Well, let's start it off with posting on your blog. As you people may or may not know, blogspot allows anyone with a registered account to make their own blog website. It can be used for wonderful things, though it's usually only used to make money. But in this case, we'll be talking about how not to use it for money.
The first thing to know when blogging, is what to blog about. This is extremely important, for your website and audience alike will dictate whether or not you will stick around for more posts. It is the entire key point to blogging. And by now you should know blogging is one step below writing a book. (a book no one will read) So it's vital that you reason with yourself to post entries that are worth while for everyone! Because if you post useless crap no one will want to read (see, above) or you are post giant mountains of text, no one will follow and stay following you. Although there are some work arounds to this, such as giving videos here and there, and posting pictures. (people love pictures) But the fact remains, you need to know what to post, and when to post it.
"OK", you say. "But I still don't know what to think of!"
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Well think no more. The easiest solution to being creative with your mad blogging skillz is simply to preach to the masses. Imagine you are a crazed hobo that has seen too many 2012 conspiracies. What would you do to sway people? Exactly! You would start rambling off like the mad man you are until you would get your ass hauled off to jail. That concept is the same concept behind blogging! Well not quiet, but that is your only bet.
So it's simple; Think of advice and ideas you've learned from your past experiences and use them for blogging! This really is the force behind many blogs. Once you know this, thinking of what to blog about will be a thing of the past!
"Hey wait!" you say. "But I don't know any conspiracy theories!"
This is simple. Just find something you know the most about, and start rambling off about it! It's really that simple. Say you are an ex marine from Iraq. What can you possibly think to post about? Exactly that. But if you are an ex marine who also owns a bakery, you could talk about your days in the dessert! (great pun, I know) The possibilities here are endless. You just need a small concept to expand upon. Take this post for example. I first thought what I should post about. Then I realized I should make a post to help others know what to post about! That or post about helpful tips, which everyone loves.
But be sure to follow some tips when you post.
1. Is it relevant to my blog interests? -By this, I mean, will it be acepted by your audience. For example, posting a joke in a joke blog is fine, but posting a joke in a mourning blog is bad. (in most cases)
2. Does it make sense? (Alternitavely, can people understand what the hell you're talking about) -this one speaks for itself. Can you write about something, and still convey the message across? In most cases, this should be easy, as writers don't usually go off topic on their ramblings.
3. Will people actually read it? -This is a big one. Will your readers be inclined to read the giant mountain of text you have posted? If you see one giant wall of text, try to spruce it up a little. Add a couple pictures here and there. Change the font types around. Maybe interject some jokes in between. Or make some letters bigger than others.
4.(optional) Is it optimized? -Now by this I mean, do your topics and pictures go together in a cohesive manner. Does the whole post relate to itself? Although this is more of a writing rule than a posting rule, every E-writer should follow it. Make sure what ever you have written all adds up. Make sure there is a beginning, and a thourough ending. And on a side note, you may also want to look into keywords. If you can get your blog on google search (somehow), then you should know by now that you can get more viewers with simple keywords. Although there are endless ways to optimize your blog to garner more views, the simpliest ways are to talk about things relating to key words to draw more viewers in (like such). Not always suggested, but you can still make relations instead. And also be sure to add important keywords, such as sex, google, ebay, yahoo.com, music, mapquest, google.com, food, travel, hotmail, computer, yahoo, advertising, weather, msn. But ofcourse, those keywords won't actually get you any viewers, as there are other websites dedicated to actually selling those terms to others that want to be in the top ten of the search displays (yeah, they actually do buy and sell keywords)
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So after posting your post, you should now know what to do with yourself while you wait. Well, while I remember to think of what to talk about next, you should clean your mouse and keyboard with alcohol you dirty person.
Getting back on point now that I remember what to talk about, you should now need to organize your blog. This will be brief, as there are vast articles written on this very subject. You should basically learn a bit of HTML, webpage management, and Page Stat management. Once you know those things, you can freely interpret the data your blog gives you however you like.
If you are too lazy to learn those, simply keep posting. It's not like bloggers know anything anyways. But one thing I stress, is getting adsense, or other third party ads.
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What ads do for your blog, is make it to where the company advertising gets high amounts of traffic for little work (but lotsa pay). Once you get adsense, you can basically advertiste their ads in your blog, while still making a small sum of it. It may sound one sided ( and it is), but you will be earning money one way or another through simply rambling on. Isn't that great? One people people have about this, is that they wonder why no one ever visits their blog.
So say you have a nice blog going, but you have no page views. Well one thing you need to do is advertise your own site. I'm not getting into that here, though, as advertising is another world of its own. What you do need to be doing, is posting high quality, original content posts.
Yes, I said it. OC. This is what you need. WIth Original Content, you have a higher chance of gathering a better follower base, and a slimmer chance of getting banned (because I know some of you only make blogs to get money, which is a big no no)
If you make high content and Original Content blogs, you will have a less likely chance of being suspected of anything. Now this is all legal, mind you, so you shouldn't be suspected in the first place. But some of my friends are always paranoid, and think just because they are getting page views, they are doing something illegal. If you are breaking the rules, you'll probably be banned either way for being a moron. But if you aren't breaking the rules, and yet you have a low quality blog, you will be more likely suspected of anything as apposed to the latter.
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Some people say, "But mister person!" "You'll still get suspected if you have high CTR!"
Untrue. Now I don't really care to know what CTR is, but I would imagine it has to do with clicking and page views. The more clicking and page views you have, the more CTR you have. And the more CTR you have, the more money a click is worth. I think. Whatever the case, CTR isn't necessarily bad. It's just that bloggers with high CTR and low post counts are more likely scammers and frauds then bloggers that have high CTR and high postings. If you have high CTR and low posts, well, something bad is going on. In anycase, always have high content. It helps everyone in the community. Even Google.
Oh, and if you notice you have low CTR, do what google says, and move your ads around. The more open and noticable your ads are, the more Google will be inclined to help you. Just a reminder from them to me to you.
And don't forget to always give back to the community, and also post daily. And also also shape your blog around your audience, not the other way around.
And I forgot the rest of what I was talking about, so good luck everyone! And cheers!
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