I guess the conversation’s just been moved on.

What also interests me is how lots of commenting has gone to other places, particularly Twitter and to a lesser extent Facebook.

When I started blogging in about 2003/4, there were much stronger ecosystems of people who read and commented on each other’s blogs. Those are much weaker now, but on the plus side Social Media is pointing us to shed loads more blogs we really want to read.

WE ARE WRITERS. We need to present ourself as professionals. Quality counts! And every time I make these mistakes, I cringe. Why? Because I know my readers are relatively educated. They are normal people, not picky editors.

If your readers graduated from high school, and most have, then they are usually trained well enough to subconsciously see these errors. It’s not their fault. They learned correctly. The errors we fail to correct stand out to readers as if they are yellow highlighted. Our subconscious mind somehow goes back to check it, fails to let it go, and in the root of our judgement, we tend to bookmark that as either ineptitude or plain sloppiness.

My mother was a health editor for a national magazine. She couldn’t help herself when she saw typos, bad grammar, poor spelling, and worse. She’d fume. She’d rant. She couldn’t let it go! It was just wrong.

That, I presume, is how we all react when we read obviously unedited work. That is also why its suggested that we edit our work a day after writing it. Or read it aloud. And that goes the same for online writing, whether it is a blog, a tweet, a Facebook post, or a full article for your niche market.

Whether the writer is a paid professional, a business owner, or an employee, whatever they put online needs to be written well enough that the readers get the subtle message of a professional. If they are uncomfortable writing, they serve themselves best by hiring a writer and collaborating on the polishing and editing.

I’ve also recently started commenting on blogs for the first time, so this post really resonated with me (that’s the last time I will be mentioning myself, for fearing of coming across as an egotist).

Another point you could try and weave into your seductive theme would be to for commenters to validate their appreciation for the post they are commenting on by retweeting the link and thus ‘sharing the love’. Commenters consistently unwilling to alert others to your blog posts are either heartless lotharios or could be revealing obsessive stalker tendencies!

So I’m off to retweet the link to this article immediately!

As for SERPd. I only bothered submitting things I thought would work. Which is why, eventually, I submitted nothing.