Three points for a successful blog:
Technology Edge, Original Fluency, and Social Connection
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I am a successful blogger with a well-read blog ahsannabi.com . I enjoy 80 - 100 visitors per day on good days of blog reading. I even have rare blog nomination for WordAds, hundreds of subscribers and forefront Google Ranking. How did I achieve all this. Three points: Technology, Fluency and Connection
Technology
First of all choose a blog application as a Content Management System (CMS). Some of the more popular blog creating applications are Blogger from Google, Joomla and Wordpress . A mature blog creating CMS contains customized themes for displaying the contents and design in a wide variety of ways with flavours and colours suited to the blog purpose. Some good examples of themes are Socialia for Social Welfare Organizations, Minimatica for company main product line, Colorful for displaying a company profile, and many available as free and purchaseable versions.
The quality of a theme or a component used in a blog depends upon its reusability. The more popular a component, the more its rating in stars. If frequent users of a component in a blog do not feel satisfied with that component, they will simply uninstall it hence decreasing its popularity scale and rating.
A blog has many popular components or plugins listed in CMS like
Calendar, RSS Feeds
News Feeds, Subscribers List
Share Buttons, Social Networking Plugins, Games, Tag Cloud, Search Engine Optimization Plugins
Fluency
A 'Two Way' Whiteboard at Newhouse III (Photo credit: Vin Crosbie)A good blog is a easy-to-read blog. A better blog is an attractive blog. The best blog is as captivating as it can be. Based on the topic, the blog should cover all the main points required for the justification to the topic in a simple, lucid style. On the internet, people do not have much time to read as in a book. Writing-a-blog style is often personal, funny, appealing to the senses, in a small shell, BEAUTIFUL!
Main points of the blog should stand out, possibly in bullets, or subheadings, with some hanging indented extractions of text and occasional quotations. Any images or illustrations should often be mentioned in detail. A picture is worth a thousand words. Make your words speak with an illustration and make your illustration prove your words.
There are ways how to achieve fluency.
- Increase your typing speed.
- Follow your instincts
- Write from your experience and knowledge
- Write different and interesting
- Get the knack of explaining away complex issues simply
- First look at a picture and describe
- First read a story and narrate
- First make a decision and show pros and cons
- First make an opinion and then quote
- Always be yourself
Connection
As you grow your blogplant, you get encouraged by more and more visits. Just dont shy away. Open up. Follow comments, respond, off course to non-spams. After you reach a maturity and volume in your writing and originality, advertise your blog. Go to facebook, twitter, and other social networking sites. Join different groups. Post something relevant about your blog. For this join relevant groups and social networking pages.
Identify the main keywords of your blog and highlight them, link them to wikipedia definitions and other google cross references. This is linking strategy for better blog visiting. A rule of thumb: For every hundred backlinks on your blog, you earn one backlink of your blog by someone else without asking him! Thats my experience. Dont worry if your backlinks are not that effective. Let the tools help you out. Wordpress has its own backlink and tagging engine. If you want to add the same into any blog content management system that does not support autolinking, just copy-paste the html from Wordpress into that blog. Simple. Make both ends meet.
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Always keep copies of your blogs. Copying is allowed in blogs. You may quote from other blogs. Just mention references. That's it.
Finally, once your blog is really popular, with towering statistics, own a domain. Get some advertisements and make money on its own!
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Hi I have a blog http://pearlstechnology.blogspot.com . I have covered several video commentaries on the blog posts. But I cannot embed videos from vimeo . The vimeo links are here http://pearlstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/09/building-in-sharepoint-2007-with-visual.htmlandhttp://pearlstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-create-professional-forms-with.html. What I see is that youtube videos can be embedded in any blog or facebook page. But not in blogger. The reason may be that neither blogger nor vimeo has done the video embedding facility homework.How can we embed then?
ReplyDeleteImage management in blogger.com has three issues:1. Images Library is missing. Once you add an image on the blog, it does not automatically become available for other posts.2. There is no global image directory. This is necessary when deciding to add images from the most popular freely available stocks.3. Image alignment is not perfect. We dont have a nice and smooth border aligning text with images wrapping them up in a nice way as is in Wordpress.How to add an image library in Blogger.com?Check out my site http://pearlstechnology.blogspot.com and get the idea.
ReplyDeleteIt depends on manhours.
ReplyDeleteTry an organic growth. I use an organic growth for my blogging platforms and am seeing a rapid return rate even in low cost of investment.
A professional website means:
1. Graphic designers
2. Database developers
3. Script and Content Developers
4. Software Engineers
5. A Project Manager
Do you think it is worth it? Even so, then you need an equal amount of marketing budget and staffing.Start from scratch? Well, start from personal blog, site, grow organically. Does your client need such a site. Tell him or her, you have hired me for a day. This work is for a year. Nobody works for a year in today's reusasble world. We never reinvent the wheel.
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