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Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments? • 06.24.07

This can be an important question to ask in order to realize how you want to communicate with your blog readers and commentors. Do you prefer having no comments on your blog, instead of having a lot of disagreeing comments?

The Art Of Reacting To Criticizing Comments applies to comments of almost any kind. You may be running a personal blog, a business blog, or some other kind of a blog, and may have enabled comments for the different content you post online. However, people may be disagreeing with what you say on a regular basis. Many of the disagreeing comments you receive may be very informative, yet those comments may be disagreeing with everything you have to express through your blog, all the time.

Would you prefer having no comments instead of dealing with comments and commentors that only exist to disagree with you? Do you prefer having no comments compared to having comments that disagree with you?

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Question: Do you feel obligated to blog regularly? • 06.23.07

This is a fun question that can apply to your personally, as it depends on both your online and offline life. Do you feel obligated to blog regularly?

You may post daily, week, or on some other fixed schedule on your blog. You may also blog around a form of a regular schedule that revolves around things other than a specific time frame itself; you may base your posting schedule around offline events, your online and offline time schedule, etc. As shown below, there could be a few reasons why you may feel obligated to post on your blog on any kind of a regular schedule.

Do you feel obligated to blog regularly, for any reason, including any of the 10 random reasons listed below?

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Question: Do you treat online people the same as offline people? • 06.17.07

This should be a fun question to think about, specially if you sometimes wonder whether you are a true friend or a true business person. Do you treat the people you know online, friends and others, the same way you treat friends and others in the offline world?

I talked about the possibility of treating online friends like offline friends earlier this year, and SP and Vera offered excellent views and opinions regarding the topic, like how it can be hard to find out if a person is a true friend online, or how online friends have something in common with you. Among some other variations, you could be treating online people the same, better or a bit worse or less than the way you treat your offline friends.

Examples of treating online people the same, better or worse/less than offline people

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Question: Are you in blog debt? • 06.16.07

Today’s question is very important, as it can define and affect your relations with other people. Do you feel obligated to other people because of what you do on your or other blogs? Are you in blog debt?

Ronald asked me this question recently: is it possible to be in blogging debt the same as in the offline world? I think it is a very important question that many of us think about regularly, in one form or another. You may owe someone online something because of you asking them favors. Sometimes, people may do things for you and may expect you to do something in return, thus forcing you to be in blog debt. To be in a blog debt, your blog can be on its own domain, or you can have your blog through networks like MySpace or Mixi.

5 examples of Blog Debt

Following are a 5 examples of blog debts that you may end up owing others:

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Question: Do you want guest bloggers on your blog? • 06.10.07

This question goes hand in hand with yesterday’s question. Would you be willing to have someone else guest blog on your own blog?

Yesterday’s question focused on the question of guest blogging yourself on other blog. Today, you can focus on the question of whether or not you want others to guest blog on your own blog. Having guest bloggers can mean both more posts and more responsibilities for you and your site. If you do not currently have a blog, in the future you may have a blog where you will have a choice of either having or not having guest bloggers.

You may or may not want to have guest blogs on your blog because of various reasons:

Wanting to have Guest Bloggers vs. Not Wanting to have Guest Bloggers

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Question: Do you want to guest blog on other blogs? • 06.09.07

This can be a bit of a more serious question than usual, though the answer may be a lot of fun depending on what you think. Do you like the idea of guest blogging on other blogs?

You may have already seen my Guest Policy here or the guest policy at RA Project, which allow you to guest blog site easily. You may have a blog of your own, or you may be a person who loves commenting instead of having a blog. You may even be a reader who prefers reading to writing. Regardless of you who may be, you may or may not like the idea of writing posts, or guest blogging, on other sites.

Wanting To Guest Blog vs. Not Wanting To Guest Blogging

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Question: Do you hope to make money from your blog? • 06.03.07

This can be the most important question for many bloggers. Whether you are a personal blogger or a non-personal blogger, do you hope to make money from your blog?

For many people, blogs cost money. Domain names, hosting, buying layouts or logos, buying software to make layouts or logos, and a myriad of other things result in us spending money and time on our sites. Many bloggers can try different sources of income in order to cover up any expenses for their blogs. Usually, there are two ways to make money from those sources through a blog: earning money directly and indirectly.

Earning money directly vs. earning money indirectly from your blog

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Question: Do you want your offline friends and family to visit your blog? • 06.02.07

This should be both an interesting and a very important question to ask yourself. When it comes to your blog or your site, do you want your friends and family, that you know in person, to know about your blog?

With so many people focusing on getting their content indexed by search engines, it is becoming even more important for many people to find ways to have search engines stay away from their blogs. Why would anyone want search engines to not crawl their blogs? Well, there is one simple reason why: a blogger may not want their offline contacts to know about their blog.

Offline people knowing vs. Offline people not knowing about your blog

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Question: do you try to be formal or informal on your blog? • 05.20.07

This question can be a fun way to see how you look at your blog readers. Do you try to be formal or informal on your blog?

Different people act differently in the offline world. Similarly, people may act informal or formal depending on their own character and also depending on the situation. Do you try be formal or informal around your blog readers? Do you maintain the same type of behavior on your blog, or do you usually switch between being formal and informal?

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Question: where do you see your blog in 1 year? • 05.19.07

This should be a simple and fun question to think about if you run a blog. Where do you see your blog in 1 year?

Imagine doing the exact same things that you currently do on your blog for the next 12 months: what do you see different on your site in a year? Do you even see anything different on your site by then? This can be both what you actually see, and what you hope to see.

There are many different aspects of blogging that can measure the performance of a blog in a certain time frame. Following are 2 different types of things you can focus on, when imagining where your blog will be in a year: user participation, and blogger participation.

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Question: do you hope, or do you expect your readers will comment on your blog? • 05.12.07

This should be a fun question to ask yourself, just like the last question about whether or not you would skip some activities to blog instead. When it comes to getting comments, do you expect your readers to comment on your site, or do you hope your readers will comment on your site?

Expecting a comment should be like paying a person for a car and expecting that person to give you the car. Hoping for a comment would be like talking while standing on a busy street somewhere, and hoping that some listener nearby would interact with you.

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Question: what daily activities would you skip for blogging? • 05.11.07

This should be a simple and fun exercise if you think blogging is an integral part of your life. How important do you consider blogging when comparing it to daily activities in your life?

If you had 10 minutes before you had to leave your house to do something, and had a choice to either blog about something important, or do one of the following 10 things, which one would you do? Which ones would you be willing or not willing to to give up, and why?

Which of the following 10 things would you skip to blog about something important instead?

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