Tell Me More About Bidvertising

I signed up for Bidvertising a few days ago and from what I can see they are identical to Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher. It is obvious I cannot use Bidvertising on the same pages as Google Adsense as they are almost identical. So here is a question I want to pose for people who have tried the new Bidvertiser and what benefits does it have over Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher?

Der… Sometimes You Never Learn

Ok this should have been posted on the why my blog stinks blog on what not to do. Sorry for any late responses you guys. My comment notifications were getting picked up by my spam filter in my email account. doh!

I was wondering why nobody was posting on my blog. Well it is safe now and working. I am being notified properly.

So, here is a blog tip. Make sure all your notifications are coming to your inbox…

Some Reasons Your Blog Ain’t So Hot

When you first start a blog and you are looking for the right touches and tweaks the thing I do first is determine some of the things I have seen on other blogs I just don’t like and make sure I don’t do the same. On the other side of the spectrum I try to mimic some ideas that I have seen from other blogs that I felt were great techniques.

But let’s start with some of the things we look at on other blogs that just annoy you. Find out what annoys other people and when you see a large consensus that something just doesn’t work for them the best thing to do is NOT do it. Right? Isn’t it that simple? I think so.

Blog Bloke lists 10 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Your Blog.

Learn from Liz about why you arent’ getting comments. Read her 10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments.

Ezine Articles tosses out some basic reasons as to Why Your Blog Sucks.

Darren takes a different approach and lists 10 Steps to Guarantee You’ll Never Make More Than 0.14 Per Month With Adsense.

Some of those are from older articles written a while back but they still apply today.

Do you have any top 10 lists as to why a blog stinks? Feel free to write up a list yourself and place it on your blog and then let me know. If I get a few I’ll provide a link over to it.

The 10 Commandments of Blogging

I was going to write up something I thought was a unique idea. I was in the middle of writing the 10 Commandments of Blogging when it dawned on me that this had to be out there on the blogosphere somewhere. So after I wrote Thou shalt not about 3 times I did a Google search to see what I could find. There were many 10 Commandment lists but I could only retrieve five that were legit. These are the Top 5 Ten Commandments of Blogging lists I found:

The 10 Commandments of Blogging by Samantha Burns.
The 10 Commandments of Blogging posted at the top of The Monitor’s blog.
The 10 Commandments of Blogging by ThinkHammer Blog.
The 10 Commandments of Blogging by Mommy off the Record.
The 10 Commandments of Blogging by Technology Info Today.

Conversational Blogs Tend to Be Successful

One of my biggest pet peeves when visiting other blogs is when you take the time to leave a comment and you don’t get a reply. I know sometimes the blogger may overlook a comment but when you notice it isn’t just you but that the blogger doesn’t acknowledge anybody. Forming a dialogue is important. Ever go to a blog and you feel you are being lectured? Well blogging doesn’t end when you click publish on your new post. It may actually never end. I have had people land on posts I wrote 3 months ago, 6 months ago… and even a year ago.

This is the same idea in real life. Look at some of the best teachers out there. They don’t just stand up in front of the class and preach their stuff. Well maybe there are a few out there but I have yet to meet one. I look back at college and remember my professors. The ones I learned the most from and enjoyed their class were the ones that kept dialogue open. Students were always raising their hands and asking questions.

So if you like to write articles but aren’t interested in engaging in conversation then you may want to shut off your comments section. But I guarantee you won’t get much attention unless you are already somebody big and famous like Hillary Clinton.

Creating That Sense of Community at Your Blog

I always have spoken out about blog community and how important it is to generate that sense. When I was blogging for Why My Blog Stinks I wrote several articles devoted to generating community. You can have great content on your blog but if you don’t develop a sense of community then there won’t be people there to read and witness your great stuff. Right?

Ben over at Instigator blog wrote a couple weeks ago 8 Steps to Growing Your Blog Community One Person at a Time. Great read! He touches on a few things I am quite familiar with but has a few unique ideas as well.

Word Press 2.1

Some of us are aware that WordPress 2.1 has been released. Technosailor from b5media gives us 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.1.

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