Jan
10th
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Posted by Max Miroff
When readers visit your blog, they’re often intrigued as to who the brilliant(?) writer is. Knowing your identity really brings them closer to the content and it’s easier for them to relate to you.
(IN)EFFECTIVE “ABOUT” TECHNIQUES
- Pick a popular figure - any popular figure - and pretend to be them. Misspell a few letters in their name to avoid possible criminal charges (John C[h]ow) and you’re good to go. You’ll instantly gain their popularity!
- Don’t include contact information. You will get spam messages and people trying to help improve your blog. Your blog, as you know, is perfect as is and no feedback can possibly help improve it
- Embellish your accomplishments. Does your blog only get 5 visitors per day? That doesn’t seem like a huge amount at all! Multiplying your actual visitor count by 100 will make it seem much more impressive.
- Include plenty of useless personal information. Do you have two cats named Colonel Sanders and McLovin? Share it! Did your goldfish die when you were ten? Did you find a nickel on the floor? Everyone cares about these minute things and they truly connect you to your readers.
And most of all, remember this: you can be whoever you want to be on the Internet. Use this to your advantage.
By gt281 on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
Are you sure you know what your talking about?…
Scanning thru your 69,215,6281.045 blog entries I noticed none of those items…I’m beginning to believe that your just making all this stuff up…OK,, OK,, just to give you a chance to prove you know what’s what,, tell me how I can get enough ADSENCE revenue to retire with by next Tuesday…
On a sliding sideways into the ditch question,, are you really really really sure that bovine butt photos are not a good post?………….
By topSPIN me on Jan 13, 2008 | Reply
These are very entertaining entries. And very insightful! #2 “About” Technique definitely made me thinking.
Just one comment…I’d rather have these posts outrightly sarcastic and negative…none of the counter prefixes (IN),(DON’T), etc…the humor becomes a little coward when embedded with righteous parenthesis-bound oppositions.
But otherwise, very very good idea for a blog! Cheers!
By Blog Badly on Jan 13, 2008 | Reply
If only it were that easy…
By findbotr on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
Novice blogger here that was entertained. Thanks for the common sense approach to blogging. I’m sure I’ve made those errors. That comment could relate a many of your articles. Pokes self with a stick.