Dec
31
2007
Comment are important in blogging. It is a feedback from readers to the blogger. It can help to drive traffic to a blog. If you come across a post with many comments, it caught your attention and make you stay to read that post. A way for beginner blogger to gain exposure is to leave comments on others blog.
There are times that we disagree with a blogger and have to give some negative comments about it. It is nothing wrong to leave negative comment as long as it is left in a good manner. Why leaving a good negative comment:
● Caught attention
If you are able to leave negative comments that can caught attention on a blog, you bring
readers on that blog to visit your blog.
● Helping the blogger
If you come to a blogger who has potential in blogging but have make a few mistakes which you think it is necessary to be improved. By leaving some good negative comments, you are helping the blogger to become better. If your comments are harsh, you may demotivate him and make him angry. And the blogger will ignore you.
How to give good negative comments :
● A good comments should point out:
- What you disagree / do not like
- Why you think that need to be improved
- How to improve on them
Do not leave useless negative comments like : Your blog suck or “Your blog have a bad design” . This kind of negative comment is pointless and rude.
● Give some encouragement
Everything is not perfect. They have the bad and good side. So do not always focus on the bad side, see the good side as well. Write something which the blogger has done very well. For example, “Your content is well organized”. I’m sure blogger will not very angry when he/she found that the blog has something that you like.
● Ask the blogger to reply
Welcome to blogger give a reply regarding your comment. Invite him/her to communicate with you. Who knows both of you may become blogger friends.
Dec
28
2007
It takes time, effort and hard working to build a success blog. But most of our time and energy are dedicated to our job and other daily routines. We hardly have time for our blog and these can be the reasons that cause many blog fails. Pressure from the job can cause people to give up on blogging so that they can focus better on their job. How can we have both thing at the same time - perform well in our job and do not neglect our blog.
I think it depends on your personal management. If you have a good personal management, it should not be a matter for you to include your blog as part of your daily routine. But if you have a poor personal management, well it’s time for you to improve it. There many factors that drive us to own a blog. Before you decide to have your own blog, I think you need to know a few important things:
- What are the knowledge you need to know in blogging
- Where and how to gain exposure for your blog
- Where to find blogger friends
- Where to get great information for your blog
- How often should you update your blog
- How to increase RSS subscriber
- Plan time for reading blogs and comments, replying emails
- Improve the blog design
All of these require time and effort and you should prepare for this. Plan well for your blogging so that you are able to achieve what you want from your blog.
Dec
26
2007
You just start blogging and face some problem in blogging. What should you do? Most of us will search the internet to get help or visit forum and post our questions or ask help from a blogger friend. I would suggest to send your question to as many people as you can in blogging. We prefer to ask someone we know better or like for help because we believe in them. And you may wonder why i need to waste so much time to ask so many people the same questions? This method can benefit you a lot.
Different people will give different solutions to your problem. If you are provided with more solutions, you can compare and choose the suitable solution to your problem. Sometimes some blogger will provide you more solutions instead of one. Sometimes the solutions provided by your favorite blogger are not working and your problem is not solved. If you can get solutions from different people, the chances for you to solve the problem is very high. I’m sure there must be one solution which will be working among the many solutions from different bloggers.
So next time, when you get some difficulties in blogging, try this method and get more solutions.
Dec
23
2007
We all like to read blogs but there are certain blogs that make us keep coming back. I am a fan of below blogs:
Daily Blog Tips
I learn a lot about blogging from this blog. The team behind this blog has 5 members. Besides this blog, they have two other blogs Daily Writing Tips and Daily Bits. Everyday you can get useful tips or information on blogging and every month the author will list out useful tips from other blog for the readers.
Blogging Tips
This blog is a multi author blog. Everyday you can read a number of posts from many authors. If you wish to read more posts from a specific author, you can find the author website under the title “Our Writing Team”. You can link to their blog from there.
Chrisg.com
Besides getting tips, I learn skills and techniques on blogging from this blog. The author of
this blog, Chris Garrett like to use very simple examples to further describe something.
Problogger
I’m sure everyone is familiar with this author. You can find from the basic to advanced
information about blogging in this blog. The author is very good at using pictures and videos in this blog. This technique not only grab readers attention but readers will understand better of what the author saying.
Weblogtoolscollection
Another blog that talks about blogging. But what I like the most from this blog is you can find many themes and useful plugins everyday.
Dec
20
2007
Everyone prefer advise rather than criticisms. Me too. This is because we see criticism as something that hurts people where as advise is not that harsh as criticism. Whether is criticism or advise, I’m sure there is something that we can learn from it to become better.
Some criticism in blogging is good. Why criticism is good:
● Criticism makes you realize your mistakes. Sometimes you will never know until someone criticizes you.
● When someone criticizes your blog. It can help to drive traffic to your blog. Do you still remember one of the reasons why you like American Idol tv show and will watch every episode of it. Many of us watch American Idol because we want to see Simon Cowell. We want to see how he criticizes every American Idol contestant’s performance.
● Criticism makes you better. Think deeply on the criticism that you get on your blog from a blogger or a reader, you can use it as a guideline to make your blog better.
Which criticism is good and which is not good?
Some people misuse criticism and they create criticism that destroy your reputation and demotivate you. When you face this problem. You need to make a decision whether to accept that criticism or not. You need to analysis which criticism is a good and which is bad.
For example “You are lousy blogger. You blog is bad.” This kind of criticism is meaningless because the critic does not point out why your blog is bad and which area in your blog need to be improved. And you should ignore it. If a critic is able to give his/her suggestion and help on improving your blog then why don’t you consider the suggestions. You can communicate with the critic to find out more details.
Don’t hate the critics but thank you them for pointing out your mistakes. Read their criticism carefully because they can help you a lot