Ten Commandments of a Dutifull Bloger

I’ve been thinking few minutes if there was a Bible for bloggers then what commandments it would give to those millions of people who polish each day their keyboards writing piles and piles of different posts…

If I was a blogers God I would give them the following rules:

1. Connectivity. Try to keep your posts connected by hyperlinks. You may add a phrase like “In my previous post bla bla bla” so there is a good chance the person reading that page will click and read your previous post. The net effect may be quite impressive.
2. Your post better contain some pictures, preferably with a bit of humor. Humor should be everywhere even if you write about disasters or diseases. Only sick people hate humor, the remaining 99% love it much. Remember when you were a child and you read your last book … you liked much more books with pictures, right?
3. Use good tags. Almost all blogging services provide you with some tagging abilities. Just use it with a good mind.
4. Reply to comments. That would be your mortal sin if some people interested with your post left some comments and you ignore them.
5. Read others people blogs and comment on them.
6. Promote your posts (blog) by linking it from twitter, your personal site, your company site, wherever it may fit.
7. Bring value. Your posts should be valuable to potential people out there. If you only write things like “today is rainy, I hate such weather” then your blog is shit, honestly, better go and find some friends or job. Try to have at least part of some meaningful posts on specific themes that could be valued by others.
8. If you write on a certain subject provide references to other good posts/sources/etc. on that subject. Remember a simple rule: everything you do to others they will do to you.
9. Try to express as less subjective opinions as possible especially if such opinions are aggressive/rude/etc.
10. Regularity. You should blog regular, without long pauses.

May you have a popular blog. C u.