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Apr | 30 | 2010

Video Blogging: Good Idea or Bad?

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Tips, Videos If your tired of typing away at your keyboard and want try a new platform you might want to look into video blogging. But before you start your video blog here are some things you should think about to see if it will be a good idea to go ahead or not. Content - What will you be yacking about? If your video blog will only be about your day with pretty much the same content as your personal blog then it might not be too good an idea because frankly it will just bore people to death and you'll appear ...

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Apr | 27 | 2010

Blogging is In with the Young

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Monetization, Tips eMarketer Digital Intelligence reported yesterday that, according to BlogHer and iVillage, the generation of Millennials (18-25 yrs) are the most active in the blogosphere. Active defined as both writing and reading blogs with a total of 40.4% of the bloggers belonging to the age group and 30.3% of the readers belonging in the same group. As can be expected the number of bloggers and blog readers go down as the age bracket goes up. It is good to know though that even the seniors (62-76 yrs) have jumped in on the bandwagon with more participating as readers (17.2%) instead ...

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Apr | 23 | 2010

Are You Blogging Too Frequently? Part II

Posted by Jimmy as Writing Last time I gave two things that will indicate that you may be blogging too frequently: if you are flooding your subscribers' feeds and if you keep rehashing old topics. Here are two more things that could mean that you might be overdoing it in terms of blogging frequency. 3. You Find your writing quality going down - If you reread your old posts and compare them to new ones and find that even you are less satisfied with the new ones then you could be writing too frequently. Remember it's better to come up with less posts as long as ...

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Apr | 22 | 2010

Are You Blogging Too Frequently? Part I

Posted by Jimmy as Writing Giving your readers something new to read is important. It's important so that your readers will not get bored and will know that your blog is something they should check on regularly. It is also important in SEO because freshness of content is something that search engines look into, especially now that real time search results are getting more popular. However, there is such a thing as blogging too frequently. As in all things, anything that's too much is not good. So how do you know if you're overdoing it? How do you figure out just how frequently you ...

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Apr | 20 | 2010

SEO Blogs: Why starting one isn’t a good idea

Posted by Jimmy as Marketing and Search Optimization, Writing SEO blogs are valuable as a resource for SEO newbies. There are even some SEO blogs out there that are really valuable resources even for advanced SEO techniques. Great SEO blogs out there include Matt Cutt's blog (great for newbies to advanced since your get the latest Google updates and of course the hid video tutorials), Bill Slawski's SEO by the SEA (now this one is mostly for the advanced SEO people - be preapared to see lots of patents), and SEOmoz's blog (too many posts here sometimes but every week you'll find a gem here). SEO blogs are very ...

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Mar | 30 | 2010

Kindle for Blogs

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Monetization, Syndication Kindle, the popular e-book reader from Amazon.com, can now be used to read blogs as well. Amazon has announced that the Kindle Publishing for blogs, which means that we now have an additional platform for our blogs. According to Amazon.com Kindle blogs have the following features: Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so they can be read even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and most images. Bloggers who wish to publish their ...

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Mar | 28 | 2010

Finding Your Niche II

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Writing Last time I said that when finding your niche you should choose one that you are already knowledgeable at and that isn't that competitive in terms of number of bloggers already writing about that field. Today I will be giving a few more tips on finding your niche. 1. Find out what people want - To be able to determine what people want to know about use search trend tools like Google Trends. There are lots of tools available that can help you determine the keywords and phrases that people search for everyday. The popular keywords can give you an idea ...

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Mar | 27 | 2010

Finding Your Niche

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Writing Although it is much easier not to constrain yourself to a specific theme every single week, when it comes to blogging, creating a niche is essential. Blogs that do not have themes just don't have a chance at success since readers come back for a reason - to read something they are interested in. It might be argued that personal blogs do not require a niche but if you really think about it, it actually still revolves around a specific topic - your personal life. So it isn't surprising that celebrities have popular personal blogs and the rest, except for a ...

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Mar | 24 | 2010

Just Do It

Posted by Jimmy as Writing This isn't a Nike ad but their slogan is something that all bloggers can learn a lesson from. Actually, it's a motto we can apply in all aspects of our lives but of course it's blogging we're concerned with here. As a blogger one of the things that we struggle with is coming up with posts regularly. Writing blocks is as common as anything can get and is something that must be overcome even before we even worry over the quality of the post. I have written about overcoming blocks so many times but there's just no overemphasizing the need to ...

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Feb | 28 | 2010

Bullets in Blogging

Posted by Jimmy as Tips, Writing In case you haven't noticed, I like using bullets. Bullets are very useful for blogging because: *It makes your content easy to scan - The average internet surfer (which of course includes blog readers) have very short attention spans. This makes it very important to present your posts in a manner that would allow them to scan and take in as much information as they can by simply scanning your post. If what they see at a glance interests them then they will take the time to read the post in detail. If they aren't too interested they go to the ...

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