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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Nov | 20 | 2007

How A-List Bloggers Build Traffic (Off-Blog) for their Blogs

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Tips Want to know how to get traffic for your blog? Who better to ask than the top bloggers? And this is what Jonathan Fields did when he asked them to answer this question: “If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?” Wanting to share with you these bloggers' wisdom I picked those that represented most of the answers. For the full list of answers from today's A-list bloggers please visit Jonathan Field's Blog. Darren Rowse (ProBlogger.net) - Guest Posting - I’d identify a handful of other blogs in ...

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Sep | 20 | 2007

Joining Memes: Link Love and Traffic

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Tips Memes are one of the easiest and least expensive ways of getting traffic to your blog FAST. Sure paid advertising will get you in the front page of SERPs quickly but you will need to fork out some money each time someone clicks on the ad. Don't get me wrong. Paid listings are great and is perfect for business blogs. But if your budget is really small or non-existent, or you just love being a cheapskate, like I am, then memes might do it for you. Memes are really simply to join. generally the only thing required is for you to ...

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Sep | 18 | 2007

More Blog Marketing Ideas

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, Submissions, Syndication, Tips Continuation of Blog Marketing Ideas 4. Join Memes - Blog chockful of memes can be iriitating to some readers but meme communities are usually very large and generate tons of traffic. Memes are also great for fillers especially when you don't really feel like blogging that day. Of course since memes topics are given the day you are supposed to post then you can opt to join memes that post on days you prefer. 5. Social Bookmarking - Make it easy to bookmark your entries by installing social bookmark buttons like the ones below under Share and Enjoy. The most ...

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Sep | 04 | 2007

Single Big Blog vs. Numerous Niche Blogs? Or Both?

Posted by J. Angelo as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Editorials, SEO Features, Tips Over at Performancing, Ahmed Bilal posts about the argument between running one big blog about a wide array of topics, or numerous blogs that focus on specific niches. He presents the pros and cons to both. A single big site benefits from economies of scale, is cost-effective, allows for a focused use of resources, requires less manpower to manage, can easily dominate search engine rankings in the long run, and can perhaps earn more revenue thanks to direct advertising deals. On the other hand, if you have several small sites, it is easier to build a passionate user-base, it's easier to be ...

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Jun | 15 | 2007

Perception Manipulation: More On Statistics

Posted by Benj as Community Building, Software and Widgets, Tips Numbers are very powerful little buggers. Make them eye-popping enough and you can make people swing one way. We see this phenomenon happen a lot in pre-election surveys, TV show ratings and other studies that supposedly reflect the preference of individuals regarding different issues. In blogging, it's also possible to harness the oh-so-human reaction to seemingly compelling numbers to your favor.

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