Don’t publish your posts until they are finished
Today I learned a valuable lesson. I wrote and published a blog post, editing it on the fly, when my wireless Internet cut out. It was extremely annoying because I was yet to edit in the links on the post I had just written. I also hadn’t fully read through what I had written, and some of my points were unclear. A reader picked up on these and now I feel foolish. I had to make corrections at my local net café.
Don’t hit “Publish” until you are 100% happy with your post
Editing posts after they’re written is bad form and I need to stop doing that. Part of the reason I do it is because I find myself in a bit of a rush to post some days, what with work and all. From now on I will not publish anything until the post is up to the standard I want it at. I’d advise other bloggers to do the same, although I’m sure most people do already.
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5 Responses to “Don’t publish your posts until they are finished”
If you’re blogging, every time you change something on your webpage, you “ping”. Wouldn’t be advantageous to edit your posts periodically to “ping” as often as possible? It is a good sign that you’ve got regular readers who notice errors, or stuff like that. It’s better to be noticed than not to be noticed at all.
An interesting thought. It never occurred to me to take advantage of pinging. Thanks for that.
I find myself in that position many times and I am also trying to get myself to stop doing that. I don’t know why but I just get excited to hit the post button.
Great post. It’s also important not to overlook proofreading your comments before you click the “Submit Comment” button. You can always edit your own blog posts, but you usually can’t edit your comments on other blogs.
It’s an important lesson I learned tonight. Thankfully, it was only a typo!
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