Make Your Blog's Content Sexy And TheTitle Hot

“What topic would I write about?” must be a question that many bloggers who have just entered the burgeoning blogging field, like myself, often have to ask themselves each time their blog calls for updating. For me, I always refer to the objectives I have set forth for my blog to get the answer. I have to make sure everything I write about must help translate results for what I want to accomplish with my blog.

Much as I am tempted to write about my steamy sexual escapades as I am sure it would earn for my blog hundreds of hits, I won’t. Hey! Sex sells. Why else would plenty of bloggers post pictures of almost naked women on their blogs that got nothing to do with their contents at all? I am no prude but if a scantily clad woman's photo is used in a post simply to attract male readers' attention, in my book that is exploitation. You might take a different view but that's my personal take on the matter.

Anyway, forget about that steamy escapade part, I was just kidding. I am not even going to write about my adorable kid no matter how wholesome that maybe. It is not because my wife has sternly warned me not mention anything about our private lives on the net which I would definitely not do anyway but such subject has got nothing to do with my blog’s purposes.

From one noob to another, and to anyone who wants to listen, I strongly advise that you consider finding yourself a niche in the world of blogging. I could not think of a more effective way of distinguishing yourself and cultivating readership than to concentrate on a specific topic or interest.

Now, if you have decided on a topic based on what your blog intends to achieve, remember to write it in way that it comes out sexy. Trim it of excesses that don't fit into your blog. That is not all. Your sexy content would not get attention unless it could jostle its way of up of the heap of millions of other contents seeking to be discovered. Give your content a hot title. That should enable it it to kick its way out to the top.Titles could often make or break contents. It is the title which likely readers who would find your entries through a search engine that would help them make up their mind whether to pay your page a visit or consider such visit a waste of their time.

Okey! Let me try and give this post a title so alluring, you could not resist reading it if only to prove that the idea of of a hot title really works. It should if you have read this far.

The Entrecard Ad Snappers and That Little Voice

Would you ever buy an ad at 500 EC? Personally, I wouldn’t. So as I watched the price to advertise on my site grow from 2EC to 500EC during my first three weeks with Entrecard. I just grinned at the price knowing no joker was going to snap it. After all 500 EC is more than an hour’s work. I was wrong, one joker did. No! I take that back. Mike's Blog Marketing Tips snapped it. “Ok! People take risks and that is how gains are made so don’t act like it is a big deal” I reminded myself and left it at that.

But you can count on me not to leave it at that for long. Blame it on this little voice that found residence in some hidden sanctum in my head which kept drumming on me to “Go make it worth the EC credits your advertiser paid for, idiot! Gains are made because someone makes it happen. Besides, it is the ethical thing to do”. My weakness! Spice your argument with the word ethical and I am silenced. I could go ahead and win the argument but I am gonna pay for it with bouts of insomnia. That would not be worth any EC.

I had to get more traffic to my site so as to generate more ad clicks. To do that, I needed to up scale my daily dropping from one hundred to the maximum three hundred. That was not enough. Like the crazy that I was, I went on ad buying spree. I was just new to Entrecard so I didn’t have ECs stockpiled that I could use for the purpose. I had to source out the ECs I needed. As to where and how, just go ahead and play the guessing game.

Again, just to calm that little voice, I worked out a generous “triple it” formula. If someone buys an ad from my site, say at 500 ec, I would make sure that on the day the ad runs, I would have 1500 worth of ads of my own running.

The formula worked. The result gagged the little voice. The advertiser is happy. The little voice is happy. I had a good sleep. But not for long. The ad snapping went like crazy and the ad price to my site soared. The price went to 2048 ec credits and the Serian Man snapped it. This raised the ad price to my site to a ridiculous 3,072 EC’s.

I immediately dumped the formula. If I stuck to it, it would have brought holes into my pocket. I limited my ad buying run to a reasonable distance. To temper that little voice, I decided to add the Serian Man to my link list. If that was not good enough and I hear a whimper, I could always drown the voice with a glass of gin tonic.

The 5 Things They Didn't Tell You When You Started a Blog

In the beginning, it always sounds like a simple idea. I want to start a blog. Anyone can. But, there are some things no one tells you. I will tell you what I learned.

The "five minute installation" at wordpress is not "five minutes" but more like a four hour torture session. It's designed to check if you are serious about this blog thing. After four hours, I found the fantistco button on my cpanel and I was up and running. No one shared that helpful hint with me. I just saved you four hours.

Your theme is more important than you imagine. It is your reader's first impression. More importantly, it's not easy to change after you have posted for awhile. Spend more time on a theme than I did.

Traffic analysis tools like google analytics are required but I will issue a warning. It is the first person in the morning to tell you that you have no friends. Don't even think about visitors. Here is how it works. You wake up hoping that someone found your site in these early stages. Maybe they will subscribe too. But the stats say three visitors. They also spend less than two minutes on your site. It's more like a drive-by stop. Google analytics should just say "good morning, you are still a loser today. Why don't you write another post for you and your mom."

How many times have you heard "write content and the readers will follow". It sounds easy. In the beginning ideas flow on the blog. But, finding good ideas to write about everyday is not easy. I let search traffic guide me. Isn't that how the Google algorithm finds the best site. Hopefully, I can do that and convince new subscribers and at least one-third of my current subscribers( my mom) to return and read because the posts are good.

Another axiom is "contests are an easy way to get traffic". Who wouldn't want a chance to win a free prize? Don't count on a thousand visitors. But, isn't that what John Chow did. Then a week later the two people who signed up for it are laughing at the fifty-fifty chance at your free prize. The funny part is that you had to tell your mom that she can't enter. Now, you have alienated one third of your subscriber base already. One thing that helped me was that I found contest blogger. It's a great site that features blogs and their contests. It's one of those great sites. After you are done visiting, you kick yourself for not thinking of it first.


Author: Mike Gentleman writes about current hot search topics with a sarcastic tone at his website Whassupjack

What You Want To Do With Your Blog But Can't

Have you ever been faced with the dilemna of "To do or not to do" about your blog?

Have you ever been placed in a situation where much as you want to, you have to refuse posting items your friends or fellow bloggers requested you to post as you don't want any distractions that would dilute your blog's image that you worked so hard to build ?

Were there activities you would have wanted to undertake for your blog but again it is not in keeping with your blog's theme or image?

You are not alone? Could you imagine how a poetry blog would appear if it were sprinkled with all those blog awards? Poetry is a serious read and a blog on poetry must set the mood for its readers if they are to get absorbed in their reading experience and enjoy it. This means that distractions must be reduced at the most minimum level and those blog awards I am sorry to say are clearly distractions. Or take a Philosophy blog or a Political blog which are suppose to let their readers do some real thinking. Pepper such blogs with those fancy awards and surely their blog image will be altered. Think of the impressions of their cultivated readers who visit their blogs expecting some serious stuff only to be greeted by some kind of an award half of the blogosphere seem to have received.

The same could be said of contests. It maybe a good strategy to promote your blogs sponsoring contests but for some kind of blogs, contest could dilute the image these blogs want to project.

Bloggin Circle could be your blog's way out from such dilemna. We could run or hosts your contests. We could also acknowledge your awards in your behalf. All these services are free. No strings attached. It is one of the services we offer to blogging friends.

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A One Stop Blogging Information Depot

Information is vital in whatever endeavor we venture into. Not equipping ourselves with the information we need, that is crucial to whatever business we intend to pursue before we undertake it, is on top of the list on how not to succeed with your plans.

Blogging is no different. If we are to blog and are really serious about it, we must provide ourselves with all the blogging information we need so as to stay on top of the heap and not be buried in the thousands of blogs that the blogging machine churns out each minute.

Having the right information saves us from making unforgivable errors and wasting our resources as we stir our blog to success. But the hunt for relevant information could often be a time consuming task. We need to sift through all the information and identify what is really helpful and what is just a junk.

Blogging Circle would like to answer that need as a way of response to one of its objectives, which is to facilitate the flow of important information to those who are new in the business of blogging and struggling bloggers alike. Building an information depot that bloggers could readily access will be on this blog's list of things to achieve.

Photo Credits:
Irina Savkina

5 Steps To Write Effective Articles In Less Time

Do you sit in front of computer for a long time to create a single blog post or article? Does it take too much thinking for you to come up with an effective article? If your answer was ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you should continue to read the post. Whether you are a blogger or a freelance writer or an article marketer, you need to write effective articles quickly. If you are doing one of those as a full time job, you must really use your time properly and try to write more articles in less time. Here are few things you should do when you sit to write an article or blog post.

1. Close Every Other Application

Ever installed any software? Few of them ask you to close other applications when installing it. The same should be followed when you sit to write an article. Close the chat client first. This is probably the one which eats up most of your time. Next, close your email client. Don’t have any other application open, other than your writing software. You should not open any of the applications when you are writing the article. You can open your browser when you want to look for some reference, but close it again as soon as you are done. Don’t check your blog traffic stats, AdSense earnings or anything else as well.

2. Do Research Before Writing

It is always better to do a little research before writing the article. This will help you to write an effective article. The quality of the article will show clearly that you have researched. Almost every blog post that hits the front page of social bookmarking sites is well researched and structured. By doing research, you also make your article longer and in depth.

3. Prepare a Schedule

Preparing a schedule will help you in saving time. Set a time for each and everything you do for the article. You can allocate 30 minutes or whatever you are comfortable with, for writing the article itself. Set 5 minutes for selecting an image. Also have 10-15 minutes for collecting references and coming up with a catchy headline. Within an hour, you should be able to create some top notch content.

4. Proof Read At Least Once

This is very important and most people skip this due to lack of time (or patience). This will prove to be costly when you are writing for some other person or for a client. Once you finish writing the post, read it once. If you have written many articles and don’t have time to proof read all of them, hire a person to do the work for you.

5. Do the Editing Till You Are Satisfied

Once you have completed writing the article, do the formatting works. Place the image at the right place. Give credit to the image author if needed. Preview the article. If it is what you wanted, publish the article. If not, continue with your editing and formatting. Add quotes to the post to make it more effective. Tie any loose ends.

Writing quality articles in short time is not an easy task, but if you prepare yourself and use a structured process soon you will be cranking paragraphs like there is no tomorrow!

Author: Ramkarthik

He authors Blogging Tune a blog which was started to serve the needs of new bloggers or intermediates by giving tips on blogging and making money online. It gives regular tips on unique ways to get traffic to your blog.

Seven Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

Looking for blogging tips and tools to get more blog traffic? Here are seven ways to increase the popularity of your blog:

Viral content - If you want more traffic to your blog, you have to write interesting posts. People love short lists, funny topics, insights into your particular niche they can't find anywhere else, and your personal take on current buzz topics.

Be controversial - Be opinionated. Take a stand on issues you and your readers care about. Don't be afraid to go against the grain or take a negative slant on things. Controversy stirs people up and makes them want to find out more. Plus, your blog's comments will increase exponentially.

Technorati tags - Add Technorati tags to all your posts with keyword rich tag text. There are tools that will do this automatically by adding your category tag or create a tag from a keyword list.

Social bookmarking - AddThis has a great widget to enable social bookmarking on your site from one small icon. The nice thing about it is that a simple mouseover pops up a window listing all the social bookmarking sites, so you don't have to devote a huge amount of space to all the various site icons. Plus, you no longer have a dozen or more outbound links to all those sites from every post on your blog.

RSS Feeds - Make it easy for visitors to find your feed. Register your feed at FeedBurner and related sites. Prominently place their reader icons right next to your feed link because that's what they're looking for. Don't hide it!

Blog submission - Be sure to submit your blog to the hundreds of blog directories out there. Why? Because you get hundreds of links back to your blog which increases your search engine visibility. Hint: There's software that will do all the heavy lifting on these submissions.

Blog comments - Post comments on other blogs and link back to your own blog. Use trackback links for extra link juice with Google. Use Instant Blog Links or Blog Commentor to greatly speed up the process.

Many of these methods can be automated using the tools and resources listed below.

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