Be true to yourself

If you are becoming a slave to:

1. Your RSS feed reader stats
2. Your daily Adsense earnings
3. Your PageRank
4. Your Technorati Authority/Real rank/Alexa rank

...think again...
My first rule if blogging is that you should be true to yourself, blog about the topics you want to blog about in your own style without compromising yourself to fit in with what you think is required by all these external pressures.
Why? Well for a start, PR hysteresis will change on a whim and there's nothing you can do about it, and your RSS reader figures will also change on the whim of individual visitors.
If you're trying to please everybody, then you're trying too hard. I maintain that if you continue to deliver good quality content, the rankings and visitors will follow. Naturally, you can help the process along with both on-page and off-page tactics, but unless the content is unique and of sufficient quality, there is little point....
There is good reason to use certain 'voices' and 'characters' to get your views across, but equally you will need to remain true to these characters. If you are not certain what I mean by characters, I will discuss it in a later post.

LinkyLove - a review

LinkyLove serves two purposes as far as I can see. There is an element of service blog about this site as discussed in a previous post . The site is also packed with lots of valuable information for bloggers wanting to make money or simply raise their profile on the internet.

LinkyLove whilst in the business of building up lots of links through reviews like you would expect, also offers some really good advice, not only about linking but also about general SEO, Page Rank techniques and word-press plug-ins.

The site is neat and well-written, the information you find here is the kind of thing that every blogger is going to find useful – I strongly recommend visiting and even bookmarking this page. While you are there, why not swap reviews and increase the linky love?