Comments on: Spring Cleaning for Your Blog (Yes, I Know it’s Winter)

By: Nickie

Nickie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:03:15 +0000

I just created my first blog yesterday! But your site is inspiring, fresh, and easy on the eyes!
I love your “subscribe area and would love to do something just as simple and clean on my blog but can’t figure out how to get more than 1 button side by side { see my blog}. Any tips or advice on how to achieve that?
your site a firm example of the old saying: ” less really is more”! I love the clean fresh look! Excellent job & great post!

By: Heartburn Home Remedy

Heartburn Home Remedy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:36:41 +0000

I can tell that this is not the first time at all that you write about the topic. Why have you decided to touch it again?

By: CCassil

CCassil — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:19:32 +0000

Brian,
I’ve wanted to start a blog for a long time … but I’m not sure where to start. I know html, I am a writer, I’m attuned to social media … just not sure where to begin. Any advice?
Thanks, CCassilh

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This is what I intend to do if I ever get my new layout done.

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By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:24:40 +0000

In regards to the Wordpress link, every WP blog I see has about 8 of them on the front page alone.

Consider:
Several links in the blogroll (most of which are pointless)
1 in the meta widget (which is the one I prefer)
and at least 1 in the footer, depending on the theme.

Add to that the number of times you’ve mentioned about how great of a platform they are, and that’s plenty of advertising.

Instead of encouraging their link spam, throw them some spare paypal change.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:23:52 +0000

@chris: I’m a huge fan of Wordpress, and support/blog about them often. Really point #2 was a call for bloggers to remove unnecessary footer stuff, and I only put the Wordpress link in there to name a link that people would commonly identify with.

That being said, if Wordpress does not require a link, I believe that it is the blogger’s discretion. WP has no shortage of links. If you go to Wordpress.com, you’ll see that there are 1,932,519 blogs with 52,067 new posts today.

Your point is well taken, but unless Wordpress had the sort of license that forced a link, that’s how it is.

Point aside, glad you liked the post and hope you found it helpful – thanks for checking it out.