12 Simple Rules Guaranteed to Improve Your Blogging

June 18th, 2007 by Fiar · 25 Comments ·

You want to be a better blogger, but how? Blogging advice can be confusing and wrought with contradictory material.

The key to your blogging success lies in discriminating between what’s helpful and what isn’t. Fortunately for you, you don’t need to weed out the bad information from the sound advice, because I’ve already done the dirty work for you.

Proofread meticulously - simple spelling or grammar errors can give off the perception that you’re a moron.
Don’t poofread - Most people won’t realize your errors anyway, and even if they do notice, they won’t care. The additional time invested isn’t worth the payoff.

Have open comments - Readers can provide useful information and valuable feedback, and they enjoy the participation. Occasionally, you may even find that comments inspire new material.
Don’t have open comments - People are stupid and you work hard on the content of your blog. Don’t let other morons ruin your efforts with their vapid idiocy.

Respond to comments - Commenters want your validation. Responding to comments makes your readers feel like you value their comments. Feed into that and they will keep coming back for more.
Don’t respond to comments - Most people are simply too busy to check for follow up comments, if they can even remember where they left them in the first place. They won’t even be aware of your response, so that time is better spent on creating new front page content for readers.

Have a life - Finish projects at home, engage in fun activities with friends and family, participate in your hobbies. Your life experience will provide you with a wealth of knowledge and potential blog content. At least leave your Mom’s basement for once in your pathetic life.
Don’t have a life - You’re too busy mowing the lawn, going to work, and spending “quality time” with the family to post anything. A blogger who never updates isn’t a very good blogger.

Talk about yourself - Short anecdotes about your about your experiences are the thing that makes your blog unique and gives it that “X factor” that separates you from the herd.
Don’t talk about yourself - Your life is boring and tedious, especially to the casual observer. Your content was mildly amusing, but you had to ruin it with all your insipid droning on about yourself.

Don’t use profanity - You don’t want to alienate a potential loyal reader because of your use of gratuitous obscenity.
Use profanity - Fuck it! You don’t want an overly-sensitive, easily offended weenie reading your site anyway. chances are, someone who can’t take the occasional F-Bomb is bound to be offended by something sooner of later, no matter how inoffensive and benign you attempt to be.

Now that you have the proper guidance, you will see your blog take off, and your blogging abilities grow by leaps and bounds. Blogging success is just around the corner.

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25 responses so far ↓

1 RT - Chief Mongress // Jun 18, 2007 at 11:20 pm

[Thou art] the veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth.

Vapid enough?
2 Wild Bill // Jun 19, 2007 at 12:31 pm

Thanks for the great tips, they were not all that useful.
3 Translator // Jun 19, 2007 at 12:40 pm

I rairly proofreed. I fined its not werth it. And cussing is for moerons, asshole.
4 FIAR // Jun 19, 2007 at 3:10 pm

You don’t proofreed? I didn’t even notice.
5 Visual Blip // Jun 19, 2007 at 11:25 pm

Fantastic! Helpful! Of near planetary-shaking importance!

Er, I did get confused. Which of each pair is the sound advice and which is bad information? I may have confused the two with unfortunate results.

Visual Blip
6 richj // Jun 20, 2007 at 10:56 am

I love your blog. But your a shitty blogger.
7 FIAR // Jun 20, 2007 at 12:36 pm

You’re a shitty blogger!
8 jimmyb // Jun 20, 2007 at 2:04 pm

No, I’M a shitty blogger.

But I have fun.

Outstanding information, FIAR!
9 RT - Chief Mongress // Jun 20, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Fight nice, boys.
10 Visual Blip // Jun 21, 2007 at 1:15 am

Ah, I can take it. Your posting, RichJ, was lightened considerably by the “your” instead of “you’re” but who’s quibbling over simple grammar errors? Heck, if we did, rhalf the kids in Mississippi wouldn’t get past 10th grade!

Visual Blip has been on the screen for about five days, and it’s undergoing some big changes. A ton of them hit today. I’ve authored blogs that do very well, thank you, and this one will too as soon as it hits its stride. But thank you for the most objective presentation of your startlingly subjective view.

Visual Blip
11 richj // Jun 21, 2007 at 11:08 am

WTF is VB blabbering about? Oh, I get it. He thought I was responding to his comment. I’m sorry, I don’t think I’ve ever visited any of your blogs. So I don’t know if you’re, (I got it right that time)a shitty blogger. Fine, I will check your blog out…(comes back)…Yeah, you’re a shitty blogger, and I’ve failed miserably at several over the years so I should know. Welcome to the club.
(freakin grammar nazis)
12 richj // Jun 21, 2007 at 11:10 am

Whoa. An open bold tag got away from me. Another reason why I freely admit to being a shitty blogger.

[Fixed]
13 FIAR // Jun 21, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Rich is such a shitty blogger that he doesn’t even want people to see his shitty blog.
14 richj // Jun 21, 2007 at 6:52 pm

You never visit anymore anyway. Besides, it currently being renovated.

By which I mean completely neglected just short of deletion.

Thanks for fixing my open zipper, er, I mean tag.
15 Skul // Jun 21, 2007 at 8:41 pm

Geez, what a pack o’ shi
16 Skul // Jun 21, 2007 at 8:44 pm

Stupid freakin’ spam fil
17 Skul // Jun 21, 2007 at 8:45 pm

Geez, FIAR’s gone Heidi on us.
18 FIAR // Jun 21, 2007 at 8:54 pm

Heidi?
19 richj // Jun 21, 2007 at 10:04 pm

I am imagining FIAR dancing around the Swiss Alps with little blonde pigtails. Very disturbing.
20 michelle // Jun 24, 2007 at 7:06 pm

The word “fuck” is my filter to keep those overly PC types away.
21 Joe Simmons // Jun 25, 2007 at 12:15 am

LOL! Great list! Nice to know I’m not the only one that has noticed the contradictory advice in the blogosphere.
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