Comments on: Blogging Is Like The Wild West: Here Are Some Rules To Live By

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:15:16 +0000

Some very creative metaphorical writing Darren! thanks for the tip on submitting a site-map.

By: Steven-Sanders

Steven-Sanders — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:13:26 +0000

Interesting and very different way of looking at things.

An analogy I probably would have never thought of using. You did very well with it.

Great work!

By: Fotografi

Fotografi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:21:31 +0000

Useful as usually.
i like your post man.
You pack easy rules to do my job better. Thanks

By: German Romance

German Romance — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:53:10 +0000

Like in a gold rush, the rihest find of gold happen long after the majority had quit looking for gold. They way to find that gold is hard work!

By: Heather Allard, The Mogul Mom

Heather Allard, The Mogul Mom — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:58:51 +0000

Hey Mara! (That’s my middle name!)

Great post–thanks so much.

In #3, you mention writing a business plan for your blog. I’m getting started on my business plan and wondered if you had any favorite business plan formats/templates that you could recommend.

I think I’m going to use One Page Business Plan by Jim Horan–it’s supposed to be easy & targeted. Ever heard of it?

Thanks again!
Heather

Heather Allard
The Mogul Mom

By: Rudi Lehnert

Rudi Lehnert — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:50:24 +0000

I don’t agree at all that “Blogging Is Like The Wild West”. Good blogging has to do a lot with exact strategical planning:

http://blogorama.eisbrecher.net/2008/10/29/besser-bloggen-teil-1/

Good blogging is not an unpredictable adventure in the Outbacks, it is precise architecture inmidst our biggest cities.

By: michaelkpoh

michaelkpoh — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:53:04 +0000

Fnatastic post: you hit the nail on the head when Ýou emphasize the importance of being in for the long haul.

I also like the following statement: “if you lift up your head from your work at any time.” This is particularly important and timely due to the incessant, continuous information from the blogs we subscribe to. I subscribe to ProBlogger’s daily blog tips and Twitip; between those two blogs is enough info to fill the Grand Canyon!

I also subscribe to Feedblitz and Daniel Scocco’s Daily Blog Tips.

So at any point in time I am almost always “lifting up my head from my work.”

What I have had to do is to skim & delete what I think to be unneccessary or save for future reference.

This is a timely email which reinforces my decision & practice.

Unfortunately, it will not stop the incessant flow of ‘incoming blog-information-bombardment!

By: Harish

Harish — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:58:47 +0000

Great post. I guess the google xml sitemaps are SEO friendly and every blog should have it

By: PierreSmack

PierreSmack — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:55:35 +0000

Remember that in the Gold Rush, the most money wasn’t made by the prospectors, it was made by the people selling shovels.

By: Madhu

Madhu — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:53:09 +0000

Good information for new bloggers as well as for bloggers who have to make their blogs popular.

By: çiçekçi

çiçekçi — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:26:37 +0000

For sharing thank you very much good very beautiful work

By: Ganesh - Online Bull

Ganesh - Online Bull — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:58:01 +0000

Nice comparison. :-)

Your last point was great. All bloggers are bound by an unwritten rule of showing hospitality, fair play, respect and loyalty.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:12:57 +0000

What a great article! As a new blogger, it’s some very good encouragement, about keeping the faith & blogging for the love, not the money!

Cheers!

By: Aaron Lee

Aaron Lee — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:38:29 +0000

Good post to remind us with some of the great tips that we’ve forgotten about.

By: ashok

ashok — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:18:41 +0000

Points 2 & 3 need a little bit of background.

Before you do anything with post title tags or even, to some degree, your brand, you need to do some keyword research and figure out what phrases and keywords you want to be known for. This means, when crafting a brand, you must know ahead of time what people are searching for and what you can do to be found a reasonable amount of the time.

It is possible to dive in and start making friends and increase popularity by working for each other, and just hope the search engines pick up on some of your tags and popular posts. That’s my approach – there’s no search engine that can really do justice to my posts, I know that. But that latter route is insanely difficult nowadays: we’re all here because we’re struggling to get the attention we need to make us relevant.

By: jj-momscashblog

jj-momscashblog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:53:01 +0000

Great post and full of great informative tips some we already knew but may have forgotten about, and some new ones that we need to know about. I also like the creative writing of the publisher it certainly kept the audience eyes on the prize. Thanks for that!!

By: Robby G

Robby G — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:36:42 +0000

Howdy. What I got is just keep blogging and try not to stray off topic. That’s the way to be.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:56:22 +0000

I said Howdy he said Hi. (Beastie Boys – Paul Revere)

By: frugalgrad.com

frugalgrad.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:09:09 +0000

I can’t still get over the blog plan. It would be much better if you can go into detail into creating a blog plan in order to monetize it. What is a blog plan and how are you going to create it?

By: Jim Gaudet

Jim Gaudet — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:14:56 +0000

Very nice spin on this post. Was that a picture of the Marlboro Man?