Microblogging Blogging A Major Paradigm Shift In Microblogging

March 30, 2012 by scottparat Leave a Comment

Microblogging is defined as: blogging done with severe space or size constraints typically by posting frequent brief messages about personal activities.

Several years ago I started hearing some of the morning shows and some of the news broadcasts in my area start telling people, “You can now follow us on Twitter.” I had no idea what the heck they were talking about but, these days, if you do not have a Twitter account or a Facebook page you are in the minority. Microblogging on sites like twitter can become addicting! Microblogging can also be used to spread religious, political or corporate messages within a social community in a matter of minutes. Democrats and liberals have tried to silence people like Rush Limbaugh, but now with twitter and facebook that will never happen.

There are other social networking sites but these are definitely the two most popular. This is called microblogging and it is used to let others know just exactly what you are doing, when you are doing it, throughout your day if you choose to make frequent posts.

Twitter has over 200 million users and Facebook has over 570 million users and to make a post you must know that the number of characters you can use to get your message across is limited to 140-200 characters per post.

This is why a new language, called textspeak, has been born. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of new ways to say just about everything using abbreviations and shortcuts, such as, LOL for laughing out loud, and BTW for by the way.

Whole words have been reduced to single letters and/or numbers, so instead of typing in a sentence like, “Are you ready to go?”, you get “R u rdy 2 go?” The first sentence uses up 20 characters (this includes the spaces between the words btw) and the second “sentence” uses only 13. So you save 7 characters.

When you only get 140 you need to save as much space as you can.

Ashton Kucher is probably one of the most prolific microbloggers on the planet. If you watch Dancing with the Stars you can see the Twitter feed down along the bottom of the screen as the show progresses. Many other TV shows do this as well, like the sports channels and during sports tournaments.

Even President Barack Obama used Twitter to post to all of his followers when he was campaigning before being elected in 2008.

When someone posts on Twitter they are said to be Tweeting and their Tweets are usually telling their followers something about their personal life that may interest said follower.

The beauty of all of this is the fact that you can get real-time, up-to-date information because you can see the posts of the Tweeter immediately on your computer, phone, or other mobile device. If you are not currently signed in you can even get alerts that someone has made a post sent to your email.

There is no law saying that you have to respond with your own Tweet but the option is there nonetheless.

Microblogging on Twitter or Facebook has made communicating with family, and friends (and frankly, complete strangers) easier and more convenient due to the real-time aspect of it. Of course, you could still call on occasion. Sometimes it is nice just to hear someone else’s voice, especially if they are a loved one.

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Blogging Tips

September 2, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

Nowadays, blogging has been gaining a great deal of popularity because of the current trend of publishing every thought or opinion on the internet. Since our technology is starting to become really advanced these days, setting up a blog site isn’t that hard anymore. Starting a blog before has been a lot of work. You had to know the technical details before you could start one or hire someone to put a new blog up….and heaven help you if you ran into problems. Nowadays, practically just about anyone can start one, thanks to the revamped easy to use interface.

WordPress For Blogging

WordPress is one of the most common self-hosting blogging platforms and has completely dominated the way we currently build websites. WordPress can be as simple as imaginable or it you can add numerous addons called themes and plugins which will make your blog more complex but effective. If you’re new to wordpress you can learn these techniques…. like anything good, it will take time and study. But you can buy a domain, get it hosted, install wordpress and start blogging within a half and hour if you wanted to…. nothing fancy, just sharing of information. Once you learn a little more about wordpress and blogging you can install a new custom newspaper theme such as the one in this post and start your own directory or portal….. sky’s the limit!

Maybe you are brand spanking new at this web business and blogging. Maybe you’re completely broke and don’t have the cash for a domain or hosting. Well …..don’t be dismayed because there are several good alternatives that are completely free. You can start a Blogger blog just by going to www.blogger.com and signing up for a free account. You’ll be blogging in 10 minutes. Or you can go to www.wordpress.com and sign up for a free account. Use your keywords or a variation of your keywords when picking out a name. For instance I started a free blog at wordpress.com and its hosted by folks at wordpress.com and my site is on public domain images, so this is the url I was able to get http://publicdomainimages.wordpress.com and I talk about public domain images and materials on the blog.

Free Blogging with Blogger.com and WordPress.com

One very important fact to consider is this. Free hosted blogs like blogger and wordpress.com have complete control over your blog. If you do something they don’t like your blog will be gone in a puff of smoke. The issue is you are not in control over your blog and it can be taken away in a flash….all your hard work gone. That’s why I always recommend buying a domain, use your own hosting and install WordPress from wordpress.org or the Fantascio feature on your hosting cpanel. You’ll be in complete control and noone will take your blog offline. When I first started I set up a blog on internet marketing on Blogger…… it was about 2 years old, I was starting to get a good following and making some money….one day it was gone! Same thing with wordpress.com, I had a site set up to review and teach on how to use Xsitepro….. it was going well, over a year old and same deal. I was getting traffic, people joining my list and buying products and WHAMMM it got taken down. I still use these types of blogs but I don’t put a lot of effort, I don’t try and sell a lot of product but I use them as backlinks to my various other sites…… so far I haven’t lost any of these free blogs and I probably have about a 100 or so.

Why Should I Blog?

Exactly why do people get into blogging? There’s a lot of reasons why. Viewpoint about everything can expressed without delay. Many make use of it as a personal gateway to express their thoughts and opinions towards anything and everything that catches their attention. Marketing a business through blogs are frequently being done these days, although in my opinion not enough offline businesses are taking advantage of blogging to promote their businesses, sell more goods and get more clients. Showing what your business can offer online is a great way to get to people to make the phone ring or in the door. While other people use blogs as a profitable business…. that is, selling products or services directly through the blog.

Successful Blogging

Building a blog is just a part of becoming successful in this kind of business. It’s another story to get individuals read them. The objective is to get them to read your posts, and make them revisit regularly. In blogs, loyal readers are every important. Locations reasons why they are important. Your web blog generates more money when you’ve got more loyal readers. To help you to get that first spot in the online search engine, you’ll need loyal readers. They help you become “popular” with regards to the topic you are catering. By having loyal readers, eventually it can attract other users, thus helping you have that first spot on yahoo, google and bing results. As other people read your blogs they will link back to your blog and on the internet, links are the mother’s milk of good website traffic. You want links… you want lots of links. As a writer, these factors will help you as well. Once you get a hang of these top three factors, you will be blogging your way towards success in no time.

It’s going to be quite a challenge to keep your readers from wandering off, especially if you have used them for revenue. Constantly updating your site content can pave your way towards successful blogging. You simply won’t have a hard time writing if you discover something which you’re interested in. If a topic doesn’t get your interest, then find something that could. It’s imperative that you provide accurate information along with defining the content and tenor of your topic and having that consistency in posting. People will come back to your web site for information, only if it’s good so don’t waste your time posting dribble or nonsense …. be a blogger with substance, after all so you may as well enjoy it. You might be surprised how soon you’re going to succeed if you take these matters into account.

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Optimize WordPress Permalinks Makes Money

August 21, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

Blogging is an unbelievable way to drive traffic for your website. So, today we will take a look at blogging and how you can certainly use blogging to start driving more and more traffic. Most people conventionally look at blogging as just a blog. I tend to look at blogs a lot differently I look at blogging as a way to filter site visitors to web sites that make me a bunch of money. Today we will take a look at how to do just that.

First, you need to understand that a blog is not just a place to share your content. It takes a lot of work to get your blog to rank highly in the search engines. You need to correctly optimize it so that you can filter the site visitors the way it needs to go so you can make money on your blog. So the first thing you need to do is optimize your blog.

It is very important that you optimize your permalinks structure. A permalinks is a url for your blog post. It directs you to a specific page on your blog….or better yet it directs a visitor to a specific blog post on your blog. It really is also the urls for your blog pages. Now, customizing your permalinks is fairly easy. You just need to go to the settings and set the permalinks to a custom value. You want to add value to be the title of the blog post. If you need instructions on where to get the code simply click on the link in the settings section to get that code. Then, you want to optimize your:

blog title
blog description
blog keywords

These are important to make sure that the search engines know just what you are blog is all about. So, don’t slack when it comes to setting up your blog in the correct manner.

Now we need to talk about just what you put on your blog. It is important to optimize your blog for your visitors, for the search engines, and ultimately for conversions. You want to make certain that your blog focuses on these three things when you’re producing the content. First, is the search engines. If you set your blog up the correct way as we discussed in the last paragraph this will be easy. You just need to add a keywords you are targeting inside of your blog post. Then, you must make sure you’re writing for the visitor. You want visitors to come back to your blog over and over again. If you’re just writing for search engines the visitors are going to be able to see that and they will lose interest in your blog. So, make sure your content is easy to read and very conversational. Next, you want to write for conversions. This is as simple as telling the visitor exactly what you want them to do. If you want them to click a link tell them to click a link. If you want them to sign up for something tell them that.

Doing just these different things on your blog can truly assist you to optimize the conversions are getting out of a blog. People that tell you that you cannot make money from a blogger wrong. It is definitely easy to make money from running a blog you just need to know just what you are doing. That’s why you need to blog with a purpose and make sure that your targeting the correct things with your blog. Like I said, make sure that your blog is optimize, it’s easy to read, and it tells the reader precisely what you want them to do.

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Digi Traffic Multiplier Autoblogging Review

March 10, 2011 by scottparat 2 Comments

Well, I finally got my hands on a full version of Andy Fletcher’s Digi Traffic Multiplier wordpress plugin and I gotta say it is aweeeeesome!!!! Andy Fletcher is simply a genius for putting this autoblogging wp wplugin together. In case this is the first time you’ve heard of it, you need to know it is a new generation of autoblogging plugins for wordpress that delivers unique content from the search engines perspective and very readable and sensible material for the human reader…… almost unbelievable.

Digi Traffic Multiplier….New Breed of Autoposter

I know you probably don’t believe me, so go to a post Digi Traffic Multiplier made for me on Blackened Catfish Recipes.

If you try to find that content as it is in that blog post you will be out of luck. Somehow the plugin grabs content from releated questions and answers and “intelligently” puts them together so that it makes perfect sense. The reciepes for blackened catfish are all recipes that someone would come to the site for and can be copied and reproduced in your kitchen….and they’ll probably even taste good!

With Google’s latest slap we know that automated content that is produced by autobloggers and autoposters just won’t cut it anymore. Google deindexed many sites that were built using autoposting or autoblogging. New autoposting plugins will have to be set to mix and match content and posting will have to be random. No more 100 post blogs to get you started.

Digi Traffic Multiplier Beats The Google Slap

I don’t know how Andy knew the Google Slap was coming but the introduction of Digi Traffic Multiplier came with perfect timing. I find it hard to imagine other autoblogging solutions to match the quality and uniqueness of the content that Digi Traffic Multiplier will produce. Its really something that you need to see for yourself. I really hate to hype products up because all the hype just nauseates me. That said, its really hard not to get excited about this new generation autoblogging wordpress plugin because of the beautify content it produces. You can actually be proud of a blog that was built with Digi Traffic Multiplier!

Digi Traffic Multiplier Autoposting Basics

The Multiplier is easy to set up. There’s a set up page that uses basic information. Certain “keys” are needed and there are instructions on how to get them if needed.Like most plugins you will add some keywords and you’ll need to set up a cron job. However, this is fully explained and even a very basic novice can figure it out in 10 minutes. Support via the HelpDesk is outstanding and you’ll find some great ideas in the Digi Traffic Multiplier thread on the Warrior Forum.

You will define the “category” that the posts will go to along with telling the plugin how many posts to make per day or week. There are other variables to mess around with, all designed to give you a more complete and functional blog post.

Digi Traffic Muliplier Even Works For White Hat Marketer’s

For the most hard core white hat autoblogger you can tell the plugin to publish all posts in “draft” mode…..in other words you can go in and edit the posts and make them as perfect as you need them before publishing. A handy feature if you’re working with a super white hat blog. The content produced by this plugin is so real and unique that it is indistinguishable from a hand typed custom blog post.

I almost forgot, like most autposters, you can tell the plugin to pull in 50, 100 or any number of posts from the past and make it look like your blog has been around for a while. I’m not really sure about this strategy, but its worth a try to see how the search engines handle the new (old) content.

There are a couple of things that could be improved on. It would be nice to be able to “Spin” the blog post title and the posting times need to be able to set on a truly random time instead of once a day, twice a day, 3 times a day …..etc.

It would be very easy to set up a Q & A section in your blog and let Digi Traffic Multiplier do its thing. It would look like your blog is getting well thought out answers and questions on a daily basis….which will keep the spiders coming to your site and increasing your site in the SERPS!

Give Digi Traffic Multiplier a try today!!!!

I forgot to mention that there are several usage versions of the plugin available. There is the single domain license. You can get a multi-domain license for your personal domains and you can get a Developers Version which allows you to build blogs with the plugin and then flip the blog and plugin combined…..that’s the best deal.

Click Here for your copy today.

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Google Slap for Autobloggers But Google Loves Digi Traffic Multiplier

February 25, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

Yep….its happened again. Google does the unthinkable.

It’s incomprehensible that Google wants to deliver relevant content!

After all, everybody who uses Google search wants to type their search query and get rehashed, spun, double spun and republished content. Right? You’re seriously looking for a solution to your computer problem and up pops a double spun, upside down, thrice translated ezinearticle.

Yes, internet marketers and bloggers are mad. They’ve been duped into thinking all you have to do is republish content. In fact, they’ve been sold software and scripts that take that original article or blog post and all the words are replaced so the content is almost meaningless…..but, it has the proper keywords and it has a ton of backlinks.

You see…that was the formula of late for getting blogs and websites to rank in Google. It actually worked for a while and people made some money.

There’s actually many more tricks that were taught over the last 2 years ….. all taught in an effort to trick Google and other search engines and get on Google’s first page for your desired keywords. I believe its the combination of these tricks that triggered Google’s revolt and need to clean up its SERPS once again.

I’ve been through 3 or 4 of these major Google slaps or Google updates. Each time they update its in direct response to the need to clean up their delivery of relevant websites in response to relevant keywords. It always boils down to content.

If you’ve been scraping and spinning on a major scale… then your sites are trashed. Time to start over.

If you’ve been building an authority site composed of all unique high quality content then you’ll rise in the SERPS.

It will be interesting to see how you fare if you’ve been building hybrid sites. I’m talking about sites that are composed partly of unique content and partly scraped or spun content. There are many WordPress plugins that allow you to do autoblogging. In theory you set up the plugin and content is automatically added to your blog every day. There are many cheap low quality wordpress plugins that will build autoblogs, but these are the types of blogs that will get dropped by Google!

There are a handful of autoposting wordpress plugins that allow you to build a post from a variety of content sources. This content can be informative and useful to anyone who would land on your blog. Furthermore, you can set the frequency of autoposting. Never autopost multiple times a day and try not to autopost every day. Set a random time for once every 3 or 4 days so you’ll end up with 1 or 2 autoposts per week. Now if you add at least one unique blog post a week, 2 would be better, your blog becomes a hybrid and is composed of very usable content.

Digi Traffic Multiplier Creates Google Safe Content

Andy Fletcher has developed a WordPress plugin for autoblogging and autoposting that is far from the standard autoblogging plugins. His new plugin is called Digi Traffic Multiplier and I’m thinking it will work perfectly on blogs that focus on a tight niche because this plugin adds a unique twist to yahoo answers and keywords in questions. It actually mixes answers to specific keyword rich questions. Bottom line is that although the content comes from yahoo answers it is thoroughly and intelligently mixed. You really need to see it appreciate what it does. No hyper here but there really isn’t anything like it on the market today. Also, since the content is unique it won’t get affected by the latest Google Slap! Check out Digi Traffic Multiplier now…..(severly discounted for launch).

AutoBlogging Safely with BlogHatter

Another method for safely autoposting is with a software application called BlogHatter that will autopost to Blogger.com, WordPress.com and your own WordPress blogs. The beauty behind BlogHatter is that you can create custom material for each blog post with little effort and then schedule the posting for randomized time over any period of time. I’m amazed at the amount of customization that can be mass applied to any selection of articles whether those articles are plr, ezinearticles or custom articles that you’ve written. You can add images that are randomly linked to anything you desire. Randomize the linking and location of any keywords you chose. You can even use TheBestSpinner for spinning of the blog post. If you’re not familiar with TheBestSpinner …..well, it simply is the best spinner and doesn’t produce the garbage you traditionally find with article spinners. Simply said, this is a tool that can help you keep fresh content flowing on your blogs. I highly suggest you take a look at BlogHatter today!

AutoPress for Unique Autoposting

AutoPress is another WordPress plugin that can be used for creating completely unique blog posts while autoposting or autoblogging at the same time. In my opinion this plugin far exceeds the capability of WpRobot which has become the standard for autoblogging but will create a huge footprint and is more than likely the cause of many abusive autoposting blogs. WpRobot doesn’t have the flexibility of AutoPress and I know the developer of Autopress, he has a lot of cool things in store for for AutoPress over the next year.

BlogSuccess Teaches Building Authority Sites

Finally for the purist I have to recommend BlogSuccess with Jack Humphrey. Jack has been promoting the authority site or authority blog for 5 yars or more. If you would have been concentrating your efforts on one or 2 blogs for the last 5 years chances are you’d be financially independent right now. Jack teaches you everything you need to know regarding Authority Sites ….maybe its time you got serious and started looking long term. Jack probably forgot more about blogging than most people know. In fact, Jack Humphrey started using WordPress before the world knew what WordPress was. His knowledge and the knowledge of his team surpasses anyone teaching how to blog. Besides being one of the good guys in internet marketing, Jack is someone who will teach you how to make money by blogging. Blogsuccess is his brain child and if you want the freedom blogging can bring I urge you to invest in his membership today! Click Here Now!

Let me end with saying that Google is ever changing and reacting to the shortcuts we try to take…. that will never stop. You can keep playing the game of “Beat Google” but you will never ultimately win. Take a look at some of the solutions I revealed above and use them to build a long lasting, money making blog so you can rest in peace each night without the worry of your blog dropping out of site!

Filed Under: AutoBlogging Tagged With: autoblogging, autoposting, AutoPress, BlogHatter, BlogSuccess, Jack Humphrey

What Is Blogging?

January 25, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

The internet hasn’t been around all that long, but it has quickly become a part of our daily lives. Even if we don’t go online every day, you can bet that the people and businesses we deal with do go online every day. But regardless of who is going online or why, it all comes down to one thing: communication. One of the most popular forms of this is the blog. But what is blogging? That’s a straightforward question, so let’s take a look at the answer.

The word ‘blog’ derives it name from a combination of the words ‘web log’. When they first started, that’s exactly what they were. Most people would use them as a form of an online journal of their daily lives, and many of them would only share their blogs with family and friends. Then came what are commonly called mommy blogs. These were blogs typically started by stay at home moms to communicate with other moms, but they also added some elements of making money to their blogs. Next were the flat-out money making blogs which tend to be more contrived; with each post being designed to maximize the revenue of the blog.

So, when someone asks “what is blogging?”, the best answer is “it depends”. That’s because each type of blog requires a different approach. However, there are several similarities between all blogs. Updating your blog on a regular basis, making it look good, and driving traffic to it are a few of the things most blogs have in common.

One of the best things about blogs is that you can start blogging for free. The WordPress and Blogger platforms are just two of the services that allow you to easily set up a blog and to do so for no cost at all. However, you will have to host your blog on their servers, and your domain name will contain “blogger” or “wordpress” as part of it. If you have a blog that’s meant for family and friends, then this should be okay. However, if you plan on making money with your blog, then you need to buy your own domain name and hosting.

To get started, figure out what you want your blog to be about. Once that’s done, you can think of a name for your blog. The next step is to go to whichever blogging site you want to try (Blogger, WordPress, etc.) and sign up for an account. If someone else already has used the same name for their blog (when using the free option), you will have to come up with a different name.

Now you’re ready to start posting to your blog. This is usually done by logging into your blogging account and then clicking on “new post”. Write your post, then click “submit”. There you go! You have just made your first post. Now if some asks you what is blogging, you can say it’s an easy way to have your own site online.

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Simple Tips For Creating A Blog

January 21, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

So, you have been thinking about creating a blog, but aren’t sure where to start. That’s okay, this article will fill you in on what you need to know before you get started. The good news is that blogs are very easy to set up, and you can put up a basic blog in a fairly short amount of time. Here some basic tips to get you on the path to blogging success.

1. Decide what type of blog you want to have. Will it be a personal blog that is meant to be read by your family and friends? Will it be blog about one of your favorite hobbies? Or will the purpose of it be to make money? Know the kind of blog you’ll have will determine a lot of the other things you need to do.

2. Pick a topic. Once you know what type of blog you’ll have, you need to narrow it down to a more specific topic. Now, if this is just for family and friends, then it doesn’t matter all that much as you won’t be as concerned with how much traffic you get to your blog. If it’s a blog about a hobby, then you can keep it more general, or you can blog about a specific aspect of the hobby. However, if you will be creating a blog to make money, then you need to be more careful about the topic you choose.

3. Research. Assuming you are interested in making money with your blog, you need to start with research. First, you need to research who your target audience is; how many people are part of your target audience, what their problems are, what solutions they’re looking for, and how much they are willing to pay to solve their problems. Second, you need to research the best keywords for your blog. There are a few free keyword tools that should give you enough information to get started. However, it may be a good idea to find some paid keyword tools if you want to see even better results.

4. Keep your visitors in mind. This can be hard to do when you’re the one who’s creating a blog, but you have to do your best. Picture what your visitor sees when they first come to your blog. Are the colors to strong? Too dull? How are the graphics? Is everything laid out in a logical and intuitive manner? Are the posts easy to read? All of these things, and more, will make a big difference to your visitors. Needless to say, if they don’t like what they see, they will go to someone else’s blog. Therefore, it makes more sense to try to look at your blog through the eyes of your visitors.

5. Be yourself. What really keeps people coming back to a blog? In a word: personality. So, go ahead and let yourself come through in your posts. Some people may not like, but the ones that do could become some of your biggest fans, and will start recommending your blog to other people.

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: Blogger, Blogging, create blog

Best Blogging Advice

January 19, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

Blogs have been around for a while. And even though they have gone through some changes, they are still as popular as ever, if not more so. This may because it’s so simple to get started with blogging, because there are some good blogging platforms, or because people have figure out ways to make money with blogs. Whatever the reason for their continuing popularity, there is still a strong need for good blogging advice.

The first bit of blogging advice is to just do it. Yep, that’s it! Okay, what that really means is that there is no reason not to get started. There are several ways you can test the blogging waters for free; namely Blogger and WordPress. Both of these platforms give you plenty of options for customizing the appearance of your blog, and they make it easy to get up and running. Blogger allows some commercial content (such as AdSense), while WordPress doesn’t allow it if you host your blog using a free website address through their hosting. Which leads to the next bit of advice…

Get a domain name and paid hosting as soon as you can. If you already have them, then you don’t have to use the free address and hosting, and can set up your blog directly on your own domain name. Now, don’t freak out. You can get good hosting for around $10 a month, and a domain name usually costs around $10 per year. However, you can often find deals that bring the cost down by quite a bit. That being said, you also need to look at what you get for your money. For example, be sure your hosting package has everything you need.

You will also need to think about the topic of your blog. If you just want it to be for friends and family, then you blog about the events of your day, without giving it much thought. However if you are interested in making money with your blog, then you need to have a more narrow focus.

Whichever type of blog you decide to have, it will require you to update on a regular basis. The more often you post to it, the stronger your following will be; whether it’s family and friends, or potential customers. Posting every day or two is best, but once a week should be okay in most cases. Because you will have to update it often, it’s a good idea to select a topic that interests you. Otherwise it will become too much of a chore, and you will soon stop updating.

So, how do you make money with a blog? The two main ways are through Google AdSense and selling affiliate products. The best bit of blogging advice for making money with a blog is to treat it like a business. This means you need to invest some time and a little money to get it to start producing serious income for you. The good news is that blogging is pretty low maintenance and the costs for running it are very low.

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Blogging Advice

January 18, 2011 by scottparat Leave a Comment

There was a time when blogs were the “latest and greatest” thing online. While they may not get as much media attention as social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, blogs are still as popular as ever. The reasons for starting a blog may vary, but everybody can benefit from good blogging advice, regardless of how new or experienced they may be. The good news is that blogging is fairly easy to learn, but at the same time, there are always ways to improve. With that in mind, here some things that will help you get the most from your blogging efforts.

1. Get started for free. Yes, it is true that you can start blogging for no cost at all. WordPress and Blogger are just two of the more popular blogging platforms that you can use for free. This is a great way to start learning what blogging is all about. You can select various themes, customize it, and add plug-ins to give your blog added functionality. These are all things you should eventually know how to do. But…

2. Free is an option, but not the best option. You shouldn’t stick with the free option forever, especially if you are going to use you blog to make money. The problem with the no cost option is that you will be hosting your blog on their server. And that means they can close down your blog at any time for any reason. If you follow the rules, they probably won’t, but you should be aware that it can and does happen. You can take your chances if you will just be sharing your blog with family and friends, but it is essential to get your own domain name and hosting if you plan on using it for business purposes.

3. Choosing a topic is important. This bit of blogging advice is the most important for money-making sites. You need to take time researching a topic and finding out about your target audience. Keyword research is the bare minimum you need to do. But the more time you invest up front, the more your potential return will be. Consider every aspect of your blog and how your visitors are likely to respond. This step will be much easier if you are building a personal blog as you can write about almost anything; your thoughts, experiences, rants and raves are all fair game.

4. Post frequently. It’s a safe assumption that you want to start a blog so other people will read it. And if people don’t see new content when they check in, they will eventually stop coming back. Posting once every day or two should keep things fresh enough for most of your visitors. If you post less often than once a week, then you will have a very hard time getting people interested in coming back. So, the best blogging advice for this tip is to post as often as you can, but to not wait too long between posts.

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Black Plugins for Blog Hatter Review

November 29, 2010 by scottparat Leave a Comment

There are so many autoblogging systems and plugins today…..it’s really hard making sense of them and its hard trying to learn how to use them all.

A fellow by the name of Donato is the genius behind an autoblogging system the posts to both WordPress Blogs and Blogger Blogs called Blog Hatter 3 the Pro Version. He’s developed a new system, called plugins, for enhancing Blog Hatter and adding new functionalities to BlogHatter. This new system is called Black “Plugins”

He has 3 new plugins out and they are called:

“The Ezine Reader” ….. automatically adds content to blogs from EzineArticles.com

The “Image Manipulator Plugin” …..this is unbelievable, it automatically puts images in your posts

“Y Tabs Plugin” ….automatically creates tags using yahoo, and turns those tags into links.

This is an awesome piece of software and I wrote a review for Blog Hatter and the new Black Plugin system. Check out my BlogHatter Review below:

Hi Donato

I had to drop you a quick note to let you know how awesome I think Blog Hatter 3, the Pro Version, is along with the new Blackhat Plugins! In fact, I’m going to copy and paste this as a Reviw in my blog! Since I was a user of the original version I was really impressed with the new version of Bloghatter….there are so many more features and the new Black Plugin System brings Blog Hatter to the top of the autoblogging pile.

Even though I thought Bloghatter was a kind of a secret autoblogging machine for creating and maintaining autoblogs…especially for Blogger Blogs, I would have liked to have seen more automation. Upon checking out your new Black Plugins for Blog Hatter my wish has come true!

The beauty of Blog Hatter and the new Black Plugins is not only what they do but that they are newbie compatible That is, just about anyone can start building autoblogs, actually they will be building autoblog farms or link farms in no time. I’m going to send an email to my list….encouraging them to give your free version try because I know many people are intimidated by some of the more complicated plugins. Blog Hatter and the Black Plugins are dead simple to use. So if you’re new to this stuff don’t be afrain to give it a go!

The newly developed Plugin System for Blog Hatter will undoubtedly take BlogHatter to new levels and allow for constant improvements along with new features. So Bloghatter will never die like some of the systems I’ve used.

“The Ezine Reader” the Black Plugin for importing articles blew me away. Why you ask? Because it can pull articles that were written in EzineArticles.com! I don’t know of any autoblogging systems that can use articles that were published in www.ezinearticles.com. Not only can I schedule posts but I can automatically add tags! I know it can also pull articles from ArticleBase.com and I assume you will be adding more. But just the fact that I can automatically add articles is a big plus!

One of the features that I really liked with the first versions of Blog Hatter was the ability to grab images from the internet and place them in my posts….all from within the program. The new “Image Manipulator Plugin” is absolutely the coolest feature of Blog Hatter! It searches the interent, by keyword, for an image…..places it in your blog (you can align it “left, center or right” and the text flows around it making for beautiful formatting….and you can automatically have BlogHatter apply a list of links to each picture! I know how powerful that can be because people will click on images. Dude…this is so awesome it just blows me away! Of course there are other features to the Blackhat Image plugin….but I won’t disclose the secrets

Actually, I gotta say that the ability to create an “Images Miniblog“….all automatically, is beyond awesome. Simply said, you can create a “Picture Blog” or “Image Blog” Same deal, images are all linked and posted automatically. I’ve used somewhere around 10 or more plugins and scripts for autoposting and no one….no one has done what you have! I think the image plugin along could be worth the cost of your entire Blog Hatter software. The ability to automatically add images to posts will make your blogs appear as if someone labored by hand, day and night, making posts.

Not to be left out is the “Y Tags Plugin“. I know it stands for Yahoo Tags Plugin and it automatically adds tags to your posts, giving you the option to turn those tags within the posts to links. It doesn’t matter what type of links, they can be affiliate links, page links…any links. I also like having the ability to tell Y Tags how many links to make in each post. One of my problems with Blogger Blogs was that I just didn’t have time to add clickable links in each post….Y Tags has solved that problem! Just one more way I might be able to make a little more money with Blog Hatter

Finally, I’m very impressed with your pricing. Internet Marketing people are tired of getting ripped off and paying outragious prices for software and scripts. You’ve made these affordable to everyone …..I know this will come back to you many fold!

Thank you for your support and this great autoblogging system. I would highly recommend anyone to pick up a copy and just start making a couple of autoblogs each week. Before long, one could easily build a large system of autoblogs which will send traffic to their money blogs.

Sorry for making this so long. Its exciting to be able to use such a unique and effective product, therefore, its really hard to keep my comments to a few lines!

Thanks again,

Scott

http://www.Desktop-Wealth.com/blog

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