Comments on: Link love 10/4/2007

By: rbl

rbl — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:06:55 +0000

thanks for useful links,especially for Mybloglog post..

By: khalid

khalid — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:05:21 +0000

Steven, you bring up a good point. Too many times, I post something thinking that our readers would love it and nothing happens. Other times, I post something late at night and the response to it is great. A good example of that is Chris’s post titled can a website have charisma. When I first read the post, to be honest, I did not like it. But the response to it was great. The post almost made it to the popular section on digg. I learned to let the readers judge.

Of course the golden rule is to avoid posting for the sake of posting.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:42:30 +0000

You seem like you know a lot about blogs. I have a questions if you may be kind to answer.
Any thoughts on blog directories such as my blog log and RSS issues? Blogger seems to only allow me to set my rss to full instead of short, which means my entire post is shown on directories such as my blog log via rss so the 436 readers I have there never venture on to the site which results in 1,200 to 1,600 off site clicks that blog never gets credit for at just at this one directory location. Any thoughts on a solution? Thank you again and if this comment is too long just delete me
I will still love you anyway.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:13:53 +0000

Post for the readers. If it’s not going to be good quality, then I think the readers are willing to wait for a quality post.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:57:07 +0000

Khalid,
Thanks for the link!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:47:45 +0000

Thanks for the link Khalid as well as pointing me to some other good posts.

The question of posting a low quality post or not post at all is an interesting one. I think it depends on how your defining quality and what you’re comparing it to in order to determine it’s low quality.

On some blogs a low quality post is still far better than the high quality post on another.

I’ve certainly had my share of posts written on a night that the words and ideas weren’t flowing that could have been better. It would have been easy to skip writing them. Surprisingly some posts I thought weren’t all that great are the ones that have gotten the most attention and links.

Other posts I thought were very high quality never went anywhere.

We aren’t always the best judge when it comes to assessing our own quality.

Does that mean you should post just for the sake of posting? Absolutely not. But I think it’s ok to mix in the occasional lower quality post. It might not be as low quality as you think.