It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the total tally of blogs hit 126 million, according to BlogPulse. That's a big class to climb to the top of. We're not saying you have to be head cheerleader, but it would be nice to get noticed.
So if the only IP address StatCounter has to report is your own, and your comments section features a chorus of crickets rivaling that field behind the cabin you visited last weekend (and posted about in painful detail), face it: Your blog is that pathetic, friendless kid who skulks under the jungle gym at recess and reads Lois Lowry books in the bathroom during lunchtime.
Consider this your letter home to the parents -- no blog deserves that kind of social exclusion. Read on to pinpoint and correct its reader-repelling ways.
And so begins my Netiquette column on CNN, which I write with my Stuff Hipsters Hate co-founder, Andrea Bartz. Head on over to C to the NN for more.