If you want people to read your blog, you have to reach out to the blogosphere and comment on other people’s blogs…right?

Well that all depends, but generally it’s a good practice but only if you do it correctly.

WHY COMMENT ON BLOGS?

When you comment on blogs the right way you get your name out there, and perhaps you’ll pick up tons of backlinks and a great amount of loyal readers. However if you do it incorrectly you’ll simply have wasted your time and you might even get your domain blacklisted.

HERE’S WHERE PEOPLE GO WRONG

I saw this comment on one of my blogs and something was a little odd about it….it just didn’t fit.

I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.

Tina Russell

So being the nosey person I am I decided to Google the entire comment, and what do you know there are 80,600 results.

Come on, who gave you this advice? You are spamming blogs with the exact same comment?

That’s too bad because this persons name and domain name are probably set in a lot of spam filters. In fact, they are because today I’ve gotten made the same comment on other blogs of mine and they went directly into spam moderation. Ever heard of spam karma?

MY ADVICE

Dear Tina Russell,

Somebody gave you some bad advice. Here’s a tip, comment all day and all night, but only if you have something useful to say. Save the copy and paste job or automated software for the real spammers.

Signed,

A Very Busy Lady

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Dear Newbie Bloggers,

Please stop showing your Feedburner stats when you have 10 subscribers.

It just looks bad.

Thank you.

For more on this

Dosh Dosh examines The Impact of Feedcount on Blog Subscriptions

Paul discusses Your Blogs Social Proof

John Tp discusses Faking Your Feedcount

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Everyone wants the benefits of a blog but few people want to put in the effort to maintain it. I fully understand because if you don’t really love it, blogging begins to seem like just another old task on the to-do list.

Besides, coming up with idea after idea can get tedious after awhile. That’s why I always try to stay ahead of my blogs. By that I mean that I try to have a few blog posts post-dated so that I don’t feel as much pressure to constantly update.

Here’s how it works.

I start a blog on a normal schedule, which means I write and post on the fly. Then after awhile I’ll take a day to write 4 posts for a particular blog but I’ll date them for the next week. That puts me a week ahead and I make sure it stays that way.

Note: This blog is now on a post ahead schedule. I am writing this five days before you’ll actually read it.

If something newsworthy and time sensitive comes up then I’ll post on the fly, but otherwise I try to maintain a “post ahead” schedule for each of my blogs.

Life gets in the way of blogging, work gets in the way of blogging, motivation gets in the way of blogging, but when you put yourself on a “post ahead” schedule it becomes less of a concern; especially when you get to the point of writing 5 or 6 blogs.

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