10 Blogging Tips
1 – Write short titles to ease RSS feed reading (thx Dave)
2 – Allow entire posts to be read through RSS feeds (more convenient for the user) and not just the beginning of the post (don’t do like Julienco 
)
3 – Keep the KISSS rule in mind: Keep It Simple & Short, Stupid!
4 – If you had to think about one thing before pushing the ‘publish’ button, than rework on your title: it’s all marketing but your title is SO important…
5 – One Post, One Pic
6 – Don’t change your layout every fuxxing single day: it’s a branding item on its own
7 – Answer all comments to show you care about people taking some time to read and leave value adding comments: stay close to your ‘consumers’ and ‘contributors’
8 – Remove spam comments & trackbacks quickly
9 – Don’t mention other bloggers just to mention them if you don’t have anything interesting to say – unless you’re thanking them for something: people are fed up with name dropping
10 – Make people believe you’re a blogging guru by writing 10 blogging tips
Addendum Tuesday 5th June 2007: after one month of intense guerrilla, Julienco mentioned in my second tip finally decided to make a bright move and display full blogposts through RSS feeds. Next step as I said to Julien51 (another one) on Twitter: have Julienco add the U.[Lik] widget.
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The best is No. 10!!
So Jérémy is our guru and in my (german) blog many things go wrong:
I’m not always short and simple, there are no pics and maybe the titles are still too long…
You know Matthias: it’s okay to write long posts only if it’s simple (yet) and most of all brilliant.
Since I don’t read German, I give you the benefit of doubt: your blog must be brilliant indeed.
Matthias, I think your blog posts are not long and your use of relevant YouTube-clips is way more interesting than the clipart-fluff we usually use here at Tech IT Easy. (The posts here are shorter just because we use so small font-size)
And anyway, who can be short and simple if one is using German? =) (English is so much more compact as a language than, say, Finnish or German)
Good tips, but you left out something like:
11. write about topics that are useful to your readers.
Probably the most difficult one to follow.
Regarding full rss-posts, I agree to an extent. Sometimes I like the idea of a well-written summary and to only click through when I’m interested. Maybe the key is rss-readers that summarise posts like Safari, I’m not sure.
Answer to comment #4: You’re right Vince, it’s about staying close to your ‘customers’ but I could perfectly have added your tip.
I don’t see the connection between your comment (#5) and full RSS: full RSS prevents you from sparing time & bandwidth visiting a website. And if you’re not interested in an article, than don’t read it
Bandwidth is a broad term. To me internet-bandwidth costs nothing. But the mental bandwidth of skimming through information and make the decision what is worthwhile or not can be very costly indeed.
See it as a venture capitalist that has to browse 100 business-plans every day. He or she would not read a business-plan without an executive summary. There is so much user-generated content out there that summaries and filters become increasingly important in my view.
About staying close to your customers, why is there no MyBlogLog widget on Tech IT Easy?
Because the hosted version of Wordpress doesn’t support it, just like the U.[Lik] widget.