Thought Overflow

I was replying to a thread on a website just a short while ago. Some dude started a blog and wanted to know how to promote it. He apparently writes one post a week and started the blog pretty recently. I gave him the following advice:

1. Blog more often…twice or thrice a week.
2. Find blogs with high traffic and high PRs and post comments on them. Backlinks improve your own pages’ rating.
3. Find and exchange links with other sites/blogs that deal with the same topics or subject matter that you’re writing about.
4. Love your blog.

The irony of this is that with the possibly exception of point 4, I don’t follow any of these other points . In my defense, though, I’ve got the following replies to those 4 points:

1. This is just a simple personal blog, more like a journal in online form. If there’s nothing of interest to report about life, then there’s not much to write about. However, I think I should write more often at least to improve my writing.
2. Meh, I’m not really very bothered with my site rankings or my PR. I don’t plan to sell links here any time soon.
3. Yeah, I suppose I should go around looking for bloggers who write about…nothing in particular. That shouldn’t be too hard to do, but I’ll tell you something…I just can’t be bothered to do it.
4. I do…more or less.

And that’s it for today, folks.