I was asked by several people on Twitter to post some blogging tips, so here is part 2. You can go to Blogging Tips Part 1 as well.
1. Be personable with your readers. If you have the ability, send birthday cards, encouraging cards, or a thank you card in the mail. You can use a comment form that your readers can voluntarily fill in so that you can send them a real, paper card via snail mail. Ecards are also appreciated but snail mail is so rare, it will get their attention. *I need to work on my comment form. Mine didn’t work properly and I’m sure it was my html code wrong in some aspect of it.
2. If you use Firefox, you can use all kinds of add-ons to make life eaiser. The one I really love, is called “Clippings. It allows you to highlight words and then save them as a new clipping. I use this for my signature. If I’ve commented on your blog, then you’ve seen it. It looks like this:
Blessings,
Mel
Please feel free to stop by: <a href=”http://melindatodd.com”>Trailing After God</a>
See the html coding in it? That allows me to leave a message with my site name that links back to my site. So, the Trailing After God part looks like this: Trailing After God. This way, folks can come visit my blog easily. Only on occasion do I find a blog that doesn’t allow html coding. Oh well 
3. Comment on other blogs w/i your niche. I started out in the wrong area for commenting, which still brought readers because there are Christians everywhere but I’ve been more successful now that I comment among those who are writing and interested in blogging for the Lord. If you can’t leave a quality comment, don’t. If it just looks like you are phishing for traffic, your comment will likely be ignored or deleted. Commenting will bring people to your blog, especially if you leave a link behind. It will also bring down your Alexa score, which is a good thing.
4. Do-follow – make sure your blog is set up as a do-follow blog. If it is a wordpress blog, then it is automatically a NO-follow blog. Part of bloggers commenting is to share some of the link love. A NO-follow blog, does not allow any juice from the owner’s site to benefit anyone on their blog. I personally think we should share the love and help each other out so I have a plug-in called Wp-Dofollow so that my blog is a DO-follow and a win-win for my commenters and bloggy friends.
5. Join a group of bloggers. I happened to catch #blogchat on Twitter one Sunday night and I was sold. I got a whole world of new information opened up to me. Bloggers helping bloggers. You’ll make some new friends and learn a lot! It starts at 6pm PST every Sunday night. Go into Tweetchat, type in blogchat in the very top and it will load only the #blogchat so you can see everyone at once and respond. It also allows you to pause the chat, which moves very fast. I pause it and read the page, respond to questions and comments, and then unpause to allow another full page to load, and then I pause it again. There are several awesome folks who save the transcripts from each blogchat and they post those so if you missed something, or need to reference something, you’ve got it right there! They also edit out the retweets, so all you are left with is the solid comments and tips!
6. Pictures are important to your blog and your posts. They draw the eye around the page and people just like them. Pix-O-Sphere is a new social platform for bloggers to use photos for FREE. Yes, actually free. I have searched high and low for photos I could truly use for free, only to find they say they are free and once you get into the site you have to purchase points. Um, how is that free?! Pix-O-Sphere allows you to share your own photos as well and will watermark them for you, so you get the credit for your photos! You can also sell photos if you’d like but there are plenty of images that are totally free! Like the one in this post The other huge benefit, all images MUST be family friendly. So you don’t have to worry about the images you’ll be sorting through! Now that’s pretty awesome.
I will continue this series as things pop up. I’m no expert and I’m still learning but I wish I’d had these types of tips sooner!
So glad you posted this! You already know I love your idea about being more personable, and I really think the whole snail mail thing is awesome. I basically think all your ideas are awesome… and I’m going to check out part 1.
Wylio.com is another great search engine for photos that actually creates the code for you so you just need to copy & paste. I used it in my last blog post. I don’t think it’s family friendly… though I’ve never come across anything gross/weird in my searches for photographs.
xo,
Rachel
Grown Up Rachel
See what I did there with the signature
Awesome Rachel! Good to know about the other photo place. Pix-O-Sphere generates the code too and you just choose the size and it auto formats right there. I like it because i have some great photos and now I can share them and see my name out there a little more
LOL I’m glad you like this! These are just things I’ve learned or things I’ve noticed that drive me nuts 
This information is AWESOME!!!! I’m a very new blogger and I need all the tips I can get. The information about the Pix-O-Sphere is especially appreciated. So, once again, a great post!
Bryan, did you read part one as well? There are sooo many blogging tips. I probably barely scratched the surface!
Im still learning about all this bloggy things…thanks for these suggestions and tips!
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You are welcome
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Ok – this is AWESOME!
I don’t understand the no-follow – do-follow – is that for wordpress.org too?
Yes! wordpress is automatically a NO follow blog. You need to use the plug in, in order to change that
Not sure why they set it up that way but it’s a quick fix 
Could you explain a bit better what “no-follow” vs. “do-follow” means? This is especially helpful for those of us who use a non-WordPress blogging platform.
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Sure! It’s confusing stuff, isn’t it? Do-follow basically refers to me allowing you to post a link to your blog on my site AND allowing that link to your site to get some of my “juice” or page rank. If you can have your site linked on bigger sites with a really good google page rank, if they are do-follow that is, it helps boost your pages page rank with google. If they are a no-follow site, then you can leave your link and you get no boost or credit from google. Google grades based on who is linking into your site. Sorry, if that’s not clear. That’s my best understanding of it. And the do-follow goes beyond wordpress, it’s for all sites
Every website is set up to either be a do-follow or no-follow.
THANK YOU so much! I followed the directions in your twitter comments, and I’m checking to see if it works. Will work on the others tomorrow. Mono/flu kicking us when we’re down around here!
Blessings,
Shawna Lee
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Good
Let me know if I can help. It is really easy! It saves a lot of time!
Those are some really great tips! Thank you so much for posting and I am going to check out Pix-O-Sphere!
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You are so welcome Heather! Come back by for part 3 coming soon!
Thanks for sharing these tips, especially the site for free pictures! I look forward to checking it out – and going back to read Part 1!
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Thanks for promoting Pix-O-Sphere.
There are so many more features on the way..I’m excited to unveil those announcements soon.
Great tips!
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Thank you! I have many more
Lots of tricks I’ve learned. Can’t wait to hear the new announcements!
Hi Mel- Been thinking of you… funny, I can’t even seem to get a link on my blog that allows anyone to subscribe via email. Do YOU know? Ha. I’ve been meaning to figure this out;). I figure, for me, it’s aaaaalllll a process. And I am learning lessons through it all in all aspects. And boy, I’ve got a ways to go. Love you girl. D
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luvly to meet you Mel!
thx for taking tea with me at FHC!
i’ve now joined pix, thx to your intro “)
another great small but free photo album avlbl at A Vermont Girl blog of
Heather’s
some with scriptures and positive quotes… enjoy!
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Hi Mel,
I found your site through an old Facebook post of yours – Christian Bloggers Network. My husband & I launched a new blog recently to encourage Christian parents in raising their children. I am in the research mode everyday for a few hours to learn as much as I can to improve our site. Thank you for these good tips. They were most helpful and I look forward to your ‘Part 3 and beyond’!
God Bless,
Linda
USSParenting
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I’m so glad to have you here!