Blog Etiquette
So a lot of people I know and love are getting their blog on lately. And that is really cool. As life gets busy, it is nice to be able to keep up with what you have going on and to drop a comment and spread love.
Two things you should know:
- Blogger/Blogspot sucks | If you don’t have a blog yet and you plan on getting one, use wordpress. Blogger may be easier to use as a writer, but it’s not about you, it’s about your readers right? This is just my opinion and mainly I am annoyed by the comment process on Blogger/Blogspot blogs. My deepest apologies to the Blogger.com faithful.
- Don’t Hotlink | I have been getting hammered by hotlinks lately. Hotlinking is when you copy the URL of an image on a site and then paste it into the ‘image location’ in the insert image thing on your WYSIWYG editor. It’s easier and faster for the writer, but not good form. What’s happening is the image still lives on the other site’s server and every time someone visits your site, the other site takes a bandwidth hit to deliver the image to your blog. Not a huge deal, but it adds up. You need to get the image you wish to embed to a online location that you control. Use the image upload thing on your WYSIWYG or you can use Picasa, flickr or anything like that.
At the end of the day, I am just glad you are blogging, even if you don’t take my advice. If you stop by nikao on a regular basis and I don’t have you on my blogroll, let me know.
While you’re at it, use a RSS reader to enjoy your favorite blogs
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good call
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Vince,
I am with blogger. I have voiced the same frustrations as you. I wish I could switch to wordpress, but I am afraid of loosing my subscribers. Is it possible to transfer from blogger to wordpress without leaving anyone behind?
If you have a sec and can lend some advice I would be grateful!
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Nate – you are running feedburner so you can change your feed like the day is long without loosing subscribers. also a quick search yielded some options to import your blogger into wordpress
try this one it looked good
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Thanks! I’ll be transitioning soon…
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Amen to both of those points!
Brad Ruggles
http://www.bradruggles.com
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Vince convinced me (pun intended). I was able to use WordPress’s “Import” option after setting up my blog to transfer all the files over. There are so many more settings I can use than at Blogger. Thanks Vince.
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Yeah Mike! welcome to wordpress.
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