Happy Friday – I guess for a large portion of the world it is already Saturday!
I decided this week to change up [intlink id="195" type="category"]Follow Friday[/intlink] just a little this week, and highlight some of the best comments received this week. Sometimes, our readers can say it better than we can! Here are some noteworthy comments from the week (last Friday included):
On “How to Get Everything You Possibly Can from Your Blog”
Gera from SweetsFoodsBlog wrote,
It’s vital to maximize efforts to have time available for blogging, your case is my case. As part time for me, is harder to do all the tasks and have a life offline too. How important is the #1 to have clear your goals and the # 2 accordingly.
Gera´s last blog ..Blogging by Impact – Do You Break The Blog Rules
Andrew from Blogging Guide wrote,
I agree with time management. When blogging especially if you’re working at home, you can easily get distracted, so it’s really important to know your priorities and to have the discipline to work on those priorities. I also like number 3, make sure that your posts are really worth publishing.
John Garrett wrote,
Sometimes it’s just laziness and sometimes I feel like “damn should I really be out here tooting my own horn all the time?” Except if you don’t believe in your stuff enough to promote it, who will?
John Garrett´s last blog ..Fat-ASS Friday Links – 10-15-2010
From “5 Alternative Ad Networks to Boost Your Blogging Income”
seattle seo &web design wrote,
Great article and helpful tips. It’s nice to see that people still take the time to teach others by offering free advice and information. That’s what keeps ‘em coming back!
From “4 Easy Ways to Work Key Phrases Into Blog Posts”
Ileane from Basic Blog Tips wrote,
Hi Elge, nice to see you here guest posting, you’ve done a fantastic job. I always have this question about the H1 tags. Aren’t they for the title only? When is a good time to use them in a post? Every time this topic comes up I’m told that I should use H2 tags instead. Thanks for being patient with me on this one.
Ileane@Basic Blog Tips´s last blog ..CommentLuv Ambassador Contest on Basic Blog Tips
Marlee wrote,
Elge`!
What excellent practical tips. That is what I love best about BCB…you can always count on quality content that you can apply to your blog. These tips serve as a great little checklist to use when preparing to write a post.
Marlee´s last blog ..How to Take Your Online Business from Itty Bitty to Huge Success
Ashlie wrote,
I agree. SEO is important on and off site. Putting keywords into your articles can improve traffic flow to your website. But you always have to remember that you have to keep visitors at your site once they are there. I really like your examples of rewording generic sentences to specific sentences containing valuable keywords.
From “Two Cents Tuesday – Using Blogs to Capture Leads”
Caleb wrote,
Well, comments are related to warming up in the sense that many potential clients will ask questions concerning your recommend or service in the comments section rather than waiting on a emailed response. I have actually captured emails which led to clinching sales this way, but it depends on that particular person and their criteria for trust factor.
Caleb´s last blog ..Pushing That Email Through
Fran wrote,
You sound alot like my husband. He thinks I wake up selling. I do not know if everyone does this or not but, I can not stop trying to make my life better. I understand what you are saying, too. It is a numbers game and we only want our numbers that we have to go through to be a sell smaller. It is much easier to catch fish in a small barrell than to get them from a large ocean.
Gera from SweetsFoodsBlog wrote,
As I’m in business I can tell you that you sell always with a good pitch, of course with a good product and in a appropriated time.
Bloggers are the same; the extra point is if they can generate confident and expertise the eventual sells will be more successful and smoother for the “client”.
Gera´s last blog ..Bloggers- Fishes and Kayaks – a Recipe for Your Blogging Success
Sarah Arrow wrote,
I love the part about people being at different stages in the sales cycle. It’s essential that the content meets each person at their stage and their entry point to the blog may be at a previous post and not your latest material.
Sarah Arrow´s last blog ..A dream comes true What is on your dream list
Rick LaPoint from Internet Marketing wrote,
Hi Tia,
My take is that your blog is a mirror of you. You can do anything with it. (more)
Rick LaPoint@Internet Marketing´s last blog ..3 Ways to Effectively Diversify Your Internet Business within Your Niche Market
I appreciate all of the participation this week, and special thanks to David Boyd and Elgé Premeau for their great guest posts. Have a good weekend, everyone!
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Superb innovation Tia. I have not seen this before on other blogs and I am glad you introduced it first here. Its a wonderful way to drive more quality comments to your blog. Also a good weekly gift to your blog commentators.
Isn’t that an interesting idea? I’ve never thought about highlighting comments in such a fashion; not sure I will do it, but it’s still a fascinating idea.
It is so nice of your to share what others have to say as well. I try to read alot of the post before I make my comment because there are alot of people who have been doing this longer than I have and I learn alot from them, too. I am always trying to keep my eyes and ears open so that I can maximize my sites. I hope that people read your site and most of the comments as well because if they do, we will all be able to learn from each other. After all, there really are no written rules about how the internet works.
Hi Tia:
I have been reading your blog posts for a while, but did not place a comment yet. Today I was reading some comments and decided to place a comment here.
I like how you have so much knowledge about blogging. I am knowledge seeker by nature. After the latest change by Google, I worry using keywords because key word competing numbers have changed now. Before I used to remember the keywords and its search volumes.
Tia thank you for providing valuable information you have been providing to our blogging community.
All the best
Fran Aslam
Hey Tia,
Nice way to make your community happy and feel appreciated.
It’s like getting bonuses after a well done job.
Hi Tia,
Its a great way of reviewing the week with comments from readers. Feels nice when you know the blogger is paying a proper attention to what we write. This would certainly inspire to comment more.
Hey Tia, as usual you have great ideas.
Thanks for featuring my comment and allowing me to spread my wisdom! lol j/k.
Anyway have a great weekend and all the best!
You’re welcome!
Have a great weekend.
This is an excellent idea to keep people commenting and doing their best in this too.
That’s so funny because I didn’t even think of that when putting this together. I just wanted to change up Follow Friday!
Hi Tia
What a good idea. I love reading all the comments on a post. Usually learn heaps from the comments too and introduces me to other bloggers whose site I may visit. Thanks.
Patricia Perth Australia
Same here. I think the post is only 50% of the conversation and comments are the other 50%.
I am visiting your blog for first time and it’s good to see that you are so dedicated toward your visitors. I have never seen such contest on any blog before.
Great idea Tia to give back to your readers and encourage more commenting and discussion
Like your idea of featuring the comments of the week! It’s an honor to be mentioned with my comments here, twice
When you publish good and interesting posts, is easier to be hooked and give some feedback!
Tia enjoy a great weekend
Cheers,
Gera
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