1. If you want to increase your traffic,
write "nude" in a title heading.
2. If you add a poll, expect a stalemate.
3. People don't click Amazon ad-links.
Well, not enough to make you a millionaire.
4. Posts with a photo of a sexy celebrity will be
very popular with users of Google's image search.
5. It gets very tiring linking things to their IMDb or
Wikipedia page. Try not to bother.
6. A lot of people use Pageflakes.
7. Hardly anyone uses Bloglines.
8. At some stage you wish you had a
snazzier Wordpress blog.
9. Don't use your name in your blog's URL,
if you value anonymity.
10. Feedburner and Statcounter are really cool.
11. Chances are something you spent WEEKS writing
will receive NO comments or traffic. Deal with it.
12. If you want to encourage comments...
er, write about Doctor Who.
13. It's near-impossible to get more
than a few "digs" on Digg.
14. People on forums usually copy/paste
your hard work, instead of linking to it.
15. There are Facebook groups for Whose Line Is It
Anyway, The Real Hustle and The Big Breakfast.
16. Doing a blogathon is a huge amount of work, and
you'll usually be ruing the decision by day 8.
17. God bless YouTube. Best web invention of the
past 10 years. Just behind Wikipedia.
18. There's no natural way to end a conversation
in a post's comments area.
19. You get more visitors when you're AWAY on
holiday and not updating anything!
20. Submitting your blog to listings sites is probably
a very good idea. Just don't expect a huge surge of traffic!
21. It's exciting to see someone has linked to your blog.
Even better if they've talked about it. Oooh.
22. Periodic spamming of a comments area is a pain to delete.
23. You get more traffic from an "external review"
page on IMDb than you'd imagine.
24. Deciding on a review's star rating is harder
than you'd imagine.
25. An allotted 1GB of photo storage space on Blogger is
seemingly inexhaustible: 2 years and only 11% used! Whoo!
26. You'll sometimes hate and disagree with things
you wrote 18 months ago. Or 18 days ago in some cases!
27. The ability to blog daily about Big Brother or
X Factor is beyond most mortals.
28. As it's your blog, beware of indulgent waffle. Like this post.
29. You sometimes find yourself watching or
doing stuff to generate blog content!
30. You'll only spot splling mistakes and gramitical
errors after publoshing. Sid's Law.
write "nude" in a title heading.
2. If you add a poll, expect a stalemate.
3. People don't click Amazon ad-links.
Well, not enough to make you a millionaire.
4. Posts with a photo of a sexy celebrity will be
very popular with users of Google's image search.
5. It gets very tiring linking things to their IMDb or
Wikipedia page. Try not to bother.
6. A lot of people use Pageflakes.
7. Hardly anyone uses Bloglines.
8. At some stage you wish you had a
snazzier Wordpress blog.
9. Don't use your name in your blog's URL,
if you value anonymity.
10. Feedburner and Statcounter are really cool.
11. Chances are something you spent WEEKS writing
will receive NO comments or traffic. Deal with it.
12. If you want to encourage comments...
er, write about Doctor Who.
13. It's near-impossible to get more
than a few "digs" on Digg.
14. People on forums usually copy/paste
your hard work, instead of linking to it.
15. There are Facebook groups for Whose Line Is It
Anyway, The Real Hustle and The Big Breakfast.
16. Doing a blogathon is a huge amount of work, and
you'll usually be ruing the decision by day 8.
17. God bless YouTube. Best web invention of the
past 10 years. Just behind Wikipedia.
18. There's no natural way to end a conversation
in a post's comments area.
19. You get more visitors when you're AWAY on
holiday and not updating anything!
20. Submitting your blog to listings sites is probably
a very good idea. Just don't expect a huge surge of traffic!
21. It's exciting to see someone has linked to your blog.
Even better if they've talked about it. Oooh.
22. Periodic spamming of a comments area is a pain to delete.
23. You get more traffic from an "external review"
page on IMDb than you'd imagine.
24. Deciding on a review's star rating is harder
than you'd imagine.
25. An allotted 1GB of photo storage space on Blogger is
seemingly inexhaustible: 2 years and only 11% used! Whoo!
26. You'll sometimes hate and disagree with things
you wrote 18 months ago. Or 18 days ago in some cases!
27. The ability to blog daily about Big Brother or
X Factor is beyond most mortals.
28. As it's your blog, beware of indulgent waffle. Like this post.
29. You sometimes find yourself watching or
doing stuff to generate blog content!
30. You'll only spot splling mistakes and gramitical
errors after publoshing. Sid's Law.
