There are a couple of posts on other blogs you may be interested in this week.
The first comes from Common Sense with Mark. Well CommonSense meet No Nonsense.
Mark wrote a post on whether the actions of some people in the Blogsphere were of a herd mentality and just following the A-List bloggers. This does go on quite a bit, but in a manner that I see nothing wrong with. While every blog should strive to be unique in terms of content, what is wrong with trying to generate a little traffic to your blog. Afterall isn’t that why people spend time and energy creating the content. They want people to read it. Most of Mark’s post deals with the various traffic generation trends of late such as blog rush. Blog rush was touted a little before its time. I was even guilty of this in some of my posts, but the main reason people jumped on BlogRush was because of the name behind it. Its pretty much a given that round one was a bust, but I would not be surprised to see a round two implementation of blogrush.
Mark goes on to talk about the ever ending quest for more subscribers and more comments. Of course people want these things they are what helps to make a blog popular. If you are writing a blog and do not want readers or subscribers, why don’t you just keep it on your hard drive and get it off the net.
Sorry Mark, I don’t see a lot of CommonSense in this post.
My second link is on a subject that a lot of the A-List bloggers about blogging have been touting lately, but this one did not make Mark’s list and that is including images in your posts. I personally like images in the posts as long as there are not too many and the image is somehow related to the post. The problem for me has been finding the images that I can freely post without copywriting problems. Skelliewag to the rescue with the guide to find incredible Flickr images for your blog. There are some decent suggestions in the post and I will definitely be bookmarking it. I’ve been using Live Writer lately to write on blogs and it has an addon you can download to help you find Flickr Images and insert them. It works great with WordPress, but the search for images is a little awkward. This post should help me with that problem, so you may start to see more images around here soon.
Lara from I Make Money On Facebook has posted an article about traffic generated form Facebook and how its the worst traffic on the net that caught my eye. Lara provides some insight into how Facebook works in regards for utilizing it as a traffic generation technique which has some possible merit. I’ve never really got Facebook really but with Lara’s help, I’m starting to see how it could be a powerful tool if utilized properly.
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Thats why it is up to the people in the “herd” to stop acting like they cant think for themselves and start coming up with more and more cray ideas so they too can turn into an A list blogger. My english teacher would kill me for that run on snetence!