Comments on: Dealing with Blogging Evolution – Foundational Necessities for Bloggers

By: Fanatical Blog - Make Money Online

Fanatical Blog - Make Money Online — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:56:30 +0000

Excellent article Henry.

I especially liked you’re insight into RSS Ego-Centric setups. I use plenty of RSS feeds of that nature for the large online etailer I work for, it allows my entire team to respond immediately to any claims against us, and to praise site owners and form new partnerships when they praise our work.

My Favorite method is Google Alerts, I set them up on my blog names, and on my “Niche” products so I have a daily list of blog articles posted on my topics sent directly to my email.

Anyways, great work, thanks for having Henry post this series Darren, great work as always.

By: BLOGGING TO MAKE MONEY

BLOGGING TO MAKE MONEY — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:02:39 +0000

I wish that I had found this posting before my first blog. But one must plan, without form and plan it only leaves mathem.

By: Make Money Online Tips

Make Money Online Tips — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:34:21 +0000

Form always follows function in a design. Having said that, its important that the design is clean and user friendly.

By: Richard Farrar

Richard Farrar — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:27:55 +0000

Very interesting about the ping list, something I was aware that WordPress did, but not that you could maximise it’s potential so easily.

However, upon doing a little research, it appears that pinging should also be approached with caution as excessive use can have negative consequences.

As always though, there are plugins available to help, e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-ping-optimizer/

By: reflux

reflux — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:18:14 +0000

I still learn to setting theme for my web…..your advice really help me to consider types of theme….thanks

By: Dabbygag

Dabbygag — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:37:56 +0000

Completely agree that less is more when it comes to design.

Good post

Troy
http://www.dabbygag.com
Live smart; stupidity kills

By: Amit Savyon

Amit Savyon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:08:49 +0000

This is a nice post to read. While a lot of what you say is really relevant and helpful, my own personal reaction to it is that it all comes down to content. My design, my housekeeping is “ok” but my blog can be the most beautiful thing in the world with crap content and then, well, “so what?” ya know?

The medium is the message, the format induces reaction, but end of the day, I am searching for a rhythm, a regularity, a flow in my blog writing, while maintaining a certain quality level, not dipping into banal, boring, boasting, or even too much bolding.

And the question for someone like me, which is a question many many newbie bloggers have, is “can I really write and maintain a blog? Do I have enough to say?”

To attempt to answer that question for myself, I just wrote a post on my blog entitled “How To Write A Blog Post When You Have Nothing To Say”, which, if you’re interested to read in more detail, you can find here: http://amitsavyon.com/musings/social-media/how-to-write-a-blog-post-when-you-have-nothing-to-say/

Anyway, this is a great a post, I’ll come back here in the future. A lot of what you say in it can actually be deduced from your blog’s setup and design itself, in fact, there’s a lot more to learn just by studying how you’ve setup your blog.

Cheers,
Amit

By: Kayla

Kayla — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:57:01 +0000

Very good tips. I’ve been keeping in mind a few of these things, but I still need to pay a bit more attention to others. Keeping up on industry news seems like it will help me a ton.

By: Affordable Web Promotion

Affordable Web Promotion — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:40:54 +0000

I recommend WordPress too, I have been using it for quite a while now and haven’t found a better replacement.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:31:40 +0000

Dr Mike, the list at WordPress Codex (see link above) gives you alternative. Most of them are sites that pingomatic pings on your behalf.

By: Sticker Boy

Sticker Boy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:06:29 +0000

I use WordPress and love it, but it’s worth taking an occasional audit and make sure everything is working as it should… and all the right ‘pings’ are being sent out! It’s easy to set something up and then leave it.

By: SEO Tips

SEO Tips — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:42:03 +0000

Excellent article and a good series overall. I don’t think its clear enough to say that Blogging is going through an evolution I think it is more specific and correct to say that Blogging never stops changing and adapting to new technologies, marketing strategies, interests, news and so on.

Overall good article
Thanks

By: Ancient Blogging Secrets

Ancient Blogging Secrets — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:50:48 +0000

Due to budget problems theme and design of the blog becomes an headache. But as soon as the design is corrected blogging can run smoothly according to ones wish.

Awesome post :)

By: Harish

Harish — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:50:10 +0000

Due to budget problems theme and design of the blog becomes an headache. But as soon as the design is corrected blogging can run smoothly according to ones wish.

Awesome post :)

By: Jensen | CS-Weekly

Jensen | CS-Weekly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:25:46 +0000

As a old (life) & new (topic) blogger, I seriously understand that it’s easy to start but hard to maintain. Blogging is awesome for individuals, you can easily handle everything by yourself; however, to write coherently in a long term is the real challenge for problogger. How many blogs have you seen end up dead or almost-dead?

I think this article is great and gives us lots of guidelines.

By: Dr. Mike Wendell

Dr. Mike Wendell — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:22:52 +0000

We’ve found too many problems with pingomatic. It’s not always working and, with some services like bloglines, it doesn’t always get the notice. Is there any other service you recommend?

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:14:06 +0000

Good read! Fortunately, I seem to have stumbled on many of these things already, but just need to implement better.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:12:11 +0000

@TechMata: In my opinion there is no better blog software. Use whatever you are familiar with. Most importantly, it allows you to achieve what you want.

If you want to start a blog, it is recommended that you purchase your own domain and host it there instead of using a sub-domain. That’s just the best practice for control, flexibility, etc.

But you are also responsible for software upgrades, etc.

Blogger allows publishing to your own domain but it is much less flexible than WP.

But for personal blog, which I presume is not your case here, then nothing beats Blogger in term of speed from sign up to publishing.

Here’s a post from 2006 but still relevant:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/15/choosing-a-blog-platform/

By: Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:03:18 +0000

Excellent points! Thanks!

I planned my blog for almost a year before going online. Keywords, branding, etc. I am glad I did it — I’m reaping the rewards — but I think I was almost trapped into “analysis paralysis” that Hendry mentions.

By: Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:31:06 +0000

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