Oct | 05 | 2007

Encourage your Readers to Comment

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Plugins, Tips, Writing I like reading Jimmy's Post on Hungry for Comments, I am also addicted to reading comments may it be good or bad left by my readers. It gives me a mushy feeling that I stirred up their emotions in some weird way. Tips to keep Readers Glued by encouraging them to comment... in other words Dudes, Join the Party! When posting an article, I always think of my readers... will this post benefit them, will they comment or will they just read the post and bookmark it, well being bookmark is a good thing, but getting comments and being bookmarked is ...

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Sep | 27 | 2007

Blog Rush

Posted by Guru as Blogging News, Marketing and Search Optimization, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, Syndication Unless you've been really out of touch in the blogging world then you have probably heard about BlogRush by now. BlogRush was launched only very recently (Sept 15th) but has been making headlines, and more importantly, has been getting a real rush of bloggers signing up and putting up their widget on their blogs. But what is Blog Rush really? And what will it do for your blog? Blog rush is simply a blog syndication network. With all the blog syndication networks peppering the internet what makes Blog Rush standout? Well, first of all, its claim of giving you an instant ...

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Sep | 17 | 2007

How to be a better Blogger

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Blog Tutorials News, Creating a Blog, Tips The Do's and Dont's to be a Better Blogger Do -- Write What the Readers Want Your main topic, article or posts should always be focused on what the readers would want to read it should be helpful to them like How to Have the Perfect Body, How To Make Lots of Money Online, How to make an Award-Winning Resume, that my friends would mean that you would always think of ways on how you would help the readers, and give them to solutions to everyday problems. Don’t -- Write What the Readers Don't Want The exact opposite of what I said ...

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Sep | 10 | 2007

Blogging Indefinitely

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Blogging Tools, Tips, Writing Tips on how you can blog longer Now it's hard to maintain the level of competency in blogging, at some point you're doing this great post, but on the next week you'd been posting dull articles or not even posting at all. Ideas run up and sometimes get exhausted, so here are tips to keep you blogging for a lifetime, blog indefinitely, and to be able to blog longer and have fun doing it. Keep it simple and small, yet fascinating Ok it's best to start to blog small and simple. Don't start with a view from the top and work your way ...

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Aug | 30 | 2007

My Opinion on Link Baiting

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Creating a Blog, Linking, Opinion, Submissions, Tips, Writing Because of this post on Guru's post on succesful link baiting it came to me as an idea that there is also one form of link baiting which I do often. I post exagerated articles like this for example : A Day without Coffee at the QuickStop. I know , I exagerated a bit but heck it did give me a whole lot of traffic, I didn't lie. I just added a couple of hours, to make my post seem more exciting. Plus, another successful form of link baiting is debunking rumors or news about something which is accepted as ...

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Aug | 30 | 2007

A Quick Look at Some Successful Link Baits

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features, Software and Widgets Informative Hook Jennifer Laycock’s “Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days” Project Ok so it started with a forum post at SmallBusinessBrief and not a blog post. However the project gave rise to The Lactivist, which was proof that the project did work. The project became popular for several reasons: 1. The title is really catchy. 2. People all over the world can definitely relate to the zero cash part. 3. The whole project, as it progressed yielded lots of useful information. 4. The results of the project showed its effectiveness. 5. The entire project was just interesting to watch unfold. 6. Jenn, the ...

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Aug | 22 | 2007

Add pictures to your Blog

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Images, Tips, Writing Here's a cool blog tip. Try add pictures relevant to your post to make it more appealing and more attractive to other readers. If you can add you own homemade video the better. Pictures add dept to your posts makes it more exciting and more true. Although an overload of pictures on your post may seem overkill so limit it to just 2-3 pictures. But you can still go as many as 5-10 pictures If it's about photography. Also add your own personalized logo or your picture and tell something about yourself. Advertise yourself : state your strengths, hobbies or anything ...

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Aug | 12 | 2007

Cute Suggestions for New Bloggers

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Tips When I started blogging I didn't know what to do. I asked my cousin to teach the ways of blogging, but to no avail just keeps on laughing and tells me to learn to "use the force my young padawan". Finally after months of trials and errors finally found a blogging gig and I'm starting to get the drift of it. Now I know my tips may or may not work for you, but it sure did work for me. as you can see from my blog : the QuickStop, here's my 11 hard learned tips, 1. KISS ( Keep It ...

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Aug | 10 | 2007

Marketing Your Blog: The 4 Ps (Product)

Posted by Guru as Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Marketing and Search Optimization The use of blogs as a marketing tool is increasing in popularity. The funny thing about blogs though is that whether you are using it to simply promote a product, service or company or are promoting the blog itself it is still very important to market the blog properly to get lots of traffic. In short, the marketing tool needs to be marketed! There are so many ways to market a blog. However, to simplify things let us go back to the basics of marketing and tackle the 4 Ps one at a time. If you do not know the ...

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Aug | 04 | 2007

Don’t be a Tagboard Whore

Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Linking, Promotion, Tips Tagboards are very useful for a beginning blogger for two chief reasons: They provide the blogger’s readers a hassle-free venue to give feedback or compliments; and They allow the blogger to easily build relationships (e.g. link exchange) with other bloggers by commenting on their tagboards. While there is nothing wrong with the latter – going around the tagboards of people and saying hello – this tactic is often abused (consciously or unconsciously) by many bloggers. There are bloggers whose obvious purpose is just to advertise their own sites, leaving messages such as “Dropped by”, “Visit my blog”, or worse, just smilies. For regular visitors ...

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