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Tip #1: Write about what you know

Visitors to your blog are only interested in your blog if your blog has interesting content.  Do you stay intrigued in a website if the content is boring?  And what better way to make content more exciting than to add content about a topic you know?  If you know a lot about motorcycles, start a block about it.  Topics can include changing the carburetor or redoing the chrome on the headlights.  If the topic is something you know, your writing will flow more naturally and hence read more naturally to visitors.  The content will also be more informative and intelligent. 

Tip #2 – Stay on topic

Using the motorcycles, your blog should not stray from motorcycle related issues.  Do not start talking about the latest real estate news or golf carts.  Talk strictly about motorcycle topics.  Google AdSense parses the keywords in your blog and uses those keywords to place ads on your blog that are relevant to the content.  The aim is to get visitors to click those ads.  You want motorcycle readers to click ads on motorcycle topics.  Cross topics, such as mixing motorcycle content with real estate and golf carts will result in ads that cover all three or public service ads that pay nothing.  Keeping the topic centric on one topic will result in relevant ads.

Tip #3: Quantity over quality?

This may seem counterintuitive.  You want visitors to be interested in your site because the content is great.  So quality is important, right?  But, in order to get visitors, the quantity of content should be large meaning more keywords detected by search engines, which translates to higher spots in search results, right?  Well, yes, they are both right.  The ideal situation is a lot of high quality content.  Although this is not entirely possible all the time, you must have a high quantity of content on your blog because the more content means the more searchable material from search engines.  There is a balance that must be met.

Tip #4: Recycle

No news is good news.  No news really means nothing new to post on your blog.  You do not necessarily need to keep posting new content.  That is the perfect circumstance, but there is also a lot of information available on almost every topic ever written on the Internet.  Taking that content, rewording it and posting it on your blog is recycling.  It is not actually new content, just recycling old content and making it look new.  That takes some writing skill but can be learned after practice.  That way, you blog will have the appearance of new material and hopefully keep your visitors coming into the future.

Tip #5: Post on a regular schedule.

Our posts have a schedule written on them, usually an “updated every week” bulletin.  And guess what?  We stick to it.  There may not always be new content for such a posting schedule, so you can use the recycling idea.  While a weekly schedule is hard to keep (everyone has a family), when you stick to a schedule, visitors can really on updated blog content, and they will return more frequently to your blog, increasing the likelihood of an AdSense click.

Tip #6: Be clear and simple

This is more of a know you audience concept.  If talking about motorcycles, using motorcycle jargon is okay.  Make your content understandable.  Use easy to understand words, and make the format user friendly.  You are talking to a large and varied audience, and it should not require an advanced engineering degree from MIT to read a blog.  We have seen highly intelligent people be confused over blogs that contain simple topics because the blog was written in a confusing manner, overly wordy, or weirdly formatted.  The goal is to get a click, and having a confusing blog will ensure visitors/clickers will not return.

Tip #7: Keywords, keywords, keywords

Google parses through the blog’s content to not only find relevant ads to put on the blog but also to rank the blog in its search results.  If your blog is about motorcycle repair, the keyword set “motorcycle repair” should be mentioned at minimum three times every blog post.  Google will see the density of those keywords and associate your blog with motorcycle repair sites and include the blog with other motorcycle repair sites or blog when returning search results.  This will drive traffic to your blog.

Tip #8: Check your blog for spelling and grammatical errors

All modern word processing software include spell checkers.  Many blog sites, including Blogger.com and WordPress.com , also have spell checkers.  We admit that we are not the best spellers, but considering the availability of spell checking tools, there is no reason to have misspelled words on your blog.  Checking for grammar may be more difficult, but if you have questions, copy your blog into a word processing program and run a grammar checker.  Then repost the grammatically correct blog.  Having bad spelling and poor grammar shows a lack of care for your blog and, quite honestly, stupidity.  No one wants to read a blog laden with misspelling and poor grammar.

Tip #9: Multiple blogs

Publishing multiple blogs increasing visitor traffic and AdSense clicks.  You do not want to post multiple blogs using the same exact content, but you can publish multiple blogs using recycled content.  However, your multiple blogs of the same content should not be on the same blogging site.  Publish one on Blogger.com and another on WordPress.com.  Publish a third to another blogging site.  And, include a link in each blog to the others.  It will increase backlinks to your site, therefore increasing page rank, as well as traffic.

Tip #10: Why should I come back?

Getting one visitor to your site is great.  Getting two visitors even better.  Getting those two visitors to come back is excellent.  You want repeat visitors, because they are more likely to spread the news about your blog, increasing traffic.  What does it take to get repeat traffic?  How about an RSS feed?  Or another subscription list?  It takes a combination of the tips mentioned above as well as utilizing other methods mentioned on this site to drive traffic to your blog.  Traffic is the only way to get clicks on your AdSense ads, and you want traffic.

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Blogging has exploded in the last few years. It’s not like it’s a new phenomena, at least relatively speaking, because it’s actually been around since the very beginnings of the world wide web. But what has changed, is that blogging is now being seen as a mainstream tool, and hence is increasingly being used by businesses to promote themselves. In a way, this is good, because it does mean that consumers are increasingly getting more and more information about products and services that they use on a regular basis. However, on the flip side of that, it has served to dampen some of the more weird and eccentric blogging that used to be the rule rather than the exception. In a sense it is a philosophical conundrum which is fighting for the very heart and soul of what blogging is really about. And serving to ask the question, What is Blogging? Is it merely a commercial exercise? Or does it strike at the heart of what the internet is really about. Namely information purely for informations own sake. No matter how strange it may be…
One of the great examples of a purely weird, non commercial, blogging experience was the Battle Star Gallactica blog. Guess what it’s all about? Yep, the Battlestar Gallactica blog is all about bringing that most wonderful of science fiction programmes directly to the masses. It does this with an eclectic mix of information about the programme, its stars, and the storylines that kept us all glued to our seats over the years. And yet, it was with great regret that I recently read of the unofficial BattleStar Gallactica blog ceasing to blog! And in a way, this highlights the problem with blogging. Essentially, the reason that be Battle Star Gallactica blog was shutting up shop, was because its primary author (a gentleman called Trapper) simply no longer had the time to maintain it. What with family, work and other Web ventures. Nightmare!
One of the great things about blogging is how easy it is to do with it not requiring any great technical expertise, because most of the blogging platforms are now set up to be easy to use. But what it does require is commitment, time, and in order to be successful a fair amount of passion it has to be said. The Internet is becoming increasingly competitive, and so if anyone is going to hear what you actually have to say about a topic, then you need to be constantly providing great information that people want to read. At its heart the Internet hasn’t changed. Its a content medium, pure and simple. And if you provide great content, and do a minimal amount of marketing, then people will start to tell each other about it.
The only problem with this dichotomy is that just as something can be easy to set up, it can also be easy to let it die. In a way, the Battle Star Gallactica blog was a victim of its own success. Its author had so much to say about the subject, that he obviously felt overwhelmed by it to the extent that he was encroaching on his real-life! Oh well! Another one bites the dust

Blogging about your ex will not bring them back, but this secret will for all the loneley people looking for love

I have a confession to make. I am lonely. Painfully so. I didn’t realize this until today, but thankfully, I had University of Calgary academic degreel Keren decided inform me of this through an article on Canoe about his new book, “Blogosphere: The New Political Arena.” I admit that I did not like the feature the book, but if the article accurately depicts its thesis, then it is painfully stupid.

While it’s true that many blogs are cursive about personal topics, Keren’s description of the blogosphere seems to equate every bloggers as a homogeneous mass. The set of blogs that he follows and chronicles for the purposes of his mass consumption seem to be what we would refer to as “cat blogs” as in someone that blogs the minutia of their lives, including what their cat did today. To then apply this type of blogger to the rest of the blogosphere is not only ridiculous, it’s academically irresponsible. His description of these particular bloggers as depressing and lonely will all be correct, but his extraneous filler can sure not be extrapolated onto the blogosphere (which, remember, is the title of the book) as a whole.

Beyond being reductive, this analysis ignores the core reality of the blogosphere as a major social change. Individually, bloggers do not matter, this such is true. The actual social change comes from the realization of the tools of distribution, once only held by a few. Together, bloggers represent the potential for a major force of change. To equate this force to a some bloggers who live in the woods and talk about their departed cat is the same someone in the fifteenth century saying that the publication press is by a bunch of weird monks making bibles.

I’m not naive to believe that every blogger is making a social change – they’re not, and frankly, there is a lot of crap out there. The great thing about the scheme is that not everything has to be good, but the crap can easily be filtered out. Another, better articles touches on the veracity of blogs: Although the medium offers seemingly unlimited freedom of expression, Keren said bloggers too ofttimes appearance public instrument by reporting distorted versions of the facts.

Keren does hit a valid point, however, about not believing everything you read. The thing about the blogosphere is that it has an superior bullshit detector. If I were to indite something blatantly false, someone (probably Joe) would call me out, either in comments or in added blog. The more important I am, the larger this effect. Again, individually, the credibility of blogs is suspect, but in the aggregate, most errors will likely be found out and titled out. Furthermore, the natural partiality of an unedited personal instrument is evident, and it should come as a surprise to no digit that nothing suggestive in any blog should be considered above suspicion. To me, what is far more harmful is the facade that anything in the mainstream media is true and unbiased. Anyone employed in the media knows that this is ofttimes far from the truth, but sadly, many study the print and television news as the unbiased truth. The reality is that there are good bloggers and intense bloggers, PR bloggers, cat bloggers, semipolitical bloggers and a full lot more. Some are self-interested, some are as unbiased as any newspaper. Some, I’m sure, are lonely and some advance rich lives and are among the most important and intelligent grouping in the country. However, as long as we’re toting out stereotypes of lonely, ineffectual individuals with no relevance right their small and insulated peer group, I can think of a some about academics.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention about that secret to get back with your ex, check this out.