Guide To Blogging

If you want that hit stat to go up like a rocket to the sky, it’s better to find a niche for you blogging. It’s a matter of deciding of what you like best to right, and most of all, on what you know best.

This expert advice had been prescribed by the most successful bloggers in the pro field. Search engines has a way of putting priority to content search towards sites with uniform and consistent web content and this is most especially helpful when one is aiming to earn much from advertisement placement such as from Google Adsense and Adbrite.

So if you are into pro blogging, this is the main thing you should be doing first of all. To find a niche of your own and not put content in your blog that is so scattered and wide-ranging, search engines are not much inclined to direct to blogs who has no specialty content.

So if you are into tech, bring forth those tech news and infos. They are mostly the most searched items on the net. If you are into politics, stick with that most of the time. If you are into electronics, you’d be having a lot of visitors from online shoppers of gadgets and electronics.

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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 down it doesn’t work that way. What you need to do is start small, at the bottom then work your way to the top as blog becomes bigger and your topics diverse.

Make blogging enjoyable by blogging about what you love
If you like what you are blogging about chances are you can blog about that certain topic for as long as you like. If you’re really into a certain topic, chances are you have deep knowledge on the subject matter and will have fun writing great, descriptive and helpful posts.

Set a Blogging schedule
Doing a week’s worth of blog post can wear you out so it’s best that you keep a blogging schedule and very much stick to it, follow it to the letter and also allot a free time to recharge your batteries, such as taking the weekend off from blogging or spending time with family, friends which is not related to blogging. This may cause you to miss the part of blogging which in turn would give you the fuel to make a great post.

Blogging as habit
Blog regularly to make it a habit once you get the hang of it, blogging comes easy to you that you just can’t live without it, a day may seem incomplete and you may feel lost when you aren’t able to blog. Maybe a good or a bad thing.

Make a list of ideas and topics for your blog
It’s a very good idea to keep a blog topic list or a stash of ideas, so you have ample time to think about what to write. This saves time and mental energy instead of cramming the thick skull for ideas which seem to fly away from you mind. And also if ever a sudden flow ideas pop in your head in those inconvinient times when you can’t fire up your laptop or PC, then I suggest keep a handy little notepad or a tape recorder, so you can input ideas on the said devices or tools

Read, read, read
Read other blogs daily check out their writing style, how they write their ideas to be able to reach their readers, you can learn a lot form other bloggers simply by just reading at their post. Plus it will encourage you to do well on your blog too. Also read the comments on your blog, if you ever you get a bad comment or got criticized for something you posted you it to better yourself and your blog. Use negative comments, as your “blogging fuel”.

Blog for the people
Blog for the people, blog about what they want to read and blog to help your readers. Give solutions to problems, give the reader what they want. And also add media to your blog. Don’t be confined to a 2-dimensional blog, make it unpredictable, add media, like pictures, video, etc, to make it appealing as well as entertaining to the readers.

I like this article… It’s a very realistic and has dynamic feel to it… as you can interchange the word “blogging” and insert any type of hobby you are into… “designing, programming, eating”… hahahhaa!

Taken from Jaren’s PostBlog Tutorials - Blogging Indefinitely

No, writing creative blogs does not include topics of absurd imagination or far-fetched ideas. Creative blogs may contain everyday stuff but keep the Dear Diary format on a minimum. So what really is a creative blog?
First, do away with stagnant topics. Stagnant topics are everywhere and they are the ones usually comment-able by “wow, great post” and it ends there. Write about thought-provoking stuff. Your readers are sure to comment endlessly, with you joining the comment conversation. Eventually, one comment is sure to strike you and it can lead you to write a new topic out of it. You can also try posting reviews of whatever’s current – movies, books, TV series and the like. This is sure to create a discussion among your readers and with each insight comes a new idea that you can write about.

Avoid These WHEN Writing
- Spell check: Ignore the red-underlined words.
- Dictionary / Thesaurus: Resist yourself from always looking for a “better” word.
- Sentence Structure: Never mind if it doesn’t really make sense or if it’s run-on.
- Google / other search engines: Don’t stop with the goal of “adding more stuff” to what you are writing. You’ll end up digressing and eventually, procrastinating.
- Looking back: Write until all else is pretty much exhausted from you.
Imperatives AFTER writing
- Do all those listed above.
- Always, always separate editing from writing.
- Never ever interrupt the momentum of your creativity.

Blogging these days without an RSS Feed is like blogging before TiVo. The only way people will know whether you have new posts would be to for them to go directly to your site and patiently wait for it everyday. Most readers these days don’t have such time and luxury. Thus, the creation of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS).

In a nutshell, RSS is the perfect application for those who wish to be updated on the latest news, events on their favorite blog, without logging into the site. It’s also a great way for bloggers to send out their information to a wide audience. This has changed the way people read the news in the internet these days, as it saves more time for them to scan over a lot of sites in one look.

In order for you to enjoy RSS you must have an RSS reader as well. There are a lot of readers in the internet, and all you need to do is google them. Have a grand time RSS’ing!

Sometimes, it’s so difficult to finish a blog post of 150 to 200 words, with good content and satisfying overall quality. Personally, this problem comes from my being obsessive-compulsive in writing. It is when I am writing with so much eagerness and ideas, I suddenly stop and break my momentum. And no, it wasn’t because of some emergency but because I itched to edit what I’m writing. You see, I learned that writing and editing are two different things. When you write, you just write – just put your ideas down in words. Editing, on the other hand, is what you do AFTER writing. Never mind if you find a bunch of errors, what is important is that you’ve concretized those thoughts dying to get out of your head.

Procrastination is a common problem of all people, in particular, bloggers. Sometimes, we get lost in our research and end up surfing the net for things that are totally unrelated to what we’re supposed to write about. Other times, we just put off writing altogether. How do we beat procrastination?

This might be a little on the cliché side but discipline is key. Discipline yourself. Most of us whine that we can’t work unless it’s late and everyone’s asleep and we have the house to ourselves. Fine, point taken; we all have our working timetables and I, too, am guilty of such whining. But sometimes, it is best to actually get it over with first thing in the morning. You will realize how much more productive you can be when you start working early. After all, you just came from period of rest and your mind is pretty much fresh and more receptive to thinking.

A common problem for writers is time. While you have a lot of ideas, you do not have enough time to actually put them down to writing. If you have a job or schooling that takes up most of your time, try to siphon short writings early in the morning before starting your day or late at night before you hit the hay. Of course, you can execute better writing when you have the time but this works so as to not lose your ideas and material.
Perhaps, what you can do is plan out when you can actually dedicate a huge chunk of hours for your writing. As with all things, time management and prioritizing is key. Allot 3 to 4 solid hours of writing time, especially when you are the most relaxed; stressed writing is the same as a hurried one. Work with whatever is comfortable for you – play music, have some munchies or a cup of coffee. Ultimately, never force yourself to continue if you reach a point of blank slate. However, do keep in mind that you have deadlines.

In short, discipline is the way to go.

(Related article: http://www.blog-tutorials.com/blog-tutorial/when-you-are-short-of-time/)