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Why the Facebook Like Button Might Not Be Right for Your Blog
Friday, May 21st, 2010
I read a blog post today that distressed me greatly. The post was about the new Facebook like button and the poster was explaining to readers why the Like button was not right for everyone. Darn. I knew that. I should have posted it and explained why first! Maybe I can make up for being tardy on information by providing additional information that might explain better what has already been said on another blog.
What does the Facebook Like Button do?
The Facebook like button can be embedded into any website and allows visitors to share content over Facebook. When content is shared, the link is displayed in the News Feed (the ‘what’s on your mind’ field) with a thumbnail and description. Shared links have potential to bring in social networking traffic from the Facebook friends of the sharer or liker if you will.
The Best Way to Find Guest Bloggers and Guest Blogging Opportunities
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Guest blogging has become explosively popular in the year 2010. Not only do guest posts bring fresh, alternative perspectives but they also make life easier for the blog owner and build strong blogger-on-blogger relationships.
Finding guest posters and blogs to guest post on isn’t any easy task however. Sometimes the top blogs in the niche are unwilling to publish or even look at guest post requests or it may be very difficult to get your posts accepted because of the sheer volume of other guest posts the blog owner receives.
25 excellent ideas to blog about
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
A guest post from the Idea Lady, Cathy Stucker. Get free ideas for small business and sign up for her IdeaLady Insider newsletter at http://IdeaLady.com/.
Do you find it hard to come with things to blog about? A few years ago, I had a weekly newspaper column. I had to turn in 500 words every Friday afternoon, even when I was not inspired. There were some Fridays when I was an hour or two from my deadline and had no idea what I was going to write about. Even then, I got my column written and submitted on time.
My secret? I kept an idea file, stuffed with topics and titles I could fall back on when I didn’t have anything to write about.
New study suggest blog post quantity trumps quality for online popularity
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Still believe all that hogwash about quality over quantity? According to a study presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference last Wednesday, bloggers who post frequently are much more “attractive” than infrequent posters, regardless of post quality.
Yahoo to release a new style guide for web writing
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
If it’s one thing serious bloggers need, it’s an objective style book like what print publications have in The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style.
Is website one word or two? Is internet capitalized? Is it re-tweet or retweet?
Why you should use images excessively on your blog
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
This morning I went to a visual communication arts class and everyone formed a circle to discuss the evolution of newspaper layouts. I learned that the most striking difference between modern newspapers and those of the past are the ratio of pictures to text.
The first newspapers in America of course did not have images because of the limited printing technology available.
"Publick Occurences: Both Foreign and Domestick," the first multi-paged newspaper in America.
Frequent blog posting or consistent blog posting?
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
When I first stumble upon a blog, I usually read the first lines of the newest post. If the lines intrigue me or make me want to read more, I will read the rest of the post. From that point on, I can pretty much tell if the content on the blog is relevant or worthwhile to me and I only check one more thing before subscribing: the number of posts in the past few days.
I have sort of psychoanalyzed myself on numerous occasions to determine what it is exactly that causes me to subscribe to a blog. A primary factor is always the frequency of posts. The truth is, I don’t want to be bothered with a blog that is not updated frequently. Visiting the address of a blog which remains not updated is like opening up the morning newspaper to find yesterday’s articles printed again. If I am going to be committing as a subscriber, I at least want to know that I will be fed something on a consistent basis.
Targeting search engine crawlers vs. human readers on your blog
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
My last post on this blog was a bit out of the ordinary. I’m sure if I had a large subscriber base, I would be getting tons of emails asking what the deal was. I wrote an entire post on one very simple thing: how to check which version of WordPress you are using. That little piece of information is probably not useful for any subscriber base. After all, most WordPress users who happened to be subscribed to my blog either already know which version they are running or don’t have a particular need to find out.
So why did I create the post?
The answer starts with a G and ends with an E. Yup, you guessed it: Google.
Yesterday, while I was tweaking the custom theme I built (which is almost ready) for this site, I had to find out which version of WordPress I was using to determine whether or not a PHP function would work on my blog.
Taking advantage of creative commons content for your blog
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Who has the time to go out and snap photos of abstract subjects to use as complementary images in blog posts?
Especially if are not willing to pilfer the copyrighted work of others, it may be difficult finding content published online that the author explicitly allows anyone to share.
Enter the Creative Commons License founded in 2001 by Larry Lessig Hal Abelson, Eric Eldred and a few other cyber-law geeks that you probably never heard of.
Blogging for money part 2: frequent posting
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Frequent blog posting is something that needs to happen if your blog is going to hit success. Remember that success is always synonymous with difficulty, but can be achieved with a good rational, and much determination. If followed literally, these five tips will help you retain a frequent posting status, which will ultimately secure a frequent earning status.
1. Understanding your commitment
When you’re considering blogging for money, it is important to understand the commitment you are undertaking. This is because many people who blog for a living, actually spend more time blogging than they would for a real job. If you want consistent earnings, you need to give your time up consistently. One way you can do this is by setting a time quota like, “I will blog for 2 hours every day,” or by designating a specific time like, “I will blog at 3 p.m. every day.”
Value persistency to you commitment, rather than quantity of blog posts or the amount of success your blog receives. A flaw is rarely found in the commitment itself, but more often found in the resolve to follow the commitment.
2. Understanding your competition’s commitment
The majority of bloggers don’t make any money whatsoever. Although many of them don’t set out to make money, they all set out to gain readers. And guess what? The more bloggers that are out there, the less those readers become available.
Do a simple search on Google and examine a few related high ranked blogs. You might find that their commitment far outweighs yours. If this is true, you might want to consider blogging in a different niche.
3. Train yourself to blog constantly
It takes an incredible amount of discipline to force yourself to blog more than once a day, and it is very time consuming. Blogging for money is pretty much equivalent to being your own boss, and there aren’t many people out there who can boast that they are self-employed, are there? This is because of the fact that it requires an incredible amount of discipline. You need to train yourself to keep a consistent blogging schedule, and you need to stick-to-it if you want to maintain an audience.
4. Avoid ‘blogging guilt’
Not only do we sometimes not feel like blogging, but we simply don’t have the time to. Sometimes, school, kids, social life get in the way of blogging life and that is to be expected. Surprisingly, blog experts say that the best thing to do is to avoid being guilty about your lack of posts because the guilt that is associated from this is in fact, anti-productive.
Many times, bloggers, and all writers alike, enter into a form of writer’s paralysis when they fret over their lack of productivity. It’s kind of like trying to exercise again after not doing it for a while or having negative thoughts about it.
5. Blog when you’re not blogging
A useful piece of advice I’ve been given on several accounts by experienced bloggers is to blog when you’re not blogging. This means to create an archive in your head of things you want to blog about. When something unusual happens to you, or you have an interesting thought, make a mental note to blog about it later.
If you’re the kind of person that is forgetful, bring a notepad around with you; jot down ideas, and possible headlines for your blog posts. You don’t need to write any paragraphs or even sentences, you just need to create an outline. The more you use this method, the better you will become at it. At one point you should be able to create an entire blog post around a single headline without having to look at outside sources. You have a brain, and there’s more information in there than a multitude of books. Tapping that information is just a matter of patience and persistency.
Frequent blog posting is the second level in our wonderful blogging for money pyramid. Read on to part 3 to find out what the next level is. Click here to go back to part 1, the need for unique and quality content.
The Blogging for Money Pyramid
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