Blogging Authority Darren Rowse visited #BWEchat Wednesday to discuss a brief history of blogging over the last 10 years.
| “ | a blog with ‘soul’ is written more from the heart, tells stories, is interested in readers but is done with passion #bwechat | |||
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One of the popular tips made by Rowse was the creation of an email newsletter, a “must do” for newbies at blogging.
| “ | A5.5 I’d start an email newsletter Day 1. Its the biggest source of traffic, community and profit that I have on @digitalps #BWEChat | |||
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| “ | starting a newsletter would be the biggest thing I did right with @digitalps – its a golden strategy #bwechat | |||
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| “ | @nickelnm my newsletter on dPS is basically a summary of our weekly posts in an email #BWEChat | |||
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Some users offered their advice on newsletter creation as well.
| “ | RT @Danimezza: Making sure it’s not fluff but valuable and useful #bwechat #newsletter -> what do YOU put in your newsletters | |||
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| “ | RT @teewhyare: I use mailchimp for my newsletter, no complaints yet but as it grows, I’ll look into aweber. #bwechat | |||
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| “ | @NotActuallyHero My advice is always to start with Aweber to avoid any probs w/ migration & Aweber has the best deliverability. #bwechat | |||
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| “ | A5.1 I’d put more time into thinking about WHO I want to reach. These days I create ‘reader profiles’ which have been very useful #BWEChat | |||
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Rowse also had comments on the failures of an old favorite of bloggers, the blogroll.
| “ | I never really liked the blogroll – it got a little political for me #bwechat | |||
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| “ | @JudyHelfand was hard, as a blogger with a readership I had people ‘pitching’ me to get on my blog roll or boycotting if they wernt #BWEchat | |||
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| “ | at one point I had 250 people on my blogroll – became a big job to maintain – trying to please everyone #bwechat | |||
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There was plenty to be said about that from participants.
| “ | @Julies_Tweets Most people create but dont maintain blogroll. Like @chrisgarrett idea to have a more active "check out" section #bwechat | |||
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| “ | @Julies_Tweets You’re wasting your time maintaining a blogroll. Nobody clicks on them anymore. #BWEChat | |||
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| “ | q4 – with the death of the blogroll, seems like fewer bloggers are trying to help each other #bwechat | |||
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| “ | Instead of a regular blogroll, I link to individual posts that have changed me. A lot easier to maintain & ppl don’t try to buy #BWEchat | |||
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| “ | If you like someone’s blog – its probably more useful to your readers to link to a post that they wrote than their front page #bwechat | |||
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Rowse also suggested bloggers create Profiles of their readers to calibrate their audience.
| “ | A5.2 I’d be doing a lot of research into the needs and problems of my readers to identify how to serve them best #BWEChat | |||
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And lastly, people demonstrated just how lazy RTing is…with RTs.
| “ | RT @larakulpa: RT @problogger: RT @chrisgarrett: RT @problogger: I think RTing kinda made us a bit lazy too #bwechat | |||
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| “ | Yes. Ironic that I am RTing this…  RT @blogworldexpo: Does anyone feel the retweet kind of ruined link love? #bwechat |
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| “ | RT @problogger: RT @larakulpa: RT @problogger: RT @chrisgarrett: RT @problogger: I think RTing kinda made us a bit lazy too #bwechat | |||
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| “ | Next week our guest is Amber Naslund, @ambercadabra #bwechat | |||
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