Jul | 16 | 2010

Write your own stuff, don’t leech from another blog!

Posted by Professor as Design and Themes, Opinion, Tips, Writing diary text from a photo on morguefile

There was a time that I heard about people who plagiarize blogs. I find it weird since some of the blogs that have been plagiarized were talking about personal matters. Think of it this way. If you wrote something like: This is one of the most wonderful days of my life. I have a new job, a chance to be with my best friend for an entire weekend and a new cel. Yes! It all happened in one week. The most awesome seven days of my life, thus ...

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Jul | 02 | 2010

The importance of making static pages for your blog

Posted by Professor as Blogging Tools, Tips, Writing WordPress pages

If you are using WordPress, you can have static pages. What are static pages and what can you use them for? Static Pages These are pages that are more or less stay as they are. They are more often than not pages that contain the information that you would like your visitors to have access to. The information could be about you and or your blog. What could you use static pages for? About page Give more information about you, your blog. Writing a nice page to introduce your blog and yourself is great but wouldn't ...

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Jun | 28 | 2010

Get a Hook For Your Blog

Posted by Professor as Tips, Writing

If you want to build traffic for your blog, you need to have some sort of hook, some sort of reason for people to keep coming back. In the warblogging world, that usually means you need to either be a "linker", a "thinker", or run a "theme" blog. "Linkers" are blogs like Instapundit, Daily Pundit, and Crooow Blog that pour on the links. These pages are frequently updated and people usually hit them to find interesting news on other pages. "Thinkers" focus on producing content instead of massive amounts of links. Rachel Lucas, ...

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Jun | 18 | 2010

Sharing interviews on your blog

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing microphone

Sometimes it is interesting to read about others. And it could be so much fun to write about them as well. Are you interested in specific people in the topic you write about on your blog? If yes, maybe it is time to take the chance to interview them and feature them on your blog. Interviews are a good way of meeting people up close and personal. Although this is not always the case, at least you learn a lot of new things about them even through email. Not just email but ...

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Apr | 23 | 2010

Are You Blogging Too Frequently? Part II

Posted by Jimmy as Writing Last time I gave two things that will indicate that you may be blogging too frequently: if you are flooding your subscribers' feeds and if you keep rehashing old topics. Here are two more things that could mean that you might be overdoing it in terms of blogging frequency. 3. You Find your writing quality going down - If you reread your old posts and compare them to new ones and find that even you are less satisfied with the new ones then you could be writing too frequently. Remember it's better to come up with less posts as long as ...

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Apr | 22 | 2010

Are You Blogging Too Frequently? Part I

Posted by Jimmy as Writing Giving your readers something new to read is important. It's important so that your readers will not get bored and will know that your blog is something they should check on regularly. It is also important in SEO because freshness of content is something that search engines look into, especially now that real time search results are getting more popular. However, there is such a thing as blogging too frequently. As in all things, anything that's too much is not good. So how do you know if you're overdoing it? How do you figure out just how frequently you ...

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Apr | 20 | 2010

SEO Blogs: Why starting one isn’t a good idea

Posted by Jimmy as Marketing and Search Optimization, Writing SEO blogs are valuable as a resource for SEO newbies. There are even some SEO blogs out there that are really valuable resources even for advanced SEO techniques. Great SEO blogs out there include Matt Cutt's blog (great for newbies to advanced since your get the latest Google updates and of course the hid video tutorials), Bill Slawski's SEO by the SEA (now this one is mostly for the advanced SEO people - be preapared to see lots of patents), and SEOmoz's blog (too many posts here sometimes but every week you'll find a gem here). SEO blogs are very ...

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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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Mar | 24 | 2010

Just Do It

Posted by Jimmy as Writing This isn't a Nike ad but their slogan is something that all bloggers can learn a lesson from. Actually, it's a motto we can apply in all aspects of our lives but of course it's blogging we're concerned with here. As a blogger one of the things that we struggle with is coming up with posts regularly. Writing blocks is as common as anything can get and is something that must be overcome even before we even worry over the quality of the post. I have written about overcoming blocks so many times but there's just no overemphasizing the need to ...

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