Blogging conventions (publishing)

04Dec06

Perhaps there are certain ways of doing things that make blogs more user friendly?

Formating links (adding labels, target windows)
Including images
Including video

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1 Clare on December 7, 2006 said:

Tagging your photos with key words will mean more readers, who will discover your blog by searching for images

Make sure your links are easily distinguishable

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2 Clare on December 7, 2006 said:

WordPress can be annoying and some knowledge of HTML is helpful –
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/index.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/

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3 Clare on December 7, 2006 said:

Monitor who is reading your blog via Google Analytics or the My Blog Log Plug in:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.mybloglog.com/

There is also a new tool on Technorati – the ping – that is very useful. The further down the Technorati rankings, the less often your blog gets trawled.

To quote from the page: “Updated your site recently? Let us know! Just enter the URL of your blog home page below to get into the Technorati high-priority indexing queue.”

The ping page is http://technorati.com/ping

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4 woodsy on December 9, 2006 said:

If you’ve registered on the Technorati site, your claimed blog(s) will appear on the right-hand side of the page when you log in. Next to the blog name, there’s a ping link button too!

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