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Tips for Off-Topic Posting

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

One thing you want to remember when you are writing posts is that not all of your posts have to necessarily be information to the reader about your blog topic.

Some posts can just be on your blog because you find them interesting and would like to share with other people, or just because you like something about something or another.

For example, if you find a really cool youtube video on something that is your past time (other than blogging) you might as well feel free to post it on your blog because it may as well interest other people.

Sometimes, you will want to comment a little on the youtube video, or a picture, or whatever it is that you find. Occasionally, your off-topic posting is what will bring your blog to be unique, if you post something on there that will bring in a little bit of traffic, it can lead up to a lot of pageviews.

One thing you want to make sure you do is directly inform your readers that your off-topic post is “off-topic.” A simple way to do this is to create your Post Title to read as something that people will know is off-topic.

For example, if your blog is engadget, and you posting something about whether or not a plane will fly if it is put on a treadmill. Whether or not its relevant, people will find something interesting about it, and it will boost up your pageviews.

Well, that is the tip for today, and I hoped you can learn a little from it while being amazed at the non-relevant picture below. :P

Blogosphere

Monday, February 25th, 2008

You just can’t stop it. It is what everybody does, and what they will continue to do until the end of time. (or as we know it.) The best thing about it is that nearly anyone can do it, and almost at anytime.

I think I have read a few articles where there was a 7 year old writing on a blog post from somewhere in South America. While we all don’t have the interests in writing for blogs, there are a lot of things that come from blogging.

One, for example, is very simple. Let say you are blogging at your wordpress blog, and you want to know what other people are bloggin (a good way to increase your traffic) all you have to do is search up on the wordpress search engine. (Technorati is another place to do this as well.)

A blogger who does this will feel like he or she is a part of the blogging community hosted at wordpress, or wherever your blog is hosted.

You may not always feel this way, but you must keep in mind that nearly every person out in the world is making a blog and trying to promote it, so when you are not giving readers something that they are looking for, you are not giving them a good enough reason to visit your blog more often.

Hence, an increase in your traffic.

Anyways, that is enough for now, maybe next time I’ll post something about how to teach a rabbit how to water-ski, or maybe a snail how to go sky diving, as for now, enjoy the life as a blogger, or become one if you aren’t already. :D

Images are EVERYTHING

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

If you haven’t noticed already, Images are EVERYTHING. Usually, they are the main reason that people come to visit your blog. They might see something they like, so the pursue their interests, as Psychology tells us is the normal thing to do. Before you leave this site, you must check out the youtube video that made me post this post in the first place. :D Glad I did too :P

Hopefully, I didn’t over do it, but if you are here, then it got the job done didn’t it :?: However, while you are looking at the pictures of all of the fine ladies that you hope to one day be with, you may not be reading exactly what this content in the post covers. So, while keeping in mind that images are important, you want your images to speak your words. (only, they will do it faster :P )

Okay, NOW, I am over doing the thing with images, but you know what, I like these women. Attractive women is always something that men will catch their eyes over, while women will also see because they want to know what to look like for men too :!:

Anyways, this next video here explains everything that you will need to know about promoting your blog in 7 different ways. Do you like how there is the number 7 there? Do you ever ask yourself wondering why that special number is 7? Why isn’t it 8, or 4 or 6 ? Just like imaging, the number is what catches peoples eyes because it is clearly distinct from the words around it.

The more numbers your throw into your Post Titles, the better it is for your blog to get traffic; the more traffic your blog will get. :D Now, aren’t we all happy with all of the fine-ass women around us?
I know I am :D :D :D

Top 10 Ways to Increase Traffic

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Okay, so there is no porn here, but maybe this will peak your interests into blogging.

Increasing traffic on our blogs is something that we all want to do right? That is, if we are getting paid for our blogging service, or simply to have our names in the index for google searching. Whatever the reason, the main point is to increase the traffic for your own personal blog.

Unfortunately, one thing that these videos fail to mention is that blogs are such a rapid community, and since its growing so fast, your blog is less likely to get as much traffic as those high traffic blog such as engadget.

Fortunately though, if you’re looking for a way to increase your traffics, instead of making a regular wordpress blog in the www.wordpress.com domain, your traffic would be increased if you got your blog hosted on to its own domain(with wordpress installed, of course. Who doesn’t want the worlds best blogging platform? :P )

What this does is increase your traffic ability. For example, if I were to see a site named “www.blogismoney.com” I would be much more likely to go to that site rather than some site named “www.blogismoney.wordpress.com”

For some reason, having your own domain name, and being hosted somewhere else is a big plus to getting traffic. Of course, if you are a serious blogger, and really want to get your material out there on the web, you will have to be willing to put in a little bit of money to accomplish your goals.

Its not much that you have to put in: I say that if you put in more than 20, then you’re over doing it, and should look for a cheaper domain and hosting place.

Keep in mind that this is your first blog, and you have to be willing to accept some mistakes when you make them, but preventing a mistake is the best way to avoiding mistakes. (this applies to the topic of intercourse or SEX as well :P )

What Blogging is Not.

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

This video makes a good point on bloggers versus journalists. Blogs are whatever we want them to be. They can be our soul written on the web, or hard-fact evidence written to our pleasure. So, what is this guy to say that we can’t “journalize” when we write in our blogs?

As a avid blogger myself, I often find myself writing about something that happened in the news, or something that comes to my interest, by either the news or self discovery. Most of the time, its the news :P When I mean news, I mean television, because reading a newspaper, these days, is not much when you can look up anything in your public area faster on the web.

(That and its cheaper than paying how much ever you pay for the newspaper.) :P

The blogosphere, as the video states, is much more than that of journalism. It includes journalism, but it goes onto so much more than just than that. Its an exchange of writers ideas, concepts, and sometimes, a good way to start a journal.

As the guy in the video said, even news reporters look to blogs for ideas on what to report, and what not to report, even if at the end of the day, the news reporter’s boss says its actually not news.

But you see, there is the beauty of blogging. No one tells you what you can and cannot write about. Of course, if your blog is a tech blog, it would just be insane to write about why the mice in china can’t communicate with the mice in Aussie country.

Well, with this in mind, make sure that when you make your blog, it means something to you, even if it doesn’t mean so much to the public. Also, remember that if you get paid to blog, it is something that you should enjoy, not dread just because you want the money.

We all want money, its just not everything life is about :!: So, go explore, make a blog :!:

Posting

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Hey there Guys. Sorry for not posting on here for a while. Things have been crazy, and the good ol’ days of creating blog advice are limited. I mean, there is only so much I can tell you guys to do when you are writing your own blog.

From getting traffic, to writing your posts, there is not really anything else. Other than taking breaks, and putting in a few extra non related posts, blogging should just be a hobby, and not necessarily a job.

Sometimes, it can be good though, just letting your thoughts go into something that doesn’t really affect the way that you can live. The only good thing about blogging is that you can have fun with it, it just depends on your personality as a person.

Well, thats whats cooking here today at Blog News Watch. Hope to see you next time where we might discuss why blogging can increase your knowledge by association.
If you are the type of person to write regularly in your journal, this can be something really easy to do everyday. However, when you are not this type of person, it can be extremely hard to do, or even start.

Well, just keep in mind that the next time you decide to make a blog, that you are in your state of mind where you can devote yourself one hour a day to work upon your blog. And yes, sometimes, there will be times where you will not want to blog post, in those days, we have to work the hardest, and work towards writing blog posts.

Posting to the Future

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Wordpress lovers, this one is for you. :P

Unlike Blogger (@blogspot.com), Wordpress comes with the Post-to-the-Future addon which allows the writer to set dates to when the post will be published. However, the best application of this comes in handy when you are going on a vacation, and yes, we know that you do, and we won’t blame you for doing so.

(Besides, if didn’t take vacations, half of us would be out of our minds :P)

As a frequent Posting to the Future user, I find this feature really helpful, because as a busy man I am, it is really good for me to write my posts on the weekends and the set the dates for them throughout the weeks. However, you will want to make sure you are staying up with the current events or technology if you have a tech blog.

Also, I have a statistic meter that catches how many vists/pageviews I get, but the problem is that the meter starts counting a new day at 3 AM instead of 12 AM. But no worries, I can just set my Post to the Future, to 3 AM so that the post gets a whole 24 hours worth of viewing.

(If you are one of those organized & neat people, then you might understand where I’m coming from, otherwise, take a break here to look at the picture below. Yes, she is nice looking, I agree. )

Well, thats what’s cooking here today at Blog News Watch. Now, if you haven’t already got a Wordpress Blog, you might want to make one starting here.

So, best of luck to all of you, and Enjoy the week.

Also, Please feel free to leave a comment! :!:

Linking

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Alrighty, now there are many things that you should consider before you link to a blog.

Before you do that though, if you are a tech blog, there are less things to consider when linking. If I were you, I would definitely use Engadget & Gizmodo for linking to. If your posts are good, by the time you link to those 2 blogs a lot, you should have some of them linking back to you.

But making sure never to link to the same blog all the time can keep you company when you are thinking about who to link to. As you already know, there are many blogs out there that can feed your hunger to type, but only some of them will link back to you.

You must keep in mind that the people you link to have the potential of linking back to you.

f you are any other blog, on the other hand, linking is something that you can do to whatever blog you would like. However, it must be somewhat relevant with your blog. The difference between tech blogs and some other random blog is that there are so many more tech blogs out there than your obscure christiantechnorock blog.

Also, sometimes switching links can raise your google Pagerank, so you want to make sure you have other blogs out there that will switch links with you, so that you can raise your PR. However, as likely is this is to happen, chances are that people will not give you their links.

When your in places like this, your best bet is to simply post on something that other people will want to link to. Anyways, best of luck with that!

Blogging: Digg

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Well, you think you have something that no other blog has? Well, you might want to check that up using google search once again. Chances are that there is already something posted about what you have posted somewhere else.


One of the rules of submitting a Digg is that you shouldn’t submit something that someone else has already written about or the same topic.

Well, then what constitutes your post to be something different that what someone else has already written about? Well, as that remains up to you, it never hurts to submit a Digg on your *special* post; the worst that can happen is that it will be rejected by many members of Digg, and you’ll be exactly where you started from.

But, think about it this way: Isn’t it worth the chance to submit a Digg article and maybe gain millions of visiters to your site in the course of a month or so?

Looking at it optimistically, you should always submit a Digg post to something that you feel that is really extraordinary. As a natural habit of Digg, the post shouldbe somthing that you feel other people should really know about.

Sometimes, even a lengthy post about some stupendous youtube video can get a decent about of Digg views. If you really think about it, Digg is the heaven of linking to blogs. If you get your post submitted to the DIgg network, there are so many possibilities that people will be going to your blog from there.

Well, that is the thought for Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have time, please see Digg for the obscure rules and such.

Blogging Breaks

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Blogging can be the best thing in the world for you. It may even be that happy place that you go to be by yourself. I know it is for me sometimes, because there are always times when writing is the best thing to do to get rid of my thoughts.

Being blank minded is not really what one looks for when having a posture as a blogger, but occasionally, we can’t ignore the fact that it will happen. This is why we need to take blogging breaks.

You know what I’m talking about. Just take your time away from blogging to get other necessary work done, or even just NOT blog.

Yes, you all know that you wish there was a time in your life that you could just take a break from blogging, only because you need a new and refreshed mind.

Well, that is where blogging breaks come in. Although, I wouldn’t suggest taking a blogging break for like 3 weeks straight. Three weeks is just too much. For example, you want to consider your blogging break as a short span of time where you focus on other things besides blogging.

For some of us, this may be harder than we expect, but it is something that you should consider doing. For me, I wish I had started blogging way earlier that when I did, because then I would have been much more knowledgeable about how to write better and such.

Regardless, when you are having trouble blogging constantly, taking a blogging break is something worth considering.

So, TAKE A BREAK :!:

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