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12 Essential Blogwriting Tips for Building a Successful Blog
writetodone.com — Take your blog from small to successful with these key tips from a Top 50 blogger.
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- hobbit360, on 02/13/2008, -2/+2"Be insanely useful" I think this is the secret of Leo's success. Great article.
- vsaint, on 02/13/2008, -5/+413. Don't use wordpress
- seinkonnen, on 02/13/2008, -1/+3Whats wrong with WordPress? You'd be surprised by the number of top sites running wordpress.
- mindsnare, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3There's nothing wrong with wordpress at all, with the right plugins and theme, wordpress can handle stresses like the DIgg effect. In terms of it's usability, it's easily the most polished, simple, straight to the point blog script out there.
and you might want to look at the source of the page with the tips:
meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.3.1" / - oregongirl82, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1I completely disagree ... I love Wordpress . I've tried a number of blog providers for both personal and professional writings, and Wordpress is by far the best.
- FatLoser, on 02/13/2008, -4/+7Summary:
1) Submit it to Digg over and over again.
2) Failing that, pay a top Digger to submit it for you.
3-12) Prance around in a leopard skin thong while the cash resulting from 1) or 2) rains down upon you. - AllenScribe, on 02/13/2008, -2/+2Great list, thanks. I've just started blogging and there are a million things to learn. I will take these tips to heart though.
- blindingleaf, on 02/13/2008, -0/+0just out of curiousity, what do you blog about and how do you some up with ideas?
Is your blog a daily one? weekly?
im just wondering cause i always thought that i could start one, but being in school, i dont really have the time right now.
- blindingleaf, on 02/13/2008, -0/+0just out of curiousity, what do you blog about and how do you some up with ideas?
- wrathchilde, on 02/13/2008, -2/+31. spelcheck
2. spellchek
3. spell czech - woodcoxcb, on 02/13/2008, -1/+11. Talk about how you can't believe anyone would even be interested in what you have to say.
2. Submit it to digg and find out no one really cares about what you have to say.
3-11. ???
12. Profit!
No discredit the author of said post though, he's quite right.- ReGGsRoom, on 02/14/2008, -0/+0Hey buddy step 3 is profit. If you don't know the underpants collection process then get out of the bedroom.
- peregrine, on 02/13/2008, -2/+613. Have years of experience in writing, backed up by a possible English major and or writing major. Journalism works too.
Man I love these 'XX Tips from the Best in XXX" They are always tips that are so useful and make it seem so damn easy.
You know what most blogs fail? Experience. Most of these bloggers have some experience in the field and can say they are knowledgeable in the blog material. This guy is clearly a good writer thus he can give solid info about writing.
Lifehacker, the guy writes useful programs, finds useful tips, and shares it with everyone. This guy's life is looking for useful things on the computer and showing people how to use them.
What about LifeHack this guy has spent so much time trying to make himself better he knows how to make everyone else better too.
Its not a hard formula.
1.Get good in something.
2. Be passionate about what your writings.
3. give people are reason to say 'Hey I like and trust what this guy says.'
4. timing, if your the first blogger on the scene you have a better chance at being number 1.
5. Original Content
If you do not have this you will simply be blogspam until you find yourself in the position of a top blogger. - MackPrime, on 02/13/2008, -2/+1remember: Large amounts of traffic doesn't necessarily mean money for you. with adsense, 1000 hits is like a sixth of a cent. Readers gotta stick around and click some ads.
- blake182, on 02/13/2008, -1/+1Hey! This is Digg! Shouldn't this be "12 Essential *Hacks* for Building a Successful Blog"?
- onlinetreason, on 02/13/2008, -0/+0These are all great points. You can also waste a lot of time on Social Media sites. So remember to not get too SM happy.
- hollywoodphony, on 02/13/2008, -0/+5Be useful?? No wonder nobody clicks on my blog. There's nothing useful about thousands of pictures of hot naked women.
- tringtring, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3All useful tips, but I'd imagine that writing a great blog post alone counts for little if there is no one to read it...for every great blog post for which there are thousands of appreciative readers there are hundreds of equally good posts for which there are none...so I'd reckon that a great blog post strategy is not complete without having a method to expose your great stuff to the rest of the world...who would want to make an insanely useful car without having a way to advertise it to the world and without having a distribution channel to reach the car to the masses?
Enter Digg... - paddysat, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1How about, "Resize your leading photo - making sure you constrain your proportions - to insure that your photo of three young Asian girls doesn't turn out all wonky?"
- DavidGX, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4I'm amazed this is even here, considering diggs blogphobia.
- rmattocks, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0if digg is blogaphobic, what's the better alternative - A Newcomer
- omjeremy, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2How about
1: Use pictures of pretty girls to make your article popular.
That is what the author is doing, right? Too bad the aspect ratio is all screwed up. I guess he spent so much time on the actual article that he forgot his picture looked like *****. - NathanielJ, on 02/13/2008, -0/+413. Just kidding - stop trying to get millions of visitors to your website, because although a blog is indeed fun to write, reality must sink in at some point and you have to realize that you're just not interesting enough for millions of people to want to read your musings on what you consider to be the 10 hottest SNES characters.
- mickael1, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1All you have to do is remorselessly spam your ***** on every social news site like digg and pray. You are bound to get hits even though your "blog" is complete and utter garbage. It's all about spam.
- JeremyJacobs, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Wordpress is fine
- rmattocks, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0all good stuff ... especially if you are an out-of-touch chuckle-head such as myself
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