http://www.lifehacker.com/

Popularity points increasing!!

Thanks!

Indeed SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is quite a buzzword today and for good reasons but, as you said it yourself, there is the “Human Reader Optimization” as well (has anybody coined this term already?).

Interpersonal relationships are a must-to-have once the blogosphere is actually this: ‘a huge conversation among many people’.

On this regard I am particularly fond of trackback as comments. I truly admire the way Seth Godin has managed to have only trackback comments on his blog.

As usual, Chris Garret has hit the nail on the head, promotion is the great army of the king and in this regard a whole blog about this could be written. In fact, I strongly recommend his for army building purposes.

Fantastic reflection on your article!

Zo’C is a good reference for this subject, as it properly combines content and visual! As I said before, the visual is fabulous - I particulary love the red owl - and articles make me think in a regular basis.

The comments are full of content as well, and I very much agree with Chris Garrett on the importance of promotion of the blog - the army of the king.

I’m far from being an expert on the blogsphere, but as far as I understand, one of the key factor for a blog’s success is SEO.

It’s nice to see a blog full of great content and comments from inteligent readers. It’s quite unusual to see blogs with good content with good form/visual as well and it’s fabulous when you find a blog with both.

But even if you promote your blog with your friends and friends of your friends, you will never have the potential to reach millions of readers if you don’t have the strategic thought of caring about SEO.

Isn’t it fantastic to be one of the first occurences in a google’s search? How many times you skip the first occurences on a google’s search? I would say, almost never. SEO is the powerfull army you need to touch millions of readers.

Besides, I would say, it’s quite important the human promotion - being nice to your readers, answering the comments and estimulating their minds, gathering their simpathy, posting comments on other blogs related to yours, what will promote your thoughts in a strategic oriented way, reaching the right audience.

Managing a blog is quite the same of driving a business: interacting is essential!

Zo’C is still young but I can see all the potential to became a huge success!

xxx,
Anna

@Paulo Feofiloff:

Straight to the point! Thanks for the great comment.

Content is what matters.
Why waste time and effort on form?
Why worry about minor details
like grammar, orthography, layout,
and typographical conventions?

‘Trouble is, a reader has to
wade through the form
in order to get to the content.
Every time the author offends grammar
or trespasses a typographical convention
(like a space after a punctuation mark
or a capital letter after a period)
he puts a barrier between his content
and the reader.
And readers, as we all know,
are an impatient lot:
they are ready to give up
at the first obstacle.

Hence, instead of

“Putting obstacles for someone
to appreciate your skills is
just inadequate.”

I would say

“Putting obstacles […]
is just stupid.”

Lol, yes I should. But I think that would be material for a future post.

Anyway, for those who can read Portuguese, the story of the dirty glass is here.

Absolutely true. Kings need many things, and they cannot be left alone carrying the kingdom on their shoulders :-)