Blogiquette: Effective communication through a Blog

I have been looking through my Google Analytics and the hot topic on my Web site is Blog etiquette. People want to know how to be effective in their communications through a Blog and what the etiquette is in doing so. Back in February 2008 I wrote a post titled Blog Etiquette where I discussed my personal rules in upkeeping a Blog and mentioned some rules that the general Blogosphere abide by. This page is regularly visited and is ranking well within Google.

Blogging and the Web is evolving at a very quick rate and I now feel 15 months on these rules could do with a refresh, additions or padding out. What do you want to know about Blogiquette? Are there any areas of my previous post you wish me to explain in further detail? What have I missed? I hope you will answer my questions as I would like to further target your needs. This appears to be a hot topic.

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3 Responses to “Blogiquette: Effective communication through a Blog”

1. asya Says:

   May 27th, 2009 at 5:29 am

   I very much enjoyed your article on blog etiquette. I searched the topic out after I got a menacing message from a source that I did not clearly credit. I simply had a tag named “source” linking back to the website where the quote came from. I can see their point, though I wish they talked to me in a less threatening manner. What’s the etiquette on telling someone that you would like to receive a bigger, more obvious, credit?

2. Kevin Rapley Says:

   May 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

   Hello Asya, I am really pleased to hear you enjoyed my post on blog etiquette. It sounds like you had a nasty run-in with the owner of this other site. They may have been over sensitive in their reaction. Unfortunately we are unable to decide what keywords people link to us by. However there is no harm in contacting them to ask if they wouldn’t mind linking with some other keywords within the passage of text. If you don’t ask you don’t get. If you are looking for something extra, or you have seen an article that isn’t linking to you but you would like it to be, again get in touch with the site owner. In this instance it is best if you have something that you can mutually offer the site owner, perhaps linking to them from a post or page on your own site?

3. asya Says:

   May 28th, 2009 at 12:22 am

   Thanks so much, Kevin. That is excellent advice. I just assumed they did not want to share their content at all, but perhaps that is not the case. You are right, if I don’t ask, I don’t get. Cheers!

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