Archive for August, 2007
by Corey Geer
"Why Should I Blog? I Simply Don’t Get It"
This post on a popular discussion forum set me thinking - and I came up with 12 reasons you should blog.
Read them and get started on your blog. Or better still, go get your blog up and running and THEN come back and read this :)
- You Do Not Need To Know HTML
One of the biggest hurdles many hopeful website creators face is they don’t know to design a webpage. Blogs overcome this - all you do is type into a box, and the blog software automatically converts it into a webpage and publishes it on the World Wide Web for anyone to see.
by Gozanli
There are millions of bloggers in the world and only few of them are really good. Then there are criteria for bloggers to be a good blogger. What are these criteria? How can we decide whether a blog is good or bad.
The first criteria, of course, should be traffic. How much traffic does your blog get. Then comes the comments about your posts. If visitors like your posts and find them useful or interesting, then you win; you are a good blogger. That’s not enough! The alexa position, your backlinks and pagerank are among the criteria.
But how can we make our blogs suit these criteria. What should we do? The first thing to do is to write quality posts. All your posts should answer the question "What is this blog for?" They must be unique and simple enough to be understandable by all people.
by Colin Lim
One of the crucial things all bloggers should do on a regular basis is to make comments on other people’s blogs. This serves the following purposes:
- Gets those much needed backlinks or trackbacks to your blog which increases your Page Rank in search engines;
- Promotes your blog to the owner of the blog you are commenting on and other commentors (commentators?) which drives traffic to your site;
amongst a few others.
What you need to do is to search out blogs that are related to your blog subject and make meaningful comments. Do not just post your link to your site as most bloggers moderate their comments before posting them, and even if they don’t its just not nice to do this & you eventually get known as a SPAM commenter. Try to participate in the discussion going on and add value. Its just like the physical world - if you be nice to others, they are more likely to be nice back to you. Some bloggers may even quote you in their upcoming post if you leave a good comment, which can further help to promote your blog.
by Corey Geer
Does your business need a blog? A blog is a Web log, an online journal. Blogs started out as online diaries, in which diarists shared their everyday lives with the world. From their beginnings as a weird Web fad in 1998, blogs have moved on, and are well on the way to becoming a standard business tool.
Why? Because in February 2003 Google.com bought Pyra Labs, the company which owns the Blogger weblogging tool. Blogger.com, one of the main sites providing blog software and hosting, boasted a million hosted web logs in early 2003.
Google.com’s interest in blogs indicates that blogs are mainstream. A blog help your business in many ways, depending on whether you create a private or a public blog. Blogs are so useful that you’ll want to create both.
Your business’s private, internal blog
by Lee Coppin
Scanning the news to day I see that Facebook is in court fighting for its life over who thought about it first claims and Myspace has close 29,000 profiles of known sex offenders. Is this the first signs of the death of social bookmaking and blogging?
Can it be that the bubble is about burst and we are all about to see the fallout of closer regulation on line relating to the freedom of content and speech for our online world?
Social networking and blogging are founded firmly on the ability to speak our minds and post it up as quickly as we can think about it. We can all post content to our blogs and social networking accounts in seconds.