Five things almost every blogger has done, but none of us probably should

1.) Talk about how few readers you have. It’s either false modesty or it’s true. If it’s true, cialis buy cialis you make new readers wonder why they should bother with you, recipe either. Talking about your “three loyal readers” works for the guys on Car Talk, find but not the rest of us.

2.) Mention you aren’t going to be blogging for a while. Why tell people to forget about you? Just blog when you can. With RSS feeds, folks will find you when you come back.

3.) Make readers click on a link to another site in order to understand your post. Just include everything relevant from your source material in your own post. (This is a mistake that I still make all the time.)

4.) Post about milestones. Honestly, no one cares if this is your 3rd post or 3,000th. Just make each post worth reading.

5.) Talk about the weird things you see in your web stats. I’ve find that I’m always fascinated by the weird search phrases that bring people to From Where I Sit, but I’m hardly ever interested in the weird things other bloggers find in their server logs. A quick application of the Golden Rule tells me I should probably keep the fact that someone found my blog by searching Google for ” same old bullshit” to myself.

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