A Note to My Fellow Midland Bloggers
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 05:57 PM [GMT-6]

If you're blogging in Midland, you should be on MyWestTexas.com's list of Local Updated Blogs. And, if you have an RSS feed for your blog (and why wouldn't you?), your new posts should be hitting the rotation shown on the "Blog Roll" on the left side of the afore-linked page.

Here's a tip. If you'd like the excerpt shown on the MyWestTexas.com page to be something other than the first 40 or so words of your article, try using the "Excerpt" field provided by many blogging software packages* to generate a more descriptive summary of the post. MyWestTexas.com's aggregator software should automatically pick up and use that excerpt instead of generating one based on the first few sentences of your post.

I know. It's more work. But it can also be useful in helping readers decide whether to click on your post (and, generally, when they're in doubt – they don't).

*If your software doesn't provide this feature, it's old and busted. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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