Treasured Blog Posts Buried in the Archives – Part 2

In a post about finding treasures in our blog attic, I said about older articles:

Those musings and pearls of wisdom reflect where you’ve been, how you've matured and what treasures you've left behind. Even when you stumble on ‘dead blogs’ you sense the ghostly presence, as the posts relive their stories.

The post asked you to tell what information about you or your blog lay buried in the Archives. Not many of you responded ---  probably afraid of what you might find or have to update. So I decided to 'orb' in and take a look at your hidden treasures. But first, let's spin around our past.

Blogging With Success Oldies

Here are some older posts in our attic that you'll find interesting. (I've excluded the 'popular posts' listed in the sidebar.)

Writing in English as a Second Language

Fransiska advised us to widen our perspectives - "It would be great if you read/use many sources while you write that post. Blog Catalog and Stumble Upon are great sources for your writing. Reading from those sites I mentioned is recommended. Mostly you will read many interesting (sometimes weird…) topics from those places, but eh, it’s useful."

Peek Behind Great Colors For Your Blog Design

SBA told us why you need to know color codes - "Many templates or editing programs give you some basic color selections, but you want to match that great shade you saw on a web page. Unfortunately, the program does not understand ‘I want that purple gray with a hint of rose."

9 Useful Tips for New Bloggers

Mr I shared tips like why it helps to hold on - "Do not give up too soon. Success does not come easily! Keep writing good content."  He also advised us to not get distracted - "You may be tempted to spend your time in social networking and forums for promotion. But remember that the content comes first!" However, my post, "Content is not King,' begs to differ just a little. 

What's in Our Top Commentators' Attics?

A Must 5s for blogging success

"Focus: the blog which is reader centric makes more sense as it attracts more people to your blog and the same time makes you popular among the blogging networks. Blogs which fascinates the mind interests your reader into reading more stuff from you,... " - Ricky at BloggingWithChris

Follow and Social WP Plugins

"Some plugins that you can add to your site to increase your PR or backlinks. I know many have them already, but maybe you see something better or new." - George at Serrandinho

How to use Gravatar ?

"Gravatar or Globally Recognized Avatar or is an icon, or representation, of a user in a shared a reality, such as a forum, chat, website, or any other form of online community in which the user(s) wish to have something to distinguish themselves from other users." - Ruchi at Choosyinfo

What happens when I feel crafty

"This was one of my favorites. I included it in the vendor fair but the more I looked at it, the more I knew I couldn’t part with it. So when a little old lady full of wrinkles shuffled up to me with her walker and asked if she could buy it, I told her it was already sold and I hid it in my purse."- TheCreative Junkie

WP Security Tips – Don’t Leave Doors Unlocked

"However, it's important not to let the security of your blog get pushed down to the last thing on your list of things to do.  Here is a list of quick easy tasks that will give you a slight advantage against would be evil doers." - Matt at zero2heroblogger

Next Steps

Explore these articles. Let us know which ones drew you into the content or brought back memories of your early blogging days. Find and dust off some oldies in your blog attic!