The Fails In Blogging
A couple of minutes ago I was in my admin dashboard checking whether there were any issues with this blog as well as its general performance for the day, just as I do everyday. I had previously made public the Meta and someone who I’ll not mention happened to register and post articles about products he and his company offered in Polish. I had to use Google translate to know exactly what he was saying and here’s a brief preview of the English version of what he wrote(I haven’t made any changes);
“We invite you to visit the website of the manufacturer of wooden stairs.
We produce wooden stairs to the self-supporting structure, we also clogs on concrete stairs. Our products are made from any wood, We also offer exotic wood!
Shody produce wood from their own or entrusted material.
For our clients we also offer dry wood….blah blah blah”.
Though I feel tempted to say his name I won’t, it’s not worth it. I also took a look at others who commented in several parts of the blog but decided to delete some of them instead of approving them and here’s why: It doesn’t make sense to approve plain advertisements of people who don’t have a clue about what the this blog is about (Scopegater) or the posts but rather spread spam across different blogs with the same comments.
Personally I think these are the small things bloggers do that repel people from visiting our blogs in the first place. It’s a good idea to comment in other blogs but let’s not spam them with many links to our sites; it’s annoying, especially when your comment is not related to the post. I think we should respect other people’s work and not spam their sites.
As I said earlier in my earlier post on blogging, if you want to attract a large following write about what you’re passionate about and promote it in a sensible way. A comment I really loved in my blog was one by Heather E. Nelson, who commented on the “Work from the Comfort of Your Home” post. If you go to her comment you’ll see what I’m talking about. Whether she read or didn’t read the post, from the way she commented it makes any webmaster or blogger smile. She says what she thinks about the post and finishes off by giving her websites domain as a by the way. She doesn’t make her comment the main show of the post but the sideshow and she doesn’t force people to visit it but I’m sure many have and many will.
These are the small things that distinguish between a desperate blogger and marketer from a confident one. In the end these small acts dictate whether we become successful online or in other careers or languish in desperation and regret, the choice is ours.
(For the stairs marketer above, I deleted his account, links and posts. It’s like being invited into someone’s house and the very next day you’re busy throwing a party without their consent…in the end you’re always kicked out!)