Guide To Blogging

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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.

There are about a million blogs in the internet and a lot of people are signing up in free blog platforms or buying their own web hosting packages every day. It is really hard to stand out in search engines nowadays especially if you don’t really know much about the topic you are writing on or if you simply copy directly from other blogs or websites.

To be able to chose your niche, it is important that you blog about your interest. Do you love to cook food? Do you love to take pictures? Do you love to travel? Do you love films? Blogging will be much easier if you finally decide on this part.

If there is one page in your blog that you should update immediately, it is the “about me” page. It is basically the part of the blog where you share your personal information and a short biography so that your readers will have a concrete idea about you and why you’ve chosen your niche of specialty. Your readers will have that certain feeling that they know and understand your personality. Some of the usual details that you will see in most about me pages include the name, age, location (city, country), occupation, field of interest and reason why they blog.

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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Do you have what it Takes to be a Passionate blogger?

Jimmy’s post woke me up… on his post he asked these questions… that made me think…

How passionate are you about writing for your blogs? Do you wait with anticipation for the time when you have to write your next post? Do you smile like an idiot when you are doing something else and you think of something to write in your blog?
Or do you merely go about it like every other mundane task in your life? Does it take you forever to find that breath of inspiration?

I love blogging, and yes, I always think of what I would post next but I also cherish the time while I’m posting an article. If were passionate about blogging inspirations are very easy to come by. Being Passionate is focusing all your energy on what you are doing and actually enjoying it at the same time.

One thing that I can tell you is this – you have to be passionate about your writing in order to elicit that same feeling from your readers. Imagine this: if you feel like your blog writing is merely a chore that has to be done, the chances are that your readers will be able to feel that tone in your writing.

On the other hand, if you have this certain element of excitement, of passion, for your writing, then your readers wouldn’t be able to help but feel that emotion as well.

In Jaren’s post about blogging for personal satisfaction or monetary gain, he made a point that you have to blog about something that you like. Otherwise, you come up with a post that is merely “okay.” I totally agree with this point. However, I believe that you can still come up with great posts even if you are not that “into” a topic.

The passion is in the writing process, too, not merely in writing about something you already like.

“it takes anyone to write a blog… but it takes a lot of skill and “weirdness” to write the good ones…” although it may not be skill it usually just needs determination, passion and a good command of your writing skill to be able to blog good.

Blogging and Writing mesh well together after all they’re the same If you can write, you can blog too… but it doesn’t mean you have to be a writer to be blogger. You just need determination, the inspiration, the will to blog, and the passion.

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?