I have been reading Darren Rowse’s blog over at Problogger.com lately, actually several times a day, and have found numerous resources, tips and tricks to apply to my own blogging endeavors on this site here, as well as a few others I am looking at starting, or have started. The great thing about Darren is his feedback – he not only accepts comments, but many times responds back to them generating a great conversational tool on his blog.
Today I opened up FeedReader, one of several RSS readers I have been using in my quest to find my favorite, and he had posted the results of a poll he conducted in regards to paid blog posts. With the results of the poll about Paid Reviews On Blogs he also posted some of the comments that were received on the original poll post, and I was really happy to see that mine was included in them. That is, until I read it and realized that I should proof read my comments much better. Much, much better. It was horrible, and I would be hard pressed to convince people that I have been reading and writing English my entire life after that comment post.
Here’s the comment:
“I think in the grand scheme of things, there is uncertainty about a blogger being paid to review items. Really, the uncertainty comes from the unscrupulous few that write anything to make the product presenter happy, rather than writing honest reviews, though sometimes the payment is based upon the writing writing what the prodcut present wishes them to write. – Bill
What was that??? I think it should have read:
“I think in the grand scheme of things, there is uncertainty about a blogger being paid to review items. Really, the uncertainty comes from the unscrupulous few that write anything to make the product presenter happy, rather than writing honest reviews, though sometimes the payment is based upon the writer writing what the product presenter wishes them to write. – Bill
So, my first blogging tip on SPWD is to proofread, then proofread again any and all comments you leave on other blogs. Why? Well, let’s just say it helps convey your point better, it shows you have a good writing style and above all it lends a bit more credibility compared to an atrocity of the American English language such as I posted. The biggest kick I get out of this, is Darren has a post about 10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs. See point number 4. I guess that is one of the posts I had not read yet, because to me a poorly thought out post is one that is full of misspellings and grammar issues, such as mine was.
