Posted by EGOL
What type of blog manager are you?┬? Mr. Packrat?┬? Miss Self-Contained?┬? Your style of blog management can make your blog an Design powerhouse, a great resource for visitors, or an intellectual property graveyard.┬? Check out these management styles and comment on which one you think is best!┬? ┬?
1) PACK RAT:
Blogs at full speed ahead. Never checks to see if his links are dead. Never adds important developments to the topics posted.┬? Probably has typos and bad grammar.
2) COMPULSIVE MAINTAINER:
Always links directly to the internal page of the website he is citing. Runs a check for dead links regularly, often goes back to old posts to add informational updates.┬? Perfect spelling and grammar.
3) LOW MAINTENANCE GAL:
Hates messing with dead links so she always links directly to the homepage of the website she is citing. If there is a development on an old topic she writes a brand new post and links to her old posts on that topic.
4) THE PRUNER:
Runs occasional checks for dead links and deletes the post. Also deletes posts that have problems to due age or recent developments.
5) THE PLANNER:
Runs WordTracker before composing his title, decides how to present the post to place strategic keywords in the first and last sentence.┬? Links to source documents with great anchor text.┬? Has blog categories that cluster around the theme of his site.
6) THE FIXER:
Runs occasional checks for dead links and fixes them. If the link is dead it is fixed or a notation is made that the target document is not available.
7) THE ROLLOFF:
Keeps six months of posts on his blog. Lets the old ones drop off the bottom.
THE ARCHIVER:
Doesn't like out-of-date topics or dead links so he moves old posts to a special area of his site.
9) MISS SELF-CONTAINED:
She wants to have all parts of the story covered on her blog so she does extensive research before every post.┬? This cuts the quantity of posts that she can make but each one is a stand-alone source document that presents all aspects of the story and answers all of the readers questions.┬?
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Which one of these styles best describes you?┬? Which is best for Design? Best for users? I am sure that we will have some disagreement but here are my opinions.┬? If you disagree that's great, but please tell us why you feel differently.
- Best for productivity defined as a lot of posts:┬? Packrat and Low Maintenance
- Best for your visitors:┬? Compulsive Maintainer followed by Self-Contained and Fixer
- Best for developing a reputation in your field:┬? Compulsive Maintainer followed by Self-Contained
- Best for linkability:┬? Self Contained (writes source documents that are authoritative and highly linkable) followed by Compulsive Maintainer (tidy, up-to-date blog makes him an authority)... Packrat is a little slobby and will not get many links
- Best for Design:┬? Planner followed by Compulsive Maintainer (no dead links, lots of content, links to authoritative sources, probably gets a few natural links) and Self-Contained (because she her thorough and authoritative posting style gets a nice number of links)
- Best for intellectual property management:┬? Compulsive Maintainer and Self-Contained... Rolloff and Archiver are terrible because they ditch content but it is amazing at how many newspaper sites are run this way!
Who is best overall?┬? The best overall will be Blogger #10... this person does everything right and takes the best qualities from Planner (Design's his posts), Compulsive Maintainer (keeps his historic posts updated and his links on target) and Miss Self-Contained (because she will earn lots of links).
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