Blogger Manifesto: 1. Write; 2. Submit; 3. Converse; 4. Be Nice

 

How does blogging help your business?

As a tech support help person at BlogathonATX today, I am being asked a lot about "blogging."

I absolutely hate the term. I rarely refer to myself as a blogger. Um. I guess I am. I guess this <points fingers to all four corners of the page you are reading> is a blog. But don’t remind me of that, okay? I prefer to think of it as a WordPress-enabled website.

So, what is it?

• a book
• a magazine
• a website
• a conversation
• a rant
• a confessional

And therefore what am I?

• a poet
• a writer
• a radical
• a tech writer
• a lunatic
• a blogger

I am NOT a blogger, dammit. Get that straight.

So what has got my "blogging panties in a bundle?" I think it’s the term BLOG. Let’s not call it that any more. I want to be a "writer" when I grow up. I don’t want to be a blogger, for goodness sake.

I share. And I share about blogging. And for YOUR convenience, I’ll string a little Blogging 101 reference here. Just for today, you can call me a blogger, a blogger’s blogger, a blogger who blogs about blogging. But that’s not *really* what I do.

Blogging 101 for Subversives

• Sorry, Nobody Reads Your Blog: Get Over It and Get On With It!
• Social Media Strategist Notes: You Blog, Right? Tell Me Why Not Again – Career Path Planning
• 6 Step Process for Refreshing Your Online Content
• Your Site is Down, What Do You Do Now? A WordPress Recovery Process
• How Do I: Make Each Blog Post Count Towards Victory (20 Blogging Tips)

Know Your Numbers

• Web Referrals: Know Your Metrics, Know Your Tools – Evaluating Google+
• Little Blog Marketing Metrics: Insights & Recommendations – Google Analytics Numbers
• The Analytics Microscope: Only Metrics You See Can Become Actionable
• 2011 INFOGRAPHIC on Uber.la < the social media strategy blog stats (jetpack’s infographic of my 2011 stats)
• Google Analytics for Online Marketing in Less Than 2 Minutes (VIDEO "in less than two minutes")
• SEO and Search in a Social Media World: My Top 16 SEO Thoughts
• Capture and Share Your Experience to Become a Leader: the Blogging Path
• BLOG REALITIES: "I Stopped Reading You A While Back, I Can’t Keep Up"
• Milestones for Launching a New WordPress Site In 30 Minutes

Beyond the Blog

• Let’s Talk About Your Evil Plan(tm) – Yeah, But What Else Are You Doing?
• How Social Media Can Change Your Business – Social Media Strategist Notebook
• The Social Economy: I’m Trying to Give It Away, What’s the Problem? (So Is Everyone Else)
• Personal Branding, What’s In It For You?

My MUST HAVE WordPress Plugins

• BulletProof Security < this should make things pretty solid and unhackable
• Google Analyticator < my favorite GA add on
• Google XML Sitemaps < cause you want to tell the search engines when to update your content
• Greg’s High Performance SEO < much more efficient than All-In-One SEO
• P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) < see what’s might be slowing your blog down
• Tag Suggest Thing < cause sometimes you just don’t want to think up tags and keywords
•  Topsy Retweet Button < much more than a retweet system, check it out
•   W3 Total Cache < fantastic caching system, allows for total control
•    WassUp < how many people are on your blog right now
•     Contact Form 7 < cause you need a contact form
•      Disqus Comment System < comments are awesome, but you need a system
• Link Juice Keeper < if you kill a post, this plugin will redirect them without a 404
•  WP-reCAPTCHA < spam killa, easy, simple, thorough

@jmacofearth (also seen on Google+: jmacofearth)

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Most people don’t really enjoy being mean; they do it because they can’t help it. (from Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement)

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