Comments on: Top 7 Crimes Best Bloggers Commit!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:54:19 +0000

I would add: cluttering a blog with that many widgets it takes ages to download.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:54:19 +0000

I would add: cluttering a blog with that many widgets it takes ages to download.

By: Amer Kawar

Amer Kawar — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:30:40 +0000

Thank you, I appreciate it, especially that it's coming from a fellow blogger.

The top 7 mistakes where not intended to be in order of importance, as they are all quite important to keep in mind. We could've wrote the top 50 mistakes, but instead decided to put the top mistakes and link to the rest as "further reading".

I just checked your blog, and you have some great content. Although, your last post is dated tomorrow morning. How come?

You had an article about how Twitter is increasing your traffic. This is definitely true, and I think you found out about our blog through Twitter in a way or another. Twitter (especially RTs) are great backlink builders - this means higher ranking for your articles on search engines, too.

Hope to see you around more often :)

By: Courtney

Courtney — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:25:41 +0000

Your blog rocks.

Most of the time I visit a blog I have no reason to come back...

But I get the feeling I'll be back for more. :)

This article made me think about the future of my blog.
And the seven tips are classic.

Although... number seven seems a little neglected!
Shouldn't this be number one? But then again...
that would only work if you don't neglect your blog...

Hmmm...

You made me think anyway.

Courtney James,
The Obvious Writer

By: FadiPick

FadiPick — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:59:39 +0000

hey tooysm, actually sometimes I feel that when there is a debate going on in the comments section between the readers of the blog, there is no need for the the blog owner to interfer if he has nothing to add. Sure if someone comments directly toward him, he would be “jerk” not to respond.

By: Amer Kawar

Amer Kawar — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:56:41 +0000

@toddysm: Unavailability is a bad thing, it makes people feel unappreciated. But, the larger a blog gets, the harder it is to follow up with everyone!

Thanks for the comment :)

By: toddysm

toddysm — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:44:51 +0000

@beiruta: Interesting post. I think the hard part is always how to keep fresh. However lot of people fall also in the “not available” category that frustrates their readers. I had a recent example where colleague of mine sent mail how mean people are because they call a blogger who doesn't respond on comments “jerk” – I thought they are right though:)

By: AdamPieniazek

AdamPieniazek — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:21:17 +0000

Great post. #6 is a bit tough though because many bloggers who start out don't have much credibility. When starting you might bounce all over the place before eventually finding your niche and sticking to it. I think that's OK as part of the excitement of blogging is figuring yourself out better as well as sharing knowledge with your audience.

By: Amer Kawar

Amer Kawar — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:57:12 +0000

@beiruta, you didn't get the purpose of the @, did you? :)

I have my twitter account set up with my DISQUS account, so whenever I reply, it sends a tweet. So I had your twitter account name so you'd receive it on twitter!

I don't know why you seem to think Guy Kawasaki's blog is dull - I didn't mean him before :) - as I just read an article about startups and boot-strapping that was very interesting, and insightful.

I'll be looking forward to you next post. Thanks!

By: Beiruta

Beiruta — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:28:14 +0000

Hello Amer! :)

Thanks for your feedback.. Let me get back to you on the 2 points you've mentioned above:

- Guy Kawasaki himself is not dull :) He might be the most amusing person ever and might be fun to be around and spend time with :P But his blog was listed on the top worst blogs recently because they claimed, and I agree, it was dull in content and here I mean not very unique, up-to-date or interesting as a man of his reputation should live up to :)

- Now, I agree with you, many points in my article are interlinked and even more so interrelated and so are almost all the points one can state concerning blogging since one could not exist without the other... The points have a complimentary relationship so if one exists, the other may follow and so on.

I'm glad you enjoyed this... I'll cook up something you will have to agree on 100% for my next post! :)

By: Beiruta

Beiruta — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:25:43 +0000

By: FadiPick

FadiPick — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:29:42 +0000

@beiruta, this is a really wonderful post, one of your best.

I admit that I feel guilty about my personal blog, I used to be more active and write more frequently, but I rarely have time to do so now. I barely blog once a week. It does feel like I have neglect it and disappointed my daily visitors. It is even worse when I check out the stats and keep on seeing those number of visitors coming day after day with no updates for them!

By: Amer Kawar

Amer Kawar — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:58:04 +0000

@beiruta, I didn't quite get, why is Guy Kawasaki dull?

Also, I believe many of the points are interlinked. For instance, availability, promotion and credibility are linked. You cannot promote or be credible without being available to your readers! I think Seth Godin is not a big fan of availability. His blog has comments disabled and he does not use Twitter! Maybe he does not care much about availability as he