Comments on: Blogging

By: Mary Stella

Mary Stella — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:16:24 +0000

Those are all great tips, Alison. I wish more people would follow them. I’m sure it would cut back on the flame wars that crop up sometimes.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:08:49 +0000

Michelle – See #3. *g* But seriously. There’s a difference between that and a counter that updates every other counter on the page every time anyone clicks. It’s just not copasetic, ya know? It gives a false look at the traffic.

By: DementedM

DementedM — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:00:48 +0000

I hope #1 wasn’t about me :). I’ve set my counter to ignore me, but it doesn’t. Nothing I can do about it (although I hope to change counters at some point).

I hate it when I have problems updating my blog and then my stats show the last 12 hits were from me b/c I’m fiddling.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:26:20 +0000

Laurie – I honestly have visited blogs and thought, wait a minute. Is this person talking about me? That’s when I realized I needed to get a life, LOL!

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:25:35 +0000

James – That’s what I was working to get across. I have actually run into people who go out of their way to comment and visit many blogs, but refuse to put links on their own sidebar because they don’t want to direct visitors away from their own site. That is not in the spirit of what a blog is about; there is a REASON WordPress and other platforms have BUILT-IN linking tools!

By: James

James — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:17:56 +0000

I’m not a big fan of using blogrolls as goodwill currency, as seems to be suggested here. I put blogs on my public blogroll that I actually visit daily, not because I want to make someone feel better about themselves. To do otherwise is to have what many do: a gigantic list that has no real purpose, oftentimes with broken links, that is better ignored than anything else.

My blogroll may be small, but visitors can be assured that something worthwhile is actually on the other end of each link.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:59:22 +0000

Great advice on how to blog! Especially #3 about taking things personally – little provokes blog sniping any faster than this. Kind of like thinking the minister in church is talking about you and only you in his sermon!