Business Wife & Life

Everyone wants the most bang for their buck, but sometimes less is more. This is especially true when it comes to writing.

If you want to be a good writer, the most important thing to remember is to get to the point. There is no need to drivel on for 1,000 words when the point can be made in 500 or less. Likewise, never use a ten-dollar word, when a two-dollar word will do. Save your cash because it doesn’t make you look more intelligent, and in many cases it will appear as if you are trying too hard.

This is especially true if you are just rambling on and on and you don’t have anything of substance to say.

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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

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