Nov | 24 | 2009

Guest Blog Your Way to More Readers and Links

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Syndication, Tips I have done a few posts on guest blogging. Other bloggers here in blog-tutorials like Jaren and Guru have also posted about the same topic. However, the usual focus is on the benefits of having a guest blogger, with the most obvious being helping you out when you’re in a rut or need to take a vacation from your blog for some other reason. What I haven’t expounded on though is the benefits of blogging on other blogs. The most obvious advantage is of course added exposure. You get the benefit of being read by the other blogs’ regular readers without ...

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Sep | 25 | 2009

Taking a Breather: Say Bye to Your Blog but Not Your Readers

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Tips, Writing Having a blog is like having a pet when it comes to taking some time for off. If you want to go on a vacation and has declared it a “blog-free” vacation you should make sure that the blog still gets tended. After all if you have a baby you won’t just leave it alone at home for days on end. If going out for the afternoon or maybe overnight leaving food and water might be enough but longer than that and you’ll need to make arrangements such as getting a pet sitter, asking your friends for a favor or ...

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Feb | 24 | 2009

Using MyBlogLog And Blog Catalog

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Opinion I talked about how you can use Twitter to attract more people to your blog in the previous post; people who might not even know that you exist otherwise. There are other ways by which you can gain that much needed and much desired exposure for your blog and one of them is by joining blog directories. I think that this topic has been much talked about in the past – both here at Blog Tutorials and other blogs and web sites. And this is for a reason – blog directories are very effective in helping other ...

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Dec | 05 | 2008

Make The Most Out Of Your Reading Time

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Community Building, Tips More than writing actual posts for your blog, I bet that you spend a considerable amount of time reading other blogs. This is in fact one good way to get ideas for your posts. Though of course I am not advocating stealing copy, you can always get inspiration and learn lessons from reading other blogs. In fact, that is one of the tips that I mention a lot – do not isolate yourself from the rest of the blogosphere. Anyhow, if you are like me, there might be times when you get too engrossed reading blogs and before ...

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Nov | 21 | 2008

Why Use Social Media?

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Opinion Very recently, I wrote a post on using social media to promote your blog. What I didn’t really touch on was the main purpose of using social media. Indeed, why spend considerable time on these social media applications when you can use that time to actually work on your blog? The answer is simple – social media can have specific purposes that will benefit your blog in the end. The important thing is that you identify WHY you want to use a particular social media application. Here are some possible reasons. To gain insight about a ...

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Jun | 21 | 2008

How Often Do You Read Other Blogs?

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Opinion This question popped into my mind while I was talking to another blogger friend. We both blog a lot – in fact, she maintains several blogs at the same. However, when we started talking about other blogs that we read, she gave me an almost blank look. Her unspoken question was “Do you really read other people’s blogs a lot?” I think that this is one very important aspect of blogging. One of the basic principles of blogs is the free exchange of information. More than this, blogs exist because people want to read about the ...

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May | 09 | 2008

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 ...

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Mar | 24 | 2008

A Blogger’s Responsibility

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Community Building, Editorials, Opinion, Tips, Writing One of the greatest things that the Internet has brought to writers is that they had been given the freedom to express themselves, sans the strictures and the censorship that editors can bring them. But there are downsides to this freedom, too. Because anyone can very well say anything to the general public, and a lot of people tend to take everything at face value, the Internet had, at some point, needed some cleanup. While it would definitely take a discerning eye to watch out for truth vs. fiction on the Internet, there are days when I actually want to tear down some sites, because they present misleading and even downright erroneous information. That is why, as a blogger, you have the responsibility to present facts from reputable sources.

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Feb | 18 | 2008

Social Media Shouts to Promote your Blog

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Promotion, Tips It has been established over and over again that the social media is a very useful tool for promoting websites on the internet. One way people like to promote things is by using shouts (called that in Digg called some other thing in other social media sites but you get the idea). The problem though is that spammers seem to find their way to everything they can exploit so that shouts have become littered with spam shouts so that people tend to ignore shouts. The good thing though is that many social media sites have caught up with these spammers ...

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Jan | 18 | 2008

Benefits of Guest Posts

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Marketing and Search Optimization, Tips, Writing During my last post on Beating the Blog Rut I neglected to mention another way of making sure that you still have entries even when you are having a writer's block - having guest bloggers. Asking friends and colleagues to write one or two posts on your blog is actually very advantageous and will benefit you beyond helping you get out of your rut. Some of the advantages of asking other bloggers to write an entry or two in your blog include: 1. fresh perspective - A guest blogger can give fresh perspective to the same topic. You can ask ...

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