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I hate blog posts that sound like they might be educational, but end up being nothing more than attempts to get conversation going. That strategy is welcome in a forum, I do it myself all the time. But blogs should be an offering of knowledge, opinion, or just interesting thoughts, not a plea for readers to supply same.
Here's an example: Do You Really Need Photoshop?
It has a great title, and got linked from another blog (the point, I expect). But the title question is all there is. No exploration, not even an opinion, just begging for you to supply the content for what may or may not end up being an interesting page days or weeks from now.
It would be a great forum post, but as a blog entry it's a cheat and a sham.
Feel free to post your own opinion here, but realize that your comments are not the reason I made this post. That's the difference.
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I know, some times it feels like no one is listening. This early in the blogging game, you might even be right. The search engines only found these blogs a few days ago, and it will take awhile to be indexed, ranked, etc.
In addition, unlike the forums, there is currently no way of measuring...11-20-2007, 07:26 PM -
Blogs are not like forums or email lists or chatrooms. People do not look for blog hosts and then browse merrily though the myriad posts. They find, through various means, one blog, decide if they like it, and then either bookmark it or subscribe to its RSS feed.
So what are these "various...11-10-2007, 08:31 PM -
Give some thought to what each blog entry will be entitled.
Look up at the top of your browser, in the titlebar. You should see "Blog Titles (fnarfley) - RetouchPRO" or something similar.
Search engines give disproportionate importance to the title of any single...11-14-2007, 06:52 AM -
You might be a brilliant, insightful writer, but if someone visits one of your blog posts and sees you rarely post, they aren't going to bookmark or subscribe, no matter how much they enjoyed the single post.
The only reason they'll bookmark or subscribe is if they want to be sure they...11-16-2007, 09:47 AM -
I know a lot of users are still trying to get their head around "what is a blog?", so I thought I'd offer my own experience.
I use a program called FeedDemon. There are lots of alternatives, many of them free. I just happen to like FeedDemon.
When you discover...11-09-2007, 09:47 AM