When you are allowed to become the member of another person's site, consider the trust involved in saying this is my house, come and make yourself at home. Go ahead you have permission to change the way my house look's; I trust you....
Think about that before you post anything to onther person's blog...
Think about being considerate of the space they have and why it looks like it does.
Then refer to these guidelines I have come up with....
- Post Relevant Content on the Blog: if for example I felt like blogging on Uncle ron's site I would need to know a few things about him and/or the site that he has published. I know from his content that he is a Vikings fan and uses the blog to discuss the current events. It would be proper to blog about the Vikings then on his site and keep the content in the same areas that he has set for himself.
- Comments Are Not Content: I had to find this out the hard way. when you publish your updates they are PINGED to search engines, but the comments are not. Only the number of comments. Think of it as text on the front page only. when posting a comment to a current blog it should be relevant to the original post in some way. people want to know what you think about it. Do not comment a link to your page with no real comment, this is spamming and it is RUDE. Instead comment to what you want and include your link as part of your SIGNATURE. (As an identifing signature) you can create a signature file in Yahoo for example that would include a link to your page. Many people include a short quote or phrase. for Example my signature is something like Nuff Said.... Larry Larry's Blogging spot
- Never Post a Direct Link to your Site: IE: Hey guys just wanted you to know that I updated my site.. here is the link This is just as bad as spray painting your name on someone's walls. Updates like this belong in email not on your friend's blogpage. Remember post relevant content that ends with your SIGNATURE (get it?)
- PARTICIPATION = RESPECT: The more involved you become at other people's Blog pages, posting / commenting / reading, the more likely that someone will find you interesting and seek you out. clicking on your name in a comment sends them to your profile page. Plus you are useing your signature right?
- Create Favorite Sites Links in sidebar of your Blog: The more you link to other people's sites, the more likely that you will be linked to as well. This is Networking.
- Profile Page should only display Your Pages: Someone seeking you out will be confused to find that you list all pages you participate in. They are seeking you out, not where you have been. The Dashboard will always contain the entire list of sites you are a member of.
- On Profile Page Interest's and Favorites should be one or two words Not a sentance: IE Cooking, Blogging, Motorcycles.....NOT Cooking at home, Blogging web sites, Riding Motorcycles Consider them search KEY words, connecting common interest's is easier if it is simple. Also when listeing Author's or Singer's use their Common name, not the name they were born with.
- List as many interests as possible keep updateing the list: you are only limited to like 1200 words so use as many as possible to best discribe you and make as many common connections as possible. Most people will never get to your page if they do not connect to your profile.
- Blog about what interest's you: Don't try to create content that you think people will be looking for. Talk about what you know and believe and you will show your passion and resolve in the writing. HAVE FUN!!
- People like photo's not Load times: a photo looks pretty good between 75 & 150 DPI online. For the most part people do not look for photgraphic images, or will never attempt to print them. If they do want a better quality of some specific photo, you have created a reason for them to contact you. Alway's consider the load times of dial up and slow connection speed's. A picture is meant to enhance a page not hold it back.
- It is possible to load several photo's through HEllO to the same post using the \\ .
- It is also possible to send a movie with Picasa by changing the settings (default is first frame)
- Also Hello will not load a file bigger than 500K so consider the pixel count if it will not post.
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5 comments:
Very good, Larry. I like that. We Northups have been slightly rude to one another, trying to change certain things and bantering foolishly back and forth, but so far none of us have been blogging for serious hits or issues. You,on the other hand, have made a lot of effort to help others respect one another's blogs. You are so right. Amnerica is becoming sloven and rude in many areas of their lives. It's good to see a young man interested in helping others to practice respectable blogging.
Thank You. Your loving Aunt,
You also realyze of course that the original blogging Slogging thru' blogdom, we all were experimenting as you were and weren't intentionally rude only trying new things to us and therefor each other, and trying to thusly teach each other new things. Now that we know more what we are doing, and the purpose of said blog sites we have therefor more respect and are by nature more respectful.
Rawknee
what women think is rude and what men think is rude I've found are 2 different things...
Of course I never meant to be rude, nor did anyone else,I was mearly stating that I found it to be so after doing some pokeing around. There is so much more to this and I have unfortunatly not found all the answers yet, but I have to start somewhere.
In fact come to mention it, I still have not completely taken my own advice and still have some site work and profile work to do.
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