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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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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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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