Mar | 26 | 2008

The Game Plan of Blogging

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing

Admit it: some of your posts are written on a whim. An idea struck you and you completely itched to write about it. That’s actually good because its spontaneity is closely linked to creativity.
However, posts-on-a-whim hardly ever work for serious bloggers. For all you know (and you have to admit!), not all your spontaneous posts are that creative and worth reading. You may just be posting content that’s a product of “thinking aloud” that not everyone would be interested in. If you want to keep a good traffic and earn yourself loyal readers, you must have good content all the time.

Have a writing plan. First, know what you want to say. Have a specific topic you’d want to discuss or relate. Second (and this is very important), know what you are trying to say. Try looking at your topic in more perspectives and ask yourself questions to test your knowledge of it. If you find yourself not being able to answer and find yourself confused, you don’t know much about what you want to write and are obviously in need of research. After gaining enough knowledge of your topic, determine your writing style. Should you be informative, persuasive, or entertaining? This will depend on your topic. Ultimately, consider your readers. Would they want to know this? Would it be helpful for them? After all, you’re not writing for yourself.

Comments Off

Comments are closed.

Our Features

Design and Themes

Is Your Blog W3C Compliant?

Last night I checked my personal blog’s code hoping I can proudly display the W3C Validated Button. Since I use Blogger and do not really do anything to clean up the code (beyond adding Alt-tags to the images I embed) I wasn’t surprised at all to find that my blog contained lots of errors – [...]
Read on
More Design and Themes Features
Software and Widgets

Wordpress Plug-ins

If you blog using Wordpress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen.
To find good Wordpress plug-ins all you need to do is search for “wordpress [...]
Read on
More Software and Widgets Features
Reviews

A Friend In Need

I’m helping out my friends from the UA&P – IShareHappiness Blog Team.
Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone [...]
Read on
More Blog Reviews
Monetization

Review: Logical Media

Logical Media is one of the innovative services that pay for ad placement within blogs. Do you have a blog and are you seeking a way to make additional money from the blog? Are you seeking a way to offset other programs with the use of ads? Through the registration with Logical Media, the blogger [...]
Read on
More Monetization Features
Marketing and Search Optimization

Search Rank Drop and False Alarms

Happy Holidays!
What are the chances of someone being concerned about their blog’s search ranking dropping on Christmas Eve? I have no idea but then again if I’m writing about it right now then there’s probably someone somewhere around the world doing SEO at this very minute.
If you have experienced a sudden drop in ranking, [...]
Read on
More Marketing and SEO Features
Blog Resources