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I created a lists of Rss Feed Websites that you can submit your RSS/XML feeds. I know there are alot more out there but most of them are outdated and include sites that require registration to submit your feed. The list below are RSS Feed sites that do not require registration to submit a feed.
Try to submit your blog or websites to these sites to gain feed subscribers, increase back links, and site traffic. Good luck linking!!
If you know of a good RSS Website that I have not yet included in my list, please comment below so that I can include them. Give back!
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Here is my list of useful tips on blogging based on what I have learned from blogging through the years
1. Blog about a subject you love 2. Use descriptive titles in your blog 3. Make short but concise blog post 4. Buy your own domain so that your readers wont have a hard time remembering your url 5. Customize your blog template to fit what you are blogging about 6. Post at least 2-3 times a day if your schedule permits, once a day is fine too. 7. Enable comments on your blog so that your readers can give their feedbacks 8. Read and reply to blog comments 9. Enable Haloscan trackbacks on your blog 10. Leave trackbacks on other blogs 11. Allow readers to subscribe by email 12. Use Feedburner for your rss 13. Redirect your blog feeds through Feedburner 14. Try to encourage your readers to subscribe to your feed 15. Put a link in your signature on emails and in forums 16. Comments on other blogs and leave signature 17. Use Stumbleupon 18. Always quote your sources! 19. Use readable fonts 20. Do not infringe copyright! 21. Proof read your post 22. Use Technorati 23. Make timeless posts 24. Have an RSS subscription icon on every article post 25. Link exchange with other blogs that have similar blog subject 26. Don't write duplicate posts 27. Encourage your visitors to post comments 28. Tweak your blog to make it SEO friendly 29. Add Guestbook 30. Tell your family/ friends/ colleagues about your blog 31. Promote your blog offline as well as online 32. Add Search functionality to your blog 33. Use Blog Labels wisely 34. Organize your blog so that your readers won't have a hard time 35. Encourage your visitors to give their opinion through commenting 36. Learn the basics of HTML 37. Learn the basics of CSS 38. Learn how to customize your blog code template 40. Add "Related Articles" at the bottom of your post to encourage visitors to read more 41. Become an expert on your chosen subject 43. Be consistent 44. Use Google Analytics service to monitor your website visitors statistics 45. Invite people that are expert on your chosen subject to do a guest post 46. Avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes 47. Use blog post title effectively 48. Use Technorati 49. Read ProBlogger.net 50. Advertize your blog in your MySpace/Friendster/ Squiboo accounts 51. Guest post with other blogs that have similar subject as yours 52. Break huge post into several post 53. "Ping" sites when you update 54. Create a link to your profile 55. Be patient 56. Create somekind of a gimmick e.g. "contest", "prize" 57. Join forums 58. Join myBlogLog
Note: This acticle regarding "Useful Tips On Blogging" will update regularly.
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High traffic is high income and that is common sense. You may find effective ways to increase your traffic from almost every blogger. Each of them has proven testimonies on how they effective they are, and you can also try it. Some bloggers even make experiments on their blogs to make it more attractive. But the big question is, are you being humane? Or just doing it for your self? If so, then I do not blame you. Blogging is an individual activity and all of us have different and unique purposes. But one thing is for sure, we do everything do increase our traffic. Since we all have the same agenda, I have some humane ways on how to do it:
Be yourself. If you are blogging like another person you cannot increase your traffic the way it should be. This is because although readers may not see it once, they will see it soon and they will not like it even if your topic is interesting to them. If you are just blogging about something that you think can bring you a lot of money, but not related to your character, then you will not succeed. You cannot earn good money from being somebody else.
Be ageless. If you post about a hot topic, you can surely feel the effect. People love hot issues, either they can learn from them or not. But the question is for how long will you feel it? Then on the next day, you find another controversial topic and the routine goes on and on. Consider this, post about a timeless and quality topic and you can still feel the effect even if you are already gone. Your article will go everywhere and you will be surprise to meet a new blogger thanking you for a very old post.
Be informative. Valuable information is what visitors need. Giving tips on how things are done properly and effectively is the best niche topic you can do. Although you can also blog about your feelings and personal journey in life, you must also include the valuable lessons you have learned. In this way, you are also giving away tips and people can learn from your past experiences, no matter how hard your life was. However, just make sure you tested the tips first before sharing them.
Be a smart spender. You can use money to earn more traffic and if you are smart enough, the money you spend will be doubled or even tripled. But how can you do that? First, avoid spending too much money. Instead, spend time in researching and evaluating what kind of strategy that is applicable to your capability and interest. Do not just believe when experts tell you that you will be rich if you follow his way. Note that you are a different person and you cannot do exactly what he did.
Be human. Please do not get me wrong; what I mean is to consider people first before search engines. Keywords help search engines to be attracted our blogs, but you must remember that it is still humans who created them. Moreover, you can still maximize your keywords to increase traffic if you treat your readers as humans like you. Being creative is the characteristic you should have in order to use your keywords repeatedly, and you can make your articles readable to humans and non-humans simultaneously.
Getting high traffic is not a burden to stop us from being humane. Actually, being a blogger can also make us be a better human being but only if we want to.
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* Write on controversial topics/ debatable topics Write about Britney or Barack Obama. Or about how Twitter is stupid. Get the point? Pull in people to write comments. You have the risk of spoiling your reputation but everybody would appreciate your efforts later.
* Leave room for discussion Always end your articles without a conclusion. Give the reader two or more options, let him select his choice. And leaving room for discussion is always a good way to ensure that people start commenting.
* Ask questions This applies to people who already have a following. Ask your readers an interesting question. They will respond for sure. But make sure you don’t keep mum after asking the question. Write back to them as well. They’ll appreciate it.
* Reward commenters You could reward them in many ways. Either give away goodies/cash to frequent and top commenters on your blog on a weekly basis or gift them a surprise link in one of your recent posts. I prefer the second way. Make it a point to read your commenters blogs and respond to one of his articles through your post. Post a link to it. He’d be happy.
* Comment on other blogs A very easy thing to do. The principle is - do things proactively to others what you want them to do to you. So comment on other blogs that you think has relevant content. Write authority comments that are relevant. You will grab the webmasters attention and he’ll ultimately notice you.
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If you want your social media profile pages to rank highly in the search results, it's important to build links for them. There are billions of pages in Google's index and only those pages with enough linkjuice are going to reach the front page in a competitive query.
Getting quality external links to social media profiles can be difficult, but you can often get good internal links with just a little bit of participation. And those internal links are a very powerful, underrated SEO ranking factor.
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Our search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since we can't be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how to help yourself. We put a lot of work into providing documentation and blog posts to answer your questions and guide you through the data and tools we provide, and we're constantly looking for ways to improve the visibility of that information. While I always encourage people to search our Help Center and blog for answers, there are a few articles in particular to which I'm constantly referring people. Some are recent and some are buried in years' worth of archives, but each is worth a read:
1. Googlebot can't access my website Web hosters seem to be getting more aggressive about blocking spam bots and aggressive crawlers from their servers, which is generally a good thing; however, sometimes they also block Googlebot without knowing it. If you or your hoster are "allowing" Googlebot through by whitelisting Googlebot IP addresses, you may still be blocking some of our IPs without knowing it (since our full IP list isn't public, for reasons explained in the post). In order to be sure you're allowing Googlebot access to your site, use the method in this blog post to verify whether a crawler is Googlebot.
2. URL blocked by robots.txt Sometimes the web crawl section of Webmaster Tools reports a URL as "blocked by robots.txt", but your robots.txt file doesn't seem to block crawling of that URL. Check out this list of troubleshooting tips, especially the part about redirects. This thread from our Help Group also explains why you may see discrepancies between our web crawl error reports and our robots.txt analysis tool.
3. Why was my URL removal request denied? (Okay, I'm cheating a little: this one is a Help Center article and not a blog post.) In order to remove a URL from Google search results you need to first put something in place that will prevent Googlebot from simply picking that URL up again the next time it crawls your site. This may be a 404 (or 410) status code, a noindex meta tag, or a robots.txt file, depending on what type of removal request you're submitting. Follow the directions in this article and you should be good to go.
4. Flash best practices Flash continues to be a hot topic for webmasters interested in making visually complex content accessible to search engines. In this post Bergy, our resident Flash expert, outlines best practices for working with Flash.
5. The supplemental index The "supplemental index" was a big topic of conversation in 2007, and it seems some webmasters are still worried about it. Instead of worrying, point your browser to this post on how we now search our entire index for every query.
6. Duplicate content Duplicate content—another perennial concern of webmasters. This post talks in detail about duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and also references Adam's previous post on deftly dealing with duplicate content, which gives lots of good suggestions on how to avoid or mitigate problems caused by duplicate content.
7. Sitemaps FAQs This post answers the most frequent questions we get about Sitemaps. And I'm not just saying it's great because I posted it. :-)
Sometimes, knowing how to find existing information is the biggest barrier to getting a question answered. So try searching our blog, Help Center and Help Group next time you have a question, and please let us know if you can't find a piece of information that you think should be there!
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While Blogger may not be seen as the most powerful blog management system, it certainly has a loyal following. Beginners and advanced users alike appreciate the simplicity of Blogger, the free hosting and ease of customization.
So for those of you who choose Blogger as your publishing platform, here is a selection of essential templates, tools and resources to help you build a better blog.
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Want to underline some text in your blog post? It is very easy. However, to do this, you must use the EDIT HTML mode and not the COMPOSE mode. You will need to do what they call Inline CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) which is CSS inside a HTML element.
However, don't be scared by the technical jargon as you need not know what I mean by the above. All you have to do is to examine the HTML I used to display It is very easy inside the scroll box below and just copy what I do:
<strong><span style="e;TEXT-DECORATION: underline"e;><span style="e;text-decoration:underline;"e;>It is very easy</span></span></strong>
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If you have a blog thats hosted in Blogger.com, you may notice that the title tag on each article are the same. If you want to optimized your blog to get more traffics you may want to dynamically change that to the title of your post. Well, here is the tweak to do just that.
Step 1 Go to Blogger Dashboard>Layout>Edit Html
Step 2 Backup your template (just to be sure)
Step 3-Follow the instructions below
Find this code in your XML template
<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
Now replace it with
<!-- Start Widget-based: Changing the Blogger Title Tag --> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <b:section id='titleTag'> <b:widget id='Blog2' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'> <b:includable id='comments' var='post'/> <b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'/> <b:includable id='main' var='top'><title><b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'><b:include data='post' name='post'/></b:loop> ~ <data:blog.title/></title></b:includable> <b:includable id='backlinkDeleteIcon' var='backlink'/> <b:includable id='feedLinksBody' var='links'/> <b:includable id='backlinks' var='post'/> <b:includable id='status-message'/> <b:includable id='feedLinks'/> <b:includable id='nextprev'/> <b:includable id='commentDeleteIcon' var='comment'/> <b:includable id='post' var='post'><data:post.title/></b:includable> </b:widget> </b:section> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if> <!-- End Widget-based: Changing the Blogger Title Tag --> Now if you go to your blog, you will see that the title of your article will be the one displayed in the blog html title tag.
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You have an MP3 file (a podcast, a song of your band, a lecture) and you want to share it with the visitors of your site. You can just put a link to the MP3 and let people download it or you can include it as an object and let the browser play it with a plug-in like QuickTime (and most of the times also crash the browser). Most people want to preview the audio and not wait until it downloads completely. You can play a partial MP3 file in audio player, but many people aren't aware of that.
But there's another away: a Flash player that allows you to pause and rewind the MP3. It's like an audio version of Google Video or YouTube, with the difference that the file is hosted on your server (or on another server). While there are many solutions based on Flash, this is the one I like the most. It's a modified version of Odeo player, that's used to play podcasts on odeo.com:
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Keywording. Think of your main search phrase you would like results for i.e. "painter and decorator in Yorkshire" and try this phrase in Google to find out what competition you are up against if the competition is massive try "painter & decorator in Leeds" this narrows down your area (For non UK readers Leeds is a city in Yorkshire UK)
Place keywords in 5 areas of your site.
1. Meta Tag Keywords 2. Meta Tag Description 3. Meta Tag Page Title 4. The Alt Tag in Images 5. The Body Of The Page
For this example the main keywords would be painter, decorator, leeds and you must try to keep these together in the 4 areas mentioned above so.
Backlinks. It would also be wise at this stage to mention another great way to increase traffic and that is by using Back Links.
Back links are basically links to your site from somebody else’s but it pays to get them right.
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Slide 1: Blogging Ideas A presentation by AnnaLaura Brown of http://www.scentedcandlesclub.com
Slide 2: • Are you wanting to write a blog but struggling to come up with any ideas? • Here are some things to consider before you begin writing. • 1. What are you hobbies and passions? • 2. Do you have a business? If so what about writing a blog on a topic related to your business. • 3. What job do you currently have? or what jobs have you had in the past? • 4. What is your religion?
Slide 3: • 5. Where do you live? • 6. About what topics do you love to read? write ? or talk about? • 7. Have you traveled? If so what about writing a blog specific to your travels or to a certain country? • 8. Have you had any unique experiences? What about writing about these on a blog. • 9. What are your talents? You could do a blog around one of these and offer advice, tips and tutorials as a kind of how to blog for others to learn something from you.
Slide 4: • 10. Your life, create a blog based on your own personal experiences • 11. Your pets or favorite animals. These make great blogs and people love to read these. • 12. What issues do you follow in the news or do you feel strongly about. People love to read well written opinionated blogs. • 13. Where did you go to school? You could create a blog specifically on your alma matter and attract school alumni and future attendees to it.
Slide 5: • Before you begin any kind of blog however, it is important to keep a few things in mind. • First, any blog you write must be updated at least once a week in order to have a decent following. Blogs must be current in order to be interesting to the general public. • Second, choose a topic about which you can continue to write and write and write for a long time. The longer and more detailed it is the better. • Third, remember that everyone online can read it, so avoid using too many personal details.
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Slide 2: Making money blogging is a real challenge
Slide 3: We all have blogs and many here would love to do it full-time
Slide 4: Finding an audience — and beyond that — finding revenue amid the sea of millions of blogs seems impossible
Slide 5: Stake out your place and make the hard work pay off
Slide 6: Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue
Slide 7: Find your passion
Slide 8: “The most important thing is to do something you love, whatever that is. It goes back to the definition of a good job, which is, if you could afford to, would you do the same work for free? If you would, you've got a great job -- if not, what the heck are you doing? -- you're going to be dead a long time. We're in a field that allows you to look forward to that work, not watch the clock, be creative, and even get paid for it. I've often thought I make a living from my hobby.” -- David Carson
Slide 9: MetaFilter and PVRblog
Slide 10: What are you passionate about?
Slide 11: You have hobbies, right?
Slide 12: Passion doesn't feel like work
Slide 13: You'll need passion for the long, thankless hours
Slide 14: The democratic web
Slide 15: Fakery will get you nowhere. Don't just do it to make a buck.
Slide 16: Start small, avoid creating a network
Slide 17: Stephanie Quilao’s story
Slide 18: The paradox of love (also works with money)
Slide 19: Find your audience
Slide 20: Content. Is. King.
Slide 21: Just say no to SEO
Slide 22: The road to success is long and takes a lot of hard work.
Slide 23: Be patient. Stick with it.
Slide 24: Ideas for content
Slide 25: Time spent doing research= dozens of posts
Slide 26: Review products
Slide 27: Google news alerts
Slide 28: You can interview anyo ne if you just ask
Slide 29: Mine the forums, deliver the gold
Slide 30: Op/Ed beats news any day
Slide 31: Find the Money
Slide 32: Some numbers
Slide 33: Text Ads
Slide 34: Google is easy
Slide 35: Google is flexible. You should be too.
Slide 36: Typical adsense use on a blog
Slide 37: Don't overdo it.
Slide 38: Image ads
Slide 39: Blogads is easy
Slide 40: Eventually, larger networks are better
Slide 41: Don't overdo it
Slide 42: Diversify: Affiliates, Jobs, etc
Slide 43: “We’re all one greasemonkey script away from poverty”
Slide 44: Amazon Affiliates is easy
Slide 45: Monthly/Annual subscriptions, memberships, or swag
Slide 46: Lots of people get hired because of their blog
Slide 47: Companies you blog about will need business bloggers
Slide 48: Can you find a topic, gain an audience, and stick with it?
Slide 49: Generating revenue from your slice of the blogosphere is a challenge
Slide 50: Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue
Slide 51: Hard work on a topic you love can pay off.
Slide 52: Pro Blogging: a lot of work, a lot of fun, perhaps a lot of money
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The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging Slideshow transcript
Slide 2: Each style has a suggestion for the maximum times it should be used per week to avoid having stale blog content. This rating indicates how likely a blog post of this style is likely to be linked to and commented on (1 is low, 5 is high). Represents how much effort and original thought is required to complete each style of blog post. Styles are rated Easy, Medium, or Hard. The Key
Slide 3: 5+ Insight Blogging 4 HARD Sharing insights, original ideas, commentary or trends on a particular topic. Many consider this the most • GapingVoid: How to be Creative difficult type of blogging to • The Future Web 2.0 Social Experience do. Resource Links: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/future-social-web-experience.cfm Style 1 of 25
Slide 4: 1 Ambition Blogging 2 EASY Blogging about something with the aim of trying to attain it - usually by targeting the decision makers through the • One Red Paper Clip Blog blog post. • Snakes on a Plane Blog Resource Links: http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ http://www.snakesonablog.com/2006/01/12/snakes-on-a-blog/ Style 2 of 25
Slide 5: 1 Meme Blogging 5 MEDIUM Starting a thread of discussion by sharing your response to a query and then challenging other bloggers to • 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me answer it on their own blogs. • Carnival of Marketing Resource Links: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/fiveish_things_.html http://www.okdork.com/grand-opening-carnival-of-marketing/ Style 3 of 25
Slide 6: 3 Piggyback Blogging 3 MEDIUM Writing about a topic that is currently popular in the news media, on meme sites like Tailrank or on blog search • “Habitaquo” engines like Technorati to • “Twitter” capitalize on attention. Resource Links: http://www.technorati.com/search/habitaquo http://www.technorati.com/search/twitter Style 4 of 25
Slide 7: 5+ Life Blogging 2 EASY Also called reality blogging, this involves a blog post sharing the story of something that • Dooce: You Be Well For Me happened to you in your • Most posts on personal blogs personal life. Resource Links: http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/11_19_2004.html Style 5 of 25
Slide 8: 5+ Brand Blogging 2 MEDIUM A post about a brand or product focused on sharing positive attributes or an “inside look” – posts in this • Most posts on Corporate Blogs category are (often) an • Moleskinerie Blog official or unofficial view based on a personal Resource Links: association with a brand. http://www.moleskinerie.com Style 6 of 25
Slide 9: 1 Detractor Blogging 3 MEDIUM Share a passionate hatred for a product or brand, get revenge or redemption by recounting a negative experience or tell a • Dell Hell and Jeff Jarvis story that casts a person or • Things I Hate About Panera thing in a negative light. Resource Links: http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/cat_dell.html http://rocketking.blogspot.com/2006/12/things-i-hate-about-panera.html Style 7 of 25
Slide 10: 5+ Announcement Blogging 5 HARD Break news about an announcement or news that was not previously available elsewhere. For maximum • Dave Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere effect, being the first to break • Om Malik Leaving Business 2.0 the news matters most. Resource Links: http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/ http://valleywag.com/tech/om-malik/scoop-blogger-om-malik-quits-business-20-and-takes-funding-180205.php Style 8 of 25
Slide 11: 2 Link Blogging 4 MEDIUM Collecting a series of links to websites, blogs or other online content to create a list of resources with links in a • Micropersuasion del.icio.us Links single blog post. • List of White Label Social Networking Sites Resource Links: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/04/links_for_20070_8.html http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/02/12/list-of-white-label-social-networking-platforms/ Style 9 of 25
Slide 12: 5+ Video Blogging 3 HARD Creating original video and putting online in a blog post or embedding a video from YouTube or another video • Make Magazine Blog sharing site into a post and • Chalkvertising with Julian Beever commenting on it. Ratings are based on creating original video for blog posts. Resource Links: http://makezine.com/blog/ http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2007/01/chalkvertising_.html Style 10 of 25
Slide 13: 5+ Photo Blogging 2 MEDIUM Making the main content of your blog post a photograph or series of photographs with or without some kind of • Thomas Hawk Digital Connection captions to tell the story. • Amateur Gourmet Restaurant Review Resource Links: http://www.thomashawk.com http://www.amateurgourmet.com/the_amateur_gourmet/2006/11/chutzpah_truffl.html Style 11 of 25
Slide 14: 5+ Review Blogging 3 EASY Offer your expertise or personal opinion to review a product or service and share an honest assessment. This type of • Robin Good Reviews Yahoo Pipes blogging can be solicited or • Manolo’s Shoe Blog done independently. Resource Links: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/02/09/beyond_newsmastering_yahoo_pipes_is.htm http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/04/04/giuseppe-zanotti-at-the-bluefly/ Style 12 of 25
Slide 15: 5+ Evangelist Blogging 3 MEDIUM Passionate blog post sharing an affinity and support for a social cause, organization, product or individual that you • The Cancer Mosaic believe in. These posts are • Google: Celebrating Earth Day meant to inspire others to believe in the same thing. Resource Links: http://brand.blogs.com/mantra/2006/03/cancer_mosaic.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/celebrating-earth-day.html Style 13 of 25
Slide 16: 5+ List Blogging 5 MEDIUM This is the highly popular format of the top ten (or any other number) lists about something. Blog posts in this • 101 Biggest Stories in Search type of format are frequently • Almost any post from Guy Kawasaki bookmarked and shared. Resource Links: http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/27/101-biggest-stories-in-search-2006/ http://blog.guykawasaki.com Style 14 of 25
Slide 17: 3 Survey Blogging 4 EASY Starting a dialogue by asking for readers opinions by offering a survey to answer or an open question for them to • Dilbert Blog: Romance Survey respond to through a comment • Are we bloggers or journalists? or blog post. Resource Links: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/01/romance_survey.html http://mariosundar.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/are-we-bloggers-journalists/ Style 15 of 25
Slide 18: 2 Feature Blogging 4 MEDIUM Creating an ongoing feature category as in a magazine or article and then continually posting to it with new thoughts • John Bell: IdeaBar and ideas that fit together • Viral Garden: Top 25 Marketing Blogs under the same theme. Resource Links: http://johnbell.typepad.com/weblog/the_idea_bar/index.html http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/ Style 16 of 25
Slide 19: 2 Repost Blogging* 1 EASY Taking a post or article from another location and reposting a significant part of it as a blog post with limited original • Any post that republishes another commentary. to make a point with limited additional commentary * Spam blogs or “splogs” that republish posts for the sake of trying to get traffic to their Google keyword ads are not included in this style. Repost Blogging should only include content relevant to your blog and be used as a quick way to post when you don’t have time to do a “real” blog post. Style 17 of 25
Slide 20: 5+ Guest Blogging 3 MEDIUM Authoring a blog post intended to be published on a blog other than your own. Used to augment content on • Intel PC Design Challenge Blog a group blog or fill gaps • American Constitution Society for while a blogger cannot blog Law and Policy Guest Bloggers for any reason. Resource Links: http://www.intelchallenge.com/category/blog/ http://www.acsblog.org/cat-guest-bloggers.html Style 18 of 25
Slide 21: 5+ Interview Blogging 4 MEDIUM Conducting an interview and publishing either audio or video files, or creating a transcript of the interview to • Social Media Today Podcast write into a blog post. • 10 Questions from Guy Kawasaki Resource Links: http://www.smcpodcast.com/ http://blog.guykawasaki.com/ten_questions/index.html Style 19 of 25
Slide 22: 5+ Event Blogging 4 MEDIUM Sharing impressions, opinions and insights from an event such as a seminar, conference, concert or other gathering with • 10 Secrets from CommunityNext others who may or may not • 8 Startups at Under the Radar have been able to attend. Resource Links: http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2007/02/10_secrets_of_s.html http://mashable.com/2007/03/23/under-the-radar/ Style 20 of 25
Slide 23: 5+ Live Blogging 4 MEDIUM Blogging at a fast pace about something in real time as it happens. Often this type of post is uploaded through • Gawker Live Blogging Oprah mobile blogging or updated • Engadget at MacWorld 2007 through RSS streaming feeds. Resource Links: http://gawker.com/news/james-frey/james-frey-on-oprah-liveblogging-the-live-feed-150872.php http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/ Style 21 of 25
Slide 24: 5+ Bridge Blogging 3 MEDIUM Defined as “writing for an audience outside your everyday reality” – usually posts in this category offer • Most posts on Global Voices Online insight into something • Screenshots: Malaysian Politics happening in a particular part of the world that may not be Resource Links: known by an international http://www.globalvoicesonline.org http://www.jeffooi.com/ audience. Style 22 of 25
Slide 25: 1 Classified Blogging 2 EASY A post that identifies a need for a product or service that you are seeking or outlines something you have to trade • Linden Lab: Hiring Web Editor or sell to others. • Websites for Sale Blog Resource Links: http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/04/10/now-hiring-web-content-editor/ http://www.sitesalesblog.com/ Style 23 of 25
Slide 26: 5+ Response Blogging 3 HARD Directly responding to a challenge posted by someone or to a crisis situation in a post to outline your opinion and • David Neeleman’s Apology point of view. • Why SEO isn’t Bull Resource Links: http://www.jetblue.com/about/ourcompany/flightlog/archive_february2007.html http://searchengineland.com/070208-110711.php Style 24 of 25
Slide 27: 2 Contact Blogging 2 EASY Writing about a person or blog with the intent of making contact with that person. An alternative is posts sharing • Finding George Clooney the experience of meeting • Meet a 92 Year Old Blogger someone that is not an interview. Resource Links: http://clooneyproject.livejournal.com/ http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/18/meet_a_92yearold_blo.html Style 25 of 25
Slide 28: Rohit Bhargava Jesse Thomas Vice President, 360° Digital Influence Interactive Art Director, 360° Digital Influence Blog: http://www.jess3.com/blog Blog: http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/ Email: jesse.thomas@ogilvypr.com Email: rohit.bhargava@ogilvypr.com Jesse leads the Interactive Design efforts at Ogilvy PR in Rohit Bhargava leads the interactive marketing team at Ogilvy PR and is a founding member of the 360 Digital Influence team at Washington DC. As the Interactive Art Director, Jesse provides Ogilvy. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a both the high-level concepts as well as the technical- and specialist in combining \"traditional\" interactive marketing efforts design-based follow-through to service clients such as Intel, with innovative social media marketing strategy. Lenovo, BP, and Dupont About 360ยบ Digital Influence The 360 Digital Influence team is a unique offering within Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide that is focused on helping our clients to understand the conversations happening in the world of social media, and crafting a strategy for organizations to be part of this dialogue. In a world where anyone can be an influencer, the old marketing communications methods don’t work anymore. Digital Influence is about finding the new influencers and smart ways to use concepts like blogs, wikis, user generated content, co-creation and other methods to engage customers and build brand loyalty as a core part of our clients marketing communications efforts. Read more insights at blog.ogilvypr.com >
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Blogs and memes go together like peanut butter and jelly. Like Crockett and Tubbs. Like the Cubs and disappointment. They're practically made for each other and to deprive your blog of its natural meme-craving is an exhibition of sadistic cruelty.
Uh, What's A Meme? Some of your out there don't know a meme from a hole in the ground but that's ok. I'll bring you up to speed.
The short definition is "a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another."
However, that definition is incomplete as it relates to an Internet meme which "occurs when something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, often quite suddenly, through the mass propagation of media content made feasible by the Internet" technology.
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Run out of ideas for your latest post? Can’t think of anything awesome to publish? Try social news aggregators. These websites are very helpful mashups of relevant feeds from popular blogs, news sources as well as social websites like Digg, Reddit, YouTube and del.icio.us.
Most of the content on news aggregators are freshly pulled from a wide variety of sources and can be a fountain of inspiration for anyone who is tired of blogging about the same things everyday.
In this article, I’ve made a list of several social news aggregators and meme trackers you can use to generate fresh and relevant content for your blog.
How do I use Social News Aggregators to create content for my niche?
Most news aggregators and meme trackers have search bars so this is the first place you want to start.
Doing a search for keywords relevant to your blog is the fastest way to come up with content ideas and it also has the added benefit of preventing you from being distracted by other material.
If you don’t have anything in mind, try looking at the most popular or latest news sections to see if anything suits your fancy.
Some news aggregators group related blog entries together under a specific topic so pick a topic you want, visit the other blogs and reference them by sending a trackback.
This allows you to get involved in the conversation and might win you some new readers as well. Just remember to add your own original take on the article so you won’t be contributing to the echo chamber.
Dosh Dosh’s Top 10 Social News Aggregators and Meme Trackers
The first five websites are what I consider to be some of the better news aggregators out there.
I haven’t used the other five websites as much because of either usability or information issues: They either have limited user features or don’t seem to track information as well as the first five.
If you don’t have time to check out the entire list, go with the first five.. they’ll provide you with more than enough news and content ideas.
