Are there any rules for blogging? Like the Do’s and Don’ts of the blog world? Here are some questions I find myself aimlessly wondering about sometimes
1. When comments are left on your blog, do you have to respond to each and every one of them?
2. If a blogger puts you on their blog roll links list do you have to link them back?
3. If a blogger leaves a comment on your blog do you have to leave a comment back on theirs?
4. If I stop blogging for one month, would anyone still read my blog?
5. Would anyone really care?
Then there are the things we are all guilty of doing when we first start blogging…
1. Leaving comments on EVERY blog to get your blog noticed even if it’s a comment that says only :-), or Please visit my blog (cringe), or a comment totally unrelated to the post.
2. Submitting your URL to every blog directory going. Be honest I am sure your blog has been listed on at least one of these
*Technorati
*Blog Explosion
*Pingomatic
*Nigerian Blogs Aggregator
*Blog Africa
3. Posting like a person possesed everyday, sometimes three posts or more a day. Ohh, the excitement of seeing your posts online!!
4. Checking your blog every five seconds to see if any comments have been left (okay, okay many of us still do this)
5. Google-ing things like 'How to get your blog noticed.'
And finally, doesn’t it just piss you off when you post a mini thesis on your blog and no one leaves a comment but someone else posts one sentence like …
Guess what I did today??
and there will be 67 comments left in the comments box? Go on admit it, you know it does.
Labels: Blogging, Humour
