Daniel, you are just doing that perfectly 🙂

Let’s see. How will I start? The contrarian style
“This blog about how to not suck does not suck.”

The agreeable style
“The “why your blog sucks” is absolutely full of the best “unsucky thoughts ever”

The MAD style
“What is the point of stating the obvious. The blogs that suck don’t care if they suck and maybe that is why they do.”

The admiration style:
“If only I could meet the author of this incredible blog about why other blogs might suck. My day would then suck less”

OK
I guess I have to still think on it some. Maybe 3 more candy bars will do the trick. (not milk chocolate of course… they are bland and boy do they suck!)

Lucky me. I am now following Edward Khoo on Twitter!

Good stuff here. New fan. Just put it on my “how to blog better” page for another link to you.

@michaelhartzell

Dosh Dosh is a perfect example. Sometimes monthly, sometimes a little more… but each article is well thought-out and I eagerly await reading them.

On our site we only publish new posts quarterly… mostly it’s because the majority of our time is spent doing the thing we blog about (filmmaking).

I guess if you blog about blogging you should post alot, but otherwise your posting rhythm should be the sweet spot where you ability to post meets having something to say worth writing about.

I think it has to do with my poorly chosen url from 2 years ago. No one knows what the hell qi-harmony means.

Anybody have some time to kill and some comments to spare?? Why DOES my blog suck? Thanks.

RSS feeds increase information velocity on the web but what does that have to do with information quality? If you’re relying on remote site syndication as a means of populating your blog, you’re already yesterday’s news.

Blog readers want it fresh and original. That’s why I like Edward’s posts. Who else would write a post with this title?

Wouter, we all know what RSS can do. Can you provide a list of what it can’t do? If so, you’ve made a good point. With utmost respect, if you can’t, you’re just taking up valuable bandwidth.

Webwordslinger

One point I do not agree with is updating over-regularly. There is this thing called RSS and it enables blogs to come to you instead of you going to blogs. It’s nice, give it a try!

Wouter

Also, I am not sure I agree 100% with #2. This could be that fact that a copy of Crush It! is sitting less than 2 feet from me, but if you are not writing about stuff you are totally jazzed about, you are (to quote @garyvee) “Going to be out hustled”. I understand the message you were going for with it, but if what you want to write about is not what your current community wants to read about, perhaps you need to find/build a better community.

Good thing is that everyone of them can e worked upon.

Nice article Edward Khoo.

Thanks

I think another point to make is trying to force humor instead of letting it happen. I knew one guy who always tried to force humor or tried to be clever in his newspaper column in college and as a result, you never could figure out what point he was trying to make. His humor almost never came across in any of his columns as he spent more time trying to be witty and sarcastic then writing something that was easy to comprehend and understand. Forcing a joke or two in there can be distracting and will take readers away from the point you are trying to make.

Sorry I have not posted in so long but I have been really busy!

That has me out of there in seconds.

Granted, using syndicated articles won’t do much for readership unless it’s a really good article, but do NOT simply copy/paste unless you’re including links exactly as presented on the site you’re copying from.

(I’m just razzin’ you a little.)

I would add ONE more item to your list:
#11. You DON’T allow comments. I have been to many blogs that don’t want to mess with moderating comments, so they don’t allow them. If you can’t interract with your readers, how do you know if you’re giving them what they want, or if they’re leaving unsatisfied? You’re putting obstacles in your own way if you don’t allow comments.

#6 – I’m just saying, if you can’t find articles, use external sites. It is super easy.

Number 1 – Unique content with attractive titles and interesting so that people keep reading it till last.

Number 2 – You should have your own design which define you and your thoughts.

Number 3 – You should use latest technology such as awebar and other things so that your task become more easier and you will be able to reach more and more people.

Number 4 – Be active in your community with latest thoughts and ideas.

My latest empirical research involving 300 participants showed blog design doesn’t affect much on readership. Surprisingly, only 15% stated as the primary reason. And the top ten blogs that they visited daily, were mostly SIMPLE PLAIN blog.

Anyway, good tips!

If we will copy from others then our blog will not give more unique visitor. It is necessary twice a week to re post.

The writing one is important too- everyone has short attention spans online (even if the content is interesting); keep the articles concise and break everything up into short paragraphs. Even bulleted lists or highlighting important words in bold or a different color helps hold the readers attention.

People find the images by searching through the free databases, but then again, how else would they have the pictures. In the past, I’ve written posts for websites with mandatory photo policies, and I don’t think the photos match the text at all. Again, it feels untrue, inauthentic.

@Boris – I toally agree.

It’s just like anything else in life or in any other job you may have. You have to know the rules and follow them and keep on doing whatever it takes to make it work.

You’re going to make mistakes and the key is to learn from those mistakes. Great article!

I try and post twice a day at least. Although I must add it’s quality that counts but lots of it!

Excellent post, well worth a re-tweet

Thanks a lot..

I give second voice to the comment #8 by Eric C

Regarding the post frequency, I think of Dosh Dosh, who is really nearly one post per money now.

Regarding the theme, i am also using a free one, since I have little knowledge about CSS and PHP, as well as money.