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The Ten Commandments and Seven Sins of Blogging
This is only meant to be an inspired title and has no religious connotations.
The Ten Commandments of Blogging
- Thou shall write Good Content
- Thou shall Link Back to Sources
- Only Blog the Truth
- Thou Shall Update Blog Regularly
- Let their be More Content than Ads on a Blog
- Thee Shall Provide a Full RSS Feed
- Do Not Envy Thy Neighbors Blog
- Thy shall Personalize thy Blog
- Thee shall make Bookmark Functions available
- Thy shall Comment on my Blog
Seven Sins of Blogging
- Scrapping - Making a blog and just scrapping the first two sentences of others blog posts and putting them up on a Made For Ads site.
- Hotlinking Images - Unless you want to get Goatse'd go ahead.
- Duplicating Posts - Worse than the scrapers, copy-pasting the whole text can seriously get you maimed.
- Too many Ads - Honestly, we won't click. Trust me!
- Sound on Enter - I really don't want to be subjected to your favorite song...Really!
- Spam Comments - Don't comment about your "new directory" on blog posts.
- Being a Loner - It's 2007, we have these things called social communities become a part of them. It's good for you.
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beleve me, hte more useless stuff you write, the higher your pagerank. I’m at 7, and never wrote anything really smart
haha!! Love this post!
Great post, I know I’ve broken some of these rules in thee past. I’ll probably brake some still, but it’s always good to know what you should be doing.
Maybe I need to write more useless stuff.
Pity I don’t have a cat or dog.
Great post! Great points! Great job! I loved it
You forgot one: “My comments will use “Do Follow” LOL
Great post!
Nicely done
Great post! I especially hear you on the sound thing…I can’t believe that some people still do that. To me, it’s right down there with scrolling/blinking text, and too many animated GIFs…so 1997 Geocities!
Good stuff!
Very nicely written. i hate sound too, especially when I’m at work!
Great post! Well I don’t think I’ve committed any of the sins, but there is one commandment that I haven’t done and that is to make bookmarks available … unless using the notable plugin counts (ie bookmark posts to social bookmark sites?).
I’ve also fulfilled number 10 too … I’m covered! LOL
Oh and I agree with Lisa – comments do follow should be on there.
I don’t make bookmark functions available for a reason. Neither will I ever put a digg this post or any other such crap on my site. If it makes me a bad blogger, so be it.
Nice list.
Number 1 and 3 are my pet peeves when reading other blogs. The quickest way to get me to leave your blog is to just post “look what I found” or “joe blogger wrote a great post about yada yada yada”. You can write about what someone else said but give them some link love and add your own thoughts.
Hey,
Thanks for your “commandments”! They’re great. I think I may have sinned on point 4, but otherwise I think I’m in the safe zone
And maybe add something like: “Thou shall use pictures every now and then in your posts”. These make blogs so much nicer to read! But no too much of course, or blog won’t be readable at all anymore 
this was a fund post. thanks
Quite a comprehensive list and makes for very interesting reading