Yesterday, I got one of the most serious blogging mistakes I ever committed since I started blogging.

What Happened

I was making my post for the blog action day and decided to provide links to participating blogs by citing posts that “give tips and advices on how we can help curb global warming and save the environment”. I head on to digg and searched using the keywords “blog action day”. I found some good posts and placed the links in my “Diseases Caused by Global Warming” post.

While searching for blog action day posts, I stumbled upon a post entitled Blog Action Day: 7 Tips To Ruin the Environment and skimmed through the article without even reading the post’s introduction and conclusion and reading only the 7 bulleted tips.

I decided that the author must have used “irony” to show people how they are actually ruining the environment. I decided to put the link under “I also find these posts a must read” I realized too late that the author actually wrote his post because the “blog action day” is a “bullshit”, and he provided the tips to “fu– with the environment just a little more”. I hastily removed his link in my post and disapproved his comment. Posts like that do not deserve a link back.

Lesson Learned:

While web content readers generally tend to skim through articles rather than read word by word, it is best that bloggers like me should read the entire blog content first before making a comment or making a trackback. This will help ensure that a blog post is thoroughly understood and bloggers will avoid the same mistake that I have committed.

Note: I intentionally did not provide the link for the mentioned blog. Blogs like that do not deserve to get any traffic at all.