Dig through the clutter: 40 must-reads for extraordinary bloggers - Blog tips from Dutch Problogger Ernst-Jan Pfauth

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Don’t you get tired of all those boring “How to be a betterwriter?”-posts. It’s the same thing all over again, “Have a uniquevoice”, “Love your commenters”, etcetera, etcetera. To help us all out,I’ve dug through the clutter and selected 36 posts that can help youbecome an original and all-round problogger. And because vanity is ablogger’s right, I’ve also included four articles by my own hand.Themes are Development & Design, Workflow, Publishing, Inspirationand Comments. Enjoy!

Development & Design

1. WebDesignerWall: Wordpress Theme Hacks

Every time when I adjust one of my blog’s design, I refer to the WordPress tricks from webdesigner Nick La.Conditional tags, Feature post highlighting, and thumbnails - I owethem all to Mr. La. Scan the article quickly and refer to it wheneveryou spice up your blog design.

  • Visit the WebDesignerWall for WordPress tricks that spice up your blog

2. Smashing Magazine: 10 Killer WordPress Hacks

Same story here: this is also a good guide to the better Wordpresscode editing sessions. Especially since this article contains dozens oflinks to other valuable development posts. Save it in you Delicious forwhen your blog needs a make over.

  • Visit Smashing Magazine to maximize your blog with some nifty hacks

3. Yoast: Wordpress SEO

Some bloggers would argue that search engine optimization (SEO)deserves a special category. I don’t. Only when I’m building a blog,SEO features in my to-do list. Wordpress guru Joost de Valk wrote ahandy check list for this. Follow all his steps and don’t worry aboutSEO after that. It’s about the content people.

  • Visit Yoast to find a guide to excellent Wordpress SEO

4. Smashing Magazine: The Secrets Of Grunge Design

Have another look at this blog design and you’ll understand why I’vefeatured this grunge post by Smashing Magazine. When working togetheron the Dutchproblogger.com design with Odilo Girod,I’ve sent him a couple of these posts. I loved the grunge trend, butwanted an original twist to it. Odilo knew how to handle this requestand came up with the powerfull design you’re looking at right now.That’s the challenge in blog design: adopt the trends you love andblend it with your own style.

  • Visit Smashing Magazine for a grunge design gallery

5. Pro Blog Design: 10 Things to do After Installing WordPress

Darren Rowse, the original problogger from Problogger.net, has set up many side blogs. Have a look at TwiTipsto see what I mean. Whenever he spots an extremely popular subject,like Twitter, a blog is created quickly. If you’re like him, refer tothis handy Wordpress checklist on Pro Blog Design by freelancewebdesigner Lee Munroe. He describes then steps you’ll have to take anytime you’re installing a Wordpress blog.

  • Visit Pro Blog Design for a Wordpress installation checklist

6. Rubiqube: Adding Tabs to Your Blog Sidebar

As you might have noticed, the sidebar of this blog is prettysimple. I like it that way, since you won’t get distracted when readingan article. Yet sometimes a blog desperatly needs widgets like “MostRead” and “Recent Comments”. This post on Rubiqube introduced me to away to prevent chaos in the sidebar. The answer? Tabs! After readingthe article you can easily add tabs to your blog with the scripts fromthe Yahoo! UI Library. You can check out how I’ve used them on the frontpage.

  • Visit Rubiqube for a tutorial on widget tabs

7. Nettuts: Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress

When working for blogs who welcome ten news posts to the frontpageon a daily basis, one starts searching for ways to highlight posts. Atleast, that’s what I did. And many others, which explains the magazinetrend. Major blogs like Mashable started looking more similar to printmagazines in 2008 and this trend will probably continue. If you feellike you should at least welcome a major aspect of the magazine trend,go for the featured post. Never let that great post be topped by ashort news article. Nettuts offers a step by step tutorial.

  • Visit Nettuts to learn how to build a Wordpress featured posts section

8. Pearsonified: What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories

The good thing about hundreds of probloggers sharing their bestpractices, is that you don’t have to come up with everything yourself.Imaging examing and reviewing every damn aspect of blogs. If that wasthe case, I would had have to come up with the great categoriesstrategies by Chris Pearson myself. Now I can just read them onPearsonified and apply plus adjust them to my own blog. Best lessonfrom the post: “By giving users a list of categories to browse on yoursite, you are creating a psychological conundrum that usually leavesthem with a severe case of analysis paralysis.”

  • Visit Pearsonified for a great take on blog categories

9. Smashing Magazine: Footers in Modern Web Design, Creative Examples and Ideas

Ok, this blog doesn’t have the most original footer, so why is thispost featured in the list? Well, because it shows how far you can takeblog design. It’s a fantastic playground, where you can do whatever youlike. Especially in places like the footer. It’s a jungle out there.The article also represents the excellent job by Smashing Magazineeditors Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz. They have an eye for small trends in blog design and highlight them in a fantastic and thorough way.

  • Visit Smashing Magazine and witness blog footers fueled by, uhm, LSD?

10. Wordpress Codex: Template Tags

All the articles mentioned in the Design/ Development section ofthis series are focused on Wordpress. It’s simply the best bloggingplatform out there - mainly because of its seemingly infinitecustomization options. The Wordpress Codex’ Template Tags pagerepresents that for me. Template tags are used within your blog’sTemplates to display information dynamically or otherwise customizeyour blog, providing the tools to make it as individual and interestingas you are. Browse through them and finetune your blog during a rainySunday afternoon.

  • Visit the Wordpress Codex and spuice up your blog with Template Tags

Workflow

11. Zenhabits: The Dirty Little Secrets of Productivity Bloggers

“I’ll be the first to admit it. I take naps. I sometimes take a dayor two off and feel unmotivated. I will let tasks pile up,” writes Leo Babauta,author of the Top 100 blog zenhabits. He’s part of an online elitecalled productivity bloggers. These folks pump out high-quality contentin an amazing speed and throw around terms like “reached x thousand RSSsubscribers in four days” and all that. Although they provide theblogosphere with lots of effective techniques, don’t get all shook upby them. They’re human. Hence this post.

  • Visit zenhabits to read more dirty little secrets about Gina Trapani and the likes.

12. ReadWriteWeb: RSS Reset, Dump Your Feeds for a Month

Are you tired of the same old stuff flowing through your feeds? Doyou feel like you’re not coming any further than Darren Rowse’swritings? You realize there’s more stuff out there and appreciatediversity, but your stuck in your RSS Reader. ReadWriteWeb’s Corvidahas a solution: dump all your regular feeds for a month and startworking with aggregation sites. Smaller quality blogs will allow you toventure into unexplored territories.

  • Visit ReadWriteWeb for a refreshing approach on RSS

13. Problogger: How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive

Do you recognize the following scenario: you spent all day runningaround and working only to wonder in the evening how much you’ve reallydone? Problogger Darren Rowse comes to the rescue. In June 2008, hewrote a post describing a technique that has increased his productivitylevels incredibly: batching. He organized his working life in such away that most of the activities that he does are ‘batched’ in one wayor another. He has discovered that many ‘urgent’ things can wait and infact to make them ‘take a number’ and ‘get in line’ brings order tomess. Please read this post, as you’ll definetly become moreproductive. I promise.

  • How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive

14. The Four Hour Work Week: Interview with Gina Trapani, Founder of Lifehacker

In March 2008, Bestselling-author Tim Ferriss from The 4-hourWorkweek interviewed the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, GinaTrapani. She made some interesting remarks on the flexibility of theGetting Things Done approach: “To some degree, I reject thesuper-structured, old school of time management thought, (..) From10:45 to 11:15 check email,” etc. As a “web worker,” by nature Iembrace serendipity and tangents, and like to keep myself open toworking on unexpected things that excite me, even if they’re not in theplan. (..) At the same time, I think a lot of web workers like me cantake this to the extreme, and need a dose of structure and limits intheir day.” Food for thought, especially when you’re a blogger.

  • Visit the Four Hour Work Week for a down-to-earth approach to GTD

15. DutchProblogger.com: The self-destructive tendency of bloggers

Take a moment and think about the worst posts you’ve ever written.Got some? Alright.., now go back to the moments you were writing thoselow-quality posts. Back then, you were probably blogging to fill upspace or meet an (imaginary) deadline. Right? Never do that! Only blogwhen you feel inspired. Otherwise you’ll wind up with poorly-writtenstuff. And when you do feel inspired, write more than you need to.

  • Visit this other section of my blog to prevent self-destruction.

16. Bomega: Hiatuses Increasing Aversion Effect

Serial Internet Entrepreneur and founder of The Next Web BorisVeldhuijzen van Zanten thinks the reason most new bloggers stopblogging because of the Hiatuses Increasing Aversion Effect. That’s hisown theory, and it basically comes down to the habit of raising the barfor yourself - based on a feeling of guilt. Recognition of a problem isthe first step to a solution. So when you’re new to blogging, you mightwanna take a moment to read this short article.

  • Visit Bomega to learn how to battle the Hiatuses Increasing Aversion Effect

17. Web Worker Daily: GTD for Bloggers, The Art of Stress-free Blogging

The GTD standard work is David Allen’s book Getting Things Done.I’ve read it, and you’ve probably read the book too. Some techniquesMr. Lifehacking describes aren’t suitable for bloggers. Their toughschedule, pressure for getting scoops, and the endless commentmoderation require different approaches. Hence Leo Babauta wrote anarticle for Web Worker Daily in which he describes how you can adjustGTD to blogging. Read and learn.

  • Visit Web Worker Daily to learn how to apply David Allen’s to your blog

18. Lifehacker: Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done

“Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stayconnected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not anothercomputer task that takes far too long to get done. But that’s exactlywhat it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your postideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than toactually get your thoughts down.” Being somewhat experienced at thisblogging thing, Lifehacker editors have pinpointed a few tools andtricks that make their posts go faster and smoother. Firefox hacksincluded.

  • Visit LifeHacker for some nifty Firefox hacks and plugins to improve your blogging

19. Dutchproblogger.com: How to process blog-related email Getting Things Done-style

David Allen shares some good email techniques. Yet when you’re ablogger, checking your mail is a slightly different story. So I startedthinking about a good way to process my mail, and this is what I cameup with.Every time I open a blog-related email I ask myself - likeAllen commanded - ‘Can I do this in 2 minutes?’. If so, I do itimmediately. If not, I use a handy Label system that prevents fromgoing nuts over email.

  • Visit this other section of my blog to find out how you can process your email

20. Locus Magazine: Cory Doctorow, Writing in the Age of Distraction

Earlier in this list I mentioned an interview with lifehacker GinaTrapani. She advised bloggers to go in a closed mode when writing.BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow elaborates on that with an article in theLotus Magazine of January 2009. He writes: “We know that our readersare distracted and sometimes even overwhelmed by the myriaddistractions that lie one click away on the Internet, but of coursewriters face the same glorious problem: the delirious world ofinformation and communication and community that lurks behind yourscreen, one alt-tab away from your word-processor.” Here’s how toprevent that.

  • Visit Locus Magazine to learn how to write in a closed mode

Publishing

21. Problogger: 13 Questions to Ask Before Publishing a Post On Your Blog

In the haze of blogging, there’s always a chance you miss animportant aspect that might boost the popularity or usefulness.Luckily, one of world’s most expierenced bloggers has made a checklistwith thirteen questions to ask before publishing a post on your blog.Print it, frame it, live by it, and only violate one of the rules ifyou do it purposely.

  • Visit Problogger and print the blog publishing checklist

22. Copyblogger: The Richard Branson Guide to Making Money With Blogs

Copyblogger Brian Clark is famous for his great headlines (I’ve alsoincluded a tutorial on headlines by him) and witty posts. The one I’mincluding in this problogger list, is actually quite short. It would bea great idea to frame this one as well and hang it right next toProblogger’s 13 questions post. Helped by a quote from Richard Branson- I wanted to be an editor or a journalist… but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going -, Clark hopes to give you a vital insight.

  • Visit Copyblogger to learn from Virgin’s mastermind.

23. Problogger: 69 Questions to Ask to Review Your Blog

American computer scientist, researcher, and visionary Alan Kayonce said: “perspective is worth 80 IQ points”. Look back every once ina while to not lose perspective. Problogger Rowse gives you a helpinghand by publishing a longlist of questions you can use during thereview process. Save a Saturday for this and think of topics liketraffic, content, your niche, design, community, money and technical.Make sure you translate these thoughts in action point and improve yourblog drastically.

  • Visit Problogger, read the list and spend a day on reviewing your blog

24. 43folders: What Makes for a Good Blog?

Blog company SixApart asked 43folders’ Merlin Mann what his favoriteblogs are. As Mann started thinking about the blogs he has returned toover the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grabbedhis attention — he wants to start with, ironically enough, a list. SoMann compiled one with points he thinks help make for a good blog. Like“Good blogs reflect focused obsessions” and “Good blogs make you wantto start your own blog”. Great read - for monthly review.

  • Visit 43folders for an inspiring list that should characterize your blog

25. Copyblogger: How to Write Magnetic Headlines

“Your headline is the first, and perhaps only, impression you makeon a prospective reader. Without a headline or post title that turns abrowser into a reader, the rest of your words may as well not evenexist,” that’s how Brian Clark starts this tutorial for writing greatheadlines. On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, butonly 2 out of 10 will read the rest. That’s why he helps you withtemplates for effective headlines and tips on finding inspiration andkeywords for that incredibly important line.

  • Visit Copyblogger to learn how to lure people to your blog with headlines

26. Dosh Dosh: How to Say Nothing in 500 Words (A Lesson on Writing)

The ability to write well is important for anyone who has everneeded to arrange words together to convey ideas or opinions. Well, Ithink bloggers fit that profile easily. Maki, a Philosophy student inToronto, is the man behind Dosh Dosh and knows perfectly how to grabpeople by using the right words. He writes around one post every monthand manages to attract thousands of readers with them. Why? Well,partly because he takes the side of the argument that most of thecitizens will want to avoid. He also slips out of abstraction. Want toget know more of Maki’s tricks? Read this article.

  • Visit Dosh Dosh for some excellent writing tips

27. Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style

Kurt Vonnegut was a prolific American author with a clear opinion onwriting with style: “Why should you examine your writing style with theidea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers,whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way,your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. Theywill mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead — or, worse, theywill stop reading you.” Use the following tips by Vonnegut to give yourblog a recognizable and fine tone of voice.

  • Visit VonnegutStyle to learn writing from the master

28. The Four Hour Work Week: 7 Reasons to Subscribe

There are tons of articles out there telling you how to boost yournumber of RSS subscribers. Useless, as the answer is pretty simple:write great content. What’s more valuable, is introducing people to theRSS phenomenon. There’s a huge group of Internet users who are notfamiliar with the time-saving reading technology. Timothy Ferriss knowshow to convince those folks, as you can tell by his RSS page. Hehighlights the advantages and encourage people to “test” RSS. Click andlearn.

  • Visit The Four Hour Work Week to see how a perfect RSS page looks like

29. DutchProblogger.com: How to get true fans, pick a sentiment

In order to win fans of your blog, pick a certain sentiment and letthat echo back in every post you write. I got this idea when I admiredthe psychedelic pop group MGMT at Lowlands, one of Holland’s mostpopular music festivals. A friend and I discussed why we thought thisband rocked. My friend said he liked the lyrics, which concern topicslike freedom, hedonism, anti-establishment, and the use ofmind-altering drugs. MGMT represents a lifestyle a lot of urban kidssecretly crave - but don’t dare to adopt. By listening to MGMT’s music,thousands fans - including my friend and I - have the feeling theyactually are part of this revolutionary wave of kids. This sharedsentiment is an important part of MGMT’s recent success. Apply thislesson to the tone of voice of your blog. I did it as well.

  • Visit this other section of my blog and learn what my sentiment is

30. Wired: Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts

When reading a lot of articles about how you should blog, whichformats are the most effective, and how many words you should limityour post too, the stress can become too much. Is there any room leftfor creativity? Sure! Just don’t take everything too seriously andpreserve enough of your own style. Lore Sjöberg proves this with anarticle on the Wired site. He writes: “In the spirit of oversimplifyingthings so that you can smugly shove human endeavors into pre-labeledslots, I’d like to present my own, contemporary take on this premise:the Seven Basic Blog Posts.”

  • Visit Wired and learn that you shouldn’t take all publishing tips too seriously

Inspiration

31. GapingVoid: How to be creative

It has been twenty years when Hugh MacLeod started drawing his“squiggly” cartoons and a decade when he decided to draw them on theback of business cards. It was the consequence of a “creative bug” hehad. For him, this bug led to a lot of great work and experiences, yetthis isn’t a guarantee that it will turn out successfully for everyone.After all, it IS a bug. So in 2004 he decided to write a piece called‘How to be creative‘. A great read! Especially his remark that creativepeople should have a “sexy” and a “cash” job helped me a lot. Some workyou do is just for the sake of paying the bills, the other is for fun -it’s your creative outlet. When I build a blog for a company, I just doit to pay for my groceries. When I write a post on this blog, I do itbecause I love it.

  • Visit GapingVoid to “learn” how to be creative

32. BoomTown: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Goodbye Dead Trees!

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall StreetJournal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTowncolumn about the sector. Halfway 2007, she said goodbye to printmediaand focused on her blog. At the beginning of 2008, she wrote: “I thinkit is safe to say that I will probably never write another thingprofessionally for a print publication and will spend the rest of mycareer–such that it will be–publishing online only.” Though I don’tagree with her “dead trees” comments - news papers are here to stay -,her story about blogging is inspiring.

  • Visit Boomtown to read more about a journalist who turned her back against print media

33. TechCrunch: Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain)

Before Erick Schonfeld started writing for world’s largest techblogTechCrunch, he already covered startups and technology news for 14years. After six months of blogging, the former journalist wrote: “Thejournalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, tooself-absorbed), but the blogger in me can’t help it. Media ischanging—how it is produced and how it is consumed. The worlds ofblogging and journalism are colliding and I want to get some thoughtsdown on this transition before I forget what the old world was like orfeel too comfortable in the new one.” He then continues describing thegrowing influence of blogs, his 24/7 addiction to blogging, and themantra of the TechCrunch crew: “We live or die by how fast we can postafter a story breaks, if we can’t break it ourselves”. A must-read forevery (tech)blogger.

  • Visit TechCrunch to read the blogging story of editor Erick Schonfeld

34. Liako.Biz: The makings of a media mogul: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch

In December 2008, Technologist Elias Bizannes wrote an extensivearticle about the success of Michael Arrington, the man behindTechCrunch: “Compared to his peers/competitors, he joined the gamequite late, and yet he is absolutely smashing them. Same software insome cases and same focus. The question is, what did Arrington do thatothers didn’t?” The analysis by Bizannes is both interesting andmotivating. You know the deal, sort of the American Dream kind ofthing. Hard work and luck.

  • Visit Liako.Biz to find out how just a man managed to build one of world’s largest blogs.

35. Sitepoint: Blogging Isn’t Dead, But Linking May Be Broken

In October 2008, the blogosphere was stirred up by gossip bloggerPaul Boutin. In a successful attempt for some linkbait, the Valleywagcorrespondent announced the death of bloggingon Wired.com. Thousands of emotional articles from angry bloggersfollowed. Sitepoint’s Josh Cantone put aside his emotions and wrote anexcellent post about a phenomenon that IS threatening the blogosphere:information silos. Some blogs have stopped linking to other sources andfocus on previous work instead. Cantone wrote: “The blogosphere wasbuilt on links, and it if wants to avoid the death that Boutin soprematurely announced, bloggers must continue to link to one anotherand not create silos around their information.”

  • Visit SitePoint to learn about the consequences of information silos

36. The Blog Herald: More Tips for Conference Blogging

I’ve done a lot of live blogging at The Next Web, the European tech blog. Although the last gig, Le Web with Boris, was some good old geeky rock ‘n’ roll - my best live blogging experience took place at The Next Web Conference. I teamed up with Anne Helmond.We chose a good spot in the front, sat down next to TechCrunch’s ErickSchonfeld and blew the blog away. We covered every talk and session outthere. Want to know about our secret? Read Anne’s post on The BlogHerald and some tips on the very blog you’re looking at right now.

  • Visit the Blog Herald for some excellent conference blogging tips

34. OnlineJournalismBlog.com: Starting a blog? 12 ideas for blog posts

Having a popular blog is great. But starting one is pretty damndifficult. Most people complain about a lack of inspiration. Well,here’s Paul Bradshaw to the rescue. This British blogger is currentlywriting a chapter on blogging for a book on online journalism. Itincludes twelve typical blog post types to kick start ideas. Itincludes “Blog an event”, “Suggest an idea”, “Pick a Fight”, and,here’s the best one, “Let someone else post”. Paul is a great guy wholeft an impression at the international blog conference in Amsterdam, BLOG08. He knows exactly how to maintain a personal blog. So if I were you, I’d click on the link below.

  • Visit OnlineJournalismBlog.com for some inspiration to get started with blogging

35. Lost Art of Blogging: The Homeric Way of Blogging: Storytelling

“The Lost Art of Blogging” must be one of the best names ever madeup for a blog about blogging. It has a certain sentiment, sounds likean adventure movie, and presents the blog immediately as a place whereexperts write. You expect writings like these: “I feel like thestorytelling element in blogs is growing ever thin, with more and moreblogs going on a more blunt approach, way too direct and to the point.I read a lot of marketing and tech blogs, and while they’re very good,they don’t really have substance; they all feel somewhat the same. I’venoticed the same thing in most niches, too.” The writer then mentionsHomer, the ancient Greek poet, and continues with some practical tips(all accompanied by examples of Homer). Classic stuff.

  • Visit The Lost Art of Blogging to learn how storytelling can enrich your blog.

36. BBC News: Bedtime for Gonzo?

“Championed by Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and Thompsonhimself, New Journalism blurred the old distinctions between journalismand creative writing”, wrote the BBC when Hunter S Thompson past awayin early 2005. During the Sixties and decades after that, Thompsonpracticed the art of Gonzo journalism. “Where Tom Wolfe politelydeclined an acid tab in his iconic Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, HunterS Thompson denied himself nothing.” He went all the way for his stories- of which Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the most well-known. Ithink that we, bloggers, can learn a lot from this great writer.Thompson showed us how to combine creativity with reporting. And that’sexactly what blogging is about.

  • Visit the BBC to read Hunter S Thompson’s story

Comments

37. The Guardian: What is the 1% rule?

All the bloggers immediately know what I’m talking about if I startcomplaining that readers don’t comment. A famous study by Jakob Nielsenin October 2006 showed that only one percent of a blog’s visitorscontribute to the comments section on a regular basis: “In most onlinecommunities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of userscontribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all theaction”. The Guardian has some background you have to know beforereading on.

  • Visit The Guardian to get to know the problem with comments

38. Dutchproblogger.com: Getting readers to comment by writing an unfinished blog post

Tempt people to comment by leaving things out. Make sure your blogpost has an open ending, don’t give away everything you have to say. Anarticle is only complete when it includes a discussion with visitors.During that discussion you can give away your last arguments in orderto discover the opinions of your readers.

  • Visit this other section on my blog to learn why less is more.

39. Problogger: 10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog

As you’ve read in the above post, only 1 out of every 100 readerscomment on your blog. Luckily, Darren Rowse knows some techniques thathave helped him tremendously the last couple of years: Invite Comments,Ask Questions, Be Open Ended, Interact with comments left, SetBoundaries, Be humble, Be gracious, Be controversial, ‘Reward’ Commentsand Make it Easy to Comment. To give you an idea, this actual postattracted 626 comments.

  • Visit Problogger for ten proven techniques to get those visitors talking.

40. Lost Art of Blogging: The Comment Etiquette: The Guide to Proper Blog Commenting

“[Commenting] has been used as a promotional tool for years andguess what, it still works like a charm. However if you truly want totharness the fruits of blog commenting you have to know how to properlydo it.”, writes young internet entrepreneur Tibi Puiu on The Lost Art of Blogging.He outlines a few unwritten principles of proper blog commenting, thatare based more on common sense, then on any particular social skill.He’s right, commenting IS a great way of getting more exposure. Don’tapproach it like some sort of spam, but follow the advice of this youngrock star.

  • Visit The Lost Art of Blogging to see how you can use commenting for promotional purposes

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