THE UGLY TRUTH with Cherie Bucy

Got problemz? Well, you’ve come to the right place. The Ugly Truth is a new advice segment we’re featuring, written by a very good friend of mine who can find top notch answers to even the most difficult questions. We want you to write in or tweet with your questions about anything; dating, welding, geography, performing minor surgery, escaping criminal prosecution….you name it, Cherie Bucy* can help you with it.

*Not her real name. Uh d-uh.

dear cherie,

I wish more people in edmonton would read my multi-authour web log.  What should I do?

signed,

the schmedmonschmonian.

Dear schmedmonschmonian,

The ugly truth is…that i don’t know the first thing about blogging.  So, to help you with your quest, I employed an age-old, time-honored method for finding much-needed information: I Googled it.

See? Real website.

Now, admittedly, I became a little distracted when Google suggested similar searches, like  ‘Successful Blonds’ and I discovered that there is an ENTIRE WEBSITE dedicated to this subject. However, eventually i got down to business and found a couple blog articles you might find helpful.  they are:

http://www.avivadirectory.com/successful-blog-launch/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/06/10/successful-blogging/

Ironically, the first link, about how to launch a successful blog, had crashed by the time I sat down to write this.  But when I first found it, it worked for several whole minutes, and though it seemed a little technical for me, it may be useful for your purposes.

Understand, I’m a little old school and have yet to completely embrace the wonderful world of the internet (to drive my point home, I should tell you that i still  use the yellow pages…yes, the paper ones).

As such, terms used by this blogger – such as ‘chicklets’ -meant nothing to me.  But, I’m just going to assume that you, as a blogger, are a savvy user of the internet.  And while I’m still reeling over the fact that’ chicklets is something other than gum, you will likely know what they’re talking about, and will perhaps glean something from it.

Now the second entry seemed a little more straight forward.  He also seemed to have a selection of options, and advertising on his blog which would lead me to believe that even if he doesn’t actually know what he’s talking about, he can at least fake it, which in my opinion, is almost as good.

Whether or not you find the two sites yielded from my superficial search useful, schmedmonschmonian, it’s become apparent to me that there is probably as much information out there about how to blog successfully as there are blogs themselves. Arming yourself with as much information as humanly possible is never a bad thing and a bit of research on your part may go a long way.  Above all though, I think the most important thing is that you blog because you enjoy it.  When you do what you love, life has a funny way of sorting out the rest.

Love,

Cherie Bucy

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