Entries Tagged as 'Blogs'

Blogging Strategy

post4.jpgBlogging is not as simple as it looks. Unless you are some big shot executive with writes, designers, researchers, a waiting audience and money for promotions, popularity may not come overnight. Some of the world’s most popular blogs were shelved into obscurity before they rose from the ashes and hit the big time.

Long-term writing is the key to making it big. In order to write consistently for an extended period of time you would need a long-term strategy to make sure that the quality of your work does not deteriorate. There are three key areas you can concentrate on in order to prepare you for the long haul. To be a committed long-term quality blogger you need: inspiration, motivation and focus.

Marketing Blogs


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Marketing blogs standards are high. Your posts must not only be informative, it should be entertaining as well. Plus, it has to be written in a cohesive and logical manner, with perfect punctuation, spelling, and grammar. If you did it well, the rewards are enormous! The effect will definitely bring you rewards because if you post regularly and maintain the good quality of your writing, eventually you will build yourself an audience. These people will come back to your blog for more articles and eventually, you can ask them to offer their e-mail addresses in exchange for exclusive blog posts or free membership.

Blogging Guidelines

post3.jpgWriting a blog takes a lot of preparation. It is not easy to write a blog that you intend to keep for a long time. There are times that you will be writing very well and often times you cannot think where to begin. In order to help you get started and maintain that momentum, here are some tips that can help you:
1. Find a target audience. This will help avoid burn-out.
2. Maintain an idea bank. Inspiration on a long-term basis.
3. Engage with your readers. Relationship is the key.
4. Long-term goals and long-term blogging go hand in hand.
5. Make some money. It helps you stick it out.
6. Define your goals to know where you are heading.
7. Celebrate your milestones. It helps to keep that good feeling alive.
8. Have a sustainable rhythm that you can work with.

9. Build your safety net to help overcome feelings of depression, boredom or other negative feelings.
10. Most important of all, keep on enjoying what you do!

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Blog Site

post2.jpgWeb log or blog is the easiest way to publish your brilliant thoughts. Blog sites spread like wild fire throughout the Internet world. The interactive sharing of personal thoughts, reviews, rants, raves, pictures or anything you want to the entire world or to a private group had such an appeal to many people that blogging is now one of the most popular activity on the Internet.

Blog sites are hosts where this information are uploaded to and shared to the world. Blog sites can be free or paid or in some cases private. For example, a certain company can put up a blog site where field employees can log in and just narrate their activity for the day. Blog sites are about building communities. Bloggers believe they are not baring their soul to the world but rather, sharing their thoughts and experiences to friends and neighbors.

Countering Abusive Online Behavior

Due to abusive online behavior especially attacks or threats against the blogger, Tim O’Reilly proposed the Blogger’s Code of Conduct. The purpose of which is to enforce civility on bloggers. This move came about as a result of the threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra, author of the inoffensive blog Creating Passionate Users. In one instance she was made a target of vicious threats and misogynistic insults.

The Code emphasizes self-regulation, meaning it should be the bloggers themselves who should impose civility among themselves and place moderate comments on their blogs. If this can be done, it is expected that bloggers will be more responsible and abusive online behavior will be minimized if not totally eradicated.

Commenting – A Tool to Increase Blog Traffic

Commenting – A Tool to Increase Blog Traffic

Commenting is an effective and essential tool to increase blog traffic. Readers feel important when they know that you read their opinions and views that are posted in your site. As a result, their sense of loyalty is developed and they will continue on patronizing your site. Commenting to other sites is another way of drawing traffic to your site. By doing so, you can leave your URL in your comment so you create a link back to your own site. Make your comments interesting to read. This will attract readers to click on your link to visit your site and increase blog traffic.

Widgets for your blog

You’ve seen them on blogs and webpages–little boxes that do different kinds of things from animating photos to showing the weather forecast. They’re called widgets, applets that can be easily installed on your site even if you do not know anything about code. Most of the time, you simply copy-paste the script on your blog template or follow the instructions for the platform you are using. The results are instant and do not need to be updated. The tough part is controlling yourself from installing all of them, which is not the best idea because too many widgets will give your readers a major headache. In the next post, we’ll suggest some cool and useful widgets.

Be Aware. Downloading Screensavers is not always safe.


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News: Controversial Vigilante Screensaver Shut Down; Trojan Warning.
Just days after they released their controversial anti-spam screensaver, Lycos Europe has shut down the campaign. The new program, “Make Love Not Spam”, was designed to actively handcuff spam servers by choking their bandwidth connection. Now, Lycos Europe has shut the campaign down for reasons still unclear.

To further compound this juicy controversy, a new Trojan horse virus has popped up, masquerading as the Make Love Not Spam screensaver. Be warned: this Trojan is NOT the MLNS program!

Enabling feeds

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What are feeds and why enable them? Feeds get your blog content to more people by “pushing” them on a regular basis or whenever there are updates through the means convenient to them. Readers choose to subscribe to the sites they want updates of and have the flexibility to read new posts at their own pace without having to go to the blog or website itself. How do you know there are feeds? Look for the orange icon.  Some blogging platforms automatically have feeds enabled. For others, you need to turn them on, so check with your provider. Also, take a look at FeedBurner and FeedBlitz to help you optimize, publicize and make the most of your feeds.

Tips for group bloggers

To keep a group blog running smoothly, ground rules should be set from the beginning to make it clear who is responsible for what material and when they are expected to act. Here are a few guidelines for group blogging.

Designate. One or more admins and editors work best when they know what they are in charge of, or else they will keep guessing whose turn it is.
Clarify scope. Enumerate what topics are allowed and what are best avoided. Remember your target audience.
Specify frequency. Agree on a target number of posts per group member and deadlines for submission. For example, bi-monthly or every second weekend of the month.

The group can make up more rules as you go and as you see fit the blog and its audience.