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32 ways to make your blog suck less

by Scott Hanselman on Jun 19, 2010

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32 ways to make your blog suck less — Presentation Transcript

32 Ways to keep your blog from sucking
http://hanselman.com/suckless

Stay relevant

Everyone’s an expert at something

32 Ways to keep your blog from sucking
http://hanselman.com/sucklesshttp://hnsl.mn/suckless

1. Know your audience

2. Keep overtly personal information out of your blog

3. Don't apologize about not blogging enough

4. Steer clear of politics

5. Don't Blog Bile

6. Think before you blog

7. Don't post throwaways

8. Avoid "excessive quoting"

Things to Do

9. Use Spell Check

10. Pay Attention to Formatting

11. Turn on comments

12. Solve comment spam

13. Claim Your Feed

14. Decide what your Blog's URL is, and use it consistently
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/default.aspx
http://www.hanselman.com/blog
http://hanselman.com/blog/
http://hanselman.com/blog/default.aspx
http://hanselman.com/blog
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Default.aspx
http://www.computerzen.com/blog/
http://www.computerzen.com
http://computerzen.com/blog/
http://computerzen.com/
http://www.tweak.org
http://www.scottha.com

15. Use Simple URLs for popular posts
http://hanselman.com/suckless
http://hanselman.com/resume
http://hanselman.com/tools
http://hanselman.com/fightdiabetes

15. Use Simple URLs for popular posts
http://hnsl.mn/suckless
http://hnsl.mn/iamdiabetic
(got the domain at http://domai.nr)

15. Use Simple URLs for popular posts

16. Have a Brain Garage Sale

17. License Your Blog
Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.
Example: Jane publishes her photograph with an Attribution license, because she wants the world to use her pictures provided they give her credit. Bob finds her photograph online and wants to display it on the front page of his website. Bob puts Jane’s picture on his site, and clearly indicates Jane’s authorship.
Our core licensing suite will also let you mix and match conditions from the list of options below. There are a total of six Creative Commons licenses to choose from our core licensing suite.
Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only
Examples: Gus publishes his photograph on his website with a Noncommercial license. Camille prints Gus’ photograph. Camille is not allowed to sell the print photograph without Gus’s permission.
No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Example: Sara licenses a recording of her song with a No Derivative Works license. Joe would like to cut Sara’s track and mix it with his own to produce an entirely new song. Joe cannot do this without Sara’s permission (unless his song amounts to fair use).
Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

18. Make it easy to subscribe…

18. …and read

19. Have your Contact Info Somewhere

20. Have an About Me page

21. Use a Social Bookmarking Service

22. Decide What's Above the Fold

23. Integrate Search

24. Get the Message out – by any means necessary
Twitter
Your Blog
(RSS Feed)
FeedBurner/FeedBlitz
FaceBook

25. Tune your Bandwidth

Things Not To Do

26. "This blog has moved"

27. Don't Break Links - Maintain Permalinks At All Costs

28. Avoid Split Brain - Pick a Blog and Stay There

28a. Avoid Crossposting

29. Conserve Your Keystrokes
* Jon Udell

30. (Know where your content travels)
http://fairshare.attributor.com

31. Don't Blog to Get Rich

Conclusion

1. Know why you are blogging and blog to accomplish your goals.

2: Make your blog easy to access, read and interact with

32. Blog Interesting (Content is King)

32 Ways to keep your blog from sucking
http://hanselman.com
@shanselman
http://hanselman.com/suckless

Virtual Assistant Inc. at Virtual Assistant Inc. Excellent presentation, thank you for sharing. Indeed there are lots of ways we should do to create excellent blogs. 1 year ago

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