Why Your Blog Sucks Sewer Water

If you don't know your faults, you aren't very attentive. The rest of us can see them. Why not write about them on your blog?

Now, let's not have any unnecessary flagellation. You aren't looking to belittle yourself. Simply contrast what people see as your weaknesses with the opposite quality, which is usually a strength.

For instance, I am not an organized person. I don't like what I perceive as dull, boring details. On the other hand, one of my strengths is that I can produce competent work in the midst of chaos.

For this blog, chaos works. I write when I want, and I write about what I want. I frequently have absolutely no idea about the topic of my blog before I actually begin to type it out. I very rarely have writer's block, and I find that a stream-of-consciousness mentality works very well for me on this blog.

So I don't mind telling you that I have trouble with organizing my schedule, my writing, my life. I view that as inconsequential on this blog. My posts do not relate to other blog posts. They stand alone, and a lack of organization is not a flaw on this blog.

My biggest strength is that I am the opposite of organized. I can pop out an article any time I want. I can beat writer's block nearly every time, and I think my lack of organization helps on this blog.

I have just started a site, To Make A Site, that explains in simple terms how to start a website. On that site, if I was going to admit to my faults, I would admit, not to a lack of organization, but to being inaccurate or incomplete in my writings. Sometimes to be technically perfect in an explanation of websites and the Internet, you have to use words or phrases that would be beyond my target audience: absolute beginners. So I choose to give simple explanations that may fudge on the details, and I wouldn't mind telling my readers that I do so.

My strength on that site is that I can take technical mumbo jumbo and turn it into understandable, straightforward instructions and explanations. For instance, if you follow my easy directions, you can submit your site to Google in about ten minutes from the time you begin to read my instructions. It's pretty simple. My readers may not get the same fully detailed explanation that you find on other sites, but I guarantee that they will be able to submit to Google in short time with no confusion. Click here for the instructions to submit to Google.

In this post, I mentioned two faults: lack of organization, and incomplete or inaccurate writings. I also told you why those two faults are not real faults. If you examine things carefully, you will see that my qualities are the opposite of those faults, and my qualities are why you should be visiting my blog and my site regularly.

So what I really did was write a promotional article for myself and disguise it as a blog on my faults.

What are your faults? What are the opposites of those faults? They are probably your best qualities. Mention your faults. Then push your qualities at your readers.

Overview or Sitemap of your Blog for your Visitors

On a web site, the home page often gives you an overview of what the site is about, what it offers, and lists any help or special instructions on navigating the site. They may even have a full sitemap for you. There will always be some kind of link structure to lead you to what you want.

Blog posts are pretty much by themselves. Their "sitemap" is usually based on the time of the post. All posts for January will appear in the January folder, and the posts appear one after another based on when they were published, not on the topic. The first post is at the top of the page. The second post may be on an entirely different topic, and it appears beneath the first post. The third post may relate directly to the first post, but it will always appear as the third post. The only way to join the first and third posts is to put a link in each post that points to the other post.

But you can do better than that.

You can provide a post that is full of links to all of your articles, and you can group them together into a cogent navigation structure or sitemap. If you do this at the end of each month, it will be simple (after the first time), and it will provide your visitors with a way to find all of those great articles and posts.

Even if you can only provide a partial overview or sitemap, it will be a welcomed addition. Visitors will spend more time on your blog because they are able to find information without looking at every post. They will like it if you provide a good sitemap or overview.
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It's a New Year. Let's Get New Blog Ideas

The New Year is finally here. Let's get our blogs going. New content is one of the best ways to grow your blog.


First of all, you should never ignore the easy ideas, like reviewing your own work or reading your competitors' sites and blogs.

Then there are various brainstorming sessions to get blog ideas, such as writing down every word that describes your blog.

And for perhaps the easiest method, think up a few keywords. Don't think to much. Just pick the first keywords that pop into your mind. And do a search.

Don't worry if you don't like all of my ideas. Even I don't like all of them. I publish them because they are tried and true. They work for most people. Just ignore the ones you think are dumb or silly.

Need help with your site or blog? Learn about keywords, SEO, search engines, submission, search terms, pictures, videos, etc.