Why and How to Outsource Writers For Your Blog

Monday, January 10th, 2011

If you have been thinking about starting up a blog, congratulations. Having an entrepreneurial urge, but wanting to start it out without taking on too many additional expenses, is a great way to get your feet wet without getting in over your head. You can start a blog in a few minutes, and get it going in a hurry. And there are two great ways to build up your popularity in a hurry: by providing great content on your own blog (to keep people coming back to it to see what you have to say), and by providing great guest posts on other people’s blogs. (more…)

Tags: blogging psychology, tactics
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Who wins the blogging war – WordPress or Blogger?

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

There is an inevitable war going on in the ‘blogosphere’ and it starts with one blogging platform competing against another. The one who wins will get a control over the world of blogs. The Blogger and WordPress are unanimously acknowledged as the two most famous blogging platforms for all bloggers who are in search of web space without even purchasing a domain or a package. If you’re new to this field of blogging, it’s time for you to go through some serious comparisons between Blogger and WordPress so that you end up making an informed and measured choice. Read on to know about the comparison scale. (more…)

Tags: blog services, blogging platforms, google blogger, wordpress 3.0
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The Almost Complete Guide To Guest Posting

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

I say almost because no one person will ever be able to define the perfect guest post or how to go about writing the perfect guest post. Guest posting isn’t something that be done with one thing in mind: Link building. Guest posting should peek the readers mind, and it should open them up to something that they have not heard before. If you plan on spending a lot of time doing guest posting, you should remember that it can be easy to start being very repetitive in your writing but if you follow these guidelines you should be able to write as many guest posts as necessary and they should all be highly valuable to your readers. (more…)

Tags: guest posts
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What’s So Funny About Writing a Humor Blog?

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

I’m Tim Jones. I write a weekly humor blog – well, at least that’s what I like to think I am doing each week. Some critics think I am wasting valuable bits and bytes of Internet bandwidth that could be put to much better use. Some people (and by some people, I mean my wife) wonder why I spend time on a humor blog in the first place (I assure you, it’s not for the money). And still others (and by others I mean my two teenage daughters) wonder when will I get off the computer so I can do their homework for them or take them to the mall. (more…)

Tags: guest posts, humor blogging, writing
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When Blogging Get’s Feisty: What to do with a Blog Controversy

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

A recently trending topic among the blog tip community is the subject of blog controversy. Because blogs are opinion-oriented and involve user interaction, most bloggers are no strangers to controversy. Whether the conflict is internal (heated debates in the comment section) or external (blogs writing dirty material about other blogs), it is always interesting to watch things escalate.

Internal Controversies: An Example and Observations

Last week on SiteSketch101, Nicholas Cardot took an unconventional stance on the value of the popular Thesis theme for WordPress.

I believe that Thesis is not a good value for most bloggers and after having done a lot of research into it, I can’t honestly recommend Thesis to my readers, to my followers, or to my friends and I would strongly encourage you to steer your business away from it as a business model.

What followed was a foray of emotionally charged comments either being critical of Cardot’s position or in favor of it. (more…)

Tags: blog controversy, blogging psychology
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Psychology: The Effect of Blogging on the Brain

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

An article by Ben Vershow from futureofthebook.org.

Does blogging restructure consciousness?

The following story suggests that it does. Last month, Chris Bowers of the progressive political blog MyDD, underwent a small existential crisis brought on by a ham-fisted report on public television about political blogging that bungled a number of basic facts, including Bowers’ very existence on the MyDD masthead. The result was a rare moment of introspection in an otherwise hyper-extroverted medium:

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Tags: blogging psychology
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