tallskinnykiwi has written 15 blog tips for 2007.
i confess it is usually as much as i can do to write a blog post, let alone worry about rankings. i can see that it makes sense to have people find your good stuff. i occasionally find out that i have a post that seems to be attracting attention but it’s often not a great post – it might be because it has thom yorke in the title or the equivalent! but i have never figured out how to add value to it. i also have very little idea which of my posts are king – though i know the worship tricks are popular. i very rarely go back and edit posts. anyway for now i’ll just keep posting and think about skinny’s tips. skinny got me blogging in the first place and then i followed his lead in using typepad and then he showed me ecto so he has been a big influence on directions i have gone in in blogging. i confess though that the thing that has sparked me the most in 06 was flickr and photography which is why my blog has been full of images. probably no use for ranking but it has inspired me!
off to the iasym conference in cambridge tomorrow – looking forward to catching up with people involved in teaching in youth ministry round the world.
the few posts I have where I mention jeff tweedy does the same thing as your thom yorke posts…isn’t it odd how that works.
Interesting comment on Andrew’s post from Jordon Cooper (same link above – scroll down for comments) who talks about community vs hierarchy.
I’d be with him on the need to bias towards community.
If we all try to max our rankings, then we all end up in the same rat race and no one is better off.
Seems to me the ‘still small voice’ and ‘if you seek you’ll find’ speak to me of a God/Christ who wasn’t interested in maxing his publicity, but rather being open for people when they did. So tag sensibly, and search intelligently.
I’m with Will Samson on this: blog less, but better.
http://willzhead.typepad.com/willzhead/2007/01/new_years_direc.html
Thanks for the honesty – “it is usually as much as i can do to write a blog post, let alone worry about rankings”. Me too (and many others I suspect).
Your blog was a major inspiration for me to get blogging and still is, often leading me to sites or bloggers I wouldn’t otherwise have discovered. For me that’s one of the most important routes to ‘getting found’ as Andrew puts it – the effect of a virtual community to relate and pass on wisdom from one to another incorporating the values of an existing relationship (even if that’s predominantly lurking) with the values of trust and confidence.
jonny, you won’t know me but I’m a friend of Tim Van Meter’s who has just posted from iasym one of the most syncophantic blogposts of his career on http://peregrinatio.us/ I’m almost ashamed. Please tell him.
p.s. when you’re over at soliton next month will you sit beside me??
Please??
he has been winding me up all day since a friend of his said to me ‘are you the jonny baker?’ ho hum…
Will Jimmy Wales change all this? Interesting story on the BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6216619.stm] about Search Wikia operating quite differently from existing search engines …