Sherman Hu on Blogging Strategies

I’ve had a lot of members ask regarding the best methods of Blogging … so I went right to the source, Sherman Hu. I’ve known Sherman for just over a year now. I met Sherman through StomperNet as we’re both members of the faculty.

Here is what I asked Sherman:

1. What is your choice of blogging software?
2. In your opinion, what are the most important features for blogs?
3. Can the average person conduct an upgrade for Wordpress without losing their entire blog, ie. accidentally overwriting the files on the server?
4. Besides having the XML subscribe button posted, what are the other ways to get a blog noticed? What are your “must have” subscribe chicklets?
5. What are some great marketing tips on getting a new blog in front of the right audience?
6. What are your favorite resources for blogging information?
7. Which blog directories are best to submit to? Are there good country specific blog directories? Or is it best to just concentrate on US-based blog directories if your blog is outside of the US?
8. Does blog and ping still work? What is the best method of getting Google back to your site? (I did a test and found that if you blog at least three times a week and don’t go more than three days of no postings, Google will come back at least a week to reindex the blog. If you blog everyday, Google comes everyday. Your thoughts?)
9. If a site like Feedburner distributes my content to all the other blog sites, do I really need to submit the content to all the blog directories?
10. What is the “Sherman Method” to obtaining “greatness in blogging”?

You can listen to his answer via Sherman’s Blogging Podcast or if you are a member of the SEO Revolution, I will be posting a summary of his answers and my commentary.