Top And Best Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking

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1.  Know your audience
   • Use analytic tools like FeedBurner or Google Analytics to figure out who is reading your blog, so you can occasionally post things that certain folks might like. Also, try using Google Maps Guestmap.
     (Hello Afshin in Iran and Rad in Kenya and Merrill in Sri Lanka!)Personally I also avoid blogging too much local (to my town) stuff because most of my readers AREN'T in my town!
   
   
    2. Keep overtly personal information out of your tech blog
   
   1. • I enjoy posting about my son and my spouse, as many of you have (or will have) similar situations. However, I avoid blogging things like "I had a cold today" and "I need to change the oil in my car." Anytime you can tie personal stuff into the 'point,' (whatever your blog's point is) that's a good thing. Personally while I may like you a lot, I do find ongoing stories about this wonderful man/woman/emu that you met on match.com to be a little dodgy if I started reading you for your deep knowledge of HTTP.
   
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