04.19.07
10 Top Blogging Tips
Over on my other site, I outlined the tips below. They originally featured on a site run by a charming young lady from Adelaide called Beerli. Her Blog is known as The Talk of the Town.
1. The length of the post is irrelevant. It’s the content and it’s a bit hard to judge sometimes what will take off. Readers often like different and quirky, but they also like to get stuck into some meatier subjects.
2. Pictures help. Readers react to pictures and it’s often the ones which stir a memory, capture the imagination or make them laugh which get the reactions.
3. One day you will go to your blog and you will feel sick. You will not want to blog. It’s like aversion therapy. Some people delete their blogs or blogs are left hanging in space. Know this will happen, that it feels awful but that it will pass.
4. Blog holidays are good. After a week’s break you come back just popping!
5. Get a stat counter which lets you see who visits. It is so exciting to know that someone has come in from Thailand or Greece. It really cheers you up to know there are people in far flung corners who come to read your blog.
6. Get an RSS feed going. It does improve the traffic.
7. Join places like Blog Lines, Blog Explosion and Blogshares. It gets your blog known, it makes you feel like a somebody and it helps you to create the connections which you wish to make.
8. Some of the best bloggers I have come to value suddenly just stop blogging. It can be very upsetting and you wonder what has happened. Expect to feel attached and be ready for the separation anxiety.
9. Don’t be frightened to ask for help if you don’t know how to do something or what something means. The blogosphere is full of kind , helpful people who do not make you feel stupid.
10. Link away! Ask to link your blog, let others link to you. That network can be crucial at times.
I think this is a useful list of do’s for blogging. I also would like to add that Blog templates and the colours used therein are important considerations, particuarly if you are going to be “monetizing” your Blog.
jennifer said,
April 22, 2007 at 1:42 am
Hey Jeremy…
GREAT ideas!
Thanks so much! I’m one of those folks who has needed a lot of help from the very kind people in the blogosphere!
Thanks a bunch,
jen
Jeremy Jacobs said,
April 22, 2007 at 8:19 am
De nada
janejill said,
April 29, 2007 at 7:02 pm
And I thought I was alone … so to speak. I have often experienced many of the situations you describe- (what about the addicition one) - there are so many people out there with good minds, interesting views and brilliant pics. I just wish there was a simple way to learn how to do some simple things (I am a simple person…) I have been trying to download some photos from MY Pictures and , after weeks of watching that exclamation mark twinkling , then -nada- I get very fed up; if you know of any site which deals with these types of things I would be extremely excited and happy..