Monday, June 20, 2011
Evaluate your Blog with Blog Grader
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Free unique and fresh content for bloggers.
However, even I too feel like taking a day off from blogging once in way. I presume every blogger feels the same way. At such times, I fight an overwhelming urge to use PLR content but somehow stayed away.
So, how about getting free, fresh and unique content for your blogs regularly? Visit http://myblogguest.com/
Sign up free and browse through the site leisurely. Get free and unique blog posts written by guest bloggers who are happy to give you unique content for your blog. They gain a valuable backlink to their blog through the author's resource box placed at the end of their blog post.
Your regular blog readers would love this new blog post written in a different style.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Differences between an article and blog post.
I told him that I am blogger, not an article writer. He should look elsewhere if he wanted a blog post with 400 words or more. It is a fact that most of those who are looking for bloggers to promote their products want articles, not blog posts.
There are some differences between an article and blog posts.
* Blog posts should be written in the first person. That is the basic meaning of web log.
* It should not be more than 250 words.
* It should not be lengthy with repeated sentences just to make it lengthy.
* The blog post should be written based on the blogger's personal experience or on an event or story that interested him.
* A little bit of imagination is required to write blog posts.
* A smiley here and an emoction there inside the blog posts, add personality to the blog content.
Blogs are loved by search engine as well as readers because of these points only. Any comments?
Monday, February 14, 2011
Yahoo! lists top 15 searches.
Have you heard about Buzzsaw? It is actually a shortcut on Feedage.com for the top 15 search terms as listed by
Long before Google's hot trends, Yahoo! Buzz was the cynosure of avid news readers and passionate bloggers (you may count me in). There is so much to read and digest in Tahoo! Buzz that it is not enought to write a single blog post covering all that interests you.
There are two top 15 lists in Buzzaw. One is called the 'Leaders' and the other is called the 'Movers'.
Check it out: http://www.feedage.com/buzzsaw.php
You can catch quite a few movers if you don't like the leaders.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
How many words in your blog post?
(Source: http://www.viperchill.com/blog-post-length/)
Yes, I am surprised at that figure however true it may be. 1000 words! My God, that would be an academic essay only students and teachers would be interested in.
If a blog post does not give what the blogger wanted to tell his readers in 250 words or less, then, he is not an efficient blogger. This is my opinion and I am sure there are differences.
Personal blogs can be of any length. Such bloggers write only as a hobby. Pro-bloggers should be able to blog in 250 words to 300 words maximum.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
First social blogging tool.
What is a bag?
In simple terms, you create a virtual bag given by Bag the Web, drop every links to sites and blog posts that you find it useful to you. I am sure, if I find anything useful to me (I am a serious blogger), it will be useful to other bloggers across the world.

Can I call it Social Blogging?
Yes, you can. In fact, it is.
A bag can collect any topic. Also it can link to other relevant bags as references.
The whole process of creating your web bag is easy and fun. The user interface is very friendly.
Have a look at my web bag that I just created. This will give you a clear idea of a web bag.
http://bagtheweb.com/b/D4Xg3v
Here is a screenshot of my bag. Click on my name to see my profile.

This is an excellent social blogging by which bloggers can reach out and also get valuable content for their blogs.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
8 Common Mistakes of Guest Posting on Blogs
- Writing the guest post before you pitch the owner. Please send him/her several prospective post ideas, with bullet-pointed sub-points, and let owner suggest the best one for the audience.
- Not doing your research. Read carefully author’s post and note the format of the blog, you are addressing your post. Your publication should match the spirit, structure, and format of the site, otherwise it might be rejected by the owner.
- Submitting link-baits. Avoid submitting the posts that due to the time-limited actuality will be forgotten by the next day. High-traffic sites, for the most part, want great articles that will stand the test of time.
- Using someone else’s content. One of the stupidest things you can do when submitting a post to someone else’s blog is to use someone else’s content. You do need a positive publicity, and not a negative one. Be professional and responsible, whatever you do and respect the host.
- Using already published content. Don’t submit a post that you’ve already posted on your blog (or that you intend to publish on your blog in the future). As you know, having the same content in multiple places on the web doesn’t look good for search engines, and the blog owner might be very strict about that. Write and submit something unique. If you do intend to post something in multiple places make sure you get the approval of the blogger first.
- Submitting self promotional content. The main reason that you as a guest poster are likely to engage in guest posting is to get exposure to a wider audience. That’s pretty well understood by everyone – however sometimes posts go too far and become more about the guest poster than anything else. If you’re going to use links back to your own blog inside the post (as opposed to just a byline) then make sure they’re completely relevant to the post itself and useful to readers. If you’re too self-promotional you’re less likely to have your post accepted and if it is you could end up hurting your reputation with those who read the post.
- Making the blog post all about your opinion. Nobody cares about you. Use research, charts, and expert quotes to back up your argument, and create an interesting thesis.
- Underestimating how long it takes to write a good post. On your blog, you might have great posts, average posts, or weak posts. You are the owner. But, when you propose your writing to the fellow blogger take your time to make a great irresistible content. You want attract the readers attention, so make it perfect by all means.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Why Digg? It is a waste of time.
One of very early blog post (Think again before social bookmarking)on how it is a waste of time doing social bookmarking created quite a stir but I somehow got on to the first page Google search results for the keyword "How to Digg".
I still stand by my claim that "Digg"ing is a waste of time unless:
You have your fairly large network of Diggers
You Digg only tech or political news
You Digg frequently
You submit only on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. (it is only the opinion of seasoned marketers)
My Don'ts:
Don't ever give in to Digg exchange. It won't yield any desired results.
Don't pay money to get Dugg. Waste of money.
So, ...?
So what?
Just stay out of Digg as a promotional website but use it to generate blog content ideas.
Forgive me Chris.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Sure way to get free one way back links.
I already blogged about the service of http://BloggerLinkUp.com/
If you are not utilizing their services, read below and you will realize what you are missing.If you sign up with them for free, you will receive an email daily like the one you see below.
In the ‘samples’, I have just given one detail but in the original email, you will all the details. For example, there are 10 requirements for ‘Guest post wanted’. You will have details of all the 10 requirements.
Guest Posts Wanted
1) Cash flow lessons learned, how to, tips needed
2) Learning Entrepreneurship
3) MamaCheaps Wants to Know How You Save (or Any Other Mama
Skills!)!
4) Need Posts about Business Blogging and/or Web Design
5) Eating Healthy on a Budget
6) Looking for Blog Posts Related to Shopping, Saving Money,
Bargains, Deals, Etc.
7) Women Leading the way in Social Entrepreneurship
8) Christain Product Reviews
9) Careers blog: resume tips, interviewing, job search, career
development
10) Organic Gardening Tips
Guest Posts Available
11) Showing You How To Save Money
12) We're Experts on BIG Signs
Sources Needed
13) People to Interview about Meditation
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Sample of Guest Posts Wanted:
Need Posts about Business Blogging and/or Web Design
Category: Business
Name: Ray Gulick
Blog or Website URL: http://www.evowebdev.com/blog
Email: ray@evowebdev.com
We are a web development firm that markets (among other products
and services) WordPress blogs for business. Interested in guest
posts about web design, blogging for business, or online marketing
for established businesses. Would like to publish one guest post per
week; open to ongoing relationship with blogger(s) who fit well.
Previously published OK?: Yes
Posts needed by (date): ongoing
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Sample of guest posts offered:
We're Experts on BIG Signs
Category: Business
Name: Carol Liege
Blog or Website URL: www.clearrcorp.blogger.com
Email: cliege@clearr.net
We just started a blog about signs. We're a global industry leader
in the design and manufacture of indoor and outdoor backlit,
edgelit, neon, prismatic, and 'frameless' frames for business
customers. We also make poster frames and literature displays, and
(under a subsidiary) billboards, bus shelters, and other outdoor
products. We have design, technical, engineering, sales, shipping,
management and manufacturing experts and expertise to share. We have
original articles from our staff ready we can share on decorating
with posters, avoiding excess shipping costs, and engineering new
signs. We can probably give you original articles if you make a
request.
Are you offering original content (not previously published)?: Yes
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Very interesting and useful-right?
Go ahead and sign up for BloggerLinkUp at http://BloggerLinkUp.com/
Be sure to tell your friends!
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Discover what your readers are interested in with Skribit
You just add a small widget that sticks to your blog sidebar with title “What Topic Do You Want Covered?” And your blog or website visitors can easily type in the topics they want you to blog about and present on your pages.
List of suggested topics is already displayed in the blog sidebar. Here is how Skribit look on a sidebar of a blog - from Problogger Blog (click to enlarge):
Paul Stamatiou created the service as a tool to help cure blogger’s block (writer’s block for bloggers) a little over a year ago, and already it boasts more than 4,000 blogs using it and gets about 4 million hits per month. “For me it is a backup plan when I really can’t think of something to write. If I notice something that has received a lot of votes in a very short amount of time, I’ll take that as a note that my readers really want to read about it and I’ll change my plans and blog about it,” Paul said. “Then there are the times that, for a few weeks, I won’t have any clue about what to write, so I’ll just rely on it.”
Besides getting newer topics to blog on, you can also get sense of what your blog visitors expect from you and your blog.
Sign in to the site and start using it in a matter of minutes: Skribit Homepage.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Disabling Right Click in Blogger Blog
Provided cross browser DHTML script from dynamicdrive will help you achieving the same result on your own blog, preventing default right menu from popping up when right mouse is clicked. There are actually two options for this script are provided: Alert Option and Non-alert Option. If the Alert Script is enabled, if someone tries to execute Right click on the blog, then a Message, which can be customized per your desire, appears. If the Non-alert script is activated, then no message is displayed.
To setup this tool in your blog Copy the Following code and paste it to your blog by adding a new page element.
Message Alert Script:
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
//Disable right mouse click Script
//By Maximus (maximus@nsimail.com) w/ mods by DynamicDrive
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
var message="Function Disabled!";
///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")
// -->
</script>
Message Non-Alert Script:
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
//Disable right click script III- By Renigade (renigade@mediaone.net)
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
var message="";
///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE() {if (document.all) {(message);return false;}}
function clickNS(e) {if
(document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {(message);return false;}}}
if (document.layers)
{document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS;}
else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontextmenu=clickIE;}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("return false")
// -->
</script>
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Spice your Blog with relevant content with Zemanta Plug-in
One of the great things about Zemanta is that it actually scans the web for Creative Commons content, so bloggers will be able to post useful images without the fear of being sued by an angry author.
As stated by the developers, Zemanta can add
- Fun: it is fun to see your words paired with great links and pictures.
- Content: Pictures, Links, Articles and Tags
- Convenience: no more trolling the web for content for your posts.
- Traffic: links to recent blog posts frequently result in return traffic.
Download free plug-in directly: for Internet Explorer browser.
Plug-ins for Firefox and other platforms can be downloaded from the developers Website.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
6 Advices on the Blog Posting Techniques
Article 2
1. Content Posting.
* Post your content during weekdays, since you can get a wider audience.
* Post your content on weekends, as there are fewer posts, and your post can get more attention from the readers.
* Post at different hours of a day. The post is the most active as it is brand new. At the time it is fresh, it has the biggest exposure opportunities in your community. Later, the newer posts will push your publication lower and lower, until it disappears completely from the recent posts listing. Posting at the different schedules will help you reaching the customers from different time zones and with various computer-using routines.
2. Tagging your posts. Tag your content accurately and smartly, so your visitors can find you post by focusing on their particular area of interest. Do not try using the tags or keywords, just because they are popular and will attract the most expensive AdSense advertising. If the tags do not match your content, your visitors will never come back.
3. Linking to other Blogs. There are several valid reasons to make a link in your post to other blogs or publications. Giving legitimate references to the articles and posts, which you used for your blog entry, or providing more information on the other sources related to the topic of discussion, will not divert your visitors away out of your page. Instead, it will reach the following potentially positive outcomes:
* You help your visitors to get the full picture on the topic of interests, and they will appreciate your openness and extra-efforts to assist them.
* You build the audience that will trust your judgment, as you are not just a source of the posted information, but also an expert in the deeper informational research on the topic.
* You save yourselves from the legal consequences, if you are accused in plagiarism. As far, as you point out on the text author, you are free from the possible accusations and banning from your host for unethical behavior. Just, be sure to check your hosting site, if the non-original content is allowed, when you intend to copy the borrowed article, or any part of it, “as is”.
* The authors of the posts, you give references to, might notice your links, and take a look on your posts. It is especially useful, when you refer to the blog, which is much more established, than yours.
* And finally, when you notify the author on linking to his posts, it can be considered as a polite way of hinting on the possible link exchange. Just remember, that it is not your main target at the moment. Do not be aggressive on the link exchange requirements, otherwise instead of getting the good reputation, you are striving for, you will end up with a bad one.
4. Leaving Comments and Participating in Discussions. Improve your rating by giving quality comments on other people’s blogs. Your point of view and your thoughtful remarks might also drive visitors to your personal blog. There is nothing wrong to post link to your blog in the comment, if it is relevant to the comment topic. Posting irrelevant link or non-informative comment will bring you more harm than good, as readers will consider your comment as spam. Anyway, if you have a good post, the link in your signature can help; even in the case it does not match the topic of discussion. Readers, attracted by your nice comment, might want to explore your other posts as well. Give them the opportunity.
5. Replying to the Comments on your Posts. Always make sure to reply to the comments and questions, your readers are leaving on your posts. If they spent their valuable time to write the note, you should respect that and show your gratitude by replying, or giving them the advice they are asking for. It also makes the post more interactive and drives more visitors.
6. Inspect the reading statistics from your current posts, and learn which posts were the most successful. Investigate in depth your own content and try to understand, what exactly in these particular posts could contribute to the booming exposure. It might not be just content, but also formatting, timing, hosting community influence, else. As you figured out what all your popular posts have in common, try reproducing the success in the future publications.
Content Preparation for High Traffic Blog
The following article is an overview result from the multiple sources on the topic: “How to increase blog traffic without financial investments.” The list of the links that were used for the article preparation, will be enclosed in the final part of the topic, for your convenience. I want to thank all the authors who contributed to the topic’s review.
1. Provide quality content. It is hard to explain in simple words, how the quality content can be separated from the non-quality content. But, if you read an article on topic of your interests and you see say to yourself: “That’s it. I knew that, but the author put the staff on the blog quite nicely”- this is a quality content. Share your expertise generously with other people, so the readers recognize it and depend on you and your opinion.
2. Provide original content. There are many sites with free content for your blog, and there is nothing wrong to use once a while an article that fit to topic of your discussion (definitely, if you provide the information about author, and your blogging host supports non-original content posting). But, the most readable blogs are not those that collect articles from other primary sources, no matter how good the posts are.
3. Personal Voice. Through your posts readers should see an author – you. As blogs are more like personal journals, they need to have a personal touch of the creator, giving the visitors feeling that you personally like they came, you write for them, to make their life easier and more fun. This personal touch might be provided through the humorous comments, examples from your experience, etc.
4. Provide an interesting and expert content. Everybody has the topic(s) where she or he is an expert. Choose the topic for your posts that it is interesting for you. Do not choose the topic, before they seems to be the most profitable. If you do not have fun, writing your posts, the visitors will not have fun, reading them. Be constantly aware on all new trends on your topic of interest and became an expert in this area.
5. Look on your posts from your visitor’s perspectives. Try to review your post as the post of some stranger you stumbled online. Is this post is keeping your attention till the end, or you get bored right away? Try to be objective. If this post would be written by somebody else, would you like it?
6. Controversial Content. If that is applicable to the topic of your discussion, prepare the posts with controversial content, that might evoke the discussion and polemics, which will increase the blog exposure and will eventually drive more traffic. One of the methods of increasing user’s participation is posting provocative questions and touch “hot topics”. These posts should be related to the topic of your discussion and you should use them carefully, as your blog stylishness and integrity are more important for your long-time success.
7. News and long-lasting content. Try to create articles with the long-lasting content to ensure your posts readability next year, next 10 years… Definitely, it is from not easy to impossible for the topics related to the Internet, technology, or other topics with enormous speed of development. If your content will loose actuality fast, be first to deliver the news, taking the traffic the other way.
8. Track back links to your other posts. While writing new post, try to include the relevant links from your older posts, promoting them the most natural way. These intra-links should not be accepted as shameless promotion, but should be integral to the post.
9. Writing Style and Design. You should develop your own, easy-identifiable style as a writer. But, anyway, reader will always appreciate if you make his comprehension easier by using the proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalizing letters as needed, proofreading you posts, and using the blog design and Themes and will help your reader to focus on the post, and avoid distraction by the reading obstacles. By investing your time in these simple actions, you will actually show the respect to your reader.
10. Regular Updates. Update your blogs regularly, let your fans to be addicted to the new post they can enjoy on the regular basis. The rule is “the more regular you blog, the more traffic you will get”. It is increasing the overall knowledge base, you are presenting to the public, combined with keeping the most devoted your readers not to be disappointed by your extended absence.
11. Pictures and Videos. Use pictures and videos naturally incorporated in your posts. They give more flavors to your articles, make them more readable, and attract the public attention.
12. Blog Title and Description. Do not think that it is not important! It definitely is! Gets a cool relevant, straight-forward, and keywords-rich title that makes people check your site for the first time. And the description should match the title, giving the brief presentation on your topic, approach, and character of presentation. This will also assist you in getting better indexing results in the search engines.
13. Most Popular Posts. You have the posts that you like most, and your readers like most. Why not putting them the permanent links to them on the sidebars, or add the few “killing” posts in your signature, when you are finalizing your regular posts? Your best weapon should be utilized as much as possible.
14. Length of the Posts. It is recommended to keep the overall posts and paragraphs inside the post short. It is better to offer your visitors to come daily, checking your new pieces of the information, than to get them tired reading one long article. It does not mean that you should always right the short posts. If the long article can be divided into the self-sufficient components, it is better to split it and arrange separate parts submission.
I am going to use the last recommendation for myself, and leave other aspects of the blog traffic increase to the following posts. Happy Blogging!