Blog Critiques

Before you choose blog hosts for your tour, you need a good blog of your own. Do you have one?

Here's the list of criteria that we consider in judging a good blog:

Basic Design Attractiveness?
Title and url cohesive?
Consistency and clarity?
Loading speed?
Blogrolls?
Sitemeter?
Bookmarking in place?
Linking effective?
Quality of overall posts?
Comments section working?
Too many/too few gadgets?
What's great?
What can be improved?
Is it ready for a blog tour?

Look at your own blog with those aspects in mind. Is there anything on your blog that could use improvement?

August Blog Challenge Ends

I'm pleased to say that I managed to post once a day all through the month of August and so did most of the challengers. Congratulations! Don't our blogs look good now?

Starting on September 2nd, about half our challenge participants will put their blogs up for peer critique over at the Yahoo! Group. If you're an author looking for ways to improve your blogging, the process might give you some hints to help you get better at it. Our focus, of course, is blogging to promote your books. Because your own blog is the launching pad for a good blog book tour. You can learn more about that by reading The Quickest Blog Book Tour Guide Ever.

And Blogger.com still requires word verification to publish. They haven't lifted spam designation yet. Soon I'll have to request they review my blog for the fifth time. Is anyone else having problems with Blogger.com?