Dear Blogger,
I have some things I’d like to share with you and get off my mind. I hope you’ll take the following pointers to heart so that we can both have a healthy relationship going forward.
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Opinion
You have a blog. You consider yourself a blogger–heck, a “pro-” blogger even. Do you consider yourself a journalist?
I like this definition of “journalist” from Wikipedia: “A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.”
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Aaron Wall (of SEOBook.com) was kind enough to share his thoughts on my post about the Killer Four Column Layout Strategy. He asked me, “Do you think being that aggressive with ad placement hurts the ability of sites to gain inbound links?” That question caught me off-guard because I didn’t think the KFCLS was aggressive [...]
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I’ve been kicking myself for not getting into the bidding for The Blog Herald when it was for sale by Duncan Riley. At the time, blog sales were a new thing (and it still is) and I didn’t know how to value a blog. Also, the public price bidding war was up to $72,000 and there was no way I was going to pay that much for any blog. Eventually, the public bidding fell through and a private deal was negotiated.
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I was thinking about who I envisioned the audience of this site to be (of course I thought, “It’s the problogger”) and it occurred to me that there could be multiple definitions of what a problogger is.
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