Blog News Watch

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? )

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 )

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 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.)

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

So, you may have heard that Google changed their whole deal on the issue of pagerank. Well, although I would like to blame them, especially for taking down my watchingfamilyguy.comblog down from a pagerank of 5 to a pagerank of 3. I was sad to see it happen.

But, I guess, in all honesty, you can’t really blame google for doing this. I mean, when there are so many new blogs emerging every day, of course there are going to have to be changes to the Google Pagerank system.

I wish I could pay google to make my pagerank a 10, but unfortunately, I dont think I have that kind of money, nor do I wish to pay google anymore money to google than they make per year.

Want some blogging links?

Although I strictly encourage you as a blogger to earn your readers through the web simply by attracting them to your posts, here is another way to “earn” your links.

I would really look down on somebody, though, if I saw them buying this product to increase their blog traffic or google Pagerank.

Actually, come to think of it, it would be insane to buy this only to increase your google Pagerank. Unless it is for a blog that you are trying to make money with via PayPerPost, its a complete waste of money.

What I say: Don’t worry, you will get your readers, just post your usual posts, and post them everyday. Now, this may not happen every day, but you should make an attempt to do so.

Besides, the more content you produce, the more google indexes that content, and the more of a change there is for a reader to come to your blog.

A long time ago, the previous author of this site wrote about 5 Ways to Avoid Blogger Blindness. Why would he tackle the subject of blogger’s burnout and blindness so early on, even before he started talking about the craft of writing for blogs and promoting them in-depth?

Less Burnout = Better Blogger

Your capability to maintain mental clarity and stability is directly related to your success as a blogger.
Is this true? I mean, do you have to be mentally clear and stable to post a good subject and write logicially enough so that the reader understands you?
It means great content more frequently rather than too much filler content followed by long periods of nothing.

It means more visitors because you write attractive content more often and promote it more steadily.

It means more money if you monetize your blog.

It means stability.

Getting a handle on why blogger burnout occurs and how to prevent it is essential, so I’m covering it now before I cover the process of blogging in a great deal of depth.

It all comes back to your decisions and your sense of passion for blogging. The more passion you are about blogging about the topics that you like, the more the readers will see it in the blog. Of course, it is nothing physically, but it can be seen between the lines.

Of course, your passion for blogging has to relate to how much time you are willing to spend not only to post on your blog, but also to promote it.

If you only post on your blog (without promotion) then you have to strive on the fact that people will randomly get to your blog via google. But heck, if you sign up with technorati, claim your blog via google analytics, and join forums that allow blog promotion, then you are not only promoting your blog, but you are also getting new ideas to post on.

This exchange will definitely show up when you write your posts, simply because of the fact that you are writing about what all other people are writing about and, also taking your own perspective on things.

So, just keep in mind that only posting is not the best way to blog on your blog.

Refs:

http://performancing.com/node/1340

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/07/64088

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/06/144501.php

So, now that you know that the guy who coined the Term “weblog” never made a cent out of it, yet should have been a billionaire, is not what he should’ve been. So, I guess this is just a idea to keep in mind that when you blog for money (whether it be passionately or not) expecting your blog to make more money than professional blogs such as Engadget, is a ridiculous thought, and you should eradicate it out of your mind as soon as possible.

The context of this video dates back a couple years when blogging was the “new” thing to do. (A little bit before myspace or facebook.) In 1997, blogs emerged, but everyday, there are people creating new blogs. I haven’t checked recently, but right now there are so many blogs that each blog is getting less of the pageviews that it should be getting.

As a writer, and blogger, it is easy to think ” Why didn’t blogging just stay as one of those underground things that no one liked to do, except for a few exceptions?” or maybe something like, ” If every body wasn’t making blogs all the time, people would take their time to look a the actual blogging company sites out there.”

Again, that is just the blogger inside me speaking. Mind you, he comes out very little often, so its been hard trying to get him to come out. Laugh.

Anyways, I’ll try to open up the little blogger inside me more, but as for now, look at the next post if you would like to see some porn, please check out the next post which will be posted in less than 2 hours.

Monitor your RSS feeds, draft new posts more often than you need to publish them, and comment on other blogs as often as you can are all catchphrases that bloggers hear constantly. They’re good bits of advice, too, but the compulsion is to spend too much time at the computer, working on our blogs, or when we’re not really working on them, refreshing the stats page.

But this kind of behavior creates blogging blindness; being so close to the subject that the most you can possibly do is regurgitate the work of others.

The mind needs time to relax and clear itself in order to put aside the ideas of others so that insight and ideas can start to form somewhere deep within the old nugget.

Many lists recommend relaxing hobbies such as reading books and watching movies, but for the outcome we’re looking for here, it’s best to avoid hobbies that are an infusion of other people’s ideas into your own mind.

1. Take a walk

Enjoy the scenery, even if it’s urban. Find beauty in the little things, but look for it yourself. Exercise your mind at the same time as you exercise your body - and remember, physical health and exercise is just as important to clear thinking as anything else. Swimming is also a great choice.

2. Play some poker with friends

Get around the table for some friendly gambling and conversation. Doesn’t matter if the conversation is light-hearted (like most poker games) or deep n’ meaningful (which has rarely ever happened to me in this setting!), just have some fun. If the conversation does get deep, try to contribute as much as you can. Otherwise, you guessed it - you’re absorbing more of other people’s ideas.

3. Learn an instrument

Sit down with a good guitar book and that $40 acoustic guitar from the grocery store (on my other blog it’d be an offense to suggest that!). Enjoy the process of learning without thinking too much about the end goal. Don’t rush it, take it one bit at a time. A common alternative is to learn a language, however, I think this overstimulates that linguistic part of your mind that you’re trying to calm down.

4. Draw, paint, or scribble

Doesn’t matter if you can draw or not! I certainly can’t - I might have a few artistic strengths but drawing certainly isn’t one of them. However, the attempt is at least relaxing!

5. Take your wife/girlfriend/pot plant to dinner

Without the movie, of course. Not scared of a bit of prolonged conversation, are you? Not only are you getting out and relaxing, having some decent food, but you’re saving your marriage/relationship/fertilizer from certain death since the significant other and the blog became competitors for your attention. Yes, I’m speaking from experience. No, I don’t have a pot plant.

Follow one or five of these steps, and do it regularly. Don’t let yourself develop blogger blindness! It’s for the good of the blog, the readers, and most importantly, you. You might just have some terrific insights along the way!

Tags: blogging, blogger blindness, relaxation, recreation

Via Mashable comes this sad news from the Des Moines Register:

Authorities in Minneapolis say they used a former Iowan’s iPod to learn his identity after he was struck and killed by a school bus last week. Investigators with the Hennepin (Minn.) County medical examiner’s office say they tried for nearly two days to identify the man, who had only the iPod and some keys in his possession when the accident happened Thursday. With help from Apple employees, they used the digital music player’s serial number to trace the device to Adam Ray Finley, 30, a former Des Moines man who moved to the Twin Cities five years ago. His worried parents, who live in Auburn, had not heard from him for three days. “They didn’t know who he was or where he came from,” his father, Terry Finley said Saturday. “It was a bad enough for a day and a half. I can’t imagine what it would have been like had it been longer.”

Finley was well known as a regular contributor to TV Squad, who posted this special tribute to their colleague today.

Tragic loss.