drives traffic. This website http://www.ultraseeker.com/tagbuilder/index.php
will help explain the tags and build them for you.

By the way, I came by way of La Shawn Barber.

By: Jeremayakovka

Jeremayakovka — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:54:09 +0000

Also: BACK UP your material, text and hypertext. Crashes, hackers and who knows what else could annihilate years of work in a nanosecond.

By: Jeremayakovka

Jeremayakovka — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:22:40 +0000

What generous advice. Thank you.

I started my blog less than 100 days ago (after 2 years of visiting them) and it’s been great. Learning the technology is key for satisfaction: like you suggest, Technorati, TTLB, etc. There are highs and lows along the way. So it’s important to organize the activity like with any project-based volunteer or professional entity.

By: The Voice-over Boblog

The Voice-over Boblog — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:28:14 +0000

Excellent blogging tips

Sister Toldjah wrote up a bunch of excellent blogging tips in September 2005. (hat tip to Instapundit). Since Glenn’s link to her post, she’s written up some additional thoughts here (scroll down).
This is why I blog about voice-over and ve…

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:53:25 +0000

GM: thank you!

And thanks to others who are offering more advice in this thread.

By: Notes in the Key of Life

Notes in the Key of Life — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:05:04 +0000

My blogging advice

La Shawn Barber happens to be one of my blogging heroes, so when La Shawn speaks, I listen. La Shawn is now dispensing some blogging advice, along with the wonderful Sister Toldjah (is that one of the greatest names for a blog, or what?)

By: James Hooker

James Hooker — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:53:39 +0000

Dear Sis. I like to cuss. My Mom reads my blog and I catch hell when I do. I don’t cuss that much anymore. In the first place, all my blog attracted was scum who liked the language. Now they’re gone. This friggin “Adorable Rodent” stuff is getting old. Shit!

By: Right Wing News

Right Wing News — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:26:06 +0000

Daily News For July 12, 2006

Foreign Hezbollah Captures 2 Israeli Soldiers PM Olmert Declares Hizbullah Attack ‘Act Of War’ By Lebanon. “Israel’s Response Will Be…

By: triticale

triticale — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:24:27 +0000

One thing to note about the value of trackbacks is that if the post you linked is of ongoing interest, the trackback will keep producing hits for a long time. Among today’s referrals are two trackbacks from last December which steadily bring me 3 or 4 visitors a week and one from 2004 I don’t even recall offhand.

The same can be true of carnivals. It certainly is for the recipe carnival since people are starting to use the set of them as a reference. Hosting a carnival is half a day’s work, which is why there are always opportunities to do so, but will bring more traffic than participating.

I find that about a quarter of my visitors view more than one page. These folks followed a link or trackback to a specific post and then stuck around to see what else I’d written. Maybe some of them will even come back. Any time you do a special traffic generator, follow it up with a bit of your regular fare.

By: Yehudit

Yehudit — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:49:17 +0000

I would also add Memeorandum as a great news aggregator site that shows which blogs are blogging about each news story.

By: Citizen Deux

Citizen Deux — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:21:38 +0000

A great summary of the world’s second most self-indulgent activity! I appreciated the links to Simon and other sites.

By: GM's Corner

GM's Corner — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:29:45 +0000

Advice For Novice Bloggers

One of the better writers out in the blogosphere is Sister Toldjah (She has been on my blogroll for some time) who has written an exceptional bit of advice to…

By: GM Roper

GM Roper — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:16:48 +0000

Sister Toljah,

Would that you had written this back in the fall of 2004 when I started my blog. You have done much to help out the novice blogger and since I get these questions also (the proverbial once in a blue moon) I’m going to post and link back to you. Great response by the way to Dana, I also moved up from that teeny tiny insignificant microbe to a playful primate and much of it was due to feed back from good folk like you. Thanks again on behalf of all the novices out there.