Archive for the 'Blogging Tips' Category

How to get more comments on every new post you write

Posted Thursday, October 1st, 2009 by Stefan

The art of admiration is encouraging and inspiring whether you write a poem, novel, short story or something on your blog. In recent times the enhanced usage of internet has made it a new breakthrough in the field of web social networking as you are able to create blogs, express your opinion and hopefully have visitor’s feedback. Following steps are explaining that how can you increase these comments and feedbacks on your pots on a blog or a website.
1 – Follow commenter s back to their blog.

On most blogging platforms, a reader that abdicates a comment can add a link to their blog or site with their comment.   If you notice that a commenter has left a link to their blog, then approaches that link to their blog, and tries to find a post or 2 where YOU can leave a comment on their blog!  This will make a great engraving on them, and it shows that you appreciate their comment enough to want to contribute your own.  Also seriously consider adding a link to this blogger’s blog on your blog’s sidebar, especially if they blog on topics related to your assignment.

2 – Read blogs and message boards that debate your business.

Try to read the same blogs and summits that your readers are.  And as often as achievable, leave comments on these sites.  But make sure that your comments are actions to accessorize value to the post, and to the discussion.  This will not only make the blogger more likely to read and comment on your blog, but will give their readers a capacity to check out your blog as well.

3 – Thank every blogger that links to your blog.

You should keep up with bloggers that link to your blog, and leave a comment thanking them for linking to your blog.  A site such as Technorati can show you when sites are linking to your blog.

4 – Link to other blogs in your posts

The quest for ideas and other blogs will make your mind enriched with creative ideas and that can be used on your own blog.  When you write that post for your blog, make sure that you remember the inspiration for your post, and link back to the post.  This not only makes your post more valuable for your readers, but it also shows the blogger that you are linking to that you are acknowledging their post.  Saying a ‘thank you’ to the blogger you are linking to is a nice gesture.

Conclusion

This is worth noting that quality speaks for itself. If your post is interesting, effective and response oriented it will definitely catch the attention of folks and users everywhere. This will also lead to comments based on its utility as it is observed that useful posts are always welcomed with kind and cheerful comments which are always encouraging in nature, just as bad posts have to face discouraging and at times insulting comments from users. It is hoped that your efforts will bring you good compliments and comments as positive feedback works as fuel to do more.

Common mistakes of a new blogger

Posted Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by Stefan

Every blog goes through different stages as a new blog (beginning stage), then a growing stage, then maturity stage (and hopefully no decline stage). It is in beginning stage that many of the new bloggers make mistakes. Lets us analyze these common mistakes.

1. Navigation

The increased interest of new bloggers in SEO (Search Engine Optimization and is related to optimizing their websites for web gurus like Google, Yahoo, etc. and avoid the presence of people. The result is a severely bad navigation system for their blog or website.

2. Repeated Newsletters

The repetition of newsletters is another such reason. Ideally, even for a highly active blog/website, newsletters should be delivered not more than once a day.

3. Presence of Embed videos without play option

It is observed that majority of visitors have limited bandwidth. Additional video data you force your visitors to download gets directly transformed into anger they feel toward your site/blog. They most probably close your website rather than searching for a pause button. This option is called as auto play and its absence is usually a common mistake for a new blogger.

4. Pop up message like “Subscribe us” or “Special offers”

A common mistake committed by new bloggers is popping up of common and annoying messages. Whenever they see some new scripts on Internet, they use it in their websites. It irritates your users and also increases loading time of your site.

5. Show them big, uncompressed photos

Many new bloggers show compressed photos on websites because it decreases the loading time as well as load on web server. But some new bloggers often using MS-paint saves and upload photos in BMP format. Sometimes these uncompressed files are 10 times larger than their compressed JPG/PNG counterpart.

6. Change your theme regularly?

The free Word Press themes and Blogger layout available in abundance resist the temptation of changing your theme regularly. This is not a wise thing to do at all. If you want a new look do some minor changes in the theme but don’t change it completely every week or fortnight.

7. Slow or no responding to visitors/comments

If you are unable to answer comments on your blog, simply remove the section to cease future embarrassment. Normally, a repeat visitor will probably go away from your site if his comments remain unanswered after 24-48 hours.

8. If it’s a slow loading sites?

When your blog is taking too much time to load, just get rid of unnecessary widgets and make your theme a normal and quick one. Also remove the useless flash and java scripts from your website/blog.

9. Start the blog on free blogging platforms
The art of making money is not easy and starting with free blogs is usually wastage of time, and it is way better to put a little investment as small as 9 $ on creating a new blog.

By avoiding this you can perform error free blogging and make money online. Happy blogging !

How a Blog Can Help Your Business?

Posted Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 by Stefan

If you are looking for an effective and low-cost marketing tool to help your business reach new horizon then just go blogging. Creating blog for your company can help you gain more than your competitors.

It may be surprising that now a day blogs are becoming effective tools for promoting business and gaining potential customers on the web. Not before a long time it was considered as a hobby or a journal for passing on ideas, views and sharing information. But, today they have totally transformed taking a new look of not only helping people but also businesses to grow.

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Well, first we will know about a blog. Basically, a blog is a simple, sweet and small web site in an interactive format so as to allow users to read, to post comments and add any new information relevant to the site. The interaction process is the main feature of a blog which differentiates it other basic sites. You can find the blog entries in reverse order appearing on the page with the latest comment at the top.

It is amazing and quite unbelievable that blogs are available on almost every subject. Thus, businesses find that creating their own company blog can help them easily communicate with their customers, increase their search engine rankings, and attract larger number of potential customers.

Just look at the different ways given below that are helpful for your business promotion online:

  • Google, Yahoo, Ask, AOL, MSN, etc. all the search engines love blogs as the content is regularly updated, it results in high search engine rankings for the business.
  • Your business will be explored by visitors who discover the relevant products through your blog entries where the information is provided which they have not got on the blog. In these ways customers get attracted and you gain the business.
  • Blogs are always categorized under different topics so it easy for readers to find their interested topics.
  • Like other forms of online marketing, blog is also one of the marketing tools. Here you can get 24/7 hours web traffic through blog entries. Blogs provide content and links that are continuously shared and published on various web pages.
  • The information you provide on your blog is directly distributed to your readers through an RSS newsfeed. Your readers automatically get notification whenever you post a fresh content on your blog.
  • Your blog differentiates you from your competitors. You can even see that your competitors are not offering such type of communications to their customers. Thus, you have an upper hand compare to them.

So, blogging is a nice opportunity if you are looking for a low-cost marketing tool which helps you reach your customers more effectively, increase your search engine rankings thus giving your business an innovative strategy.

General Writing Well Tips

Posted Saturday, September 19th, 2009 by Stefan

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Through this article I will try to give you some tips on writing on the Web while keeping an eye on your articles indexed by search engines.The list I am presenting is surely not complete and above this is only my personal opinion that I keep.

So to start, I think there are two ways to write on the Web:

Writing for the Web: A technique that involves writing an article so it is best referenced by search engines, the risk of being difficult to read and especially hard to read.
Writing for readers: Probably less good for SEO but the items are high quality and accessible by everyone. If quality is to visit the site takes off quickly and follow the referencing whatever happens.

Now is ideal to mix the two to approach the optimal SEO .While remaining readable.

  • Before you begin section, research on the main subject of the article, check your sources (thanks Google …). If the subject has been treated many times, raise the differently or respond to items by placing a link to them in your article.
  • For a good listing, it is important to make a list of keywords you use in your article so that it is well referenced.Personally when i start to write an article i choose 5-10 good keywords and other 5 long tail keywords.
  • Once keywords found, it may be advisable to seek some synonyms for your keywords and place them in here and there in the content of your article.
  • Remember to write in paragraph form not too long to improve the readability of your article.
  • Once the finished article, emphasize key words (eg bold). Knowing that many readers read an article “diagonal”, the aim is to attract the eye of the visitor to this part of the article. In addition it is also useful for indexing search engines. It should obviously not be abused …
  • Based on the ticket, put some references as a hyperlink in it. The external links can enhance your statements while the internal links will simplify navigation for your visitors.
  • An illustrated article is much more welcoming, add pictures or videos. This will simplify the reading and in some cases the understanding of the ticket.
  • And finally, if you occasionally read your article made by different people and welcome their opinions as you see fit!

There are certainly still many things to say about the subject, but I think this should help you in writing content. And remember that only practice will enable you to evolve, writing for the web is accessible to all.Please let me know your opinion or dispute what I say in the comments .

5 Tips to Choosing a Domain Name

Posted Saturday, September 19th, 2009 by Stefan

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Today I’ll share some tips that I feel are important when one wants to choose a domain name. Most often, clients of agencies already have a web name to them, but when creating a new site, here are some tips that I deliver them so they choose the best domain name possible .

Here are 5 Tips to keep in mind as you select a domain name for your new business:

1# – .com or nothing.

People these days always assume a company’s domain ends with .com. If the .com is not available or is being sold or auctioned out of your price range, move on to the next best name.

2# – The length of your domain name

Domain names can be any length up to 67 characters. However, there are pros and cons for both solutions (an area long or short).

Some argue that domain names are shorter easier to remember, easier to type and far less susceptible to mistakes: for example, “movies.com” is easier to remember and less prone to typos than “latestmoviesontheinternet . com.

3# – The use of plural or

Very often, if you can not get the domain that you want the site to purchase domain name you propose solutions by default. For example, if you want to buy “movie.com” and that name is not available, suggestions are made as you “themovie.com”, “movies.com”, “mymovie.com.

The question is whether these combinations are good domain names?

If you decide to form with the article “the” or “my” do not forget to promote your site with this article. Your logo will also include the “my or the” and not just “movie.com.

The use of the plural has the same problem domain with a hyphen because it is very likely that people forget to type the “s” in seeking to access your site.

4# Make sure the Twitter name is available.

Nowadays many people use twitter.So,ideally your domain and Twitter name will match. If you couldn’t get the killer keyword as your domain, try to scoop it up it for your Twitter name as use it.

5#  SEO domain

It`s easy to get a good position for a product if your domain name have the product keyword .It must be similar to your product with a ringing to it, people will remember it more.

In conclusion, I would add that taking into account your business and the goal you set for yourself on the web are very important parameters to take into account and do not choose a domain name lightly, because it does not change every day. In case of change of URL, you lose a significant number of visitors.

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