Blogging IS Writing
Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Opinion, Submissions, Terminology, Tips, Writing Blogging is often taken as informal writing. While this may be true, it does not mean that it is okay for a blogger to disregard writing rules. It’s bad enough that Internet sources are not considered as scholarly, and it’s worse that there are sites that prove it right – because of poorly written articles. As a blogger, you should remember that you do have some responsibility on what you publish online and this is not only about content. If you want to keep a good blogging reputation, better start with the technicalities of writing. When writing your posts, it ...Comments (0)
When Blogging turns into Leeching
Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Opinion, Terminology, Tips, Writing Sometime in our desperate search to find awesome ideas to accompany our awesome post, we get excited or emotions fly away as we care about nothing but our goal, to blog, to get that idea out of our small little head, sometimes we look for articles or blog posts to back up our post, sometimes it's a good thing, but when overused it maybe a bad thing, sometimes blogging can turn into leeching. In blogging, we wait for someone to make an article or a post about a certain topic then link to it because after all it's how you really ...Comments (0)
Plain Wording and SEO
Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features, Terminology, Writing In my last post I talked about the importance of targeting your niche market by using more specific keywords. By using specific terms instead of just generic ones you are able to get more traffic from search users that these terms bring. In Mark Jackson's article on "Optimizing Pages for New and Improved Search Engine Users" you will see just why targeting your niche market will benefit you. Since I enjoyed reading Jackson's article so much I waited for today's article on long-tail optimization. I wasn't disappointed. One of the things that stuck to me is Jackson's advice ...Comments (3)
Changing Your Wordpress Permalinks
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Terminology, TipsWhen I’m opening a Wordpress blog (I’ve done so a dozen or more times), one of the first things I do is to change the permalink structure. “Permalink” (a portmanteau of “permanent” and “link”) means the URL or web address of your blog posts, pages, categories, archives, and so on.
When you install a Wordpress blog, it uses URLs that sport question marks and numbers. This isn’t the optimal permalink structure; here’s why:
1) Aesthetics. http://blog-tutorials.com/this-is-a-cool-post looks infinitely better than http://blog-tutorials.com/?p=123, doesn’t it?
2) Usability. Remember, whenever a blog reader hovers his/her mouse ...
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Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents
Posted by Jeff as Terminology I love it when news like this gets the front page every now and then; it encourages people to look further into the story and its repercussions in their own goings-on. In the bloggers' case, this means understanding what a copyright, a trademark, or a patent can do for your write-ups and original images, audio and video. Most people confuse one with the other, so I'll take a shot at helping most of us who aren't very legalese, and to those who'd rather not scour through pages-long entries from Wikipedia: I'll start with the easiest one - the copyright. A ...Comments (0)
Voices Carried Thru Blogging
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Submissions, Terminology, Tips, Writing Blogging has been getting quite some attention lately and the bottom-line of it all is the fact that blogging holds a lot of what a person holds in his mind, mostly expressions he or she holds back most of the time. There is no question that most people hesitate to let their voices be heard, apparently being wary of possible violent reactions from people who know more about particular areas and do not accommodate any points that would not have sufficient claims.
Blogs are not meant to replace the usual definitions and terminologies that all ...
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Staying On-Topic When Blogging
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Hosting, Templates, Terminology, Tips For most bloggers, the ideas running in their heads will most likely become distorted due to anxiety and the desire to be able to expound on various topics of concern properly. This is only normal but just like in any activity that they are very much inclined to prove, the need to discipline and take into consideration that they should not get off topic must be observed.
The issue here is that readers will not be too forgiving in making criticism, taking them to levels where they would bash bloggers at will once they have ...
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Instant Blogging Mind Rush
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Terminology, Tips The key towards creating sensible blog content is through immediately putting the thoughts in mind into writing. People who use the habit of saving them for later are likely to lose that thought and end up recalling endlessly the series of events that let them to actually putting these ideas into perspective.
The spur of the moment ideology is only normal and usually, it is these thoughts that attract attention on the web. People may not think of them to highly but the truth of it all is the fact that they are indeed ...
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Image Relevance in Blog Posts
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Images, Promotion, Submissions, Templates, Terminology, Tips Bloggers can use any image of their liking to act as supporting designs for usual blogs that want to prove a point. Some insights may not be shared by other people, but from the viewpoint of one person alone, a broad image to support blog entries would need in-depth content meaning for the whole entry to be justified.
Irrelevant images pointing towards the actual gist of a blog entry is something that may be risky. For one thing, not all people would understand the actual intent of the blogger. To some people, blogs ...
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Techniques to Learn from the Probloggers
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Design, Design and Themes, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization, Monetization Features, Promotion, Submissions, Templates, Terminology, Tips There are various approaches and techniques towards blogging. It has been preached that anyone can take up this new gift of technology but no one has an idea of what it can give them in return.
It can give them a means of honing their grammar, build their confidence level and share to the world the ramblings in the mind of the normal person. However, it remains that people have to discover what blogs are really meant for. They are more than just online diaries. They are potential keys that can help develop a person ...
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Is Your Blog W3C Compliant?
Last night I checked my personal blog’s code hoping I can proudly display the W3C Validated Button. Since I use Blogger and do not really do anything to clean up the code (beyond adding Alt-tags to the images I embed) I wasn’t surprised at all to find that my blog contained lots of errors - [...]
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Wordpress Plug-ins
If you blog using Wordpress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen.
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A Friend In Need
I’m helping out my friends from the UA&P - IShareHappiness Blog Team.
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Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone [...]
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Making Money Through Consumer Generated Ads
As I mentioned in my previous post today I will be suggesting some ways you can still profit by joining programs such as Pay Per Post and yet ensure that your readers don’t get turned off.
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Building your blog brand step by step
Building your blog’s brand does not need to be difficult. However, when it comes to branding you should always remember to exert effort to be consistent with the image you wish to portray or you’ll end up with confused, turned-off, and/or skeptical readers. Branding inconsistencies will make it obvious that the image you’re putting up [...]
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