Blogs and Blogging: August 2008

Newbies Guide to Blogging: Part 3

Friday, August 29, 2008 at 6:33 PM Posted by Heisan

Image by adam is on flickr via Flickr Previously posted are the two necessary steps in starting your own blog and that is Decision and Preparation. Now after you've made a decision and prepared everything the next thing is Execution.
Execution:This would mean the launching of your blog making it visible in the blogosphere. What you've prepared and planned you will now make the first initial presence in the world wide web. Blog is just like a product where by you want to let other people know the good thing about it. Execution would also mean promoting and drawing as much visitors to your blog giving them the idea of what your blog can offer for their information and knowledge. In executing your blog and making its presence be felt in the blogosphere community, you have to do what is needed and that is promotion and traffic. Promoting you blog means joining social network communities like, Blog Catalog orMyBlogLog all this you have to do to attract more readers and visitors to your blog and their are lots of blog directories in the blogosphere its all up to you to join any of them so far this two are the most popular. And there is also Twitter. So once you've done this things off your blog goes now and on the long run you'll know which direction your blog will be going. Next post would be Direction that is finding the best your blog can become.

Newbies Guide to Blogging: Part 2

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM Posted by Heisan

Image via Wikipedia Previously I've discussed the first step in starting a blog and that is Decision making. Once you've decided what type and concept of blog you are to make the next in line is the Preparation.
Preparation . Preparation means you have three things to consider in starting your blog: Content, Design and Hosting. Content would mean that to have a blog obviously you need articles as a content of your blog and this must be related to the kind of blog you are about to create. Your first blog content I suggest, should be one that you originally created and that would be either an introduction of yourself or your the general concept of your blog. You must at least prepare 3-5 original post for your blog as a starter and the rest would follow suite as you go along.

Selecting a design for your blog is a must. If content is what makes a blog, a blog then, design adds beauty and appeal to your blog. A good design can drive visitor and readers but, off course content it a necessity in a blog. There are lots of free blog design template that you can use and here is one that I recommend eblogtemplates.com . You can choose your own design that is compatible with blogger.com or wordpress blog.

After selecting your design hosting your blog is the next thing to consider. There are two option when it comes to hosting, one is a free hosting and the other is paid hosting.You can opt with a free blog hosting like Blogger.com if you don't have enough financial capacity to maintain a paid hosting though in free hosting your blog gets only the subdomain that means you get www.myblog.blogspot.com and not www.myblog.com. Also in a free hosting you don't have full control of the technical side of your blog. If you opt for paid hosting that would mean you have enough financial capacity to maintain your blog then I suggest that Wordpress.com is the better blog platform you can use you just download the whole wordpress software and it is free and use it in your paid hosting. Now you are prepared to start your own blog. Next would be how you are to execute your first blog. See you next post.

Newbies Guide to Blogging : Series-1

Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM Posted by Heisan

Image via Wikipedia The general concept for starting a blog as I have discuss previously based on what I observe and experience are four things: Decision, Preparation, Execution, Direction.
DECISION: When starting your own blog first, you must decide what to blog about. Try to think of things that you are familiar with and that you can easily relate to your audience. Know what you are good at and then stick to that idea and concept then decide when to start and how you are to render your blog.There are different kinds of blog that you can see in the blogosphere, there are photoblog, travel blog, cooking, tips and resources blogs. Now try to use what you are good at and this will be your niche and in the long run you are about to develop and make it better. Decision is often influence by what you are most interested at, so that when you are good at something it influence your decision and ideas about what to blog. Once you've decided and about to start then the next thing you do is prepare the things you need to start your blog. Next post will be Preparation, what you need and how you gathered things up for your blog.

Newbies Guide to Blogging

Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 3:57 PM Posted by Heisan

Image by Tonyç via Flickr Everyone wants to have a blog in one way or another for a lot of different reasons. Their are those who want to blog to let out their thoughts and views be known. Others want to blog about how they travel and others are blogging about photos they take and many other reason, but blogging now has one more thing to offer - extra income. So how do you start a blog? Here are some tips that is based on my experience. This may not be the perfect guide for newbies but somehow I wanted to share this to all. This would be a series of topics that everyday I have to discuss here one by one so bear with me in this coming days. The general idea on how to start a blog are the following:

Decision

Preparation

Execution

Direction

These are the things that is needed to start blogging and this will be elaborated in the days to come. So far this would suffice for now that you have the general view of things necessary to start blogging. See you in the next post.
Next time I will discuss Decision how and why it is necessary to have a good decision.

The Power of Comments

Friday, August 8, 2008 at 12:16 PM Posted by Heisan

Image via WikipediaIt is nice to know that my readers posted comments on some of my post. It gladdens the heart and lift your spirit to continue posting. Indeed the power of comments do helps me as a blogger as it bolster my resolution to continue despite the temptation to procrastinate due to what others called a mental blackout where it is hard to conceive ideas to post. Comments do help a lot as it gives me as a blogger ideas and even make that comment part of my blog post. Commenting do create opportunities for blogger like me to conceive ideas and thoughts that becomes a blog post while on the other hand commenting on other blogs helps me as a blogger to get my blog the exposure it needs and attract readers and subscribers. I am still in the stage infancy in the world of blogging but as of now I am starting to grasp some ideas and concept to help me mature in this sphere of the world wide web. Comments received do help me a lot in creating more post, it is through the help of some few comments from those interested readers that makes my blog up and running while commenting on other blogs gets my blog the traffic and exposure it needs to gain followers. So to you my readers and visitors keep on posting your comment here as I would gladly appreciate them it helps me constructively.

Blogging tool that is Scribefire and making money

Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 6:01 PM Posted by Heisan

Already familiar with the Firefox blogging extension tool that is Scribefire, well for all you know this cool tool that allows blogger to compose article and directly post them in your blogger's or wordpress blog also offers monetization for your blog known as QuickAds. How it works? Scribefire QuickAds uses a drag and drop ad network for bloggers by consolidating all the different popular ad networks in one place where once you have created an account with ScribeFire QuickAds you can choose which ads you want to incorporate in your blog.

Scribefire is the first service to enable publishers to serve fully optimized banners ads on their sites with point and click functionality. ScribeFire’s patent pending technology simplifies banner-space maintenance and optimization by requiring no code additions to websites. And one advantage with their ad technology is that you get paid without any minimum amount once you've earned you get paid on the 7th of the month for your previous month’s earnings; No monthly minimum payouts. Cool isn't it?