Make Your Blog Easy to Read:
Heck, even a Ph.D can.

Posted on November 5, 2007 - Filed Under Writing Tips, Blogging | 12 Comments

Which blog do you prefer? One that makes easy things hard to understand? Or one that makes difficult things easy to understand?
In “Is your blog easy to read?” Muhammad Saleem recommends the second. He also guides bloggers to an online readability tool to test the reading level of your blog.
Guess what readibility level […]

Leave Effective Comments Use ‘The Goldilocks Principle’

Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under Link Building, Writing Tips, Blogging | 20 Comments

Many of us comment at blog for a variety of reasons. One question we all need to ask ourselves is: what comment length best achieves our goals? The answer is: “Goldilocks Comments” are just right! I’ll explain why.
Reasons to comment
So first, let’s examine what commenters goals generally are. The […]