Best Blog (Post) Forward
Via
Chuck, Kevin Lim suggested a meme contest:
Put Your Best Blog Forward. Post, that is. Blog POST. "Best" in this case means "most popular"—which may or may not actually be your "best" (qualitative) post, but for purposes of this meme contest "best" == "most popular" so just go with it.
My most popular blog post is my
How-To for making expandable blog posts in Blogger from February 2005—it accounts for a full 26% of my blog traffic. It's also Topic 21 in Chapter 3, "All About Posting," in my
book on Blogger called
Sams Teach Yourself Blogging in a Snap.
Clearly, if I were a true money-grubber, I would have yanked the how-to when the book went to print. But that would have been a) uncool and b) wouldn't have stopped anyone from grabbing it from Google's cache and c) someone would have copied it out of my book and posted it on the internet somewhere anyway (I can't tell you how often that has happened with all my books).
The code behind the how-to isn't mine, never has been mine, and has always been attributed to the
original blog it came from. All I did in my how-to was throw a lot of explanatory text around it and make it really easy to follow for Blogger users who are not technically inclined.
It's worked. I have
other how-tos (and a bunch more other things
to review) but nothing on my blog receives nearly as much traffic as the
expandable blog posts in Blogger how-to.
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