There a lot of these linky-love memes going around and I’ll admit that I’ve participated in more than a couple of them. Most of these are designed largely to help you improve your Technorati rankings, your Google PageRank, and other things that determine how important your blog is to the rest of world. This meme — I got tagged by Derek Semmler and Bob Buskirk — is a little different.
In addition to helping everyone involved get a little extra exposure in the every growing world of blogging, it is also designed to help all of us become better bloggers. Share your expertise, share a little link love, and keep reading for the full instructions below.
-Start Copy-
It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.)
Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers.
Try to make your tip general.
After that, tag 10 other people. Link love some friends!
Just think – if 10 people start this, the 10 people pass it onto another 10 people, you have 100 links already!
– The List –
1. Look, read, and learn. *****
– http://www.neonscent.com
2. Be, EXCELLENT to each other. ****
– http://www.bushmackel.com/
3. Don’t let money change ya! ****
– http://www.therandomforest.info
4. Always reply to your comments. ******
– http://chattiekat.com
5. Spell check is your friend. ****
– http://thingsbymike.com
6. Be the blog. ***
– http://www.meandmydrum.com/
7. Your readers are your treasure. **
– http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/
8. Learn From The Pros. **
– http://www.shaunlow.com/
9. Pay a visit to your visitors. Be active in your community. **
– http://www.leochiang.com
10. Take advantage of the ability to future date posts. **
– http://dereksemmler.com
11. Make Your Blog Your Own *
– http://www.bobbuskirk.com
12. Write because you’re passionate about the topic, not because it’s popular. *
– https://btr.michaelkwan.com
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Now, I need to tag ten other bloggers who I feel will contribute positively to this ongoing list. C’mon guys, show them what you’re made of!
- Ed Lau
- Stephen Fung
- Gregg Gordon
- Zac Johnson
- Martin Reed
- Jane May
- Dy Phan
- Foximus
- Jeff Kee
- Spud Oregon
You’ve been tagged. Keep this meme alive!
Hey, thanks for keeping this going and keep up the good work on the site!
Michael, thanks for participating! You’re absolutely correct that you need to have a passion for the topics you write on otherwise it makes it very difficult to create quality content.
Thanks for keeping this meme alive. It’s pretty cool watching the list grow like this. 🙂
haha thanks for that! This meme is good 🙂
Great tips from everyone. This is turning out to be a great meme. Thanks for participating 🙂
Thanks for the tag Michael, but I try to stay away from posting too many (if any) “tags” or lists on the blog. It was a great post/list though!
This is quite interestings…thanks! At the very least I found some good blogs to read!
This is an interesting spin to the link train concept. Thanks for posting it! I want to join too! 🙂
Thanks for the tag. I try to avoid link trains and other methods to artificially inflate my Technorati rank; I prefer to concentrate solely on using my time to write articles.
Therefore I won’t be getting involved in this, but I wish you luck and hope it meets your goals. Keep up the good work here!
– Martin Reed