Written on August 23rd, 2005 at 11:08 pm by Darren Rowse
31 Days to Building a Better Blog – Day 23
Time flies when you’re having fun – and blogging has been fun this past few weeks. I can hardly believe we’re up to day 23 of the 31 Day Project already! Here are the reader submitted posts from the past 24 hours:
- Julian wrote Target Your Audience
- Dominic Foster submitted Blog Rating – Increase your Blogging Confidence
- un papier writes Blogging while on the clock
- Amit submitted Display relevant Ads in Blogs: Just suggest Google
Do you have a Blog Tip that might help your fellow bloggers? Write it up and let me know of the URL and I’ll link up tomorrow.
2 Responses to “31 Days to Building a Better Blog – Day 23” - Add Yours
Duane
August 24th, 2005 12:30 am
I concur totally on the “target your audience” thing. I originally setup my personal blog to drop random Shakespeare references I found in the wild (like on Simpsons episodes). But as I got bored I’d also write about American Idol, my kids, and so on. And before I knew it the Shakespeare was just getting in the way. People coming in from google on American Idol searches are not going to click on Shakespeare ads. So I created a dedicated Shakespeare blog and I get a much higher hit rate because of it.
I’m still working on how to get people to bookmark what I write there, though :). I am disappointed that Blogger does not offer an automatic ping service.
Gerard McGarry
August 25th, 2005 5:30 am
Duane – If you’re serious about your blog, you should consider getting a web host and one of the free blog platforms – either WordPress or TextPattern.
These will have the advanced features you’re looking for. Plus, I suspect in the near future, having a blogspot address may be similar to using a Hotmail or Yahoo email address for business! Not v. professional!
That’s not to criticise your content – I have read some entertaining and thought-provoking blogs on Blogger, but they all suffer from mass-market design and such poor features. Do they even have categories yet?
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