Another Blawg Enters The Sphere
I have spent a lot of time over the past few months growing RailsTips, a Ruby and Rails programming blog. All the tweaks I have been doing over there, have left me wanting an outlet to share.
I didn’t want to completely change topic here on Ordered List, since Steve is doing such a great job on HTML5, so last Sunday I whipped BlawgTips together and invited my friend Chas Grundy to co-author it with me. Get it, blawwwwg? Hilarious, I know.
What it will/won’t be
I can promise you now that Blawgtips won’t be boring. It won’t teach you how to install Wordpress (or any WP plugins for that matter). It won’t be about how to use blogging tools. So what will it be about? Why. Why should you measure your traffic? Why should you think about your post titles? Why you should go from specific to general in your <title> tags. These are principles that are helpful for all websites, but we will focus on blogs in particular.
A Sampling
Below are a few articles we added last week, to kick things off and give you an idea of what is to come. I have plenty more ideas sitting in the hopper as well.
- It’s the Little Things
- Does Blogging Matter?
- Gardening Your Blog
- If You Post It, They Will Come
- Make Your Post Title Count
- Ribbon Cutting
Hope you find this new resource helpful. Head on over and subscribe if you want to stay in the loop. Also, we are sure there are other bloggers out there with stuff to say, so if you would like to guest author a post (or a few), let me know.
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Published January 12, 2009 by:
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I think I like your approach, and that it isn’t focused on all of the things that so many blogs out there are. Good luck with it, I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
January 12th, 2009
@Ryan Thanks. It will definitely be different and I’m curious to see what happens with it.
January 12th, 2009
There are a lot of “surface-scrape” blogs out there who like to be traffic whores and get dugg/stumbled/floated and all that, but the traffic they bring are not dedicated readers that will bookmark, return over and over, and engage in a conversation. I definitely think there need to be blogs out there that dig into topics and provide substance, provoke thought and highlight different points of view. Good luck and if you ever need a guest post or two, let me know!
January 12th, 2009
@Chris – Well said.
January 12th, 2009
I liked Does Blogging Matter – that’s a question more people should be asking and answering for themselves.
January 22nd, 2009
I completely agree with Chris reasoning, effective blogging requires writing a quality content that would attract people and make them return. This on the outher hand requires skill that not many bloggers possess and consistantly put into practice.
February 6th, 2009