Rebecca Reid - Not a problem to set everything straight. It’s worth it!

Laura - Hi! And welcome to my blog! I’m glad that you found the post helpful. I’ll be making my way over to your website.

Dewey - Are you self-hosting Wordpress? I’ve been wondering if people are interested in plugins for Wordpress and could put up a list here. It might help.

I can understand an explanation if a blogger goes a much more longer time than normal from their posting. But I get bugged when I see somebody say, “Oh, it’s been a couple of days, or sorry no posting over the weekend.” I’m not sorry so I don’t think they should be either.

I once signed up for Blogger as well and hated it just as equally as you. I couldn’t stand the fact that there was no pages and the back end was so confusing. To each their own!

What do you mean you’re not very savvy?! I’ve been quite impressed with your set-up. I can tell that you’re doing quite well! And I emailed you about Weekly Geeks. Let me know what you think and we can get everything set up.

And now I’m so glad I took off Snapshots. After participating in a forum where everybody HATED it, I decided that they were probably right.

As far as the feed suggestion, I have an RSS feed thing on my blog that never works! And I have some widgets to add more RSS buttons, but they also never work! It’s so frustrating. But I know a lot of people use google reader to read me, so I hope that’s good enough.

The no excuses thing is something I never feel certain about. I don’t really miss posting ever, so there’s no need to make excuses about that. But we live in a place where our electricity goes out at least once a week all monsoon season, and my husband thinks I should explain every time why my blog was out. I figure people just see it’s back, if they noticed at all. But do they really want my post explaining something they didn’t notice showing up as a new post in their reader? I don’t think so, but he thinks it’s just polite.

I totally agree that you have to figure out what sort of blog tools you want. I use wordpress, and when I recently started a small personal blog, I used Blogger, and wow, I absolutely hate it! It’s so frustrating and inefficient and non-intuitive and just UGH. I don’t know how people who use it to blog in every day can stand it.

Anyway, I don’t do some of these things, but I am not a very savvy blogger, really. I just stick to my own little universe, much to the frustration of a few more techy people I know.

What a great (and highly useful) post. I know what you mean about knowing your limits with time as blogging can eat its way into one’s life.

Thanks for mentioning some of those blogging directories; I’ve added a couple to my site thanks to you (I also have a Blogorama button; do you do that one? I’m sure there are lots of others too, so it’s probably a matter of picking and choosing). Oh, and I sent you friend requests for all the social book site, so I hope we can be friends :).

By the way, I also enjoyed looking around your Book Bloggers Review Database and I’m sure I’ll be returning to it again in the future. Thanks for pulling that together. Have a wonderful evening!

Laura

I went in and edited all of your comments. I had you under two different emails and two different url’s which I consolidated into one email and one url (which double check next time you make a comment because the last few were coming in with your url spelled incorrectly). The widget is now linking over to your site. Which by the way, I think it’s awesome that your name is Rebecca Reid and your site name is Rebecca Reads. Very, very clever. Now that I think of it, I think maybe it bases it off of email addresses. Who knows what was going on. Including yourself there are at least four Rebecca’s who’ve commented on my blog. Thanks a bunch!