Blogger Relations Tips

I found an article here that talks about some various techniques and helpful tips on keeping positive blogger relations. The top five primary tips that are offered are be relevant, personalize, make it easy, schwag is good, and be persistent. When talking about relevance, the article says that when you are posting, look at the previous post and make sure that your's follows it in some sense. This is apparently one of the biggest mistakes that bloggers make because their information is disregarded when it is obviously no relation to the host. Another two items to note are personalizing and making it easy. When you blog, show the potential reader that they are important by including some kind of personal salutation. Also, the article suggests that you should definitely not paste any sort of long transcript directly into the blog because it is careless and lazy. Make the text clear, personal, and composed in shorter paraphrasing. When you are blogging, be persistent. I think that this is one of the implied most important tips since it is the one that they leave you with. If you keep throwing your opinions and information out there repetitively, then someone will eventually notice it and take note of what you are saying. I thought this was a great article for anyone that is new to blogging like most of us in class are. It is basically a bloggers survival manual in my mind.
--westonJ OUT
http://www.toprankblog.com/2006/10/blogger-relations-101/