Apr | 30 | 2008

Are You A Fence Sitter?

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing The Free Dictionary defines this expression as: fence sitter n. Informal One who takes a position of neutrality or indecision, as in a controversial matter. Take a look at some of your posts which feature particularly controversial topics. For example, when it comes to blogging practices, we have topics such as keyword density, black hat or grey hat SEO, and the like. For blogs that tackle many other topics, politics, religion, etc. could be controversial topics. In those posts, did you voice out a definite opinion on the issue at hand? Did you choose a side and defend it? ...

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Apr | 28 | 2008

Exploiting Clichés

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing Who said that clichés are never good? Well really should avoid them most of the time. After all, I am sure that you can come up with something more original and something that would drive your point home – most of the time, that is. Yet what about those times when you simply cannot get those creative juices flowing? Will you settle for something less compelling rather than make use of a cliché? Personally, I would say no. I am not all that against clichés, really. There are clichés, and there are clichés. I ...

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Apr | 25 | 2008

Are You A Blogging Addict? (Part 3)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing So you obsess over your subscriber count (Oh no! I only have 89 subscribers! My target is 100!). And you can’t seem to stop checking your blog stats (It’s already been 45 minutes since I last checked. I should check again – a lot can happen in 45 minutes, you know!). What else can be indicators that you might – just might – be a blogging addict? How much time do you spend on social media sites? Digg, Stumble Upon, and the like. How often do you “push” your posts on these sites? Do you ...

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Apr | 20 | 2008

Are You A Blogging Addict? (Part 2)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorials News, Blogging Tools, Opinion, Software and Widgets, Tips In the last post, we took a look at something that a blogging “addict” may obsess about – the number of subscribers. Well, here’s another thing that someone with an intense desire for blogging can obsess about – statistics. To be honest, I have gone through this phase a couple of times in my blogging life. Even if I would like to think that I have overcome this obsession, I still find myself checking my blog stats a little more than I should. Ask yourself this question – how many times do you spend checking your ...

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Apr | 18 | 2008

Are You A Blogging Addict?

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Marketing and Search Optimization, Opinion, Tips, Writing I didn’t really want to use the word “addict” as it may have some negative connotation to it. However, I couldn’t really find a more appropriate word for the idea that I want to convey – which is a strong desire to continuously work on one’s blog (and everything else that goes with it). There are concrete signs that one is addicted to blogging – they are not necessarily bad, mind you. Let’s take a look at some of them and see if we are addicted to blogging. Do you obsess over the number of your subscribers? The fact is ...

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Apr | 15 | 2008

The First Journalese-English Dictionary

Posted by Jimmy as Opinion, Writing I know, some people think that the words journalist and blogger should never be placed in the same sentence – unless they are being contrasted. Then again, I am not some people, and I do believe that these two groups of people do not have to be necessarily mutually exclusive. In any case, I ran across the first ever Journalese-English Dictionary online, something which aims to point out clichés that tend to be used by journalists. The idea of the author (Graeme) is to make writers aware of how tempting it is to use these words ...

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Apr | 12 | 2008

How To Word Sponsored Posts

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing There are so many ways by which to earn money through blogging these days. As such, it is no wonder that so many people are joining the blogging bandwagon – why not, when you can earn dollars for almost no effort at all? Guru posted a couple of entries on How to Avoid Becoming an Ad Spam Blog and I think that we would all benefit from it. The entries made me think more on how a blogger should word his or her sponsored entries in such a way as to retain credibility in the eyes ...

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Apr | 08 | 2008

Internet Babel Targets Big Bloggers Over Grammar

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorials News, Opinion, Tips, Writing How important is proper grammar when it comes to writing blogs? I am sure that you already have an inkling of my position on this matter. I have written several posts on how being a blogger does not excuse anyone from using decent grammar when writing. Nick Sullivan over at Internet Babel and I share the same point of view and he even took it one step further – he singled out some of the biggest bloggers for their bad grammar! Here’s an excerpt: Now, bloggers aren’t necessarily writers but still. They do write. I don’t mind bad ...

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Apr | 03 | 2008

Death and Blogging

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Writing I don’t consider myself as a particularly morbid person and death does not bother me. However, I haven’t really thought about blogging and death together. Not that they are strange bedfellows but these two topics don’t really naturally come together, right? Well, unless your blog’s main topic is death, of course. I was scanning some blogs earlier and I ran across a post entitled “Death provides lively copy for blogs.” That definitely caught my attention! Glenn Abel, the author of the post, presented an interesting topic for blog posts – death. He says: Death doesn't ...

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Mar | 28 | 2008

What is Needed for a Good Blogging Experience

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Editorials, Opinion, Tips Blogging needs commitment of both time and energy. The look and the functions of your site must be well-maintained as well as the content of your posts. Also you need these factors for a good blogging experience, so you'll be like the Energizer bunny...it keeps, going and going and going... Let's say you want to be the "Energizer Blog Bunny" you want to keep blogging, and blogging and blogging... Ingredients for Good Blogging Experience (GBE) Finding the Right Focus Finding the Right Focus or your groove or your jam - a very, very part in a good blogging experience writing because it ...

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