FEW MORE EXCUSES ON WHY PEOPLE DO NOT READ YOUR BLOG

After a thorough reading from good quality sites and also the posts on them I have realized that following are few more reasons that why people sometimes neglect your blog even if you think that you have got it all to attract readers on your blog.So read and try to understand.

1.Oh my god I have nothing to say!

There are so many blogs that try to come up with posts that are already there with many other good bloggers.Without a certain new added thoughts and some more spice,you will always find your post very low in quality and not very interesting.That is why i have urged all of you to be your own critic first to enable you to move miles ahead of others.

2.The blog niche is certainly not favorable sometimes.

The readers as you all know want quality content and that also very quickly .So sometimes even when we write a good post for our blog ,sometimes the readers do not get the spice t hay want to have and hence your blog is often neglected by the readers.So try to be innovative and always come up with fresh ideas even for the the titles which are old enough, so that your blog is read more and you benefit all the way.

3.Your blog is not up to date.

I the need of of more traffic people do try to do more promotions through any damn technique they come across and often forget that they should also have enough number of posts and that of also good quality to support their blog.People please realize that only stats for your blog does not matter as you can achieve that for a period of a week or so but to sustain it you need to give good basic inputs to your blog also and that is good number of posts that are useful to others.Try to think over this also.

4.Do not try to be too much cynical.

I have seen many posts and many blogs who have started to blame other bloggers that they do not support this concept and blah blah blah and write 10 -20 posts on that same topic and end up creating a wrong impression on the readers about the blog author.So what you should write should always benefit others and should be productive to you as well.So be more open and forget what is happening around you and be your own man because that is the way to go.

I hope these points will benefit you and would improve you as a blogger and more importantly as a person.

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BLOGGERS PLEASE THINK AGAIN!

No matter how much you put your efforts to put together a good post and so a good blog,its a case which I noticed and also found correct in my case also that most of us only search for quick and quality content.The thinking that somebody else reads your blog post completely is just not the fact that goes down well with me.At the most one has a quick look at the 1st or the 2nd para and you are off.So bloggers please think again when you write a new post for others.

1.One of the traps that it’s easy to fall into as a blogger is to think that your readers care that they are reading a blog.While there is a good percentage of blog readers and writers who do care to read and also comment and do follow others writing closely,there is still vast
majority of population of new bloggers who are unaware of this whole scenario.

2.What somebody does lookout for is how to have good quality content and also quickly.
This maybe through the search engines ,through various forums,networking sites etc.What worries me as I surf through many blogs each day is that there seem to be quite a few bloggers (and some blog networks) who in my mind are a little obsessed with reminding their readers that they are on a blog. While there is nothing wrong with educating readers about blogging occasionally I suspect in most cases readers don’t really care and that constantly reminding them of the fact that they are on a blog is something that can actually work against you.

So I do urge all the new bloggers and so the good ones to do encourage healthy blogging style,so also comment on most blog they come across so that the new bloggers also get encouraged and they also participate actively rather than being a dumb blogger

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WHAT IS YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION IN BLOGGING?

Huh?my whole 2009 was a bit rash and out of sorts when I thought of making money online.But its a new year 2010 and let me wish everyone of you a happy and a prosperous blogging year.I was thinking about a good resolution this year which I can follow and came up with a thought that why not come up with some good resolutions in blogging.Here is an excerpt of all the resolution which you can also take.Good luck.

Resolution 1 :Try to have a matching template for the blog.

Resolution 2:Why not try giving mixed content instead of keeping just one forte.

Resolution 3:Be your own blog critic first.

Resolution 4:Try to make up a name for yourself in blogging by the end of this year.Prove yourself.

Resolution 5:More use of supporting pics and photos for your content.

Resolution 6:Comment more on other blogs and invite them to your blog.

Resolution 7:Build your community profile on networking sites like Blogcatalog, Mybloglog,Technorati etc.

Resolution 8:Improve my typing speed.That is also important.

Resolution 9:Improve my vocabulary and be a better writer.

Resolution 10:Get my site's Alexa ranking within top 80k through legitimate ways.

Resolution 11:I enjoy this haha! Get more paid posts to write and make money online.

All my procedings throuhout this year will be on these principles and I would try to achieve atleast 8 reolutions if not more.What is yours please share with me and make me improve all the way.

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WE SHOULD BLOG FOR OUR READERS

I was busy yesterday watching the Aussie team falling like a pack of cards against the Pakistani pace attack.That is done now and I am back to my blogging habit again.This post is for everyone who is trying to establish himself or herself in field of blogging.

I came across a very good post by Steve referring that whatever we write should be for our readers and not for the computers at least.A strong result of more readers coming to read your blog is SEO,the point I tried to convey in my previous post.Here are some important highlights that are to kept in mind while writing the blog.

1.The argument of writing blog for the readers vs the machine differs in some special cases.
I believe that my blog should be able to derive more traffic through search engines like google and yahoo.This will improve my SEO chances.I believe that the other bloggers with a lesser page rank will also believe in the same.But sometimes repeated traffic comes from the search engines which I believe is sometimes not beneficial for a blog's improvement.So its kind a mixed bag.

2.SEO is not a mislead
Some famous bloggers believe that this concept is not at all beneficial for the blog's improvement and to increase its popularity.This is certainly true for their blog as they have huge link building already done for their blogs.But what should be the case for bloggers like us who do not have much link builds with others.The best technique is SEO only.They may say that you should not be obsessed with the SEO concept but its the only technique that works for the initial level of blogging and especially for those who want to make money online.

3.Blogs coming in default SEO format
So blogs have such a layout,content and design that is best suited and optimized for the search engine traffic.In addition to this they also form a good link structure with other blogs ,have a good url address which directly conveys the information about the site and also very good interlink structure (link between posts) and are regularly updated.Such a re truly god gifted blogs.

4.My conclusion
I always write my blog for my readers rather than a machine so as to get my blog famous among atleast some sort of readers population.i always work hard to put and come up with some good content to help anyone around with my extensive net research.So never to forget importance of SEO and always try writing a blog which has an SEO touch with quality content to excel in your field.

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HOW TO PITCH TO BLOGGERS ILLUSTRATED

A very important thing that most bloggers get to notice and hence are driven to a blog is the mannner in which the author of blog tries to present his blog to every one.So here is again an important tip post for everyone,so read it and benefit all round.

One of the challenges that many bloggers face once they become established and grow a profile in their niche is that they become the target of ‘pitches’ – or people emailing to ask them to do ’stuff’.The pitche's list grows exponentially everyday but following are the important points to be taken care of while pitching back to anyone .

1.Be a reagular reader

Become a genuine and active member of the blog that you are pitching to before you make personal contact. Yes this doesn’t help if you have something to pitch today – but I find bloggers are much more willing to interact with you if they can see that you’ve gone to the effort of interacting with the content that they’ve written. Be genuine in these interactions, add value to the conversation happening on the blog and show that you’re not just there to ‘take’ but to

‘give’. If a blogger has a genuine connection with you they are much more willing to respond positively to you than if you approach them cold. The longer you interact with them the better.

2.Clarify your mistakes

Another turn off for bloggers is being pitched to by someone who gets the personal details wrong. I’ve been on the end of many of these – where the person pitching the idea has gone to the trouble of copying and pasting unique details into an email – only to forget to change a detail from the last email on some important part – like my name. Get the person’s name and URL spelling right for starters.

3.Exclamation point

Whatever you are pitching – it’ll have more chance of success if there’s something in it for the blogger you’re pitching to. Clearly outline what you’re asking for and how it will benefit the blogger, their blog, their readers etc.

4.Extensive searches on the internet.

Many of the questions that people ask bloggers could be answered by simply taking a moment or two to look around their blog. Look on their about page see if they have a FAQ page and do a search of their blog to see if they’ve written on the topic that your question is on. You don’t need to spend hours on this but you might just save yourself (and the blogger concerned) some time with just a quick search for answers. Similarly – if you’re pitching a story idea check to see that they haven’t already written about it by scanning their last few weeks archives.

5.Most important is politeness

Making demands, assumptions and being overly familiar can sometimes lead to people binning your pitch. I’ve been left shaking my head numerous times of late at the arrogance and demands of some. On the flip-side though – some pitches come across as so polite that they seem sterile. I guess there’s a fine line to walk here. Keep in mind that cultural differences come into play on this too.

6.SEO

Why not try new SEO techniques illustrated on onlinemoneywithgoogleadsense.Also do extensive research on the internet to get yourself acqainted with proven methods for this new era in blogging and quitting old methods.

Obviously incorporating all these points into your next pitch of a blogger might not be a little too much to ask – but as both a blogger , I would recommend u to at least attempting to incorporate some of the above.

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HALF TRUTH AND WHOLE LIES

Wanna discuss something very important about low level bloggers like me and many others trying to emulate the successful ones.I have gone through few recent posts of the famous problogger and found out certain important figures and facts about that site.

1. The site owner Darren Rowse has many guest or featured posts on his webpage.I believe he is helping them out .

2.The site is advocating to build more links instead of SEO.Do you believe that he is advocating SEO.This is evident from the guest post by Leo Babauta on his blog.Leo Babauta owns the site which has abot 7 lacs of links with other sites and hence he can be number one for his content on any damn search engine or social networking site.He just does not need any SEO.

On whole there are about 99% bloggers who do not have links about 40-100 also.So I believe this way of him guiding new bloggers is a cheating in itself and wrong notions are filled in new bloggers mind.I believe you realise this and try to searcha and find out for yourself which strategy will suit for new bloggers------SEO or LINK BUILDING.

When u get the answer for it u can reply to this post any time.Anyways Happy new year to Everyone..

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