Guide To Blogging

One proven way of improving your blog status is by having it linked by as many sites as possible. You could do this by visiting and blog-hopping and commenting on other sites. Make known that you want to be linked and offer a link exchange if possible. If you do this often, you can increase your linkage over time, as many as possible.

Of course, do not be hypocritical when asking for link exchange. You got to let them know that you truly like their blogs. Pretentious commenter are mostly shunned. And it is of course without saying that you need to have a good content, when content is always king, in order to invite linkages from other sites.

You could also get linkages by purchasing link spots on very popular sites who offers this kind of service. Of course, they go with a fee. But it is not so expensive or very costly. Maybe you could spend 10 Dollars in a week for having your site linked to highly visited sites and it could pay of for you. You could even avail of Adsense placements at a reasonable cost.

No matter how you do it, whether through exchange of links or thru purchase of commercial link spots, you got to have your blog linked as much as possible. That’s the only way to go.

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This is a proven way of driving site traffic towards the roof. As much as possible, try to update your blog in the most frequent of manner. And to aim for the maximum, do blogging on almost on a daily basis. Sites that are rarely updated are not searched that much and search engines just disregard them. If you blog almost all day and you have a niche form of blogging, those traffics stats could easily go up and ad revenues would surely come in.

Of course, this would take a lot of patience and determination. But if you are really aiming at blog success, and at being a pro in the field, you got to do this, or sink.

One way to achieve this goal is by having a list of possible topics for about a week ahead. Searched for the news and infos on the net and list down the topics you could write from Monday to Sunday and of course you need a high-speed connection for this.

A blog post a day would surely keep blogging and your blog the healthiest possible.

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What to do when you don’t know what to post. I occasionally encounter this problem at least once a week. This is mostly due to stress that I can’t think of any possible topic to post about, or when the good topics have already been posted. What I usually do is fix myself a cup of coffee, relax and just chill out, listen to music ( rock music works for me ). When writing an article you must enjoy and be comfortable on that subject, the harder the subject the less you would be able to post an article so in order to do that you must be stress free. Another tip is do something which is not related to blogging, take me as an example, for my stress busting day-off from blogging I go out with my friends for a nice day of paintball, releases all those pent-up rages and adrenaline you’ve kept for the week. Now after a tiring day of paintball, I can think of far-out topics about “how not to be a sitting duck when playing paintball” or “That 13-year old kid Owned me”, and or you can apply your guerilla tactics to your blog post, like “seek and destroy” , “Hit and Run” that sort of stuff, now will you be that lonely sniper that wait for perpetual targets to come into your view, will you be the Delta Force ( Elite Special Forces), or the Grunt of the blogging Army. Blogging is fun when you enjoy every minute of it.

Thanks to Blog Tutorials : Don’t know what article to Post?

For most of the time, blogging is a hobby, a past time that allows release of thoughts and feelings. Blogging is, for the most part, an outlet. You post and post, not really caring if you’d have new subscribers, new visitors, new comments, and the like. But such are most welcome, of course, and it makes you happy.

However, you notice that on random days, you have more visitors / comments than usual. Does it mean that those random days have your best posts? Try looking at those posts that gained more / new viewers and look at how comments were directed. Were the comments merely observant or was there a formed discussion among the readers?

Read through your entries and find these posts. Apparently, these posts have the kind of topics that appeal more to readers. What you can do is write similar posts, improve on the ideas you’ve written in it, expound and make it in-depth, and explore similar topics. This is certain to gain you readership and maintain it as well.

Taken From Jaren’s Post on Blog Tutorials : Writing your Most Popular Post – and Keeping at It

I like Jaren’s post on Blog Tutorials Titled Blogging is Like…

There He compared blogging to playing the Game Sid Meier’s Civilization, I for one also Like playing Civilization and was excited upon reading the post. So here it is. I had to post it in here because it give a nice explanation why we blog.

Blogging is like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, at first you start at something small, manage your resources (ideas, contents, topics), take care of your Cities and Citizens (your blog and readers) to make it grow by giving that what they want luxuries, food (info, tips, news) but somehow your cities ( your blog) also need security that’s why you have to make a defensive unit for it’s protection (spam-blockers, plugins) to make a very successful city (blog) in the long run. It takes time and effort to make it to the top. So if you agitated that your city (blog) isn’t growing, don’t fret maybe you need to trade with other civilizations (linking to relevant blogs, articles, posts) or maybe issue a trade embargo to other civilizations (stop linking to splogs or spam blogs) and yes you have to establish an embassy to other civilizations (commenting on blogs and establishing a communication with the blogger) and you have to balance your resources, luxuries and also your tax and science (researching on the topics that you would post) all this is hard work on the first hundred of years as you build roads, irrigation, mines to work make your city a top class city.

That’s Why I think blogging is like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization. The aspect of the game itself is building a civilization to stand the test of time and that should be your motto in blogging. You build a blog to stand the test of time.

What is the reason we blog? Is it a hobby? A profession? I blog to express my feelings, emotions, and topics that interest me. Blogging is easy if you have fun while doing it, so try to blog about a topic that you know and have experience in.

Everyone of us wants our voice to be heard but we still have to think about what we post. Remember, it’s lame to post your daily schedule or what you ate for lunch. You may post about 10-20 articles a day, but if all of those posts are about what you did, then people will just leave your blog and look for something else. The quality of the post is better than quantity. What’s cute about blogging is that it touches readers, because it’s very conversational like you’re telling a story, but still giving them information.

Try to post about your hobbies and interests, giving details but still maintaining an easy going, conversational article then you would reach out to the people who, like you, share a same interest on the topic you posted. And rest assured little by little you can create a fan base slowly but surely on your chosen, specific topic.

So for a better rundown things I’ve learned,

1. Blog in a topic you are comfortable and knowledgeable in.
2. Post Quality articles (create a posting schedule)
3. Post Original articles, if not then remember to state your source in respect to the one that posted it
4. Check for grammatical errors (be sure to proofread your article or better yet let another proofread it for you)
5. Be conversational, ( add humor, give a smart quote)
6. KISS ( keep it simple, sweetie)
7. Read other related Blogs
8. Give intelligent Comments
9. Respond to the comments people posted on your blog
10. Accept constructive criticisms

Posted on Blog Tutorials and on the QuickStop Project : The Reason I Blog