Creative Ideas for Compelling Content

While browsing the net I come across this interesting article that I find worth sharing here. We all know that more often than not we bloggers run out of ideas on what to post in our blog but I do like the idea that this article is trying to convey for bloggers like me. Here is some few lines that I quote from it:

One of the biggest hurdles that ALL new ( and experienced) bloggers face, is the constant and continuous chase to create good and compelling content. In the big buck battles you see fought over the hearts and minds of your readers, it's often the blogs that have the MOST continuously updated content that get the most views, NOT those that have the best ideas, or freshest thoughts. In many ways, this is a sad thing...but in a very different senses, it does provide a wonderful window of opportunity to those willing to work harder and smarter than anyone else.

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What Does Success Mean?

Success means a lot of things to a lot of people, but the bottom line, for most of us, is that success doesn't come easy. Most people who see someone else's "overnight success" cannot fathom the months or years of hard work, lost sleep and sacrifices made to achieve that success.

In my opinion success means having dream nobody else believes in and holding it through hardest times. Success is achieved by first having dreams and then doing what most are unwilling to do to achieve them. I think every person have dreams. The only problem is that for most dreams are just that; something unreal and unobtainable. I know some of my dreams may never be reached like my dream of becoming an A-blogger, but that's only because I am working on other dreams at the moment, for now I am satisfied with the status of my blog, at least I got some interested person that read my post and thanks to you guys! I still trying to work things out on this blog and how to make it better, and any suggestion is most welcome. The point is you have to have goals, and then you have to go after them. There will be setbacks, hard times and people along the way that do nothing but try to hold you back, but if you give up, then you've lost your dream and your path to success. As the saying goes "Never give up. Never surrender". In your opinion what does success mean to you?

Entrecard: Another resources to get your blog notice for free.

Traffic is necessary to get your site or blog notice by Search engines and thus give your blog or site a pagerank by Google, Alexa, Yahoo, Altavista or any search engine portals. You get indexed by search engine if you have lots of traffic and links to your blog or site. Here is one that I recommend for new bloggers to have your blogs get notice for free and gain more traffic and readership.Familiar about EntreCard? If you still don't know about this social network for bloggers you better grab one.Entrecard is like a business card or a calling card that you give to your friends or someone you've meet to get lots of contact and get you notice.It is also an advertising portal where you can advertise your blog on anyone who is an Entrecard member for free.

Entrecard is the first and only free exchange network for 125x125 ads. Through this revolutionary platform, you can advertise your own 125x125 Entrecard on any blog in the network, for free, for a number of days.Why pay for advertising where you can get it for free.

What you have to do is

1. Sign-up and create and account with Entrecard
2. Enlist your blog in their directory, this is provided once you've an account.
3. Once you've done go to their help section to guide you on how to use Entrecard to socialize, meet other bloggers and get your blog notice, that's all you have to do to get you started. Quite simple isn't it?

If you notice in the sidebar of this blog a 200x125 widget with the caption Entrecard that's how it looks once you've become a member you have to place this widget to earn you credits in a form of Entrecard points. With this points you can buy ads slots on any bloggers who is a member of the network and off your blog traffic go.
So go ahead and try this cool stuff to gain traffic for your blog.

Blog: What, Why and How?

Blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in chronological order. It is an interactive form of website where users don't need knowledge about HTML codes to be able to use them. Blog has revolutionized the internet in the way it is used. Blog nowadays is the main medium of communications. A blog can be a personal one just like a journal or a diary, it can be a collection of photos, videos, music or audio or made to promote a business or news items.

There a lots of things you can do using a blog.The most important thing in making a blog is that you must have :
1. A good planning and concept.You must have a central theme for your blog.What you want to share about? Do you want to share about your recent travels or your photos or simply you thoughts about anything you like.
2. You must have an objective for your blog. What is your goal for blogging? Is it just to make others know what you can share or for getting some extra bucks or both ot them.
3. Always plan and make a draft of things you are about to blog so that your grammar and syntax is correct, viewers and visitors to your blog often would ignore yourblog if it contains wrong grammar; of course this is if you are blogging in English.
4. Choose a good blog template often blog designs helps in getting you notice.There are plenty of templates to choose from in the web. Here some few sites to get your own templates:
Freetemplates
BlogTemplates
Template Panic
5. Always have a good, well written concept and ideas to blog about.

This are just a few ideas of what I think is the things new bloggers like me should do. And the rest you can consult the experts and pros in the blog world:
Problogger.net Mr. Problogger has lot to say about blogs and blogging.