Monthly Archives: August 2007
Writing for Search Engines vs. Writing for People
Search Engine Optimisation When you’re writing a blog, it can be a delicate dance between writing for search engines versus writing for readers. On the one hand, if you write only for a search engine people might (keyword, might) find you. But readers won’t stay. If you only write for people, the posts will be great but will be lost in the great chasm of the Web. Writing for both isn’t always easy, since the things that please one don’t necessarily ...
Continue readingThe Long-Term Approach to Blogging
Making Money Building a business takes time. If you’re hoping to make a business out of your blog, blogging is no exception. Sure, there are some ways to quickly make a little bit of money, and yes, the risks are much lower than starting a traditional business. But overall, building a steady income through a blog is similar to any other business venture, it doesn’t happen overnight. Many bloggers hope to launch a blog and start making money right away. ...
Continue readingJohn Chow takes his blog to the next level
Around The Blogosphere Yesterday, John Chow launched his new theme. John contacted me at the weekend about taking an ad spot in the new design so I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of it a few days ago (I took him up in his offer). In the past I have criticized some blogs for having too many advertisements but John’s blog previously had too few ads in my opinion. The design was done by Nate Whitehill , I think he’s done a fantastic job and I hope ...
Continue readingWordPress.com banned in Turkey
Blogging News Less than a month after the Malaysian goverment cracked down on bloggers, the WordPress.com domain has been banned in all of Turkey (*Wordpress.com is the hosted version of WordPress). From wired Turkish millionaire, accused criminal and cult leader, anti-semite and anti-evolutionist Adnan Oktar didn’t like what was said about him on a few WordPress blogs. (This appears to be the only English-language blog). So Oktar, who also goes by the ...
Continue readingBasic Blogging for Beginners
Blogging Being a new blogger is not necessarily a bad thing. Sure, you have to start on the ground floor, but this will give you the chance to build your blog the way that you want. Every move that you make is on your shoulders, and if the right decisions are made, success will be right around the bend. New bloggers should have one thing in mind: keep things basic. When you are trying to build your blog the last thing that you need is to get bogged down ...
Continue readingAn introduction to tagging
Promote your blog If done right, tagging is a great way to get some extra traffic to your blog with very little effort. What is tagging? Tagging is when you mention other bloggers in your posts or invite them to participate in something you have taken part in. It’s commonly associated with blog trains and carnivals however you can tag people in any of your posts. A good example is the ’8 things about me’ type post which has been circulating ...
Continue readingWhere and how to find potential readers to your blog
Blogging Blogging would have been a much easier job if all you had to do is just write great posts. Try that you may, but you cannot really avoid that phase of blogging – to find readers to your blog. It’s a general notion that if you write great articles, traffic would automatically come in. Well, not really. There are two ways of driving traffic to your blog. Hunting readers and Baiting them Both strategies are unique in it’s own ...
Continue readingThe Power of Specializing Your Blog(s)
Blogging When I say specializing your blog, I mean taking your blog from no-topic to one topic. So many blogs have seen the light of day because of it, and so many blogs fall away because they don’t. There are (at least) two kinds of blogs: Personal blogs Specialized blogs If you are running a personal blog, odds are you aren’t all that interested in who reads and subscribes to it. Odds are you also don’t stick to any set topics or writing ...
Continue readingGet Your Comment Count Jumping
Blogging Comments tell you as a writer what topics are important to your readers. Many bloggers use comments to develop new articles and find new niches. Out of all your readers though, only a small portion take the time to share their thoughts and when your starting a site, your reader following is small enough. Here are some tips to get your readers to step up and contribute. Evoke Emotion Taking the time to post a comment for the average reader takes ...
Continue readingHow A Third Party Can Remove Your Site From Google SERPs
Search Engine Optimisation I came across an interesting article today and I thought I would bring it to the attention of all of you guys (the article was posted 5 days ago). The article was written by Dan Thies of SEO Fast Start and in it he explains how there is a bug in google which allows a web page to be completely taken out from the google search results. In June of 2006, while working to resolve some indexing issues for a client, I discovered a bug in Google’s ...
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