Link Share Special (4)
It’s hard to keep up with the blogosphere, being such a dynamic environment. Great content gets published every single minute, and sometimes, we miss the best things because they get buried deep in a long list of feed updates.
Here’s a list of link that you should not have missed these days:
Reader Blog Critique on BloggingTips.com
Kevin Muldoon of BloggingTips.com has recently started a blog project called Reader Blog Critique. The community response it’s amazing. Bloggers have a good chance of understanding their own blogs from their readers’ perspective and to improve whatever needs improvement.
Could an Ad-Free Blog Work?
According to Tibi Puiu from LostArtofBlogging.com, it can. Tibi explains Why An Ad Free Blog Rocks, covering topics like: advantages and disadvantages of classic monetization and alternative methods of earning a living through blogs. A great, extensive, worth-reading article.
Blog Action Day 2008
This year’s topic on Blog Action Day was Poverty. On October 15th over 12,000 websites with an estimated audience of over 13 million readers published a post about poverty. Amongst them CopyBlogger.com, ProBlogger.net, DailyBlogTips.com, SkellieWag.org, Guardian.co.uk, Lifehacker.com, HuffingtonPost.com, FreelanceSwitch.com and many, many more.
Stories That Sell
That’s what Brian Clark of CopyBlogger.com teaches us, by publishing a guide on How to Write a Story That Sells. It’s a well written and filled with examples article that you definitely should read.
More Worth Reading Stories
- Authority Versus Pure SEO by Chris Garrett
- The Price of Closing Comments on Old Posts by Lorelle VanFossen
- How to Choose Categories for Your Blog by Ali Hale on ProBlogger.net
- Search Engine Traffic and Not-so-New Blogs by Steven Snell
- 10 Ways to Improve Navigation in WordPress by John Pratt on HackWordpress.com
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Some helpful links there Alex, thank you. I’m really quite interested in the “Reader Blog Critique” idea, and will have a closer look when I have some time later today. I can imagine reading other peoples thoughts about other blogs will be a good source of ideas for my own blog.
Thank you.
You’re welcome Paul, once in a while I’ll add my comments to the “Reader Blog Critique” too, so tell me if you get on the series.
I won’t be aiming for that for a while — quite a bit I want to do to the blog before I ask for that sort of close critique. But reading and, hopefully, offering some critiques myself will be good, as long as I have the time.
Reader blog critique is actually running for over a month and a half already.
I am very active there and got plenty of goodadvice when my blog was in it, awesome project.
Thanks for the link love, Alex. Much appreciated. The rest of the links are really awesome, as well. Brian Clark’s article was really inspiring and somewhat eye opening on some aspects. The blog critique community project, again, seems very tempting and interesting. If time permits, I’ll help out Kevin with the project and contribute with a few guidelines.
Thanks for the link
Yeah the Reader Blog Critique has proved quite popular. Some bloggers have really made an effort to help others out.
Rarst: I know about it for a while, just did not find the window to post on it, or about it.
Tibi: I’m sure that Kevin and his guests would love to hear your opinions.
Kevin: You’re welcome. I’ll try to be a little more active on those topics too. It’s a great idea, and I pretty much love that fact that there are no childish comments, rather looking to get the $10 involved than helping out. Again, there’s a very good community response. Kudos for managing it as you did and I’m sure it will grow even more popular.