by El Plumber (admin) on December 12, 2008
Rules For Bloggers #6:
I’ve noticed a trend on BlogCatalog lately where random people will post a message to my Shoutbox saying things like, “I just $upported your blog, come $upport mine!”, or “I $miled on your blog, come $mile on mine!”
If you can’t read h4×0r, replace the $ with an S. That means the random [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 10, 2008
Rules For Bloggers #5:
Seems like some bloggers make the mistake of berating or getting into childish name calling arguments with other bloggers or commenters. Don’t poke fun at other people or their blogs, no matter how crappy they or their ideas might be. Provide constructive comments and ways they could improve.
If your blog is about [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 8, 2008
Rules For Bloggers #4:
Don’t blog about how to make money online if you’re not actually making money online.
I think lots of people were “squeezed” out of $47 on their credit card, downloaded an eBook and learned (erroneously, I might add) that Clickbank product review blogs would make you rich. Tossing up a blog full of [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 7, 2008
Rules For Bloggers #3:
I run into this one all the time. Someone has an obviously new blog, likely has less than three months worth of posts, high Alexa rank, low or no Google Page rank, yet their blog is covered with Adsense ads.
People (at least real people) don’t click on Google Adsense ads very often. [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 6, 2008
Rules For Bloggers #2:
All too often I’ll go on a little web surfing journey through the blogosphere. Maybe I’m trolling BlogCatalog, or tapping EntreCards, or Stumbling, and in the middle of someone’s parenting blog about their family life will be a post like this:
“Are you plagued by PC Error Codes friend? Maybe like me you [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 5, 2008
Rules For Bloggers #1:
Don’t apologize for not posting in a while.
Unless you have 500+ subscribers to your blog, very likely no one cares and nothing is more sad than someone saying they are sorry to the Internet. And if you have more than 500 subscribers to your blog, you have far better things to write [...]