Archive for the 'Blog Basics' Category
by Joe Justin
Blogs Are easy? Yup that’s right, if you believe all the stuff you read out there, blog are easy. I am here to tell you blogs can be a challenge for anyone. When I first start learning about blogs, I didn’t know where to turn. I didn’t know which software to use, what type of hosting I needed, or what type of investment would be required. It took a lot of research and even after the research, I felt like I just had to take the leap and go for a Wordpress blog.
by Edward
‘Blog writing’ is successfully making a mark in the industry today. A Blog as we all know is a personal chronological log of thoughts which are published on a web page, hence are also known as Weblog.
A Blog is an extremely interesting piece of writing. It helps people express their innermost thoughts, personal experiences, hobbies, and can be even maintained as an online journal. What makes a Blog different from any other form of writing is that they are written by people ‘for’ people. Without inhibitions; one can express their thoughts freely.
A ‘Blog’ helps you share your personal thoughts and views. It serves as a good medium for expressing effectively. Any website no matter how colorful, interactive and interesting, it is always about the ‘words’. Hence at COSMOS, they will be your thoughts with our words.
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.