My how to blog notes part 3

Use twitter.com as a micro blogging subscription service that delivers text based messages via instant messaging and email.
1) Email lists
2) Facebook/MySpace
3) Respond to comments
Helps people know you made new blog posts.
Ways to help your blog show up in the top of the list on search engine.
(Google) www.google.com/addurl/
(Yahoo) http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
(MSN) Search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Tips to get more traffic
- Number of times you use the key word
- Topic people will link to you
- Creat Blogroll links to other blogs
- Ask other blogs to guest blog for you
- Send other blogs content from your blog

Buzz.yahoo.com (allow you find posts)
Dig.com (like you)
Delicious.com (social booking)

Ad's making money
Google.com/AdSense
Amazon.com/associates
Publisher.yahoo.com

Blogging rules
1. Blog often
2. Perfect is the enemy of done
3. Write like you speak
4. Focus of specific detail
5. Own your topic
6. Know your audience
7. Write short
8. Become part of the conversation like minded blogs

Building community
- Create clear community
- Ask readers for imput
- Read and respond to your comments
- Rate and reward good comments
- Keep the conversation going
- Make yourself accessible
- Admit when you are wrong
- Nix spam
- Keep people in line