Comments on: All the Blogging Advice I Have to Give

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:10:07 +0000

I like the basketball/football analogy. You’ve got to play the game. But I hate the ads and product reviews and extra junk littering blogs. I’m not much of a comment person –I don’t comment just for a comment’s sake as I’m picky and only want to comment when I really like a blog which is rare –but if it will help get the word out or get me more comments, then I can maybe try harder to find ones I really like, as I love comments on what I write. Thanks for the advice!

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:56:05 +0000

This is excellent advice and I’m happy that I’m already following most of it. I agree with Felicity above when it comes to good grammar, proper punctuation and your best writing when publishing a post.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:06:10 +0000

Thank you for the tips, and for the laugh.

Perhaps this goes hand-in-hand with “write good content,” but I think “read your writing before you hit ‘post’” deserves its own line item. Everyone makes spelling and grammar mistakes, but why show yours off to the whole world if you can avoid it?

By: mash

mash — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:14:48 +0000

I wanted to thank you for creating this community. You are the glue that binds us together, and it’s hugely inspiring! I’m thinking of doing something similar for family members of homicide victims, or put it this way, I’m TRYING to do that, but it’s difficult to find the people that are affected by it. I suppose once I get a small community started, then it will snowball. My dream is to put people in touch with each other, so that there is always online support available.

If you are on a traffic-to-blog mission, then tags seem to help a lot. In fact, I’ve noticed that when I tag stuff, I often end up on the top of a Google search. Having said that, my IF blog now has a nice readership of people that I really like, and I couldn’t be bothered about chasing traffic!

6 months ago, I didn’t even know what a blog was. I thought it was a type of online forum. Discovering blogging has been like finding gold to me, I love it so much. It’s going to be an interesting tool to look back on one day, when I am a mom, and I will be a mom.

By: Baby On Mind

Baby On Mind — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:10:49 +0000

Hi Mel,

This is a great post! I have JUST starting blogging. After 6 years of struggling with IF I have decided to blog. It is more of an avenue for me to vent and also help keep track of my thoughts, appointments, etc. A journal of sorts. I wish I had thought about doing this much earlier when I started the TTC journey. I supposed I never thought it would that this long!

I am struggling what to put on my blog, not so much content, but how much info to put in there. Maybe because only a few people know about our IF and I am not sure who may read it in the future, and if I should tell friends about my blog (it’s anonymous right now) Any suggestions?

By: Battynurse

Battynurse — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:58:54 +0000

Ok, I’m still a bit stuck (and freaked the hell out) by the whole idea of an 11k fine. Yikes. Just because you said something about something on your blog???
These are all great tips Mel. Sadly I doubt many of the PR people will bother. They are too busy spamming good peoples e-mail inboxes.

By: Kami

Kami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:25:51 +0000

I am amazed at how many unsolicited solicitations you get. How do you find the email you want to read?

Thanks for the advice too. It’s nice to know I am doing what I can and willing to do at the moment. That is, I don’t have a huge readership, but I think some loyal readers and the amount is proportionate to the amount of energy I put into blogging / commenting these days.

By: lynn @ human, being

lynn @ human, being — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:50:38 +0000

I love # 6 and #9 in particular. I’ve been writing on human, being for about 10 months now, and my traffic is growing by a few more unique views every week or so (now holding steady in the 50s-range, which is great by me). And I occasionally get comments, which is the BEST indicator (in my mind) that I’m doing something right. And even REPEAT comments, which means that people are getting engaged with something I’m writing.

I also follow about 75 blogs in my Google Reader and try to leave about 100 comments a week, not *necessarily* to drive traffic (anymore, but that’s what I did at first) but because I am engaged in the conversation, and I’ve come to look forward to certain bloggers’ posts.

I love reading your blog, even though I’m not in the IF community. It’s so sassy and smart, and I really love Show and Tell. And posts like this.

By: Flying Monkeys

Flying Monkeys — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:59:22 +0000

I’m catching up, nice new digs and great post!
Content is completely subjective. I had no outlet while I was going through IF, clomid hell, IUI, IVF and preemie panic…I wish I would have. I’m on the other side now, there will be no more attempts for us unless God throws us a Hail Mary with 10 seconds to go we’re it. The 4 of us. Some days I struggle with whether or not discussing them is okay? Is it okay since I’m still nosing around the IF blogosphere (heck I just found it!) and since I comment on IF blogs there’s a chance they will come back to mine, I don’t want to write anything that will sting them. On the other hand I don’t want to defend that I was once “there” to anyone, because I was. IDK. Some weeks my only post is recipe because I wonder if it will be embarrassing to tell people that my 2 year old thinks tampons are band aids and offered one to his dad when he hurt his finger. (I was on the spot and wanted to be brief.)
Anyway, that was a lot of blah blah blah about not really knowing my audience because I’m not sure who it’s supposed to be.
Thanks for another great post!

By: Lavender Luz

Lavender Luz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:22:21 +0000

This just in: enrollment in Publicist Schools just shot up.

“Publicists, do you really need me to hold your d!ck on this one?”

Truly a great post. Pass the worcestershire?