Guide To Blogging

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.

Communicating Your Ideas Through Blogs

Blogging is both an endeavor of creativity and communication. Communication as we know it, can be defined in a very broad sense involves not only written (blogs) and oral speech (podcasts), but also music, the pictorial arts(photo-blogs), audio-video, and in fact all human behavior, and yes it can even be relating our point of view on a certain thing, an idea or our wants. That’s why blogs are so important and popular today because it gives people an outlet of their emotions and thoughts. Yes, we know that some are better at communicating to their ideas to others, while some are not, but that doesn’t mean that blogs are limited to those who can communicate better. Blogs are for everyone, it just takes practice and an idea to get the ball rolling

Blogs are for everyone, given a chance to excel in online communication and also offline or “real-world” communication it can be a better place in cyberspace, when everyone even the little blogs has a chance to speak their mind.
Some people blog their original works while others blog about their thoughts on everyday things. Indeed, blogging has also entertained the idea of artistry, seeing the continuing sophistication of site layouts and themes. Blogging, ultimately, puts together people of all groups, ages, interests, and locations by talking about hobbies, relationships, ideas, and businesses.

Blogging is often taken as informal writing. While this may be true, it does not mean that it is okay for a blogger to disregard writing rules. Blogging IS Writing… Creativity is the key… Creativity is the Cure… Blogging Creativity. This article, is a good marker to explain the purpose of this blog, my blog, the QuickStop Project, this is the repository of my ideas and emotions as personal blog. This blog is the mirror of who I am, well, not the real extent of who I am.

I was explaining that blogging is the same as communicating, since we are social beings blogging is not that hard putting our thought into written form, blogs are an “as-is” written form of our thoughts the way we speak with our friends, the way we converse with people… just write whatever it is on your mind. If there be any typos and grammatical errors well it’s part of life and our quest to better ourselves.

“it takes anyone to write a blog… but it takes a lot of skill and “weirdness” to write a BADASS blog…” — Jaren Cudilla

In the earlier times, advertisers usually partner up with webmasters in order to attract more visitors and gain more traffic. All the webmaster needs to do is apply in an affiliate program and copy the buttons, banners or text links with corresponding id and post it on their website. If a visitor clicks on any of the ads, the advertiser pays the webmaster with commissions. Some pay per click, per impression or per membership. One of the best affiliate programs I’ve joined years ago is Friend Finder
(http://www.friendfinder.com) because they really pay big money per membership. Once you got accepted in the program, you can also be an affiliate for their other sites for gays, senior citizens, churches, career, free webmail and online greeting cards.

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Wordpress is one of popular blogging tools around the web today. Almost all result of a search engine today has blog on it’s made from word press.

How to install word press

First you must have a web host then download and install word press on it but some other web host already has a installer on their hosting service all you have to do is just install it.

Making Blog

Log in your account in your website click the write tabs there are two format that you can see one is visual for does who don’t know html I recommend you to use this it’s user friendly and easy to understand then HTML, I recommend this format for does who have knowledge about HTML a great features of this is you can customize your web blog more that VISUAL

Blog now… It just might get lame later on.

You may be a good writer and never run out of good topics to post but sometimes, you end up completely empty of output. Did your writing skills suddenly take a nosedive? Are you tired? Or maybe you’re hungry. You’ve searched high and low and you still don’t get it.

While material block is a state of not having a topic to write about, writer’s block is the state in which a writer just can’t write anything despite the availability of sources and ideas. It’s somewhat a cross between psychological and physiological stress. While you may have everything you need, you just can’t produce anything. It’s not that you lack the drive entirely but it’s more of a short phase in which your mind and body just want to wander around and relax a bit.

Nevertheless, don’t overuse writer’s block as an excuse for your non-productivity, because as stated earlier, it’s only a short phase. Sometimes, you may need to fight it off, too. Otherwise, it can become habitual and that would be scary.

• Tip #5: Complex is not necessarily complicated.

Brief sentences can express complex ideas; it’s only a matter of word choice, voice use and conviction – pretty much the integration of the first four tips. You don’t have to use too many words nor do you have to use a clause-filled sentence. “There is nothing miserable than waking up and finding yourself alone, abandoned in misery, with no one to talk to and to seek comfort from,” – this is a word vomit. “It’s truly depressing to be alone, without anyone to talk to,” this is more like it. Blogs are not literature pieces. In case you also happen to be creative writer, distinguish your poetry posts from your blog entries.

Blogs are more than just online journals or online topic posts. It’s a lifestyle! As blogs link themselves with one another, a community is formed and life on cyberspace is made even more dynamic. Blogs encourage confidence in communication as well as in writing, which is why blogs are made and maintained by a variety of people and not only by the techie and the geeky. Everyone is impassioned to blog! Now It comes to Personal Blogging or on having your own personal blog.

Having a personal blog is a wonderful thing as you won’t get hassled in what topic you choose and what article you would post, everything is under your control and under your mercy. On your own blog you can post whatever it is you want to post, and whatever you say on your blog is right. Because after all you are the master of your own blog. Having your own blog is good because it can be your “cache” for ideas, weird or otherwise, experiences

Sometimes I get so tired that I’d stop blogging, but there are times when I can’t stop blogging, now there also comes a time when there’s nothing going on my mind I’d just stare on my monitor for hours…

So start your own blog and see the wonders it can do to you!

Yes it’s true, No blog is an island link,link,link people it’s the best way. But when Linking you have to do it the right way. Just like what Guru taught us on Smart Link Practices. Now, that’s a start also we can start expanding our blog empire or our blog circle of friends by Making a linkable content,

Being linkable has it perks, as this will improve your incoming links and link popularity by writing “hot” topics, controversial topics, great news.

also apart from making linkable content is Looking for Relevant articles and linking to them.

Linking is a great way to establish a good relationship with the bloggers and also gives your readers more information by sharing the relevant link that you connect on your post.

Another Thing Would Be Learning How to link and (Trackback). Now, What is Trackback?

A trackback is a system that notifies a blogger that one of his posts is being linked by the blog that sent him the trackback and vice versa. It is a very neat way of automatically letting people know you’ve mentioned them or quoted them on your blog—that you exist.

And Yes making friends online is the same as making friends in real-life. So don’t forget your friends. Make friends online, join the blogosphere plus it gives you ideas for blog posts and even blogger the share the same ideas as you and even write/blog like you. We all know that it’s human nature to be friendly, to be with our peers. No man is an Island, and so goes the same for our blogs, No blog is an island.

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Trackbacks, Pingbacks : What are they? Whenever I see them or hear them I usually nod my head in approval, and just brush it off, as if I know them and it’s not a big deal. but when it all boils down is I don’t really understand what’s their purpose. Until recently…

My Wordpress Blog gives me an option to use trackbacks and pingbacks.

Well Simply… trackbacks and pingbacks allow us to notify other blogs that our post is related to one of theirs. Then if the other blog, has trackbacks or pingbacks enabled, it will add a link to our article below the post which is related. If you want them to link back to you, because both of your post are related then you could use Trackbacks to your advantage use their trackback uri so that you can place it in the TrackBack URI blank in your /wp-admin “Write Post” Section ( its usually dwon below) And those with enabled trackback will receive it. And can place a link to your article with an excerpt.

Pingbacks is much simpler to use and more secure. just check the “allow pings” and just put the links that you want to ping on your post. Wordpress will do this automatically if you checked the “allow pings” option. If those blogs the you’ve link to on your post have pingbacks enabled it will add a simple link to your site below their post.

But as we all know trackbacks are done manually and preferably we should use a simpler and more secure pingback, plus all we have to do is put the link in our blog for the pingback to work.

Doing an Experiment on Pingbacks you can Test the to see If they’re working…
We can test if the pingbacks are working by linking to me and providing a link to this post from your blog!

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