Postcards from the Funny Farm

Tonight I was going back through some of my posts in an extensive series I wrote about blogging tech and tips and I thought they ought to be brought back to the front page. If you are a beginner, this long series I wrote last year might be like gold for you. It’s the results of my blood sweat and tears teaching myself blogging and web-design over the course of a year. You’ll find the Table of Contents for this series linked above. The one that helped me especially tonight and inspired this linkage was: “Blog Writing, Look Before You Leap.” I had forgotten about a certain Google resource to help with getting popular blogging ideas that get traffic. Sweet resource.

Another new idea I tried today after reading my post on 41 recommended plugins was to add the “Popularity Contest” plugin and create a “top 50″ page linked in the sidebar menu. This allows my readers to scan a list of my 50 most popular posts of all time (as determined by a set of criteria such as comment count, hits, etc.) , assembled on a dedicated page. It’s nice after a year of writing so much content. The only problem is, some of it never gets to the forefront. For this reason, my blog might not get the chance it deserves to be read by millions and get a higher rating. A blog rating is like a hairstyle: everyone has one but only a few are happy with it. Anyway, maybe these posts of the past year will help somebody out there get a better hairstyle. I could use your tips too, after all I am bald.