14 Blogging Tips For The Aspiring Problogger
Planning to be a problogger? Here is a list of blogging tips to see you through at least for the first 6 months
Tip 1- Prepare For Early Dissapointment
“According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.” – New York Times
Don’t be part of the statistic!
Learn How To Blog Using Google Analytics For Guidance
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It would be great if you could find out how many people were frequenting your blog daily. How would you like it if you can do the following all for free:
a. Which pages your visitors were viewing?
b. How long they spent reading each page?
c. How many returning visitors vs new ones?
You know, all you need is just a Google account. Just go to www.google.com/analytics and sign in. Once logged in, Google will give you a simple Java Script to include on your site. If you are using Wordpress, you would just need a suitable plugin to put in the site code and your analytic would be up for business within 24 hours.
Learn How To Market Your Blog In Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
No matter what you call them, be it social media marketing, social networking or microblogging, they are tools for publicity that you can’t go without nowadays.
As a makerter, you will be known as old school if you declare that you don’t need Twitter or Facebook in any of your campaign. As a blogger, you are inadvertently a technopreneur and as such, engaging in social networking is a necessary evil. However, there are different strategies when you communicate in different Social Medias.
In this post, I will try to explain some general strategies on how to micro-blog in Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. You just have to figure out the details yourself though.
Twitter
In general, the game is to express your message within the scope of 140 characters. You can choose to tweet using the customize Twitter site or you could resort to using Twitter desktop like Tweetdeck, Seeismic or Hootsuite.
Until now, the majorities of people engaging in Twitter are trying to garner as many followers as possible. Somehow, the number of followers displayed under your profile speaks volume of your ‘influence’ in the Tweetzone. ‘Superstars’ like Guy Kawasaki for example has in excess of 223,000 followers (and following 246,000).
10 Global Trends That Could Bust Your Blog In 2010
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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.
Source: koreatimes.co.kr
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.
6 Ways Twitter Can Sabotage Your Blog
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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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7 Factors Learn How To Blog Your Way Into Google’s First Page
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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:
15 Social Bookmarks That Boost Blog Traffic
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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 Keywords Can Make Or Break Your Blog
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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.
Source : www.searchenginejournal.com
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?
6 Stupid Backlinking Tricks That Destroy Your Blog
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Getting inbound links are probably the best SEO tricks you can ever do for your blog. However, links don’t come easy. People, again being the smart creature they are, has attempted to fool search engines from time to time. However, Google and his peers are getting harder and harder to fool with tricks like these:
Source: BlackHatSeo.com
5 Easy Ways To Get Your Blog Banned By Google
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Tricking Google or Yahoo to rank your pages higher than they deserved is called spamdexing, or simply spam. There are a host of spam techniques and they can easily get your blog or website banned from search engines. Trust me, you don’t want this to happen because once your site is blacklisted, it’s no easy task to regain back the trust of the big G and the rest of the SEs.
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