New Addition
There’s a new addition to the Successful Blog family.
No, it’s not a little baby blog . . . it’s a new page in the sidebar called New Blogger page. I’ve cleverly named it that because it’s intended for those who are new to blogging. Tricky, don’t you think?
The new page has a short description of Successful Blog and links to the key posts and series bloggers getting started would want to access first.
The rest of you can feel safe. I didn’t name names about who misbehaves. I figured new bloggers will find that part out soon enough. . . . Possibly in the comments to this very post. 🙂
If you don’t know whether you’re a new blogger, please email me at lizsun2@gmail.com. I’ll do my best to help you figure it out.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Good work Liz.
I’ve been thinking some blogs especially help/guide type sites need to have an audience type scale so people immediately know who the post will benefit most and maybe direct them to other posts so they can move on if it that particular post isn’t suitable.
Just with people arriving at a post say about web design via an SE it could be anyone from a designer with 10 years experience to someone learning WTF a html tag is. While that post might not be useful for one of these extremes there may be other posts on the blog which would be of interest to that visitor but the initial impression on the first post they saw might prompt the visitor to hit the back button on their browser never to seen again.
The scales can be for anything related to the posts: SEO Guru to SEO Newbie, Australian Cricket Fan to English Cricket Fan, Super Problogger to Wannabe Problogger.
It’d help regular readers as much as new visitors.
Aspiring php script writing gurus that is a WordPress plug-in I would pay for!
Sorry Liz just thinking out loud in your comments.
Anthony,
Thanks.
I think you have a good point. I’ve thought about doing that, but the idea is much stronger than the practice I think. it’s got the same problem as folksonomy does. It requires me, or any author/owner, to stay disciplined in the definitons over time, and that’s darned hard to do. beginner is easy, but who’s to say what’s challenging? Judgment calls are all over the idea. Could get messier than not doing it at all.
I love it when you think out loud in my comments. 🙂
Liz
now thats what i call smart thinking.
This surely will make the new bloggers lives much simpler. Now they don’t have to go through each and every post to get tips for setting up a working blog.
Well, Jack,
Thanks!
Though, I’m no where sure I’ve got all of the good ones. I’m hoping if someone finds one along the way, or if I write a new one, that I’ll get a recommendation to add it to the page then.
So keep an eye out for me, will you?
Yea definitely a good thing to do.
I still don’t know whether to call myself a new blogger and head there or just hang around and feel safe 🙂
I guess that’s best for you to decide 🙂
Keith
Hi Keith,
I just got a trackback that said it’s a great refresher page for everyone. You could just go check it out . . . I won’t tell that you were there.
I’m too busy working on today’s post. 😛
Liz
🙂 i just gave you another trackback post.
Keith
Hey Keith,
Aren’t you just the best one? YES.
Thanks!
Liz
Hey Liz,
You made the big time… Darren over at ProBlogger links to your new page in one of his posts today.
Thought you would like to know.
Joe
Hey Joe,
Thanks for the heads up.
That’s cool. Darren always keeps an eye out for when I do something a little different. He’s a good guy like that.
smiles.
Liz
I wish I was new and cute so Darren would link to me….
Great idea you had, as usual, and I hope it gathers you about 172 new readers and 63 links. This week.
Hi Mike,
You’re cute and new to me.
I hope it gathers me some new readers too. So that I can tell them all about YOU. As far as 63 links go. I’m not seein’ anything near that. It’s looking closer to two. 🙂
Liz