Blogtipping Day - Blogging Blogs
| January 1st, 2007
Easton Ellsworth of Business BlogWire started a thing called Blog-Tipping a couple of months ago. On the first of each month, we should pick three Bloggers we read and give them three compliments and a helpful tip.
This month I will focus on my 3 favorite business bloggers. They all blog about blogging and marketing, and I try to visit each at least once a day.
Andy Beard
1. Great information always. I have learned alot from his blog and his personal comments to me.
2. His use of headlines is great, I am a scanner, and he draws me in with good bold sub-headlines.
3. He is wonderful with his commenting and link love, he does not act superior to others, which is great, he has left quite a few comments at my other site when I needed marketing help.
Tip: More color, the header is a little plain, maybe bring some of the blue color from the links into the header. Overall the site is well organized, just needs a little umph.
ProNet Advertising
1. Always great information as well, a mass of articles and tips.
2. Love the category layout, being able to have everything so organized and easy to find is great!
3. Great writing style, dosent talk like they are better than everyone else, and welcomes comments.
Tip: Having an option for monthly archives somewhere would be a great addition, or to be able to just scroll through all posts in a ‘next’ page format. The categories are great, but sometimes I want to see it all from newest to oldest.
CopyBlogger
1. A TON of information, just like the first two, this one has a wealth of articles and ‘how to’ information.
2. I love how this site has almost like a ’school’ feeling, they way he titles his posts and talks, it feels like I am getting a class, which I really find enjoyable.
3. He integrates humor into his posts, and makes it more personable.
Tip: Hard to think of anything as usual, I love the colors and layout, maybe just use a few more images in the posts, I don’t know about you but I like the use of icons and such. It is something I am working on implementing here.
So there you go, my top 3 blogging business resources, be sure to give them a visit and I promise you will learn something from each.
Hi Eve, thanks for the mention and the kind words.
I am trying to stay a little “minimalist” on the theme, and work on the graphical content within posts.
One thing I noticed while signing up to this blog feed is that all the links are to feedburner directly rather than a redirect.
Consistency is good for your stats, but there are 2 ways to be consistent.
As you have now, all your subscribers are to Feedburner. This makes the subscribers portable if you move to a different domain name and hosting, and totally abandon your old one.
In most cases it is better to have links like domainname/feed/ which is again consistant, but subscribers are pulling the feed from your blog, and you are not locked into using Feedburner for the future.
I am not sure which plugin you are currently using to achieve the first option, or maybe you did this manually.
The second option can be achieved with this plugin
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/
I had a 404 error page from your old blog when I posted the previous comment. That may be related to one of your plugins?
thanks andy, i will look into that, I have no idea what is causing it, I’ll have to do some homework! :-)
I agreed with you