Beast Bloggers Best Practices

It’s Saturday evening in Oakland, at the Tech Liminal salon. A lone blogger sits at a Mac workstation, typing rapidly. The Beast Bloggers Camp is over now, many of the fifty attendees are celebrating down the street. The salon is a chaotic arrangement of tables and chairs, shuffled around here and there, upstairs and downstairs, in rows and in clusters.

Peeking over her shoulder, we can see she is writing about best practices for blogging…

Blogging best practices:

• Be unique. Cover what no one else is covering and become an expert.
• Use short paragraphs and clearly marked sections.
• Get to point quickly.
• Make use of links.
• Use kick-ass title tags. Title tags should have keywords; unique on every page of site; no more than 70 characters.
• Have high quality incoming urls.
• Use Facebook and Twitter to gain incoming links. (But don’t self-market.)
• Build reputation with good content.
• Be liberal but don’t overdo outbound links.
  

For more of what this seasoned blogger learned at camp, visit her blog entries below:

Thanks to Wanda Hennig for contributing to this recap.