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9:47 am
August 16, 2011
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The Family CEO
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Great question.
Recently I went through and cleaned up my reader. I had hundreds of blogs in there and it was making me itchy. The blogs I kept were the ones that had a story behind them. I like to know who the blogger is and what they're about.
On the other hand, I don't like blogs that are all story with no take-away. The ones that read like blah, blah, blah, rant, blah, blah, blah rant.
Andrea, I guarantee you there will be a Chipotle in Shaumburg.
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9:52 am
August 16, 2011
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MoneyBeagle
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I look for blogs that put a personal spin on things. I like to be 'told a story' so to speak. That's how I write my blog (or at least I like to think I do).
I have my reader separated into two areas for PF blogs. One has my 'blogroll' blogs, which appear on my site and are my favorites. The other folder is for the rest. The blogroll page gets priority, so that if I have a limited amount of time, I make sure to browse through these. If I have time for the non-blogroll pages, I definitely spend some time on there too.
To get on my blogroll you have to:
1. Have a well written blog
2. Publish a full feed (I read so many blogs that I refuse to click into blogs)
3. Have a blog that I comment on regularly or include in round ups regularly
4. Post pretty frequently
It also helps if I know who you are. I love comments and I love commenting on other blogs. There's a couple blogs that I had on my blogroll that I really liked, but that I removed, because I put probably 50-100 comments on their site and they never, ever commented on mine. I look at it as a two-way street, so when you comment on my blog a few times, chances are I'm going to notice you!
I prefer Chipotle. :)
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10:03 am
August 16, 2011
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The Family CEO
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moneybeagle said:
I look for blogs that put a personal spin on things. I like to be 'told a story' so to speak. That's how I write my blog (or at least I like to think I do).
I have my reader separated into two areas for PF blogs. One has my 'blogroll' blogs, which appear on my site and are my favorites. The other folder is for the rest. The blogroll page gets priority, so that if I have a limited amount of time, I make sure to browse through these. If I have time for the non-blogroll pages, I definitely spend some time on there too.
To get on my blogroll you have to:
1. Have a well written blog
2. Publish a full feed (I read so many blogs that I refuse to click into blogs)
3. Have a blog that I comment on regularly or include in round ups regularly
4. Post pretty frequently
It also helps if I know who you are. I love comments and I love commenting on other blogs. There's a couple blogs that I had on my blogroll that I really liked, but that I removed, because I put probably 50-100 comments on their site and they never, ever commented on mine. I look at it as a two-way street, so when you comment on my blog a few times, chances are I'm going to notice you!
I prefer Chipotle. :)
These are great points, MoneyBeagle. I also unsubscribed from blogs that don't publish full feeds when I was cleaning up my blog reader yesterday. Like you, I just don't have time to click through.
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10:46 am
August 16, 2011
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For me, I am with Eric I love reading blogs and while refreshing myself again on the ways to save money, I mainly look for the packaging, in software term, I look for presentation layer more than and data layer, as mostly the data is known.I do try to pick author's brain to determine if the post is for SEO or for reuglar readers or just written for the sake of increasing site content.Writing style and humour do attract me, and, like other comments above, I do look for personal touch in blog posts.
I so far missed this thread as I dont like either chipotle or Qboda, only Tacobell rings my bell
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12:49 am
August 17, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi Miss T,
I'm on a learning curve, too. I hope my readers get something out of my blog as well. Always learning and trying to improve!
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12:53 am
August 17, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi NoDebtMBA,
I'm all over the place, too. Birds of a feather! Good point about challenging readers. I need to do that more. I agree, sometimes I think I'll be better off not reading other blogs either. There's so many talented bloggers! As for not wanting to read your own blog, as the blog owner, you have to want to read your own stuff. 
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6:31 am
August 17, 2011
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NoDebtMBA said:
Sometimes I think my blog might be better if I didn't read any other PF blogs.
This. So much this. It's hard not to compare myself to everyone else, and it also gets kind of depressing when I realize that very little content is "original." That's why I inject so many personal examples – that's the only way I know to separate my posts from a million other posts on the same topic.
I think our niche is interesting – it's possible for so many people to say the same thing in a different way. And we're uniquely positioned because so many people are financially stressed and searching for the information we provide. I love when we do blog swaps because it's interesting to see what different people will do with the same question or topic.
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