Now, the super-awesome Mina Lobo from my AZ team has volunteered a post on how best to go about giving and receiving comments, so I'll let her take over from here:
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MUST DON’Ts for the 2013 Blogging from #AtoZChallenge
Howdy, folks. I’m Mina Lobo, from Some Dark Romantic, and a helper to Ato Z co-host, Damyanti. As I go down the linky-list, checking up on my
allotted group of A to Z-ers, I’m finding a lot of the jazz that drives the
average blog reader le cray-cray. Please believe you’ll
enjoy far greater blogtivity (blog-activity—it’s a technical term) if you heed
these words and take prompt action to rectify any of the items below, should
you find you’ve been guilty of them (whether by accident or design):
DON’T use Word
Verification/CAPTCHA or any such beast on your blog. Those tiny, wavy,
blurry letters and numbers are the work of The Evil One. If you insist on using
this vile stuff, be warned: the Devil will drag you under by the sharp lapel of
your checkered coat! (Props
if you can name the showtune or musical from which hails that last bit.) Dunno
how to rid yourself of this blight upon the blogosphere? Click here.
CLICK
HERE NOW!
DON’T fail to leave a link-back signature to your blog when
you leave a comment! You’ve been kind enough to leave a note showing your
appreciation/voicing your disagreement/requesting an order of fries with that
Coke, which is super groovy of you to do. The blogger will, if s/he has a soul,
wish to return the compliment by visiting your blog and doing the same. You’ll
make it weh-heh-HAY easier for her/him to do so by providing a link-back
signature. CLICK
HERE TO LEARN HOW.
DON’T bury your A to Z stuff all the way the heck at the
bottom of that day’s post if you’re combining topics on a particular day
(ESPECIALLY if that post has loads of pictures to scroll through). I can’t tell
you how close I’ve come to tagging an A to Z participant as a non-participant because I had to scroll
down to the very bowels of his/her blog to find the day’s A to Z post. Well, I
guess I can tell you—I’ve come very close indeed. If you’re combining a
bunch of topics for a day’s post, be sure to stick the A to Z part at the
tippity-top of your post. The average individual doesn’t have the time or
patience to do all that danged scrolling. (Trust me on this; if I had no sense
of duty as an A to Z helper/minion/ninja, I sure as shootin’ wouldn’t.)
All right, folks; if you need to, go fix your stuff. If you
don’t, rock on! And if you’ve got any Lindt
or Guylian chocolates in need of a
good home, Tweet me.
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Now that you know how to give and receive comments, make sure to drop by the following blogs and spread some love, in order to receive some love in return:
If you want to access all the posts tagged #AtoZChallenge across a lot of different social media check this out: http://tagboard.com/AtoZChallenge
Trust me, you won't be disappointed. Enjoy day 5 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge, and may you all get as many comments as our Ninja Captain, Alex J Cavanaugh!
