Written by angela from Blogging For Dollars on March 19, 2008

Most of the real blogs you create will be a marathon, rather than a sprint, because creating a popular high-traffic blog will take years, rather than months.

(By “real” blogs I mean conventional blogs, which grow over time. A blog is just a Web site, so you can create blogs for any purpose - for a product launch, or an event, or as a sales tool for example.)

Can you face creating content about your chosen topic for years?

Before you start a blog, consider basing it on your own life experience in…

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Written by Mark Knowles from Mark Knowles on March 18, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about one of my pages which seemed to be lost in google’s neverland. Not to be confused with Michael Jackson’s neverland. No small children were involved in the abuse of this page.

The page is question is this one:

Trout recipes

http://hubpages.com/hub/Smoked-Trout-Creams-

I have left the url rather than a link via a keyword because one thing I had failed to notice is the trailing hyphen at the end of the title. Unlike a blog post, it is not possible to change this url, so I am stuck…

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Written by kelbycarr from Kelby Carr on March 18, 2008

Blog contests can single-handedly drive lots of traffic to your site, or even encourage people to take actions to promote your site (such as linking to it). It can encourage people to return, if your method of entry involves something like subscribing to your feed via Feedburner or some similar engagement.

You may have no idea how to begin the process of hosting a contest, however. You might even think you need big bucks to host a contest, but you need not spend a dime. Here are some basic steps:

  • Decide the…
Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK on March 17, 2008

Jump In, Start BloggingI’ve heard many successful bloggers tell business people interested in blogging to “just jump in and start.” At first glance these experts don’t appear to be taking a careful and reasoned approach. Shouldn’t they be advising people to gather data, research the arena, establish goals, and plan their execution? Isn’t promoting the “jump in and start posting” philosophy a bit impulsive and perhaps even irresponsible?

It can certainly seem odd that experts will on the one hand promote the blogosphere as a sophisticated and powerful new medium (with the power to…

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Written by Rob Mead from Perfect Web Content on March 17, 2008

Copywriting Styles Don’t Always Work when it Comes to Selling Your Web Content Today. Writing for the Web the Best Way Means Relaxing Your Web Reader’s with a Soothing and Informative Page Layout.

ENTERTAIN YOUR WEB READERS AT ALL TIMES
The next time you cruise the web looking for particular information regarding any important subject matter, analyze the sites that you most enjoyed pulling that information from. Why did you enjoy that site more than the last four or five? It’s usually because the copy that you read from that site’s web…

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Written by Elaine Ramos from Good Recruits on March 17, 2008

The main reason why I decided to join blogging and do it professionally is because of my passion in writing. Though that is the case, there are still some doubters (or non-believers) saying that being a blogger does not mean that you are a writer as well. Some people are pointing that having a blog means instant publishing without even undergoing a supervision of an editor or any other critic. This is what differentiates a writer from a blogger.

I honestly don’t see any reason for that point because for me,…

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