I’m so guilty of this.  Very often I will write a great blog post and put some vague title that doesn’t really sum up the content and won’t drive readers to take the time to read the rest of the article.

The reason why so much emphasis in on headlines in newspapers is because it is these attention grabbers that will get your readers hooked on what you are actually saying.

Take my heading on this post – pretty boring and straight to the point.  Yes this is what the topic is and you will probably know what it’s about already.  But are you excited about it?  Does it conjure anything up in your mind?  Ironically by illustrating this point it’s very possible I have lost some readers immediately!

Try taking a little extra time thinking about your title.  Over at Copyblogger.com they even suggest to write the title first.

Giving a little more thought to my topic title try this one (I’ll pop it in bold to try and catch some wandering eyes!)

Get more people reading your posts by using great titles. 

There.  Not going to burn up the world but it will create a little more interest to someone reading the headings in their RSS.

I have found two good blogs I would like to share with you all.

First, I want to tell you about Link Donating. LogHomesCabin.com has great offer running. Its basically a charity drive. The rules is as follows:

1. Link to Kiva
2. Email me and point me to that link
3. I will link to you
4. I will donate one US dollar for Kiva for your link
5. I will write about your site

Each month he picks a new charity to donate to. I can’t understand why you wouldn’t want to take part in this! So check out this months charity Kiva.

The second blog I have actually just asked to become a contributor to. A Links Blog is basically just that. You ask to have your link displayed and they will add you to their link list. That’s a free link for all you that are Technorati obsessed. There are over 40 blogs now added, so get your blog listed now! I may start blogging on th4ere weekly, and will begin to mention our BAYB blogs 🙂

On your blog do you allow swearing? I run a couple of sites and my current rule of thumb is if I get a message that contains maybe one or two swear words I’ll just #%&* them out and let the post through. If the message itself is unnecessarily vulgar or offensive or just plain inappropriate I will delete it.

Some people get very upset and up in arms about deleting comments but I am of the mind that it’s my blog and if I don’t appreciate the tone I can remove the comment. It’s a personal guideline that i follow. A little like I can’t define pornography but I can tell you when I see it type of thing. I certainly don’t mind someone disagreeing with me or having a different opinion. It is those differences that make the blogosphere great. I just won’t be talked to in that tone in my house LOL.

So on your blogs do you have a written set of rules?

Do you clearly establish a set of guidelines for contributors to follow?

On my own blogs 99% of commentators have picked up the general vibe of the site and behave accordingly. In fact i think in my time blogging I’ve deleted maybe two messages. To be fair one was a set of messages. They were completely off topic and were hijacking the general theme of the site and the other one barely even registers in my memory. I’m sure there was another but I can’t for the life of me remember it.

With the first one I spoke to the person via email and advised why and eventually we just agreed to disagree. The second one i vaguely recall just deleting it as it seemed to be just a one off visit and i can’t say I’ve ever heard of them again (or maybe I have LOL and i just don’t remember deleting their comment!!!).

Actually just recently I deleted a comment over at mybloglog just because it was a bit more graphic and unnecessary than I wanted appearing in my profile. Once again it’s my profile and I’ll cry if I want to.
So I would love to hear from EVERYONE! I promise not to delete anyone’s comments (well within reason LOL). Lets get a discussion going on this so new bloggers can learn from us more established!

Well Comment Friday wasn’t what I was hoping even though we had a huge increase in visitors (429 unique visitors) twice of what we had the day before. We had only one comment person comment not a BAYB member and that was Ryan who seems to be a friend of Lee, so go check him out.

We also have a new renter. I haven’t mentioned them yet, so here’s their plug. Nice layout and color. With the content, it’s a blog I’ve never seen before. Stop by the FAQ’s to get a rundown of exactly what is going on. Basically it’s a story being blogged. On the sidebar you can easily read this blog like a book.

We are getting our blog reviews together, there will soon be a page where you can find information and a list of blogs to be reviewed. Maybe I can designate another author to review with me? Contact me if interested. Webmiztris I haven’t forgotten about you!

We are also looking to explore advertising opportunities, so If you know of something good or offer us good rates, leave us a comment.

Apologies for not being around much recently but hopefully back on track again now.

As this blog is called Blog About Your Blog that’s what I’ll do.   I’m pleased to say that Mike’s Money Making Mission has now gone through the $900 mark in earnings.  It’s been a bit of a slog but when I hit $1000 I’ll have a small celebration.  I think you need to have something to look forward to when you set targets.

My recent posts have been on my opinions of various money making programs I have tried. Some of them I have given a rating – a personal one based on my experience.

The last few posts are: Money From Dating about the DIY Dating affiliate program; Money Making Program Updates where I talk about TreasureTrooper, daytipper, and review me plus Money Making With PayPerPost. There is also my warning about Commission Junction which I have mentioned previously.

On a very personal note my thanks to everyone who has left me comments or sent me emails following the loss of Janice.  They helped so much and are greatly appreciated.

Good luck,
Mike.

 

It has been a frustrating couple of weeks moving home, and losing internet access in the process. In many ways, the time off put into perspective what the blog means to me.

The inability to publish my blog as regularly as I would have liked, made me realise how much I enjoy putting the various posts together. The multi facetted format certainly keeps my mind sharp and being up to speed with current events gives me at least 2 minutes of lively conversation with my wife everyday.

Time off also highlighted how much time I spend ordinarily sat at a computer, researching, posting and promoting The Pisstakers. In the scheme of things I am quite lucky to be able to pick up on angles to a news story and twist it our way. But even though I don’t labor as such over every post, it does take time to find a good image and a couple of pertinent links, create the home page links and finally check it over.

Now the technical atrocities are over, thankyou Comcast -not, it was quite exciting to actually get back on-line and have an out-of-date blog staring me in the face. Like a first day back at school, I whizzed through the posts. And now we have an uber fast connection, publishing was a giddy pleasure too.

In conclusion, I think it is good to be focussed on a blog, but also it is important to be able to stand back from it. This could help you see what it maybe looks like to others and “see” what it looks like to you too from afar. I am chuffed with how our blog looks, and it does have something different about it. However, I realise the limits of a one-man band blog.

If I am going to build on the good foundations and maintain the service come rain or shine, I need to build on the tentative steps taken so far with Techboggle. 2007 is time to attract some witty contributors. If you are witty, and/or your blog is humor, web/tech or news oriented, and you would like to work something out to leverage our escalating traffic and our snazzy looping display box, drop me a line.

Leave us a comment about whatever you want. Hopefully we can get a little discussion going in our comment box. I will personally visit each commentors blog, and I hope others will too! I will select a random blog to add to our BlogRoll for the week. Your link will also be added to this post. Last week we had 13 comments, let’s break that!

Start commenting!