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Up on our site right now we have 100 Things We Have Learned Since We Started Blogging: It promotes the Yakezie (and several of the Yakezie Members/Challengers sites) and is (in our humble opinion) a good starting point for debate/guide for newbie bloggers as it details things we have "learned" since we started our blog over two months ago.  (we kept a notebook from the start).  

I feel like I am in shameless promotor mode right now, but the post took us a really long time to write and is nearly 7,000 words, so I want to make sure everyone who is interested can catch it, and maybe pass it along if they feel so inclined (particularly to less experienced bloggers) as it is more than just the ordinary post on our site.  

Thanks! The link is: 100 Things We Have Learned Since We Started Blogging.  

I'm noticing a few typos and bad links as I'm finishing up the article now. I'll try to point out what I can remember:

- First I thought you made mistakes linking to your fellow bloggers because you were linking to specific posts of theirs but since this seems to be ubiquitious throughout the article, it must be intentional? Wouldn't it be better for them and your readers to link to their front page?

- You probably don't want "Wordpress.com" in this link anchor text: Nicole
and MaggieWordpress.com

- A lot of your links include punctuation in your anchor text, not sure if you care.

That's all I have time for now. Nothing too serious and the roughness of the post may even add to it … I actually enjoyed it. Makes me think I should be a bit more rough and personal in my writing … that would probably save me some time too.

Thank you for the early encouragement/extra tips.  I hope I was not too rough in my writing, but I had been working on it forever, and last night at 1:00 a.m., I just decided I needed to hit send, perfect or not (I figured quite far from perfect).  I will keep trying to make corrections and improve it.  That is the nice thing about the digital form.  Unlike, say…a brief that I have to write in my job.  Once the judge gets it, that is it.  I am concerned about the "Bad Links" although my linking to specific posts rather than the main page was purposeful, I was trying to highlight posts I enjoyed/recent posts and/or posts that related to our list.  I believe everyone has their own writing style and I really like yours Saving Mentor.  If anything, I could learn a lot from you when it comes to writing.  (I tend to have issues with being concise).  I think editing and re-editing will be key moving forward. 

 

Thanks again!

Not sure you want to learn about being concise from me   Again, fantastic job! You made the right decision by hitting send when you did I think. Obsessing forever usually isn't a good thing.

Excellent resources! I'm featuring it in this week's round up and passed it along to a friend. :)

moneysmarts said:

Great job on the post, just commented from my other site (biblemoneymatters.com), and tweeted it.  Hopefully it didn't go to spam

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Nice job here! I've retweeted as well…As I was reading this thread, I remembered something I read about the positives of doing long posts in series (i.e. it keeps readers coming back for more).

What's everyone's take on doing a post like this in a series format vs all at once? It might be easier to read all at once!

Hi brokeprofessionals!

I'm heading on over to take a look:).

As a newbie I really appreciate this list, especially #8. Akismet. Found 5 comments hidden in my spam.

 

Thanks! 

 

Alan