Comments on: Ask The Readers – What 3 Things Will Make GLBL a Better Blog For You?

By: glblguy

glblguy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:09:00 +0000

Glad to hear I am not the only one. I agree on title, been trying to focus more on my titles. I spend about 1/2 an hour reading daily at least, sometimes an hour. I try to only comment when I have something useful to say. Ok…well what I consider useful anyway

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:57:58 +0000

My number of subscribers jump up and down also, and I have the same problem of being to curious about the stats. But in the end, I think writing good content (and even more important…good title) is the key.

I don’t really have time to read everything, so I just add blogs that I like to my technorati favorites and read posts here and there.

By: glblguy

glblguy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:08:15 +0000

@LuLu – Hi, I wanted to follow up, as you may have noticed I didn’t add the top commenter plugin. There is however a recent comments listing in the footer along with Recent Posts.

I decided not to add the commenter plugin, as I want to keep my sidebar clean. I am really trying to focus on keeping the design and layout simple, clean, and focused on my content.

In liu of not having a ‘top commenter’ sidebar widget, I am going to recognize the top commenters for the month through a monthly posting. To me this is a much more personal way of saying thank you.

By: glblguy

glblguy — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:43:14 +0000

@ChristianPF – Ha, I’ll have to upload a couple of MP3’s I have and fit it into one of my posts Thinking playing the banjo in the background might scare people away (unless you are a bluegrasser like me)

By: ChristianPF

ChristianPF — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:04:34 +0000

Maybe some nice banjo playing in the background

By: glblguy

glblguy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:48:42 +0000

@LuLu – Funny you should mention that. Downloaded the recent comments the other night, and couldn’t get it to work with my template. I plan to get it working this weekend. Thanks! You should join up to MyBlogLog though. Honestly, I joined it to do a little marketing, but I’ve found some pretty good blogs that way.

Spent last night and sometime early this morning getting Popularity Contest to work, managed to mess up my sidebar

By: Lulu

Lulu — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:50:23 +0000

I notice that you have a ‘recent readers’ section but there are some people who visit your site (like ME!!!!) who are not part of the MyBlogLog community. Maybe you could put in a ‘recent comments’ section so that the rest of us can see who is talking on your blog….it works even if they are not part of the MyBlogLog.

By: glblguy

glblguy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:41:08 +0000

@Randy – Great point, I have noticed that the articles that get the most attention are one’s written about us. For example, the 7 Stupid Financial Mistakes I’ve made has been pretty popular.

Haven’t done a series on Proverbs 13:11, but that is a great idea. I did do a post though.

re: Romans 8:28, you are so so right.

Great suggestions Randy, thanks so much for the feedback!

By: Randy Peterman

Randy Peterman — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:23:36 +0000

Write about your choices in financial matters and how they impact your family [or your family's involvement]

Do a series based on the exposition of Proverbs 13:11 [maybe you've already done this and I've missed it]
Remember that your statistics are also part of Romans 8:28 Share how this blog is causing you to grow in your sanctification

By: glblguy

glblguy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:48:11 +0000

Nevermind, pulled it up in IE and I see...working on it now, thanks! I am learning a valuable lesson, whenever I change my layout, I need to test it with both IE and Firefox.

Update: Yikes, got it working, but that was painful...thanks again!