Quality, Professionalism and Marketing Lead to a Successful Blogging

As early as stage one of blogging, you are doing every possible way to promote your newborn blog. What it takes though? Promotion is one of the biggest challenges that would test your determination and dedication. Sometimes, you tried to compare your blog to the established ones which receive high amount of traffic daily, yet the comparison would stumble you down. Do not try to compare, but instead, focus and concentrate in building a paved way.

Discover the happenings behind the scene.

You won't understand unless you know the true story. Ask yourself why they have gone that far. Have they traveled a long long way or have they taken the shortcut? The answer was revealed to me, if you are serious of what you are doing now, then it's a long trip ahead. There is no shortcut.

Fasten your seat-belt and get ready for the bumpy drive.

That's the first thing you can do. Are you dedicated enough? Then you are ready to bring it on. You might be looking for the secret formula to bring your blog to the next level, but the secret entails effort as there is no overnight success. If you are waiting for that to happen, you are then wasting your time. You are like driving in a hurry with a seat-belt off, a traffic officer caught you.

Focus. Do not be overwhelmed with so many secret formulas.

None of them would work if you skip the basic. This is the story behind the scene of those successful bloggers in the vast blogosphere.

Quality Content + Professional Template + Marketing = Successful Blogging

• Quality is always the king - do not compromise the quality of your posts with quantity. If you want to post twice a day, make sure it would meet a certain standard. What's important, post or blog often. Strictly observe on your grammar, spelling, and of course the message of your post. Are you telling them something worth reading?
• Professional Template - a professional looking template is a blog theme with a friendly interface. Observe cleanliness and orderliness, make sure it would accommodate your readers well. Give them a virtual home to stay with.
  

  One important factor is the load time, do not stuff your blog with so many third party applications or plug-ins, it would sacrifice its speed. And, not the least, apply basic SEO or get a free professional blog template.

• Marketing - Do you have great and useful contents to market with? Is your blog can able to accommodate prospected readers already? Then you should take another extra step-- marketing! If your blog deserve promotion, why not? It's your time to shine.
  

  There are various media of marketing, and one of which is getting involved with the most flocked social networks nowadays like Twitter and Facebook. This is the time to participate well with social networking sites to get more visibility.
  

Are you ready to get more twitter followers?

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Final Words:

Successful blogging is possible when you only post quality contents, and a provide your readers with a professional blog template or theme. BUT, you cannot press the equal sign, the formula is not yet complete. Remember: Quality Contents + Professional Template + Marketing = Successful Blogging.

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Posted by Editorial Team on 7/27/2012 03:03:00 PM in Free Blog Design, Marketing, Quality Post Writing

Top 10 Reasons Why You Have to Nurture Your Skill in Writing

How do you define writing in your own words? If you are asked to rate writing as an important factor of being you from 1 to 10, would you pick up 8, 9, or 10? Do you consider it of value anyway? If you do, let's together nurture that gift.

As a growing person, writing can be define differently compared to the one we used to know when we still in grade school. Writing is not just about composing simple sentences this time, aiming to follow the basic subject and verb agreement. Writing is about giving our imagination a concrete form. The Richness of our ideas can acquire much value if it will be presented in a well-written language.

Well, based on my appreciation to writing, an innate skill that empowers me, I will share to you Top 10 Reasons why you have and need to nurture this precious skill like what I do.

Top 10 Reasons:

• Writing expresses yourself. Writing can give you an identity that no one can take away from you. Can you enumerate writers that are well noted with their great compositions? If you are using your wit through speaking, try another medium, write it and it can be put in a good use.
• Writing is a bank established enough for your vocabulary. We are oblivious, sadly, that makes us human. Do not be confident enough that you can hold and store as much as information you want, I believe that our brain works like a computer, it would crash down anytime if you are going to overuse it. What to do? Make a back-up as early as now. In other words, invest it in an established bank. Deposit your ideas by turning them into words. Starting a blog would be one of the best thing you can do.
• Writing is a way to help others in a bigger scope. If you have decided to write a blog about the richness of your ideas, you are extending your generosity to the whole world. Imagine how many people you can reach out 24/7? Your blog and writing is an established bank, and the World Wide Web acts as the central bank. If you share informative and helpful contents, you are helping the web to become even rich and powerful. If you are writing quality contents, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines would proudly recommend you to people. Helping others will just give you a very satisfying feeling--an achievement.
• Writing gives you a feeling of a priceless achievement. What do you feel when you know that many people are happy and thankful to you? What do you feel when you know that there are few hundreds of readers regularly visiting and scanning your written topics for information as guide for their daily activities? Wow! You just don't express yourself, but you came out to be a helping hand.
• Make real friends along the way and expand your knowledge through them. Writing and blogging is a give and take situation. It is a win-win approach. Why? You make real friends out there. You would find a true circle of people who value things like you do. If you feel that you do not belong to the people around you, make a bridge, walk miles away using your wit and writing fluency. Exchange ideas from different people you know you can be with and learn from them. At first, you need your writing skill in helping them, but unknowingly, it help you learn more. Indeed, blogging is learning.
• Writing make you wiser. Wise people speak about ideas. They are like birds hungry for worms, and everyday, they would fly to feed themselves. Wise people are like ants, they are hard working enough to look for foods before the rain would wash them away. Are you like birds and ants? In a matter of time, they will become clever, and they would know when scarcity knocks their doors. How about us people? Well, use what it is in you. Train yourself, practice makes one perfect! Guys, make a testament of how intellectual you are.
• Make the world a better place through your words. It's about spreading the good news. Who among you know Dr. Jose Rizal? He had changed the course of the Philippine History because of his wisdom transformed into powerful and awakening compositions. He had never used sword to fight against enemies, because he got a weapon powerful enough to win the battle. Shifting our talk to our modern technology today, the web has became rich with ideas, tools and resources, but it is also bombarded with negative elements or what we called the negative side of the internet. Let's fight, let's out number them by sharing our insightful ideas. Let's change the world.
• Write for your future. Whether you owned a blog, or do a freelance work through writing, you are making a paved way for your future. You may not realize it for the time being, did I? Well, I do realize it long ago. Blogging, for example, is like planting a tree; you are using your skill to dig up the soil, weed and water. The little plant might not become a tree right after tomorrow, but it will grow in time.
• Make money through writing. Did you built a strong tree guard for your little tree? Well, it is grown now and bear sweet fruits already, I realized you did (the tree guard thing). I am not joking, there are lots of people out there who make money blogging. They have used their writing skill to make a good living for themselves and their families.
• Give more time for your family. That's the bottom line. By exploiting the richness of your ideas, you would see yourself managing your own schedule inside your living room, giving you the chance to bond with your families anytime, much longer.

Anyway, what are your reasons why you have nurtured your writing skill? Have I guessed any? See you:)

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/16/2012 01:51:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, How to Blog, Quality Post Writing, Top 10 Reasons

Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Mind in a Good Writing Mode

How if you want to write and nothing comes out in your mind? Being not in the mood for writing, and the eagerness to do so will just simply stressed you out.

Why there are times that you really want to write something and nothing would come out from your head?

There are several reasons why. Writing is not an easy task if you are not prepared. In my experience, it is when I am surrounded and bombarded with negative elements. Sometimes, I am just occupied with too many things, and that would be the worst that can happen to my day. Problems are not just the ones that would give you some headache, because thinking and considering too many things, trying to work them out at the same time would give you an aching head, and nothing good would come out really.

How can you keep yourself in a writing mode?

• Organize Things - Simply put, perform your tasks one a time. When your attention is shifting every now and then, your mind is prone to stress, and you cannot work out well. Know your Shoud's and Must's.
• Observe and ask questions - Be a keen observer. Learn to investigate. Make every difference that you have noticed a source of a good idea.
• Blog according to your interest and habit - If you are a housewife, you have the potential to write a cooking or housekeeping blog. It might be about different recipes or different tips in making your home clean. Otherwise, if you work in front of a computer monitor, with lots of paper works waiting for you daily, you can then write a good blog on how you can able to cope up with your hectic schedules.
• Do not let any single idea slip away - I am serious, you need to note every good idea you think about. These are potential key points for your next post. You don't have to carry pen and paper of course, you can use your phone, type it in there. When you are in a middle of your work, and something pop-up in your mind, write or note it down quickly because your mind would be back in the work mode again and you can hardly remember what it is.
• Keep on reading - This is one of the most important. Reading wouldn't be missing in every writing tips. Reading is the number one reason why you can write fluently, your vocabulary does. So, do not forget to make reading your leisure habit. It would nourish your intellect.
• Know when is your writing mode - Do you want to post daily, or at least 6 times a week leaving Sunday a holiday? Find the exact time your mind is at ease and productive in writing, and make it a daily routine. If you feel comfortable crafting your quality post after dinner, then do it, make it a habit. Every after dinner times the following days, you would find yourself holding a pen and a paper. Find the time, build some space so that you can write effortlessly.
• Visit blog directories or forums - Submit your blog at popular blog directories and participate some discussion about your topic or niche. Different talks or questions rose in there with your friends and fellow bloggers would be a good source for a next entry. Read forums as well. Do they have unresolved problems? Help them by writing a useful and informative post about it.
• Participate on social networks - Use your friends' suggestions. Well, you can ask them to follow and suggest topics for your next entry.
• Believe in yourself - Well, that has a great impact on you. It's the law of attraction. When I watched the film "The Secret", it taught me to think positive at all times. I noted some important words, and let me share to you this: "Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming." Believe that you can write fluently everytime you need and want to, and you can with ease.
• Read news - Reading news from an several social media is helpful. You can subscribe for updates if you want to simply check it in your email. I regularly visit mashable, google blog and the like for new ideas and topic suggestions. In addition, you can also read and follow various blogs of your niche, you can surely get an idea on what to write daily.

Writing Policy:

Do not plagiarize, always write original and quality contents. Quality always win!

Well, who knows I can complete writing 10 tips tonight inspired from a blogging discussion at blogcatalog? That's the secret guys. I supposedly numbered them in numerals, but they are in no particular order.

Drop your tips, it might add here :-)

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/14/2012 05:12:00 PM in Quality Post Writing, Top 10 Tips, Writing Techniques

Top 10 Tips on How to Write Quality Post for A Long Term Blogging

Google has a strong and consistent campaign for fresh, helpful and quality contents.

People who are searching through Google are expecting for answers to their queries, yet sometimes, SEO tricks can alter the results. Instead of showing the real solution to search queries, searchers are prompted with results controlled by search engine optimization tricks. What happen to the real answers? They are buried somewhere. There are many pages needed to be scanned before getting what people are truly seeking.

Today, Google itself is starving for quality, that's why the Penguin Update is just one of the medium to extract helpful information from the web by eliminating entries with poor quality. With it's latest update, upon comprehending it deeper, Google would not just skim, but conduct a careful study on every content available on the web. It's not just about picking up frequently used keywords and key phrases, it's about understanding the whole contents. Where do you hear the concept of "Survival of the Fittest"? It's not just happening around us, it's happening in the virtual world, and quality will last among others. In order to survive, you need to understand what quality really means.

How to write with quality?

The following are tips in writing quality blog post:

1. Write a precise or specific title. Limit it to 70 characters maximum including spaces.
2. The title of your post should serve as the thesis itself just like writing academic essays. It is a brief or concise description of what you want to inform your readers.
3. Write a good introduction. If you have a habit of reading, you would know how writers convinced their readers to continue reading using persuading passages. Make it a guide in writing good composition.
4. Do not bury your main ideas. Most of the times, readers would love to take a glance at the highlights of your entry. Use bullets or numbers to enumerate key points.
5. Exploit the richness of your ideas. A blogger is a creative writer himself. Do not try to duplicate contents from other sources, surely, Google trackers like Penguin would surely notice you, instead, craft your own piece using your style. Write creatively, it's your time to shine so you need to show off.
6. Spice up your post with keywords. But sometimes, the problem lies here. Keywords are effective SEO, however, this would give your content a bad impression if you do not use keywords properly. Think about taking drugs, if you intake medicine out of doctor's prescription, it would give a bad effect on your health, and most likely lead to overdose or worst, addiction. Similarly, the use of excessive keywords would result to keyword stuffing. Hence, use number of keywords that are reasonable enough.
7. Short entries are readable, yes, but make sure not to compromise the quality of your post. If you want to have a classic entry, shall I say, write pillar-like articles. It's longer, basically more than 500 words. I called it classic because people might find it helpful regardless of time. Find how to write pillar article at Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
8. Use visual aids that would help readers digest your message. It's like yeast mixed in a dough. Pictures and graphics will spice up your post specially for longer entries. But, use pictures with restrictions, if you do not feel safe using images downloadable from the web, use your own. That would make you creative enough. If you do not have any, please adhere to copyright policy, always read the copyright notice.
9. Use other ideas from other sources that would strengthen yours and give your final words, just like a closing paragraph. Quotations or excerpt might be placed at the beginning or in the middle of your entry, or at the closing part. But make sure they are from trusted sources. Back links might harm the health of your blog if you are not sure sources are not credible from the eyes of Google.
10. Learn the basic function of HTML at w3schools.com. Learn what is the difference of anchor text from URL and practice how to use them properly in linking back. Learn how to use 'nofollow' tag, alt attribute for image and
    anchor text. Learn the basic web design to become a competent blogger. What's really unforgettable experience is the endeavor to become even better.

These are helpful basic tips in writing a quality blog entry for your readers. Well, there are too many tips available, but do not get overwhelmed, it would stressed you out. Concentrate on few or formulate your own base on their ideas and your actual experiences.

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/11/2012 06:30:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, Quality Post Writing

Richness of Ideas - A Strong Foundation of a Better Blogging

Difficulty is in its way. If you want to dig up a pit in the ground, expect that it won't be as easy as digging a hole in the shore.

What is the most possible reason why we grab a pen and a paper, and start penning down sentences? That is simply because we hold an abundance of ideas that makes us productive in our own ways. The richness of our ideas helps us realize the things that we see and imagine. In fact, the world has came this far because we hold much of it.

The richness of ideas is innate to all of us.

It's innate, so you have it. But how if you don't see it coming? Do you have problem delivering your opinion? The reason behind difficulty is the lack of practice. It's building up, resources would yield nothing if they are not put in a proper use, and so does your chance to use your intellect.

How to build up the richness of your ideas?

Sitting and talking about senseless thing is the most unproductive thing one can do to his life. He is like expecting a drought to come with nothing at hand. In order to have a bountiful harvest, you have to weed and water and so on. My point is that, put your mind at a pace that would not make your brain outdated. Enhance yourself in a way that you can freely express the things that make you distinctive as a person. We possess different qualities and that make us special, find it in you as I am seeking it in me.

How did I build up the richness of my ideas?

Difficulty is in its way. If you want to dig up a pit in the ground, expect that it won't be as easy as digging a hole in the shore. Well, learning can be dull at first, but resist to that feeling and you will find what you are seeking for.

Learning Tips:

• Make reading and writing a part of your daily routine. If you are as well building up your blog, it's time to share your best interest to your readers. How can you able to make that? Write well. Make use of your rich ideas by writing great contents.
• Do not depend on your own abilities, learn from others and make an observation. Ask yourselves about the things that they have done best making them productive.
• Make an innovation, copy their style but make sure that you preserve your own. It is just like breeding, and yours will become a hybrid-- and you would come out much stronger.
• Make use of what you have learned. Apply it, not just in your writing, apply it repeatedly. Read more and write more. Be an addict to learning. Do not forget to use resources and materials that would make learning enjoyable.

Playing with Thesaurus - a way to build up the richness of your vocabulary.

Do not leave unfamiliar word, grab a dictionary or thesaurus, find its meaning. I love playing a 'thesaurus game', I would pick up a new word, list it on a paper and note down all it's possible meaning and synonyms, etc.

Well, ready for your blogging career? Just exploit the richness of your ideas and you will be on the go!

Reading, Writing, Constant Learning will give you the chance to write well and share more.

Since blogging has a strong connection to writing, down to our skills in shaping grammatical sentences and persuasive paragraphs, why not use available resources out there to help you become a better blogger? Your number one mission in building your blog is sharing fresh and great contents.

Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. - Friedman

Resources:

• Image Copyright "Richness of Ideas" Thesilein @ Flickr
• 50 Free Resources Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills Vitaly Friedman @ Smashing Magazine

Posted by Editorial Team on 5/08/2012 12:41:00 PM in Blogging is Learning, Free Blogging Resources, Quality Post Writing