July 11, 2006

David Sifry On Good Blogging

In an interview David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati, reveals to Guy Kawasaki some great tips for good blogging, includign how to hit the top 100 blogger list on Technorati:

Post often and post at regular intervals. Ideally at least once a day, or even more often.
Figure out what kind of blogger you are. Are you a blogger who loves to collect links? Are you an essayist who loves to argue points of articulate new ideas? Are you a storyteller?
Link prolifically.
Be honest.
Write about what you know.
Be Passionate.
Nobody likes boring writing about boring subjects.
Practice, practice, practice. Your writing or podcasting or videoblogging—whatever will get better as you do it more. Keep it up.
Get a Technorati watchlist for your blog and for your name. Know when people are talking about you and be able to respond—either in comments on their blog, or even better, on your own blog, with a link to the other blog.
Get a full-text RSS and Atom feed.
Use tagging.
Claim your blog and put in blog tags.