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Most bloggers at some point face the decision of launching a new blog or just focusing on their existing blog(s). Whether you currently have one blog or ten blogs, adding another is something that should be given careful consideration. Typically, bloggers choose to branch out for one of the following reasons:
Income Potential – Sometimes a blog’s income gets stagnate and in order to increase the amount of revenue from blogging activities, the blogger will choose to launch an additional blog.
Variety – By launching a new blog that focuses on different topics, you can get some variety in your work that may be very much appreciated.
Lack of Results – Sometimes a new blog is launched simply because the existing one isn’t producing the results that the blogger was hoping for. The new blog is then an attempt to reach the goals by starting off in a new direction.
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You get an idea for a post - it might start out as just a few words, a title, a point or two - but how do you take the idea and mould it into a full post?
In he above video (
see a full sized version of it here) I take you through a series of screenshots of a post that I wrote a few days ago on
how to be a ruthless blogger and tell you about my posting workflow.
The workflow that I describe isn’t the same for every post that I write (some are obviously a lot less involved - but it does describe the way that I work on most of my feature length posts that you see here on ProBlogger.
I’d love to hear about your own blog posting workflow in comments below.
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I logged into
my FaceBook account today and noticed
FaceBook has added a chat feature! In classic Facebook style, it has a clean & smooth interface and you can basically chat with any FaceBook member that happens to be online at the moment.
With this, Facebook takes it to the next level and now it’s also an instant messenger, competing with established services like Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and GTalk.
With millions of users, this service will spread like wildfire and I’m sure a desktop FaceBook application is just around the corner.
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Brian Gardner is famous for his high quality magazine
Revolution WordPress themes as many of you would already know. A few days ago he released a Revolution Blog Theme which is available for free download from his site.
The Revolution Blog Theme is
offered in two 3-column versions, one with left and right sidebar and the other one with two right sidebars.
See the
demo of this version
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This is a guest post by Jennifer Fulwiler.
For those of us who have diary-style blogs in which we offer readers a glimpse into our daily lives, there are times when we find that we have to write a long post in order to convey a story. However, it can be hard to find tips for creating long blog posts since a cardinal rule of writing for the web is to keep it short.
Web readers do occasionally read posts like this if they’re done well. I believe that the key to getting visitors to thoroughly read a long story is that it first must be scannable. When a reader comes across your blog and sees a long post she is going to take no more than a couple of seconds to ask herself, “Is it worth my time to read this?” Here’s how to show her that the answer is yes:
1. Start with a bang
Writing a story for the web is different than writing a story for print publication. Web readers have much shorter attention spans and will quickly move on if a post doesn’t immediately capture their attention. Before you go into any background details or set the stage for your story, begin with one or two bold, concise sentences that will grab readers’ attention.
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Yesterday I wrote about
being a ruthless blogger and named a number of areas that I find helpful to have more harsh boundaries in with the hope of it helping me become more productive and focused as a blogger (and as a result provide a better resource for readers).
There is a problem with ruthlessness though. It arises when you become so ruthless and focused that you end up becoming inaccessible and stop engaging with readers. Put up too many boundaries and you could end up alienating readers.
This is a problem that I hear many medium to larger sized blogs face. The bigger they grow the greater the demands on the time of bloggers and the harder it becomes to stay accessible.
Today I want to share a few tips on how to remain accessible to readers even when your blog is growing and the demands on your time become greater. By no means am I an expert in this - but here are a few things I’ve learned.
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The session that I participated in as a panelist at SXSW is now available
here. It’s a panel so it covers a fair bit of ground and includes information on ad networks, affiliate programs and other topics associated with making money online.
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A getting started guide on typography
AdSense is a wonderful way to make money from blogs for many bloggers - however it’s not always suitable.
Check out this post looking at the
ads that AdSense put up on a blog for women over the age of 40.
Ads included (to name just a few):
MEET MARRIED WOMEN! Married but looking? Meet LOCAL married women right now!
OLDER BLACK WOMEN: Free to join. 1000’s of pictures of beautiful older black singles.
HISPANIC WOMEN ONLINE: Find your interracial match on line.
MARRIED BUT LOOKING: Discreet affairs for men and women have never been easier.
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Sometimes to grow your blog you need to be ruthless - otherwise you’ll become distracted, unproductive, lazy, unfocused and or lose your passion for blogging. Here’s 7 areas that I’ve found myself becoming more and more ruthless in in my blogging:
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1. Declare war on comment spam
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