Champions Guide to Blogs Pt2

Part 2: Blog Brainstorming

Ok so the rules for blog content are….there are no rules and there are no limitations to what you can write, obviously you dot want to go insulting people or writing bad things about people or organizations coz that will just lead to bad press and bad remarks for your blog, or you may even get it shut down in serious cases…

Now there are differences in a profitable blog and a non-profitable blog. Ok so I want you to think back to the days of school and university…ok come back it`s not that long ago… Your professor wasn’t exactly the most exciting person was he or she…unless you had Miss….um ok sorry I`m back…the point I`m trying to make is you would rather read something from your best novel/favourite author than the boring professor right? Well for most of us anyway…
Most people that will come and read your blog would like to read “soft” or “light” stuff. They are looking for info that can be easily obtained and easily absorbed not like the professors notes…Try be personal in your blogs to keep people coming back, use your humour on some if it`s justifiable, everyone loves t smile and laugh. Another thing you could use is free gifts, now I don’t always advise this but I don’t see anything wrong with giving your readers something for taking the trouble to reading your blog.

Make your blog personal as if it’s a one on one…don’t write it like you would a speech…you don’t want your visitors to think your of a higher authority but more of a personal friend.

Fresh topics need to be spoken about regularly to keep your readership high so spice things up. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as your mundane job! Not only will the topic keep you motivated to right your feelings and emotions will shine through. If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it, just remember that.

Now the first few weeks will be testing but once you get into the swing of things and once you keep writing, more ideas will come flowing into your head and you blog will transform tremendously. What you can do is see what other bloggers are writing about and have conversations with them and or get ideas, now it`s not a good idea to copy and this can cause a lot of friction and not the good kind I tell you. You can find other bloggers here…www.technorati.com and www.blogsearch.google.com

Another way to get good content for your blogs is www.youtube.com … www.skynews.com … www.espn.com it`s all about what you are gonna be writing about. There are endless ideas out there.

A blog I visit quite regularly is www.pharside.co.uk it features this man…

And no he is not the messiah … its Marky Mark the blogger and ultra cool guy from www.pharside.co.uk , he has various types of content on his blog that keeps people coming back…. Not to mention the free gifts I spoke about…not that I’ve actually won or got anything… still a very good example!!!

Join forums to get to know more people, without even telling them about your blog the general curiosity on mankind will get them “checking you out” and soon they will ( after all my advice ) be hooked on your blog!!!
Remember to keep up your momentum of posting at least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content every day. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence gaining you extra traffic.

So go…run …get away and make me proud get those blogs going…

P.S send me the permalinks so I can read and comment on them…

John NetBiz Champion

Champions Guide to Blogs

Part 1: The Set Up

For some people blogging is a way of life, their source of income and this is very true. There are a number of ways to make money with blogs and the lifestyle that comes with it can be very relaxing and enjoying, I mean who wouldn’t want to just chill out at home or on holiday writing about their favourite topic and getting paid to do it. Yes some blogs make a lot more money than others do but that just depends on how hard you work and what market you are aiming at.

So in this article we are gonna discuss on where and how to set up your blog for FREE!! Ok now I know you are at the edge of your seat after seeing the word FREE coz we all like things for FREE right??

Ok, so now you are wondering where do I get a blog or how do I set it up? There are a number of different websites that do blogs for free…example being www.blogger.com which is owned by Google so it will be index a lot faster which is a good thing. The other main blog site is www.wordpress.com now a lot of people might say that wordpress.com is better than blogger which might be the case as it has a lot more advanced features, never the less they are both good ways to start off in the blogging world. There are also sites like www.myspace.com and www.travelpod.com that do free blogs but just have a look around at the features and see what you think, although I don’t think you will go wrong with the first 2 that I mentioned. Once you have progressed into an experienced blogger with alot of readers you might want to host your blog on your own domain name, the work involved is a lot more intense hosting and doing everything yourself but the rewards can be worth it.

Once you have signed up and you have you blog have a play around with the different options and templates so that your blog will suit your style more.

Ok so now once you have set up your blog here are some very important words that you need to learn about…

Number 1: Pinging… This is a great way to get traffic to your website…how you ask? Well pinging is the action used when a certain aggregator is notified when you blog is updated. This aggregator will use this to show your latest post on his website, so it is important to use good quality content as in time thousands of people may be reading your blog.

Number2: Permalink… no it`s nothing to do with your hair?? Don’t stress it`s easier than you think… Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog. So if you want someone to read a specific article then you can use this link to send them right there, boom bam easy as that.

Number 3: Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature is not available with some blogs and can be vitally important to getting more traffic to your website…so make sure you check the features of the blog you choose.

Ok so you know what to do, where to go and what to look for so have fun and stop by soon for part 2….Blog Brainstorming.
Ill be baaacckkk…..

John NetBiz Champion

www.megawealtmegafreedom.com