Blogging Tips

I belong to both Entrecard and twitter to help promote my blogs and articles I write. However, I have a few tips of my own about blogs that I have visited, ideas to perhaps get yourself a little more traffic.

LIMIT YOUR LINKS~there is nothing more irritating than hitting someones blog and finding it so filled with links it takes five minutes to load, or it won't load completely. I know I am not alone in simply clicking the little red x and getting off that page. It not only slows me down, but some of these pages are so filled with links, it's a bit hard to find the actual blog postings. I seriously counted 57 links on one persons blog, and when I looked at his blog posts, every one of them is actually one big paragraph filled with nonsense.

DO NOT POST SKIP ADS~nothing gets me off your page faster than my cursor flowing over your words, and a full screen ad pops up, directing me away from your blog. Why? Are you trying to hide crappy blog posts? Or are you getting paid for that ad? Either way, I won't come back. If I wanted redirected, I would click the link on my own.

UPDATE YOUR ABOUT ME~I opened mouth inserted foot a week ago. I visited a site, and found the woman and I had an abusive ex husband in common, along with the fact we both got away from our ex spouses. I left her a comment congratulating her, and I received an email from her two days later condemning me for not trying harder. Apparently her about me section is incorrect, she is back with her husband. Keep your about me's fresh. Not only is it polite, but it helps draw people who have common interests.

USE YOUR OWN WORK~I get extremely irritated when I find blogs that are nothing but repeats of news articles, with no opinions included. It also bothers me when I see blog postings that do nothing but advertise products, and not even products the poster has used, tried out, or made themselves. If I want a veggie-matic, I'd stay up late and watch the QVC channel.

TOOT HORNS SPARINGLY~I fully understand a blog at the end of the month filled with your top droppers, or your hot links for those that supported you. But when I see four blogs in a week bragging about people that helped you, or that dropped on you, it leads me to one question: Where are the blogs they are supporting you for?

EDIT EDIT AND THEN EDIT AGAIN~We all make spelling mistakes, our fingers are sometimes faster than our damn brains. That being said, there is an edit button on all of our posts. Use it. When I find blogs that are filled with spelling mistakes, it turns me off from going back again. Ever. It shows me you don't care about the quality of your posts, so why should I. Along with the spelling mistakes are the shortening of words. This isn't your cell phone, using text language on a blog post shows a laziness to type out the whole word, that or your age is showing.

Those are just some of my tips. Granted, I am still a new blogger to most of you. But I also have common sense. I've researched blogs daily, and found the ones that irritate not only me, but others as well. I am sure there are plenty of things that bother others about my posts and sites. I actually welcome the criticism, and some of it I ignore, and others I actually listen to, and learn from.