Jun | 19 | 2008

Music And Blogging (Part 3)

Posted by Jimmy as Tips, Writing Here’s the last installment for this series on how you can apply musical principles to enhance your blogging experience. Hans talks about 2 remaining points – engagement and attraction. What does he mean by engagement? He highlights Bono: I think that we all have high respect for engaged singer. Maybe we don’t always share the same ideological thoughts, but being engaged inspires respect from others! The lead signer of U2, Bono seems to me like a great example of an engaged singer. His songs are engaged and the words are meaningful. In addition, he is personally a militant for ...

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Jun | 14 | 2008

Music And Blogging (Part 2)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing In the last post, we talked about the similarities between music and blogging as presented by Hans over at Daily Blog Tips. We were only able to look at one element – rhythm. Let us take a look at the other similarities. Style For many, style is everything. Though it may be true, style is also relative. When it comes to music, you have the blues, rock, jazz, pop, classical, grunge, techno, and so on. Though we do not really have such classifications when it comes to writing blogs, we do have our own different styles. ...

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Jun | 11 | 2008

Music And Blogging

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing I love music – who doesn’t? For many people, music is an important part of their lives. Have you ever thought that musical elements can be applied to your blogging? I have to give credit for this thought to Hans over at Daily Blogging Tips. Let me share with you some of his ideas. He starts his list off with RHYTHM. Merriam-Webster defines rhythm as “the aspect of music comprising all the elements (as accent, meter, and tempo) that relate to forward movement.” This denotes a pattern. According to Hans, your blogging rhythm is ...

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Jun | 10 | 2008

How To Try New Topics

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing If you are maintaining a personal blog, then this post is not for you. How so? Simply because of the fact that in personal blogs, anything goes when it comes to topics. You can talk about anything under the sun and your readership will probably not be affected simply because you did so. I guess that is one reason I love writing for my personal blog. However, if one of your blogs is targeted at a specific audience, then posting new topics – especially those that are not really related to your theme – might not be ...

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Jun | 07 | 2008

Number of Links: How Much is Just Right?

Posted by Guru as Linking, Tips When it comes to inbound links the rule we all know that the more we get the merrier SEOs will be. Of course that's assuming that the inbound links are quality/relevant links. We don't want links from flagged sites (spammers). When it comes to the number of links you should insert per blog entry do you have a rule? For those who do not know how much they should link out to other sites here are a few tips that might be of help to you. 1. Link whenever needed - This means that there is no magic number. You should only ...

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Jun | 05 | 2008

Story Telling In Your Blog (Part 2)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing In the previous post, we highlighted the importance of starting BIG when telling stories in your blog. We also emphasized the need for being sure of what you want to convey and conveying your idea in a definite manner. Let us look at some more pointers in telling stories in your blog. Dialogues You have to include dialogues in your story. They do not have to be longwinded ones. In fact, the shorter, the better – at least in my book. But when you do use dialogues, make sure that they have an impact and that ...

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Jun | 01 | 2008

Story Telling In Your Blog

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing I remember joining writing contests when I was in grade school. I loved the actual writing and appreciated all the input that my mother and English teachers would give me. One thing that stood out from all the pieces of advice that I received is this: Tell a story. Telling a story engages your readers like nothing else can but it does take some spinning and weaving in order for it to be effective. So how do you tell a story in your blog? One thing that you have to perfect is your beginning. Unlike short stories and ...

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May | 27 | 2008

Adding Interest to your Blog: Formatting

Posted by Guru as Tips Too keep your blog pleasing to the eye without adding images what you can do is to: fix the layout of the blog format the text In terms of layout Blog-tutorials is definitely a good example. Blog posts are categorized and features entries for each major category are showcased. Since the blog has a very pleasing and colorful layout with images accompanying each featured category then this frees the blogger from having to come up with an accompanying image for each blog entry. What happens is that we only need to add images when we really feel the need to. When it comes to ...

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May | 26 | 2008

Adding Interest to your Blog: Images and Multi-media Content

Posted by Guru as Images, Tips Though I rarely add images in my posts here and have lots of pure text entries, it is actually advisable to occasionally add other elements to your blog posts to keep it more interesting. Remember you do not want one time readers only but want to get people to keep on returning. Making sure that your blog is pleasing to the eye (and never ending long lines of text is definitely NOT pleasing to the eye) is one way to make the blog more interesting and worth checking out regularly. So what are the things you should insert in your post ...

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May | 20 | 2008

Obsessing Over PageRank and Other Stats

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips If you are just starting to blog, then you would probably know what I am talking about. First you create your blog – either with a free blogging platform or with your own domain. Then you build up your blog. In the beginning, you probably focus on your content – nothing is more precious to you than writing quality posts regularly. Then you hear about blog statistics. You hear about traffic, links, PageRank, and the like. Before you know, you are hooked. You constantly find ways to increase your traffic. You constantly find ways ...

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