How To Blog For Newbies Day 28

Bloggers should expect to witness an exhilarating 2010. Trends that have been evolving over the course of the past years are creating new opportunities for blog owners as well as e-marketers.

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Blogging communities are inevitably linked to the real world. The economy doldrums that spans for the last 10 years; from the collapse of the dot coms, the currency crises to the current financial mismanagement have all helped to shape a new world order. Both these man-made and natural disasters give leverage to the strength of Social Medias like Twitter, Facebook. By the time you are reading this, a dozen new ones should have been hatched. What we are talking here are global real time conversation and mass word-of-mouth at the speed of a click.

With those events unfolding, as well as with the advances with new science and technology, what follows are 10 scorching trends that affect all areas of blog marketing, from advertising to branding and everything in between.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 27

At this point of your blog business, I’m sure you already have your own Twitter account. Many so called ‘gurus’ should have put in a lot of tips on how to use this microblogging tool to promote your articles and pages.

Apart from all the tricks so rampantly circulating in the web, you may be just wasting your time using Twitter to self-sabotage your own blog. Try going through these mis-steps and see whether they sound familiar to you.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 26

I dare say, all search engine uses page factors as a critical component in its ranking algorithm no matter how they are changed throughout. These factors will weigh heavily on which page your blog will appear in Google, for instance. Let’s go through them:

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 25

Apart from Digg, Stumble Upon and Reddit, there are many other social bookmarks that we bloggers can utilize to market our blogs. Apart from introducing these sites to newbies and seasoned bloggers, I would also be conducting some experiments on SEO using this post, so just bear with me. In the mean time, make use of these fantastic blogging tools for free promotion to the internet.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 24

This should not be my topic for the day. Only two days ago, I was bragging in Twitter that I would be coming out with my first Video Blog using Camtasia and boy, was I excited. But as fate has it, I encountered some problems while trying to upload the file to Youtube. Anyway, the experiment can wait and you would probably gain more by reading my blogging tips, for now.

Please reflect on your website for a moment. Have you been following How To Blog and Blogging Tips for some time? If you are like me, whom have just started a blog not too long ago, chances are you are an unknown rookie. Do your audience naturally associate your subject with a generic name?

Generic name is defined as name of a successful (and usually the first) product, used commonly by people to name an entire category or class of products. Amplifier, camera, notebook and computer are some great examples of what were once exclusive brand names but now refer to all brands under their respective category of products. Generic names cannot be owned by anyone, not even by the firm who first introduced them.

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Let’s take ‘camera’ as an example. Anyone interested in a camera would naturally think of Canon, Nikon, Olympus. Is your name or company easily identifiable with the product?

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