What makes you like a blog?

The question is, what makes you like a blog and want to visit it regularly and sometimes leave behind comments?

I would like to know all the factors that make you like a blog. They might be factors which play a big role in your liking of a blog and they may be conscious as well as unconscious ones. For instance, you might visit a blog regularly simply because you love the author's style or you may love the layout.

Let me know what appeals to you.

1. The quality of the content (that's obvious!)
- originality
- author's views
- sense of humor
- frequency of posts
2. The layout (i like minimalism & unique layouts, web 2.0 style)
3. The time it takes to load. (I hate it when there's too many ads)
4. There may be more factors that makes me like or dislike a blog, but i can't remember all of them.

The topics of the posts are the most important for me...(put a poem with words that i don't understand and u've successfully scared me already)
I like to laugh, so if some1 put funny stuff/jokes that i have not already read, you get a thumb up from me
I enjoy reading 'nonsense' from people, and everyone has his own style of nonsense writing and thats what make it all more interesting :p
And of course, as carrot said, frequency of posts is very important, i hate it that i check often, and there is only 1 post in a month :S or even less...
[i feel rather exhausted merely by thinking of the procedure i need to perform for commenting on blogspot-based blogs, cause i have to select the appropriate radio button and all...]

yeah i think originality really counts. Originality in style, it might be the author's wit or sense of humour like carrotmadman said.

i love original topics too. something out of the ordinary. i also like factual stuff, which are very well presented.

the layout does not really matter as long as its appealing in its own way

roushdat wrote:
[i feel rather exhausted merely by thinking of the procedure i need to perform for commenting on blogspot-based blogs, cause i have to select the appropriate radio button and all...]

LOL! sincere net sanela! wai c vrai selmen! sa 1 bne disadvantages de blogger.

Hmmmm....

The style of writing... That would be the first thing that would make me go back to a blog.

The originality <<--- Though you may be writing about topics already covered by others, show that you have smthg different to offer.

Topics covered: it gets a bit boring if you go back and have to read about the same things yet again.

Sense of humour: a good laugh is sometimes important

Frequency: fek laem m ti p plaigner ki m pna narien pu lir -.-

Layout pa trop... m pa tro care a propo sa and... hmmm... c tou je crois

roushdat wrote:
[i feel rather exhausted merely by thinking of the procedure i need to perform for commenting on blogspot-based blogs, cause i have to select the appropriate radio button and all...]

Yeah, it's true Blogger has the worst commenting system... Why can't they make it like Wordpress??
One of the reasons why i don't like commenting on Blogger blogs ( well, since i use Blogger myself... it's a bit ironic!)

But i did found a template that copied the comments-page to the main post, but the end-result wasn't really good... I think all Blogger blogs should spam Blogger, asking them for a more straight-forward commenting system.

i receive about 30 referrals from google search daily which is approx equal to 50 -75 page views. but the search results leading to my blog are sometimes irrelevant.

Yeah, it's true that Google indexes Blogger blogs faster & they have a higher rank in searches.
That's bcoz Google hosts the Blogger blogs at their HQ in Mountain View, so they can easily update their indexes whenever someone updates their blog.

Half of my traffic comes from Google searches...

& btw Blogger is definitely the most reliable of all blogging platforms... coz it's backed by mighty Google - & they'll never go out of business!

Yes, in other words, Blogger is Google's child.

thembb wrote:Yes, in other words, Blogger is Google's child.

Yeah... adopted child. Coz Google bought it.

hmm interesting...but frightening as well...guess what, google is the next microsoft :S (and soon u will see an anti-google movement who will fight for our freedom from google ; ironically microsoft may become a precious ally to the freedom fighters)

Mo penser blogspot so commenting system korek acoz kan n dimun envi comment li click lor * comments et li gagne n page kot pna oken template. Li paret couma n lounge si zot gete bien. To gagne tou ban comments et to cav fer to comment.

N lot ti point. Avan mo ti ena n blog lor blog.com et mo pa ti p repon ban comments. Mai aster ar blogspot mo gagne limpression ki mo bizin repon. Jar dimun la p atan n reponse acoz sa lin comment.

thembb wrote:I somewhat agree with Jevin on this. Moreover I think that whatever the blogging platform is, as long as someone has "taken the pain" of reading and commenting a post of any of you, it is a sign of courtesy to go back to the commenter's blog (if ever he/she has any) and to comment back.

I was more referring to commenting on your own posts to reply other comments.

Bein moi si m agree ek sa

mo believe ladan moi si ek mo try to stick to this policy as much as possible.

Yeah, it's a sort of courtesy to reply to all comments posted on your blog. Just like someone saying Hello to u, u need to Hello them back...

hmmm, ena ossi going to the person's blog and commenting relevantly on a post.

mai enfin a chacun son policy! lol