Jun | 10 | 2008
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How To Try New Topics
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing If you are maintaining a personal blog, then this post is not for you. How so? Simply because of the fact that in personal blogs, anything goes when it comes to topics. You can talk about anything under the sun and your readership will probably not be affected simply because you did so. I guess that is one reason I love writing for my personal blog. However, if one of your blogs is targeted at a specific audience, then posting new topics – especially those that are not really related to your theme – might not be ...Comments (0)
Jun | 05 | 2008
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Story Telling In Your Blog (Part 2)
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing In the previous post, we highlighted the importance of starting BIG when telling stories in your blog. We also emphasized the need for being sure of what you want to convey and conveying your idea in a definite manner. Let us look at some more pointers in telling stories in your blog. Dialogues You have to include dialogues in your story. They do not have to be longwinded ones. In fact, the shorter, the better – at least in my book. But when you do use dialogues, make sure that they have an impact and that ...Comments (0)
Jun | 01 | 2008
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Story Telling In Your Blog
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing I remember joining writing contests when I was in grade school. I loved the actual writing and appreciated all the input that my mother and English teachers would give me. One thing that stood out from all the pieces of advice that I received is this: Tell a story. Telling a story engages your readers like nothing else can but it does take some spinning and weaving in order for it to be effective. So how do you tell a story in your blog? One thing that you have to perfect is your beginning. Unlike short stories and ...Comments (2)
May | 27 | 2008
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Understanding The Benefits of Guest Posting (Part 2)
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Writing Just to refresh your memory about the last post, we talked about how beneficial it would be for a blogger to guest post in someone else’s blog, especially if that other blog has a wider readership and a good PR. The benefits of this kind of guest posting in quite evident in this case – at least for the person who is doing the guest posting. But what about the person who is allowing other people to guest post? Is there any sense in doing so? I believe that the biggest advantage to allowing guest posting is the ...Comments (0)
May | 25 | 2008
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Understanding The Benefits of Guest Posting
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Writing If you have been browsing blogs for quite some time, you’ve probably encountered guest posts. The idea behind guest posting is simple – a person contributes to another blog which does not belong to him. So why would people want to post an entry in someone else’s blog? More so, why would you want someone else to post an entry in your blog? From the point of view of the guest blogger, posting an entry in another blog is a good form of exposure for him. He gets to write an article, post in under his name, ...Comment (1)
May | 20 | 2008
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Obsessing Over PageRank and Other Stats
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips If you are just starting to blog, then you would probably know what I am talking about. First you create your blog – either with a free blogging platform or with your own domain. Then you build up your blog. In the beginning, you probably focus on your content – nothing is more precious to you than writing quality posts regularly. Then you hear about blog statistics. You hear about traffic, links, PageRank, and the like. Before you know, you are hooked. You constantly find ways to increase your traffic. You constantly find ways ...Comments (0)
May | 14 | 2008
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Creative Writing: How To Get Started
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing In my last post, I talked about the role of creative writing in blog writing. We have a comment from one of our readers, Nancy, which I think warrants mention in this follow up post. She emphasizes the importance of achieving a balance between creative writing and informative writing. So as you try your hand at creative writing, try to bear in mind that balance that you have to achieve. So what do you need for creative writing? I would say your imagination and a conversational tone – nothing else. Put yourself in your reader’s ...Comments (0)
May | 09 | 2008
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Comments or No Comments?
Posted by Guru as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Tips Having a comment section on your blog is a good idea because it becomes a venue for interaction between you and your readers as well as between the readers themselves. However, if you remember having your very first blogs with no more than a handful of readers then you probably know how lonely a blog without any comment looks. When it comes to building up your blog traffic the bad news is that a lonely looking blog does not only feel somewhat disappointing to the blogger but also lessens the readers enthusiasm for the blog. Because of this a comment ...Comments (2)
May | 06 | 2008
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Is Creative Writing Appropriate For Blogs?
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing I came across an idea on Daily Blog Tips about creative writing for blogs. It reads: What does creative writing has to do with blogging? Well, for one thing all bloggers need to be able to write efficiently, and to be able to express and raise emotions from time to time. That is, they need to go beyond the mere facts once in a while (or more often than that depending on your niche). This raised the question “Is creative writing really needed for blogs?” in my mind. If we were to base everything on that snippet above, then ...Comments (2)
May | 04 | 2008
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Learning From Your Mistakes
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Write, write, write. That’s what my previous post was all about. What I didn’t really emphasize in that post is the need for practice. Yes, I did mention that a bit but I believe that it warrants more detail. Think about it this way – you can write for hours every day, 7 days a week. Heck, you can even write 24 hours if you wish do to so. Yet how will it benefit you if you keep on writing in the same way you have always been writing? How will you benefit if you ...Comments (2)
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