How To Blog For Newbies Day 15

I think many of you can relate to this. You are sitting on your favourite arm chair, your finger frolicking on the keypads of your laptop. You surf to JohnChow.com, Problogger.net, then to DoshDosh.com, fidgeting away not knowing what to churn out for your next content.

Then, an evil thought cross your mind. You search JohnChow.com, you come across a topic. In your haste to meet the ‘deadline’ of your posting schedule, you left-click, pull and highlight the whole article, copy….the rest is history. You feel exhilarated. Hopefully, nobody know about this….HUH!

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 14

After reading this post, many of your should be able to call yourself a SEO Apprentice. Now, not only have you learned how to blog, you would also learn how to do search engine optimization on your site.

Although this post would not be able to guarantee  your blog to be listed at the top of Google, it will definitely increase the frequency of your blog being indexed in the search engine. Actually I’m a tad worried that my advice here would be (more…)

How To Blog For Newbies Day 13

Now that you have bring your blog up, you need to do some management on your site. One of them is SEO.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization enables crawlers from search engines like Google, Yahoo, Technorati and many others to crawl on your site, even when you are just learning how to blog in your own sweet time. In other words, SEO is done to enable your blog to be discovered and indexed in search engines.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 13

I assume that when you read this post, you already have your very own blog. I would love to congratulate you because as you are progressing on how to blog, you have also established yourself as an entrepreneur. By being an entrepreneur, you would encounter problems that any like minded entrepreneur would likely to encounter. And with problems, fear arise.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 12

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Learning how to blog is akin to learning how to build a business. Compared to the brick and mortars, a blog is considered a low barrier to entry venture; all that is needed is a computer, broad band, annual renewal fees for your domain, and web hosting fees.

These low entry barrier means that you do not have much to lose if the business does not work well. However on the other side the low entry barrier means that a lot many other entrepreneurs will be working in the same niche as yours and it means more competitions. In low entry barrier businesses the dedication, patience and perseverance in the initial years is what will distinguish the long term players from the non serious ones.

As in business, various reasons could contribute to a blogger’s failure:

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 11

The WoW! factor. Books talk about it. Conglomerates preach about it in strategic meetings. Marketeers look for it to create customer loyalty. And now you are going to venture on how to blog with these Wow factors, intact!

Let’s ask yourself these questions. What makes the Wow factor? What makes you attracted to a website or a blog and want to visit them everyday? Now that you are a blogger, probably you need a more detached opinion to answer these questions.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 10

Tips on learning how to blog are abundantly found on the information highway. You can find them from books, internets or even discussion in forums.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 9

It all depends on the individual. Some find it easy to decide on the blog topic while many find it difficult.

Let’s take an example. If you happen to be an Electronic Engineer, you might think that writing a blog on electronic is easy. After all, we all deal with amplifiers and solid states in our daily uses one way or another, right? Wrong.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 8

A Joint Venture between Suzuki and Volkswagen to compete for auto-world supremacy, Wow!

Just by reading AutoBlog.com for 15 minutes, I am already acquainted with the industry’s hot shots like Audi’s R8 Engine, Mercedes-Benz own AMG SLS and BMW’s MI Concept engine.

Ok, probably I would need to read more than this blog alone to be a qualified auto buff. What I’m trying to say is, if you are able to get first hand news and information relating to your industry, then go ahead and start a news blog like this.

Although this blog is owned by AOL, you don’t need resources like AOL to start a news blog. Passion for the subject is all that is needed.

A good domain name like AutoBlog.com is important, but it is not an end to itself. Brian Powell started this blog, AwfulAnnouncing.Blogspot.com in 2006 as a hobby.

Apart from the perils and follies of the Sports Media, the blog also focuses on critics within the sports arena. The blog not only received praises from major sports media like Sports Center, ESPN Radio and WFAN, it also won the Best Non-Corporate Sports Web Site in the annual Media Awards in 2007.

How To Blog For Newbies Day 7

We know it’s not easy to put contents into our blog. In addition, you have to be up to date with what you write, well at least to your audience.

You must always bear in mind that your blog’s content must always add value to your audience’s outlook and experience.

In order to assist you, I would review a series of blog as part of our learning experience. We would analyse and see what actually make these blogs tick. Their contents are great because they are all voted as the top 10 blogs of 2009 by CNBC.

Remember, the way I comprehend these blogs may be different from you. Let us begin:

1000AwesomeSomeThings.com talks about anything under the sun, from staying up late to little gritty issues like getting back into your warm bed after a hard day work. It’s a website full of inspirational posts of how one should focus one’s attention to the awesome little ‘miracles’ of lives.

Focus on your experience today. Think of the many conversations you have, the sound you heard, the road you drove through. Have you realized how much you are able to write by just paying attention to your surroundings?  Awesome!

Do you have to be an interior designer to make this site? Not necessary. All you need is  passion in the subject you want to blog about.

For example, if you are good in baking, you can touch on sub topics in baking like “Icing Design For Christmas” or ” Bread For Your Valentine”. Try to make your blog different.

Apartment Therapy offers pointers to busy city dwellers on designing an apartment into a piece of artwork. All in the name of adding value to the audience’s lifestyle.