Comments on: Ten things all blogs should have to increase your odds of success

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:30:37 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I know that you did not cover this aspect of blogs but feel free to add it as point number 11. I am starting a blog and wondered what you felt would be enough content to create a critical mass to start. I expect to accumulate articles over time but, like all beginnings, it will start with just one and hopefully grow from there. So, how many articles would you start with and at what rate should I be posting new articles to keep it interesting enough for readers … keeping in mind that I also have a life Thanks Jen

By: svakanda

svakanda — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:21:10 +0000

hi Jen, I just stumbled upon from blog from Shoemoney’s post today. It’s really neat. Thanks for sharing all this stuff with us. After your suggestions, I’m going to add an RSS subscriber link and social bookmarking links to my wordpress in the next few days. thanks Jen, I’ll stop by later.

By: Jenstar

Jenstar — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:15:14 +0000

I think that people get frustrated with “off topic” stuff. Like if I suddenly posted about Domino’s Pizza on JenSense, people would clearly wonder what I was up to! And I know Matt Cutts warns people when he is about to do a serious of non-Google posts, because a lot of the readers are there because of what he says about Google, not to see the latest pictures of Emmy & Ozzie. His solution is to offer an RSS feed that just has the Google related posts and nothing else.

That said, it is *your* personal blog, so if you want to talk about your missing sock or how pretty you think the blue sky is today, why shouldn’t you be able to?

And as for DaveN, you should have known him years ago, sometimes I think half the SEO community had me translate his “DaveNSpeak”. It takes years of practice, you have at least a couple more years to go before you are fluent in it too

By: MelC

MelC — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:38:00 +0000

So I get 10 out of 10 or maybe 9.5 out of 10. I, like you Jen, hate people who just rehash and say “here’s an interesting story…” with no opinion, giving ride to the “so what” factor.

But what I’m trying to find a balance between is professional/industry content and personal thoughts and activities. Someone made a sarcastic comment about my post on Domino’s pizza saying it wasn’t very “serious”!

And I know Rand Fiskin gets frustrated when he gets negative comments because someone posts something that has nothing or little to do with SEO at SEOMoz. So my question is where is the line? How do you strike a balance?

Also can you send DaveN a spell checker?!$%*