Jun | 10 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (0)
Jun | 07 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (0)
Jun | 05 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (0)
Jun | 01 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (2)
May | 27 | 2008
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Understanding The Benefits of Guest Posting (Part 2)
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Writing Just to refresh your memory about the last post, we talked about how beneficial it would be for a blogger to guest post in someone else’s blog, especially if that other blog has a wider readership and a good PR. The benefits of this kind of guest posting in quite evident in this case – at least for the person who is doing the guest posting. But what about the person who is allowing other people to guest post? Is there any sense in doing so? I believe that the biggest advantage to allowing guest posting is the ...Comments (0)
May | 27 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (0)
May | 26 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (0)
May | 25 | 2008
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Understanding The Benefits of Guest Posting
Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Writing If you have been browsing blogs for quite some time, you’ve probably encountered guest posts. The idea behind guest posting is simple – a person contributes to another blog which does not belong to him. So why would people want to post an entry in someone else’s blog? More so, why would you want someone else to post an entry in your blog? From the point of view of the guest blogger, posting an entry in another blog is a good form of exposure for him. He gets to write an article, post in under his name, ...Comment (1)
May | 20 | 2008
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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 ...Comments (0)
May | 19 | 2008
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Linkbait: How Much and How Often?
Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features We would all love to be such great bloggers that each and every post would be considered by other bloggers worhty enough to mention and link to. Realistically though it is impossible to come up with a post that hundreds or even just dozens will link back to each and every day. If you keep on trying to come up with a blog post worthy enough to be on the front page of Digg each and everyday you'll probably end up either burnt out in a really short time or really frustrated. More realistically you'll end up being both. So how ...Comments (3)
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