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Tips for writing a blog post
Jan 3rd
Here are ten tips that help with blog writing.
1. Make your opinion known
2. Link like crazy
3. Write less
4. 250 Words is enough
5. Make Headlines snappy
6. Write with passion
7. Include Bullet point lists
8. Edit your post
9. Make your posts easy to scan
10. Be consistent with your style
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1. Make your opinion known
People like blogs, they like blogs because they are written by people and not corporations. People want to know what people think, crazy as it sounds they want to know what you think. Tell them exactly what you think using the least amount of words possible.
2. Link like crazy.
Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post.
3. Write Less
Give the maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Time is finite and people are infinitely busy. Blast your knowledge into the reader at the speed of sound.
4. 250 is enough
A long post is easier to forget and harder to get into. A short post is the opposite.
5. Make Headlines snappy
Contain your whole argument in your headline. Check out National newspapers to see how they do it.
6. Include bullet point lists
We all love lists, it structures the info in an easily digestible format.
7. Make your posts easy to scan
Every few paragraphs insert a sub heading. Make sentences and headlines short and to the point.
8. Be consistent with your style
People like to know what to expect, once you have settled on a style for your audience stick to it.
9. Litter the post with Keywords.
Think about what keywords people would use to search for your post and include them in the body text and headers. make sure the keyword placement is natural and does not seem out of place.
10. Edit your post
Good writing is in the editing. Before you hit the submit button, re-read your post and cut out the stuff that you don’t need.
Hope you enjoyed tips for writing a blog post – feel free to share your own blog writing tips below.
Bloging Addict…
Oct 11th
A couple was holidaying in Florida to celebrate their first anniversary of marriage. One morning the wife saw the husband wake up and go to the toilet. To the wife’s amusement, he stayed there for a very long time. As time passed, the wife became suspicious, as there was no sound of running water or the husband singing a bathroom hit. As she knocked the door and opened it, she found him sitting on the pot with the laptop stuck on his lap. He was bloging over a wireless link.
Blogging has become the new way of livelihood for many and fun for the idle ones. But there are also people for whom blogging has turned into an obsession instead of being a harmless hobby.
Some real facts that can help you see the real picture and also to justify if you are actually a blogging addict.
You want to blog about every minute of your life, even if it’s just about doing your daily chores.
If your Internet gets disconnected even for a minute, you become anxious and worried. You start throwing tantrums and blame every single official who is responsible for the downtime.
You take the comments on your blog far too seriously and irrationally.
You feel good and relaxed about the recent article that you posted, but the feeling melts away quite fast as the time for the next article approaches.
The more you write, the more connected and light you feel about opening up your personal life to your readers. The feeling of ‘I am somebody’ spreads over your mind overpowering you of all your real life aspects and bounties.
You give more priority to your laptop than your girlfriend.
You want isolation from the world so that you can be with your computer and blog. Noise annoys you just too much.
People around you and your family complain that you don’t give them enough time; they say you have changed dramatically.
If the answer to all the above is yes, you have a problem far more serious than any virus sitting in your computer. You are a blogging addict. Addiction of blogging can not only take toll on your health and real world relationships, but it can also trickle down to your state of well-being and psychological order.
The most common and serious health problems faced by a blogging addict are given below. These are the result of sitting in front of the computer for more than eight hours and staring at the screen without batting an eyelid.
The initial health problems include exhaustion, irritability, headaches, aggression, loss of concentration and weak retention power.
Eye Problems: The glare and high definition of your computer screen is detrimental to the retina and iris of your eyes. The sudden changes in light absorption and constant exposure to bright light cause your eyes to get tired and can develop into serious eye disorders in the later life.
Obesity: Excessive sitting on the computer can lead to increased body fat and also disturbs your natural body clock.
Muscular Strain: The strain on your neck and vertebrae results in long term pain and inflammation of the back and neck. This might even develop into permanent disorders with bones and muscles losing their original strength and shape.
If you do not pay heed, all these problems can take you to a bedridden state in your later life and definitely affect your personal and social life. Here are some tips that you can follow for healthy blogging -
Limit your blog entries strictly.
Ask one of your friends or family members to keep an eye on you until you are no longer an addict.
Take a break from the computer and wash your eyes periodically.
Exercise regularly for 30-45 minutes a day.
Stretch you body after every two hours of continuous sitting.
Eat at proper intervals and follow a routine of ‘Breakfast like a king in morning and dinner like a beggar’. This will keep your energies flowing during your work schedule.
Sleep well. Do not compromise on sleep for any reason.
Make sure to spend time with your friends and family.
Get yourself a pet or a good book to increase your offline time.
Blogging is fun, only when it is filled with good content that has been written by a healthy and happy blogger. Don’t let blogging take over your life, because you only live once. The need to ‘be somebody’ is prevalent in all humans but that should not let you compromise with your health and everything else that is good in your life. Your spiritual, social, emotional and personal well-being is the real ‘YOU’ in the right context and this defines you more beautifully than a blog.
Successful Blogging
Oct 11th
Successful blogging is not only about becoming the most excellent writer on the internet or the most prolific at that. It is about creating a network with the readers and audience by offering relevant content and to nurture the relationship with readers through links and comments so as to keep the dialogue flowing. The following five tips would help you to maintain your blog.
Understanding the Fundamentals of Blogger Relations: Though anyone can create a blog any day and can start publishing the articles on the blog but one cannot become a great blogger just by doing this. It takes much more than publishing articles to become a great blogger and reap the true benefits of blogging. First one needs to prepare a blogging strategy which is connected with the PR strategy and ambitions of business. Then you must provide excellent content. And the most important of all is to conduct good relations amongst the network of bloggers. For this you must initiate the participation in the ongoing discussions.
Create Value: You must always try to invent something relevant for your audience. This should be done to create some reputation of your blog so that readers get a reason to return to it. Hence this is the point where you need a PR strategy to help maintain relations with the readers so that they keep returning for more.
Grow and Sustain Your Audience by Providing True Analysis: You must keep monitoring the news and blogs of the articles which would be of relevance to your readers. When you write about the news as a blogger then you should not only describe the news but also that you provide fresh, entertaining and informative analysis so as to grow and sustain your audience.
Report on Community Opinion: If you find a news which seems to be important but you do not have any perspective or opinion about it then provide a synopsis of opinions from the community. Besides acting as an important resource for your readers you must create the opportunity for sending a track back link to more than one blogs, interacting with more readers and more bloggers.
Respond with Comments to Create Relations and Traffic: It is as important to respond to another bloggers comment as the article posts themselves. Blogging is all about the opportunity and the dialogue in order to interact with your readers. It may happen that many of your posts do not receive any response at all but when they do receive response then you should be ready to reply back. Blogging can also be explained as having a discussion in an amphitheatre where people are a part of it. You should always keep your focus on the talk with your commenter, and you should also be aware and concerned about the rest of the audience present over there. In other words you must reply to the challenge set before you by the commenter and at the same time you should also provide greater context to the discussion so that entire viewership is able to benefit from the ongoing discussion.
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