Facibus On Blogging

I’m looking back through Facibus Reviews at the blogs and bloggers who influenced me the most when I got started in blogging seriously - looking at the advice that I’ve recommended to others is part of my effort to eat my own blogfood.

Solomon Rothman from socialmediasystems.com wrote two articles that helped me a lot:

• 102 tips to make your blog not suck (discussed here) is something that I re-read every so often to see how I am going. It’s been a good checklist for me as I slowly get more serious about blogging.
• 10 rarely used, quick and easy tips to supercharge your blog (discussed here) is gold - sticking to your niche, writing to your readers, make your blog recognisable and your posts readable - all common sense (in a world where common sense is sometimes not that common )

Since then, Solomon has written some other interesting articles:

• a three part series on Web 3.0: some of the things that Solomon talks about in this series have already come to pass, but are not yet ubiquitous (available and used everywhere) - others are deep future developments that are awaiting the true semantic web.
• Recently, a trek through WordPress mailing list plugins - I don’t use self-hosted mailing lists for business currently, but I have in the past, and no doubt will do again - and I will reread this post when that day comes.

I’m not as interested in search engine strategies as I might be - and this is the main business of socialmediasystems - but I enjoy reading their blog. Thanks for your help, Solomon