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12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog

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In Case You Missed It

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Vovo over at Business Traffic Ideas threw this idea to me. He caught it from Patrick Schaber at The Lonely Marketer who spotted the idea originated by Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM.

The thought is that so new subscribers in recent months might like to know about posts from times gone by.

12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog

Every human is drawn to what we like and away from what we don’t. The beauty of a well-written checklist is that it checks for what we might have forgetten. The best blog promotion is quality — content, design, and linking. Use this dozen checklists to give your blog a spit shine and show it off.

  1. Classic Revisited: The Blog Review Checklist

  2. Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs

  3. Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist

  4. Choosing for Our Readers: A 5-Point Pop Quiz

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

  6. 6+1: How-to Blogging — Stomp Out Swiss Cheese Knowledge

  7. Eye-Deas 3-Photo Content Checklist

  8. Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist

  9. A Blogger’s Personal Narrative Checklist

  10. Checklist for Starting a Directory Listing

  11. Blog Design Checklist

Taking care of the details, any designer will tell you is the killer app in the most elegant and well-cared for presentations. Any great writer will agree with that opinion. Yes, one after number 7 is missiong. 🙂

Quality feels satisfying to generate and to use. Quality is a blog’s best promotion of all.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you find your strategy, click on the Work with Liz!!

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The Blog Herald: Information Geek Meets Relationship Geek's Book

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Information Geek in Danger?

One of the most memorable moments of SOBCon07 was Jeff Brown’s statement about Kum-ba-ya-ers and business bloggers. No matter who hears me talk about that moment, if they were there, they remember it with a grin of “ain’t it the truth?” That’s because the famous Bawldguy, Jeff, was talking about the preferences folks have toward relationships or information as their personal strong suit.

So, when the time came to talk about the book by the consummate Relationship Geek, Phil Gerbyshak, I thought, perhaps, I was not the best choice. I found the right guy up in Edmonton. He’s Greg Balanko-Dickson, and he’s a self-professed Information Geek . . .

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Better Comments Manager — Reply INSIDE the WordPress Dashboard

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I Want One!

From the first I started corresponding with Keith Dsouza, he’s been a special one — talented and creative. He can ask a simple question and turn the answer into a blog post. . . . Keith is one surprise after another. The biggest of all was when I turned around at the problogger meetup and heard a guy say, “I’m Keith.”

Keith is the guy who developed Better Comments Manager for WordPress. If you’re on WordPress and you don’t know about it; you’re missing something . . .

Great Find: Better Comments Manager
Permalink: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/better-comments-manager-just-got-better.html
Target Audience: WordPress users
Content: Put simply the Better Comments Manager plugin allows publishers to respond to comments from inside the WordPress dashboard — rather than making us wait for another pageload to type in the comment on the page itself. The process is easy.

  1. Click reply.
  2. A box will appear.
  3. Type a reply in the box.
  4. Click save reply.
  5. A message will say it’s being saved.
  6. The reply will appear as a comment in the lists.

To check this out, click the title below.

This is cool.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you find your strategy, click on the Work with Liz!!

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Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 6

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Get Closer to You

This is a series of questions, I don’t know how many. They are the ones I ask when I help folks get closer to their personal identity.

What one trait would you look for in a mentor?

I’ll answer first to get things started.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Now You, Too, Can Be a Spammer for Only US$19.99

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Don’t Just Sit There, Make More!!

Buy Blog Comments logo

I just had a most disturbing Skype conversation with Darren about an awful new service called Buy Blog Comments (buyblogcomments.com) offered by a person calling himself Jon Waraas (Jonwaraas.com).

Yes, folks, it’s true!!! For as little as $19.99 you, too, can be a spammer to targeted blogs!!!

Buy Blog Comments.com offers
100 Blog Comments Only $19.99!
500 Blog Comments Only $99.99!
1000 Blog Comments Only $199.99!

Finally you can purchase quality blog comments without the stress of finding someone to write the comments, or buying some high priced automated program. We specialize in selling blog comments for blackhatters who are looking for good quality backlinks. We have three different types of packages, you can either buy 100 blog comments, 500 blog comments, or 1000 blog comments at a time. . . .

This concept isn’t new to us. We’ve run into astrospammers around Net Neutrality, but it’s never been advertised quite such a in-your-face, out-in-the-open, damn-the-ethics-and-the good-guys manner.

We talked about the ethics of paid commenting last October in Bloggy Question 26, Do You Wish to Comment? and we sure did.

Who Is This Guy?

As Sundance would have said to Butch Cassidy . . . “Who is this guy?” Just go to Google. He pretty much tells you himself.

Sept. 2006 . . . In an interview 10 months ago, at basementguru, Jon Waraas reported his age as 19 and said . . .

I believe in making a website for the user, not the bot. What SEO is is tweaking the bot into giving you a better ranking. I don’t believe in doing that. Make a high quality website with lots of original content and the bots will follow.

That was then.

Not sure of the date . . . On ReviewME, his profile says he’s an “unethical swearing marketeer.” US$500 per review.

Jan. 2007 . . . He joined 7 months ago. Isn’t he a lovely girl?

Last night . . . at jonwaraas.com/seo-service-launches/

Well im off to bed, I cant wait to wake up and see all the hait mail/comments (exaggeration)

This morning . . . at Buy Blog Comments. com . . .

We currently have 6 people working with me (Jon waraas) that speak english really well. We dont use people who cant even speak english. It is important to have well written blog comments so that they wont get deleted by the blogger.

How considerate!

What Can We Do?

Darren has a fine discussion and is asking the legal question . . .

I’d like to hear from those with a legal background comment on the legality of such a business. I know that of late spammers have been getting taken to court for sending unsolicited emails – I’d be interested to know what the legal standing would be of a company who so openly offers to leave spam comments on someone else’s web property.

I’d like to know too.

Even more . . . What can we do?

Some lines we can’t let bad guys cross.
One is the threshold to our house.

We can’t let folks drop trash in our kitchen
to make their property have more value.

We can’t rely on other folks to clean up
stuff bad guys bring across our doorways.

End of story.

They’re OUR blogs those comments will be landing on.

Let Mr. Waraass.com know.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

Let Go

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No Strings, No Pain

hand releasing blue balloon

I had this thought.

What if we all let go?

What if we let go

. . . the ribbons and the strings?

What if we laid down

. . . the burdens and the pains?

Then . . . could we hold each others’ hands?

–ME “Liz” Strauss