Dec
15th
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Right after your designer delivered your fancy looking new custom blog design, you expected a surge in your blog’s traffic, but nothing happened? Even if you have the best blog design ever, you need to promote it effectively to increase incoming traffic. The easiest way to promote a new custom blog design is to send it to CSS Galleries. They will bring good traffic and one-way backlinks to your blog. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dec
14th
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Having a custom blog design is a dream for many bloggers. You have to pay prices ranging from $300 to $3000 to have a good custom blog design. You need to verify whether your custom blog design meets some basic requirements before paying the full amount. I prepared a checklist for your easy guidance. Go over this checklist and don’t let your designer fool you. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov
28th
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Create your blog
Blog Master Joda Yaro Starak has done a great job again, and is about to launch the Become a Blogger mentoring program for both beginner and intermediate level bloggers. As an introduction of the program, he released free video tutorials in conjunction with his partner Gideon Shalwick. You may find below the links to these free tutorial videos. I strongly suggest you to join their early notification list by clicking here Become a Blogger. Their free report will be available by December 1.
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Nov
27th
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Deal with information overload
As the amount of information flowing into the blogosphere grow, there is also a growing need for tools and principles that help bloggers focus their attention on what should be the most relevant information for them. In this post I would like to share my own ways of dealing with information overload as a problogger.
Hack Google
Google
Google is one of the most effective tool to filter information. I use it effectively for my blogging Google requirements. I command my blogging with iGoogle, and create my own blogging archive with Google Notebook. If I need to share some documents with my blogging buddies, I use Google Documents. Both Google and Google Blog Search are quite useful for my blogging.
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Nov
21st
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Links for bloggers
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Nov
19th
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Today I spent a few hours on re-organizing my blog. Since very long time I could not do this due to heavy workload. As you can easily notice from the top menu, I added Contact, and Recommended Resources pages. I also updated Articles page with my latest posts.
The most difficult part was to find a good and reliable contact form plugin for WordPress. Luckily I found cForms plugin, which I am going to post about it soon. You can see how the form generated by cForms look on my Contact page.
Stay tuned! There will be some more changes this week.
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Nov
17th
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Blog Blazers Book
If you are looking for a gift to send your blogging buddies, you should consider the Blog Blazers, which brings you blogging secrets from 40 top bloggers including Seth Godin, Yaro Starak, and Aaron Wall.
You may find below the list of bloggers who were interviewed in Blog Blazers. You can also read the full bios of the bloggers.
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Nov
4th
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Even the most popular bloggers face with the writer’s block due to lack of inspiration and creativity. They still keep writing every day because they persist on some proven techniques. Hub & Spokes is one technique you can apply for writing better blog posts. This technique can not only help you persuade your reader, but also distinguish you among thousands of bloggers.
Why Do Bloggers Need to Be Creative on Writing?
- Personal branding
- Increasing incoming traffic
- Standing out from the crowd
- Increasing the productivity
- Succeeding in persuasive marketing
How To Apply Hub & Spokes Technique into Your Daily Blogging?
Actually it is no different than creating a mind map with some minor differences. I suggest you to sign up an online mind mapping tool like Bubbl.us before you start.
- Start with drawing a circle, and jotting down a summary of your objective. This is going to be your hub, or title of your blog post. In the above example I summarized my objective as “creative writing ideas for bloggers”.
- Draw a few spokes with the ideas related to your hub or add mind maps at Bubbl.us. You need to stop when you run out of ideas.
- You should always remember that readers usually keen on benefits, rather than features. You better focus on highlighting their benefits while mapping your ideas. That is why I mentioned the benefits of creative writing for bloggers on the above mind map.
- Pick the spoke that interests you, draw a circle around it, draw some spokes from it, and repeat the process.
- Keep on going until you finish jotting down all the relevant ideas related to your hub.
- Now decide which is your best point. This should be the starting point of your blog post.
- Usually first level of spokes which are linked directly to your hub are going to be your paragraphs or sections.
You need to use this technique at least for a few weeks so that it becomes a habit for you. When the writer’s block hits you next time, use this proven technique to stimulate your mind.
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