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Blogs Aren’t Books, But Revising Is Still Revising: 6 Gating Questions to Make Revising Easier

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How to Decide What to Change

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So, you’ve looked at your stats, and you’ve found the entry pages where readers frequently land. Now you’re checking them out to make sure that those pages are fresh and welcoming.

How far do you go? Some were written way back when. Do you edit the content? Do you change the design? Scott of 99 shades of grey asked those very questions this morning.

Those are the money questions. I can’t help but note the irony in the name of Scott’s blog, because these decisions are about as far from black and white as decisions can get.

The money answer is

Change what makes a difference leave what doesn’t.

Not much help is it?

That’s why I’m going to give you 6 gating questions to ask yourself about the landing pages you are looking at.

Using them, you can decide quickly and feel confident in what you decide. Take a look.

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The Mic Is On — It’s Halloween!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s Halloween!

jack-o-lanterns



We might also talk about

  • Halloween costumes and parties
  • Urban legends and childhood beliefs
  • trick and treats and childhood pranks
  • Haunted Housed and ghost stories

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.




–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Even the Margaritas Were Leaking Links!

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It Was Beverage of Choice

It was Margaritaville on Tuesday Open Comment Night. We were celebrating being alive for another week. The Margaritas were BJ’s fine idea, and the margarita glasses were elegant to say the least. Still we made sure everyone had their beverage of choice. So things started out very nicely.

Then Link Leak Virus seeped into our discussion of what we would drink. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to Mike. It was great fun having you!

Delicious links were shared.

The Conversation Was Salty

How could the conversation be anything but interesting with a cast of characters like you find on open comment night here?
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Open Mic Tonight 7pm Chgo Time –What’s Hot? What’s Not?

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Everybody is Hot, Hot, Hot!!!

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YES, the mic will be open again tonight. So start collecting your thoughts. Remember, you get to bring what you want to talk about.

The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight we’re talking about what’s bloggy hot and what’s not!

We might also talk about

  • what the cool bloggers wear when they’re posting
  • hot blogs, hot bloggers, hot ideas for bloggers to blog about
  • spam, weird search strings, off the wall comments
  • what cool things you wish someone would come up with

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and I heard Milton the Moose might show up.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Prelaunch Blog Review Checklist

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I've been thinking . . .

I wrote a post this morning as part of a series at LizStrauss[dot]com. It may be of use to some readers here. It’s for folks who’ve not started blogging. Click the title to access it.

Prelaunch Blog Review Checklist

Should I submit this to be an official SOB? I’ll have to ask myself whether I participate enough in the dialogue . . .

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