Blogging has best practices just like every other serious activity, including gardening. You can spend a lot of time and money taking classes from “internet gurus.” Or you can spend time competing in the Comment Luv/Famous Blogger contest that ends July 13th.
Those of you who have been reading my blog since I started it will know that it has changed a lot in the last three weeks. I went from a GoDaddy.com proprietary platform that wasn’t very flexible to a WordPress platform that is very flexible indeed. The colors changed, the sidebars changed, and the comments all got lost in the conversion.
I made such a drastic change after seeing how the big dogs played while participating in the Comment Luv/Famous Blogger contest. I am still learning an incredible amount about blogging, enticing comments from my readers, building community, and doing a good job of giving my audience the information they need. I would like to learn still more.
In order to continue learning, though, I need to continue the conversation I began with other bloggers, and readers, in my post for the contest: How to obtain comments on your blog. This quest for comments means that you are needed to add your two cents to the conversation. It is not only my education that is on the line, but cold, hard cash. The winner gets $750 in money that can be spent on blog improvements, books, and anything else money buys. I want to get a Canon 9000 negative scanner to put 30 years of film negatives into my computer as digital pictures. I also want to buy a better theme for my blog and do some other improvements around the house – both virtual and concrete.
Will you help me? All you have to do is read my post and leave a substantive comment. One liners and vague cut and paste comments don’t count, so please join in our conversation, let us learn from you, and help me win. Thank you.
