Many of us discover blogging through our love for writing. We like to write, and we also like to hope that some one is going to read what we write. A blog provides us with an easy way to share our writing and ideas with others, and before we know it, we are addicted to blogging.
Like most things in life, blogging, too, has a negative side. A writer can fall into the blogging trap without having the least idea that such a thing exists, and by the time he realises he is in a trap he has wasted a considerable amount of time, and time once lost can never ever be got back. Here are a few things that one should be careful about when blogging:
The “Fast Food” Trap : Fast food can be tasty, and fast food can be easy to get, but too much of fast food is never good for your health.
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Comments are one of the most important part of any blog. For a growing blog, comments are like water that helps a sapling to grow into a majestic tree. Comments are also a unique feature of the blogs, and the real time interaction, between the blogger and the visitor, that comments facilitate, I think, is one of the major reasons for the popularity of the blogs.
How a blogger manages the comments can either encourage, or discourage, a visitor to leave a comment or not.
The first question, then, is : Is it a good idea to moderate comments?
I don’t think it is, because when I comment on a blog it satisfies me immensely to see my comment get posted immediately. But, then, as experience has taught me, there are a few people out there who can leave comments that you would rather not have on your blog. So, choosing to moderate comments is like choosing the lesser of the two evils.
The next question: How do you respond to a comment?
The easiest and the best way, they tell me, is to respond to it in your comment section and to go back to the commenter’s blog and leave a comment there. But, for some reason, I feel that commenting in my own comment section may seem to some as an attempt to artificially inflate the comment count. It is dificult to please all, isn’t it?
But, from now, I have decided to change that, and I am going to be responding to the comments in the comment section itself. And, I am going to try and comment on most blogs that comment here.
That last part raises a question in my mind that I hope some of you can answer for me. When you leave a comment on someone’s blog, do you check back to see if the blogger has responded to it?
Also, do you have a comment policy? If yes, what is it?
If you visited the site in the last 24 hours, you might have seen some unexpected things on here.
There was some site maintenance being carried out by the hosting service providers, and it went on for longer than expected.
But, when I woke up this morning and the site was still not working I mailed the hosting provider to ask them about it. It turned out that they were thinking that everything was working all right.
So, after getting my mail they quickly fixed the problem, and consequently the site is up and working now.
I would like to offer my apologies for any inconvenience caused to any of you who visited the site during the time the site was offline.
Did Blogging come first, or did Social Networking?
If you think about it, social networking, in one form or another has existed since time immemorial. So, the better question would be : did YOU start blogging first, or were YOU social networking even before you were blogging?
And, how is social networking affecting your blogging?
It is often said that social networking can be a powerful tool for bloggers; that it is a good way to get the word about your blog out there, and to get people to visit your blog!
But I don’t agree with that. Social Networking CAN be a powerful tool for bloggers but, before it can be that, a blogger has to make sure that he is doing the other things right. One can not have a good, or even a popular blog, solely on the basis of social networking. A good blog has to have good content, a good layout and regular posts (it goes without saying t hat the quality of the posts has to be good). And if you have a good blog, you stand a better chance of having a popular blog!
Social Networking is good for making friends, but if you want to be a better blogger (the definition of a better blogger is again subjective), just work harder on your blog!
OOOF!
As I said in a previous post, I recently moved hosts and I was very happy with the smooth way in which the transition happened but, then, I relaised that something was amiss.
When I was posting, I could not get the visual editor to work (which still doesnt work). So, confident after my initial success, I thought I could solve this problem too.
Big Mistake.
Everything that could go wrong, did! And I am thankful that I had been careful enough to take good back ups when I was moving because I had to re-install wordpress and lost all the posts. but my previous back-up came in handy, and I lost only two posts, which is not all that bad, considering I could have lost all of them.
Anyways, for now the blog is up and working, and I have learnt my lesson of not messing around with WordPress. I am going to take a break now and hope you don’t mind if something is not working right. If you notice something that is not as it should be, please leave a comment and let me know.
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