Finally, A Blog Dictionary
It sucks encountering a term you don’t know when reading as many blog articles as we do. To help ourselves and others, we decided to post the Blog Dictionary here as a reference. You will probably be familiar with the majority of these terms, but a few will surprise you, enjoy.
A
Autocasting: Automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds.
Audioblog: A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text message added for metadata purposes. (cf. podcasting)
B
Biblioblogosphere: A humorous reference to the world of librarian blogging
Blaudience: The audience, or readership, of a blog
Blag: A humourous misspelling of ‘blog’
Blath: A math oriented blog. A portmanteau of “math” and “blog”.
Blawg: A blog focusing on commentary about the law, generally written by a law professor, law student, or lawyer. A portmanteau of “law” and “blog”.
Bleg: A blog entry consisting of a request to the readers, such as for information or contributions. A portmanteau of “blog” and “beg”. Also called “Lazyweb.”
Blog Carnival: A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Most blog carnivals are hosted by a rotating list of frequent contributors to the carnival, and serve to both generate new posts by contributors and highlight new bloggers posting matter in that subject area.
Blistless or B-listless: When a blogger becomes listless or apathetic about posting. It is also indicative of what will happen to the blogger’s mailing list.
Blog client: (weblog client) is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. A typical blog client has an editor, a spell-checker and a few more options that simplify content creation and editing.
Blogger: Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site. Rarely: weblogger.
Bloggernacle: Blogs written by and for Mormons (a portmanteau of “blog” and “Tabernacle”. Generally refers to faithful Mormon bloggers and sometimes refers to a specific grouping of faithful Mormon bloggers.
Bloggies: One of the most popular blog awards.
Blog Farm: A website constructed from a group of linked weblogs, typically with the main blog aggregating the total content/acting as a gateway.
Blog feed: The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web. Formats such as RSS and Atom are used to structure the XML file.
Blog Hopping: To follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums, and more.
Bloglet: A small blog entry, usually one or two sentences long. [1]
Blogoneer: A portmanteau of “blog” and “pioneer”, meaning a person who blogs with an expert or pioneering attitude.
Blogorrhea: A portmanteau of “blog” and “logorrhea”, meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
Blogosphere: All blogs, or the blogging community. Also called blogistan or, more rarely, blogspace.
Blogroll: A list of blogs. A blogger features a list of their favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog.
Blogsandwich: A blog that contains several different topics.
Blog site: The web location (URL) of a blog, which may be either a dedicated domain, a sub-domain, or embedded within a web site.
Blogsite: Sometimes confused with a simple blog or blog site, but a blogsite is a web site which combines blog feeds from a variety of sources, as well as non-blog sources, and adds significant value over the raw blog feeds.
Blogsnob: A person who refuses to respond to comments on their blog from people outside their circle of friends.
Blogstipation: The state of being unable to think of any topic to blog about, leading to irregular, strained blog entries. A rush of interesting events can clear the block; this is sometimes known as a blenema.
Blogstorm: When a large amount of activity, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject or controversy in the blogosphere, it is sometimes called a blogstorm or blog swarm.
Blogstream: A play on the term mainstream that references the alternative news and information network growing up around weblogs and user driven content mechanisms. Can also be used as a play on the phrase “thought-stream”, referring to the stream of consciousness as expressed through a weblog.
BlogThis: Pioneered by Blogger.com, BlogThis links on a blog allow the reader to automatically generate a blog entry based on the blog entry he/she is reading, and post to their blog.
Bloll: A troll who specialises in blogs. A portmanteau of “blog” and “troll.”
Blooger: A blogger who exhibits adolescent tendencies and lacks basic social graces or good manners. A portmanteau of “blog” and “booger.”
Boreblogging: Writing about personal matters that are barely interesting even to the writer — preferably in a slightly bent fashion so as to make it fun to read in spite of the subject matter.
You may also enjoy reading the Ultimate Luxury Blogger Mobile Home
C
Categories: This is a method of organizing blog entries by assigning each entry to a predetermined topic. Each topic (category) will link to a list of entries, all with related content.
Celeblog: A blog detailing the lives of movie stars, musicians, and other celebrities, much like tabloid magazines. They often feature embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.
Clix: A person’s circle of online communities.
Collaborative: Blog A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog.
Comment spam: Like e-mail spam. Robot “spambots” flood a blog with advertising in the form of bogus comments. A serious problem that requires bloggers and blog platforms to have tools to exclude some users or ban some addresses in comments.
D
Dark Blog: A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall)
Desktop Blogging Client: An off-line blog management (posting, editing and archiving) tool
F
Fisking: To rebut a blog entry in a line-by-line fashion.
Flog: A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
A Photoblog.
Feeds: RSS Feeds
G
Glog: A first-person recording of an activity, in which the person doing the recording is a participant in the activity. Probably a portmanteau of “gonzo” and “blog”.
GBCW: The “Good Bye Cruel World” diary is when a Kossack decides that Daily Kos has become too (fill in the blank) or isn’t nearly (fill in the blank) enough for him or her to continue visiting the site. General chaos ensues in the Comments as other Kossacks agree, disagree, and wish the diarist good luck or good riddance.
Gulog: A portmanteau of “gulag” and “blog”. Used when a blog is so dismal and depressing, it’s as if it were written in a Soviet labour camp.
H
Hits: Number of users visited is often referred as hits. (website / blog hits)
HT: “Hat Tip” An acknowledgment of the source where you found the noteworthy item.
I
Instalanche: Sudden and possibly overwhelming increase in traffic to a site after being linked to by the Instapundit
K
Koufax: An annual quasi-Liberal webblog award.
K-log: aka “knowledge log”, a type of blog usually used by knowledge workers and posted on a company intranet for sharing company knowledge.
Kos Kid: A term for any one who posts, or reads regularly, the blog Daily Kos. Also known as “Kwazy Kos Kids” after the eccentric nature of some of the members.
L
Lazy Web: Making a suggestion to an internet community in the hopes that someone else will do the work.
Link Love: linking to a site or blog, usually unsolicited, that you like, enjoy, or find useful.
Log in, blog to, log out: A catchphrase referring to blogger style of activity.
Linkroll: A list of recently-bookmarked links with brief descriptions, in the sidebar of a blog.
M
Milblog: Term for blogs written by members or veterans of any branch of service – Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. A contraction of military and blog.
Moblog: A portmanteau of “mobile” and “blog”. A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Momosphere: Term to encompass blogs written by mothers. A portmanteau of “mom” and “blogosphere”.
Multi-blog: Creating, maintaining, and running multiple blogs (2 or more) simultaneously.
Multi-blogger: An individual, business, or institution that runs multiple blogs.
N
Natural Blogarithm: Used to describe the vibe or rhythm of the blogging community. A portmanteau of blog and natural logarithm.
P
PENUS Potentially Exciting News Under Scrutiny: Use this when you have something big that you can’t wait to show to the blogosphere.
Permalink Permanent link: The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Phlog: Type of blog utilising the Gopher protocol instead of HTTP
Photoblog: A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically.
Ping: The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post.
Placeblog: Tim Lindgren has used the term “place blogging” to describe weblogs that focus on events and people with a hyperlocal scope.
Plog Political blog: Blog containing mainly politically-oriented material.
Podcasting: Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players.
Post: An entry written and published to a blog.
R
RSS: Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
RSS aggregator: Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favourite blogs. Also called a reader or feedreader.
RSS feed: The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.
S
Scribosphere: Term to encompass blogs written by professional and aspiring screenwriters. A portmanteau of “scribe” and “blogosphere”.
Shart: An acronym; Stubborn, Hostile And Resentful Troll, the most feared kind. A blog that falls victim to such a troll is said to have been “sharted”. A blogger who vandalises their own page for sympathy is said to have sharted themselves.
Shocklog: Weblogs to produce shocking discussions by posting various shocking content.
Spam blog: A blog which is composed of spam. A Spam blog or “any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.”
Slashdotted: The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server.
Splog: A term used to refer to a ‘spam blog’, made popular in 2005 by Mark Cuban
Storyblog: Also written as “slog”. A term used to describe blogs used primarily to publish written stories and poetry used for practice usually by aspiring writers.
Subscribe: The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or Google. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive notification when there are new posts in a blog.
Svithe: A spiritually themed post on a blog not normally focused on spiritual matters.
T
Template: Templates, used on the “back end” of a blog that work together to handle information and present it on a blog.
Theme: CSS based code that when applied to the templates will result in visual element changes to the blog. The theme, as a whole, is also referred to as a blog design.
TrackBack: A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
Troll: A commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog and incite a flamewar, for example, a liberal going to a conservative blog, or vice versa. The word trolling means literally ‘to fish’, ie. when the troll fishes for a clashback from the blog writer and/or pro commenters. Many trolls will leave their remarks on multiple posts and continue to visit the blog, sparking spirited debate amongst the blog’s regular readers. Trolls’ verbosity can range from eloquent to crass, although most trolls probably fall into the latter category. Originally, trolling only meant the custom where someone was commenting just to get a flamewar going, by using exaggarated points of view not held by themselves.
V
Vlog: A video blog; a vlogger is a video blogger (e.g. someone who records himself interviewing people of a certain field).
Vorage: A marriage between the words forage and video defined as “The act of foraging for video on the internet and sharing it with others.”
Vloggers: Those who share streaming or downloaded video content on the web often engage in voraging, scouring search engines and obscure websites to present a curated collection of videos that usually fall within a set theme or editorial perspective.
W
Web Keynoting: Having a blog’s text dictated by a web keynote (also, voice professional). Service provided by Ch4tter.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Social Networking for Network Marketers: the New Era
Can you guess what the big buzz is lately for network marketers? Social Networking! I will explain why but let’s take a quick look at how it started. At first there was MySpace and Facebook, two huge social networking giants. Network Marketers have joined them in order to market their opportunities through these sites. It is a great way for that extra free exposure even though the members of the networks aren’t entirely targeted.
However, the value of marketing on Myspace and Facebook is quickly dropping. This is due to the massive release of new and niche focused social networks. The fact is that this year alone I have seen an increasing number of professional social networks geared towards network marketers launching and becoming increasingly popular. To name a few: TalkMoola.com, Zenzuu, Friendswin, Yuwie, and Wowzza. A couple older ones are DirectMatches, AdLandPro, and even Ryze. Honestly I wouldn’t even be the least bit surprised to see a few more start-up this year – that is how much it is catching on! It is also obvious why they do become so popular among network marketers, because there is no better advertising than targeted advertising. Exposing your business opportunity, system, or product to other network marketers is simply the most effective thing to do. Once a network marketer joins you they already have had their foot in the door and are somewhat knowledgeable about the industry and can greatly help your business. However if a random person from MySpace sees and joins your business they are not nearly as valuable to you because they most likely have no idea what they are doing or what network marketing is even about.
So when network marketers are invited with the ability to join a social network full of network marketers it is almost a no-brainer. Just to clarify why I said “almost”… It is because not all network marketers have caught on to the power of social networking yet or how to properly use social networking to explode their businesses. But the ability to further expose themselves and their business to other like-minded people is extremely valuable and profitable for most. The old way of network marketing is out, and I see the future holding tight to social marketing through professional social networks. Even so, many of these new business social networks are offering incentives for those who join. These range from revenue sharing, direct affiliate commissions, and various MLM pay plans. Through this supporting these new business social networks they will experience the increased awareness and exposure that they deserve.
All professional social networks, however, are not created equal. Here are a few things you need to look out for when deciding which ones you will utilize in exposing yourself and your opportunities.
1) Somewhat Targeted or Extremely Targeted?
When looking over your social networks find out if the people involved in the social network are the type of people who would be interested in what you have to offer, or are like-minded to you. This means that if you are a network marketer looking to provide an opportunity to other network marketers then the people involved in the social network should be strictly network marketers. Does the social network you are considering include members looking for a date or love? If the social network includes this or niches totally unrelated to you then this weakens the potential of that network for you. However, if the social network is only network marketers or business opportunity seekers then it is an incredible source for you.
2) Are there limitations on contacting your friends in bulk?
Increasing your friends or contact list on social networks is the one major thing you must do in order to maximize your exposure and reach. This means accepting friend invitations from those within the social network and also seeking out other like-minded to add to your network of friends. The larger your list of friends the more active you will appear to be and the more people will take heart to what you have to say. It also means more people who you can send messages to through the social network. Some social networks limit the amount of people you are able to send a message to at once. Let’s say you have 200 friends but you are limited to sending to only 30 people per message and you can only send one bulk message per day. Well this is a very negative restriction and even more so if you have a much larger network of friends. On the other hand, some social networks will let you add unlimited friends and you can send them a bulletin or message to all your friends at once anytime with ease. This is what you should be looking for because whether you have 100 friends, 1,000 or even 10,000 you can send them all a message just as easily as if you were sending it to one. This means potentially huge exposure for you. If you want you can even consider it like an instant contact list of targeted prospects! However, I do warn about sending too much unwanted messages to your friends, you should try to connect with them and send them as much quality information as you can instead and then lightly introduce what you have to offer. If you consistently send what they would consider as spam messages they will just block you or remove you from their friends’ network, so using the social network properly is important.
3) Are the members free, paid, or both?
Another factor is the true quality of the member base. If the membership is mostly free then they are less likely to be purchase ready. However, if the membership is all paid and everyone is used to paying to be a part of the social network then these are the highest quality members you can get in touch with because they will have the money to invest in working with you. Mixed is fine though as this factor is not as important as the first two.
4) How are the other site incentives?
This is the least important but should still be mentioned. Other incentives could be the pay plan such as revenue sharing, affiliate commissions, or some type of matrix structure. It could also be other services provided with your cost of the membership such as training, tools, or other bonuses. Keep in mind, even if they do not offer great incentives but the rest of the above factors are positive I would still be excited to join.
Right now there is not a huge selection of targeted professional social networks but I am positive that the future will hold true for more and more becoming available. Personally I like to take advantage and join any social network because that is extra exposure for me, and any extra exposure is always a good thing. However when choosing to be most active in select networks you may want to consider the above factors. I have created many strong relationships, learned a lot, taught a lot, and profited a lot from those relationships within social networks. You should take at least some advatange of every professional social network available, even if it is just setting up a profile to gain some extra exposure. If they are a niche social network that have like-minded inviduals similar to yourself then you should definitely be more open to actively using that network. The benefits can be enormous.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
How To Set-Up An Interactive Social Network Site That Draws Hundreds Of Daily Unique Visitors
In 2006, Google spent around $1.6 Billion to acquire YouTube – one of the most prolific interactive websites around was gobbled up by the biggest dot com in the world. What’s remarkable is that YouTube wasn’t earning anything near an income worthy of comment and it still isn’t. Google bought it for two reasons – first, the massive subscriber base that YouTube had, and second, YouTube is a new breed of interactive site that Google believes is the future of the internet. Google have spent more money researching this than you and I will ever have in our banks so you need to pay attention to this fledgling trend before it transforms into a cash-yielding craze (it will, by which time you risk missing the boat).
Interactive websites are hot, getting hotter – and in a moment I’ll show you how you can OWN an interactive site in the niche of your choice without spending a hell of a lot (indeed, if you’re a DRR member, you’ll get this as part of your membership). First, consider these rather interesting tid-bits of information:
- YouTube gets over 100 million downloads of its videos every single day.
- The site was founded in 2005 and within two year it’s creators became multi-millionaires. Ironically, all they did was understand that social networking sites (the same type of site you’ll be owning) were the future and created a simple site that allows users to upload/download videos, rate things & add comments. What you really *must* take on board here is that there will be several micro-sites like YouTube popping up in just about every niche around. Internet marketing, business, franchising, travel, real estate… everything. For most of these niches, dominant social networking sites have not yet been established. The field is open for you to get out there and make your mark.
Now, let’s look at what social networking is and how you might be able to use it to attract targeted traffic in droves:
Social networking. We have all likely heard of it before, but not everyone knows what it means? If you were asked to define what social networking was, would you be able to give an accurate definition? Unfortunately, most individuals cannot, even though it is likely that they participate in some form of social networking, especially online.
Social networking is defined as the grouping of individuals together into to specific groups, often like a small community or a neighborhood. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in schools or in the workplace, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the Internet is filled with millions, if not more, of individuals who are looking to meet other Internet users and develop friendships.
When it comes to social networking online, websites are used. These websites are known as social networking websites. Social networking websites are, in a way, like an online community of Internet users. Depending on the social networking website in question, many of these online community members share a common bond, whether that bond be hobbies, religion, or politics. Once you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize. This socialization may include reading the profiles or profile pages of other members or even contacting them.
The friends that you can make are just one of the many benefits to social networking online. Another one of those benefits includes diversity. Unlike in most schools or workplaces, the Internet gives individuals, from all around the world, access to social networking sties. This means that although you are in the United States, you could develop an online friendship with someone in Japan. Not only will you make a new friend, you but may also learn a thing or two about a new culture.
As previously mentioned, social networking often involves grouping specific individuals or organizations together. While there are a number of social networking websites that focus on particular Internets, there are others that do not. These websites are often deemed traditional social networking websites. These types of websites typically have an open membership. This means that anyone can become a member, no matter what their hobbies, beliefs, or views are. However, once you are inside this online community, you can begin to create your own network of friends; thus eliminating others that do not meet your criteria.
If networking on the Internet sounds like something you would be interested in, you are encouraged to learn more about it, such as the dangers of social networking. These dangers often involve online predators or individuals who claim to be someone that they are not. Although danger does exist with networking online, it also exists with networking out in the real world. As when you are meeting friends at a bar, school, or work, you are advised to proceed with caution online. By being aware of your surroundings and who you are talking to, you should be able safely enjoying social networking online.
Once you have learned everything that you feel you need to learn, about social networking online, you can begin to search for networking communities to join.
Let’s move on now to how social networking websites can help your business website promotion.
A large number of Internet users run their own personal websites, but others run their websites as a way to make money. Of course, any website owner wishes to promote their online website, but those who rely on their websites for income are more willing to. Whichever type of website you have, did you know that you could help to promote it with online social networking websites?
If you are wondering how and why you should use social networking websites to promote your online website, you are not alone. A fairly large numbers of Internet users aren’t even sure what social networking sites are or how they work. Online social networking websites are like online communities. They give Internet users an easy and fairly safe way to come together. Many social networking websites are designed to make it easier for you to search for and make contact with other Internet users, especially those that you have something in common with.
With a fairly large number of social networking websites, including MySpace, having over a millions users, there is a good chance that you could not only make new friends, but find Internet users that would be interested in visiting your online website, especially if that website is your personal website. When joining an online networking community, you should be given your own profile page. On this page you could not only describe yourself, your online website. By mentioning what your personal online webpage is all about and providing a link, you should receive a number of new visitors.
As previously mentioned, social networking websites can benefit all website owners, but especially those who are looking to make a profit with their websites. This can be done one of two ways, by selling something or by relying on revenue from advertising. If you have a website that selling products or services, you may find it a little bit easier to use social networking sites to your advantage. This is because, if you wish, you could do product or service spotlights. Each day, week, or month, you could showcase one of the products or services that your website sells. This could either be done right on your profile page or on a blog page, which is provided by most social networking websites.
If you are using your online website to make money with advertising programs, such as affiliate programs or Google Adsense, you may need to approach social networking websites in a different matter. Since you will not necessarily have a particular product or service to focus on, you will need to approach these websites as if they were personal websites. If your website discusses being a dog owner, it may be a good idea to state your love for dogs in your profile. After doing so, it would be acceptable and not necessarily considered spam to add a link to your online website. As with all other types of online websites, social networking websites should help to increase the number of page views your website receives. In most cases, more page views mean more clicks which means money for you.
As you can easily see, there are a number of different ways that you can promote your online website, no matter what type of website you have or what you use it for. By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to see an increase in your page views, in no time at all.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
75 Year Old Grandmother Arrested At McDonald’s
Finding a good blog topic can be a stuggle sometimes, so look no further than Digg or Stumbleupon to see what’s hot. Of course there are several other places to look as well, its really up to you! Today on Digg, I see a story about a “75 year old grandmother getting arrested for not pulling up at McDonald’s”. The link is pointing to a Local 6 television channel’s website with the rest of the story. This story received over 700 Diggs, and according to my estimate at least 7000 unique visitors.
THE HEADLINE: Police: Grandmother Arrested At McDonald’s Drive-Thru For Not Pulling Car Forward
So how do bloggers benefit from these highly Dugg stories?
Post A Followup Article: Since this topic is hot, do a followup on this story and write a post and submit it to Digg and other social networking sites.
Post Your Point Of View: Express your opinion about this story and submit it with a relevant title such as “75 Year Old Grandmother Strikes Back At McDonald’s” (if the followup story is relevant)
Learn What Got This Story Dugg: The most important lesson is to learn why a story like this was Dugg to begin with. There are a few key factors that scream Digg me! This story involves the elderly, fast food and police, now that’s a recipe to get Dugg. And the best thing is the whole story is captured in the title. There are other reasons why this story got Dugg so many times, but I will leave that for a later post.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
The Social Networking Business
Information technology is a much mandate for almost any sphere of life. So is the social networking. The activities like make new friends and maintaining the relationships are common in these social networking websites. These social networking websites are use for effective business promotions also. These traditional websites not only allows one to develop business relationships with other organizations, but also helps one to build close relationships with others with the same interest. This varied use of these social networking websites makes people stay longer in these websites.
SOCIAL NETWORKING AS a BUSINESS
A social networking website can generate revenue for you like any other Internet business. Everyone could see that the social networking websites like myspace, yahoo 360, orkut, classmates etc are in big business, generating huge revenue. The most interesting thing about these social networking websites is that, they have the ability to build up customer loyalty and are capable to retain its members. It has been noted that the members of a particular social networking website, keeps inviting his/her friends to join the same website inorder to expand the friendship circle. This in turn creates more members for he networking website with ease. This act also builds up the brand of the website and as it does, other people will get interested in advertising in the particular social networking website. Hence the revenue starts to flow in.
SOCIAL NETWORK WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
From the above paragraph, everyone will be clear that a social networking website can generate huge revenue than any other Internet business. So if you want to create your own social networking website, it’s simple. The first and foremost strategy to be considered while designing a social networking website is to create a platform that attracts people to use the website to build up relationships with others. The website should provide user friendly tools to customize their profile layout, add friends, inviting friends and so on. The important factor to be taken into account while designing a social networking website is to make sure that the design is user friendly. I.E the website should be easy to navigate through pages so that even users with little knowledge of the Internet can use your website.
If you are not sure about the design of a social networking websites, there are experts in social network web-design waiting to help you. They are capable of creating eye catchy, user friendly designs. All you have to do is to approach them and describe they type of network you wish to create.
PLAN BEFOR YOU LAUNCH
Launching a social networking website requires a lot of planning. Based on the plan you should choose the best design. You must look into all aspects of how you can lure users to your website and make them spend more time in the network. That is the start of the unique revenue generator.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Now That’s A Big Pile of Cash!
That pile of cash represents what’s available to earn online every minute of the day 24/7, and as bloggers…I know you want your share. The only problem is you don’t have enough traffic to your blog, so this post is dedicated to providing some down and dirty traffic tips.
Socialize Your Blog: Get your inbound links by joining social networking sites.
Submit Your RSS Feeds: There are hundreds of high quality RSS directories to submit your blog.
Comment: Do your share of commenting on other blogs and forums (especially those with “do-follow” enabled)
Create Mini-sites: Build mini-sites to promote your blog through free online services.
Email Signature: Put your blog address in your email signature for added exposure.
Paid Links: Purchase inbound links from higher ranking niche related websites.
Get Digging: Get your articles on Digg, Stumbleupon, Furl, etc.
Contest: Hold a contest and giveaway something your readers will want.
These are just a few ideas to help stir up traffic on your blog. I use most of these techniques and they work great. What I haven’t included here is the more in-depth methods I use to attain traffic, I will reveal those in future articles.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Signs of Over Blogging
You check your stats more than 10 times a day: If you are constantly checking your blog’s stats, you are becoming obsessive. Unless you are monitoring the success of a new technique, don’t check your stats so often.
Your face shows up on a milk carton: If this happens to you, then you definitely need to take a break from your blogging and get in touch with your friends and family.
You suffer from blogger’s block: While this is a relatively new term, it is happening frequently as we try to create more and more relevant content. If you are currently suffering from blogger’s block, either take a day off to refresh your mind or read other blogs for inspiration.
Your friends and family check your blog to see how you are doing: Don’t be shy, now that you are a blogger, you can still visit your friends and family just like old times.
Checkout the Ultimate Luxury Blogger Mobile Home
Your health is deteriorating: Many of us may not recognize this is happening to us as we sit for long hours writing and researching. Try to limit your time blogging and take a health break frequently. Take walks, do the laundry and other physical activity, you will be surprised how refreshing it is.
Online friends out number real friends: This is a sad but true scenario for many bloggers.
Your ideal vacation is to go to a blogger convention: I know my wife may not share the same enthusiasm as I would on this one.
You wish you could delete some people’s comments in real life: If you start to think stuff like this, then ya you may be spending too much time on your blog.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
SEO Strategy For Bloggers
Every blogger needs an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy if they are going to succeed online. Unless of course you are so gifted as a blogger that your writing makes magic ripples on the Internet effortlessly. For most of us, it requires a strategically planned outlay of specific tasks to make our blog successful.
Assuming your blog is already up and running, you will need key factors in place to make an impact. This short list provides some of the basics.
- Aesthetically Good Looking Blog
- Meaningful Articles Related To Your Blog’s Core Topic
- Timeless Writing Technique
- Professional Graphics – Tagged & Optimized Properly
- Intuitive Site Navigation
Once the basics are in place, you should carefully analyze the technical side of your blog to ensure it is optimized for search engines. This includes implementing proper “permalinks” to associate your url name with the titles used in your blog. For WordPress users this is an easy task done in the control panel. After that, remove any references to your blog’s platform if possible. This includes removing “powered by wordpress” links in the code. Utilizing these two techniques alone will separate your blog from thousands of others and will put yours at an advantage in the search engines.
Links on your blog will create additional traffic if executed properly. When it comes to links on your blog, relevance and positioning are key. If you write an article, try to provide at least one link that references another article on your website. This technique provides relevance for both the readers and search engines. For every three internally linked keyword phrases in your articles, you should try to have one externally linked keyword or phrase. This ratio works comfortably for most blog topics and will provide huge dividends over time. The 3 to 1 linking ratio combined with using your preferred keywords will provide ample opportunity to cultivate all of your articles for better search rankings while providing the benefits of outbound links.
For other great techniques please read I Think, Therefore I Blog
Outbound links from your blog have the same power as inbound links in some instances. Providing an outbound link to another’s blog brings in as much traffic as it could potentially loose. The potential loss of traffic due to the outbound link should be linked to a “new browser window” if possible to minumize any traffic leakage. One of the main reasons to use an outbound link is to receive credit from the link receiving website.
If you are writing an article about “search engines” and your blog’s theme is SEO (Search Engine Optimization), try to always leave room in your article to promote someone else. Once you integrate the mentioned website and provide the outbound link, try to notify the receiving website’s author to let them know about the link and article. If you execute this properly, it should provide you additional inbound links of relevance. Not every outbound link will earn you higher ranking inbound links, but at least they will be relevant.
The overall theme points to your blog having good characterists for both readers and search engines alike. Bloggers must distinguish their blogs in every way possible without jepardizing good logical context and framework. SEO techniques that complement both search engines and your readers experience will be the most powerful methods you can use.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
