7 Gifts of Blog
Blogs can give gifts, sure thing. Not only during the holidays, but year around gifts from your blog. Feel free to add more blog gifts ideas to the list.
- Remove the nofollow links from your comments. I appreciate my blog readers, value each and every one. More comments are always welcome. (Not spam!) Every website needs good quality incoming links. So each time you comment on my blog you get a good link back to your website. Most blogs are set to nofollow by default.
- Latest comments Again, the gift of More link love for my commenters. My blog’s main index is showing a Google PR4, with those links on the sidebar, I’m giving free links from a PR4 site to yours when you leave me a comment. People pay money for such exposure. Don’t abuse it, post meaningful comments. Sometimes I wait a while before replying to comments, not wanting to bump you off the top page too quick.
- Gift of images. Brighten up the place. My readers enjoy my photos, freely shared.
- How to Articles Do you know how to do something your readers may not know? One of the pages with top comments on my blog is How to Make a header using Gimp. Ryze How To’s also get a bit of traffic. People kept asking the same questions, such as “How do I add photos to my Ryze post?” I no longer type out the answer, I just forward the link.
- Share resources you’ve found. My Favorite Graphic Tools and FireFox extensions are favorites. Google sends more traffic through those pages. Recently I subscribed to ProBlogger, lots of resources and knowledge shared. I haven’t added adsense to my blog yet. I felt I should get traffic built up first, that and adsense just doesn’t look pretty to me. So I appreciated ProBlogger’s tips on the pro’s and con’s of using Adsense. A gift giving blog for sure. Many others.
- Toot Someones’ Horn Followed text links to your website/blog is always a good thing. I did not set up this blog originally with a blog roll, not understanding such at the time. But I do want to give credit to others for the friendship, referrals, tips, great work that they do. So from time to time you’ll find me posting about someone, with text links to their site. (yep people pay good money for such too). Laurie Ayers knows how to do this well. I appreciated her post about me, and you can always use her Winter Driving Safety Tips.
- Gift of inspiration. If any of my posts inspire another person to discover more about who they are and to be a better at anything they do, or make that light bulb click on, then I’m happy. I’m inspired by the blogs I read. The latest one which really hit home was Christine Kane’s 9 Surefire Solutions for Procrastinators. I have several personal projects on hold too long, things I want to do, should do. Yet can’t just get them going. Why? I want it all to be dang perfect, and overwhelm from finding too many great ideas. Dina, expert copywriter that she is, inspires with her 24 Blogging Days Till Christmas Copywriting tips. I think one of the very best gifts a blog can give is the gift of inspiration.
Dec 14th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Heidi, you’re so nice. You always remember to be gracious to everyone. Thank you again for this kind mention, and you’re right. It DOES help entrepreneurs to have a source of inspiration and encouragement to keep them going. I hope we can all stick together after this is over.
(Reminds me - WCAD is coming up. Cringe.)
You should definitely take the great testimonial (or at least the good parts of it) that Laurie Ayers sent, and save that for a Testimonials page for your site.