Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: 10 Things Bloggers Shouldn't Do!

The Challenge

1. Read the post, 10 Things Bloggers Should Not Do. (This is a guest post by Onibalusi Bamidele on Daily Blog Tips.)
2. Rate yourself (on a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being muy excellente) on each point. How are you doing?
3. Brainstorm examples of what you can/will do to improve your ratings in those areas that could use improvement. And/or:
4. If you feel you’re doing particularly great in one area, share examples of how you’ve reached such excellence.

Once you’ve done that, post it on your blog and go to Word Lily’s blog and leave a link on her original post about this challenge. And hey, might as well leave a link here, too!

My Rating

Points 1-2 get a rating of N/A, as I don’t blog for others, therefore it doesn’t make sense that I expect any success. And, also, as I blog for fun (meaning for myself), that means that I don’t really have to “write for my readers”. I try to reply to comments people leave, but that’s about it.

3. You Must Not Scrape Another Bloggers Content
3/5 because I do take some things from others, but I give credit where credit is due. I don’t copy often, but when I do it tends to come from Michelle’s My Books. My Life. blog. And what I copy are more or less organizational things rather than content. I hardly ever read the same book as what I see in current posts on other book blogs, so that sort of content doesn’t even make sense for me to copy. And, luckily, Michelle so far hasn’t minded that I borrow stuff, as I give her credit.

Points 4-5 also get a rating of N/A. I don’t need to promote because I don’t need any sort of success. As for being “another blogger”, what would be the point of my writing about my thoughts and feelings towards books and bookish things if I pretended to be someone else?!

6. You Must Not Fail To Update Your Blog Regularly
5/5 because, and I don’t like to brag, I probably post at minimum 3 posts a week, even if those are just weekly memes. If I’m reading quickly and getting through lots of books, those reviews get posted before I even start another book. But, I’m sure this will all change when I find a job and don’t just sit at home reading/blogging while the hubby is at work

Points 7-8 again get a “N/A” rating. I don’t need networking, although I do love seeing a link to my blog on other bookish friend’s blogrolls And I don’t care if my blog becomes popular, so SEO isn’t important to me.

9. You Must Not Have An Unreadable/Unnavigable Site
4/5 because I’d like to think that my blog is pretty navigable. I try to not clutter it and I only have the one sidebar with different widgets on it, arranged in a manner that seems good to me. And my blog doesn’t have background images. Except for a few pictures on the sidebar, there are just plain colors–no patterns or anything. I don’t know what it’s called when you have the background image stay still and when you scroll down, only the text moves, but I hate that! It makes me feel sick when I scroll down and some stuff moves, but other stuff doesn’t. And while that might not have anything to do with a readable or navigable site, it still bugs me But I give myself a 4 because there might be aspects of my blog that others don’t like–obviously I like it

10. You Must Not Throw Mud Around
5/5 because I don’t do that. Yes, I will be honest if I don’t like a book and I’ll say as much. But I don’t do it for attention–I do it so if someone else reads my blog, they know my honest feelings about a book.

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