Comments on: Strategic Blogging – Issues, Present Position and Future Direction

By: wapa

wapa — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:12:17 +0000

Very helpful…thank you you are helping me find my way around this blogging. Is there such a thing as editors on line for bloggers?????

By: Tales from the Raven » Blog Archive » A long look in the Blogging mirror

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:58:01 +0000

[...] Darrin at problogger, had this helpful point to make, “Whilst it may not be pleasant to acknowledge current short fallings it’s vitally important as your blog will only ever go as far as your weakest area allows you to.” [...]

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blog, square, ink » Search Engines and Advertising — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:26:14 +0000

[...] Can I create a better Blog in 31 Days? Creating a Blog site gives two real problems, exposure and creating revenue. There is a third, content, but if you don’t have that, then you are really in trouble. So I need readers and I need ads that interest them. Revenue is kinda easy. There are plenty of companies that offer various programs so the bigger question is Where do you get readers/exposure? Well, search engines and networking. Both are time consuming and there isn’t a guide to lay it out ABC. Darren Rowse has a guide 31 Days to a Better Blog, and I’m going to follow it and see where it get me. [...]

By: john damaeon

john damaeon — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:13:32 +0000

We are concerned about blogs often semi-automatically generated on the www. designed to obfuscate or partly hide, shame make fun embarras etc . minority opinion, and monority acadmeic opinon. Such blogging is very often dircted at controversial scholars, others-similars, and often at indivudals. Index on yahoo-google the faliled idea scholar Brent Kennedy to see a good example.

Blog companies-related include, Draknet.com, Mercury Web Solutions , Witchschool.com’s outsourced companies on their leadership persons links, 4 of these, and others similar. Two of these named companies are blog designers in the Brent Kenney situation as of last week.

Damaeon

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:57:24 +0000

Yep, publicity is the big thing for me – wider media coverage is tops on my agenda next 12 months. My theory is that for a blog to really take off it needs to get mentioned in the Mainstream Media (MSM) and better yet on a regular basis.

For me, I’m working hard on developing relationships with selected journo’s from Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., and Fast Company.

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» Strategic Blogging: Blog Tips - ProBlogger — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 04:02:54 +0000

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By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:36:49 +0000

I think one important strategy decision to make early on is whether or not you’re going to be a linkblogger or take the time and effort to create original content. Linkblogging is easier in some ways, and can be quite successful if you choose your sources well. You can assemble a collection of feeds and links and put your spin on things that could potentially be very valuable to someone who doesn’t want to bother with hunting down feeds for themsevles.

However, people are becoming more aware of automated spam blogs whose purpose is AdSense revenue by hook or by crook. You don’t want your blog to even remotely resemble a blog like that.

Original content may provide more value to the reader and you’ll eventually be in more of a position to have the kind of blog that others want to link to. Original content increases the possibility of you becoming a thought-leader in your niche.

The deeper into a specific niche you go, the easier it is to come up with concrete original content. The more general you are, oftentimes, the more you’re competing with other generalists, and it’s hard for anyone to stand out.

You certainly can do both, as Darren does here. He strikes a good balance between linking and writing original material. The links he offers are of high value and he adds his own extensive commentary, rather than just acting as a repeater. His original material is also of high value, so overall it’s a good mix. (Just so I don’t appear to be a complete brown-noser, I will say I’m not crazy about the color scheme!)

Making this decision early on will have a definite effect on your blog design process, as well. Link and RSS-based blogs often have a more complex, multicolumn layout than original content blogs, which can be as blessedly simple as you like in their design.

By: Cellounge Admin (Shane)

Cellounge Admin (Shane) — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 03:33:58 +0000

Personally I would love to sit down and do all of what your saying, however. I just got five minutes to type this little blurb. I am a stay-at-home dad with 3 kids. So I have to blog from the time I get up til now which its about 11:32 at night here. I get interrupted quite a bit during the day. When those kids go back to school in twenty days I will have more time to devote to blogging more. But its great that Darren is providing this resource so that the rest of us can learn problogging.