[ 21.02.2008 | sumberide.com ]
Blogs are now a dime a dozen, and bloggers need to make their blog posts stand out. Developing a blog following is not as easy as it once was. Learn how to write blog posts that attract readers and retain their attention. Follow these guidelines to cultivate readers…
1. Draw Attention
Use titles to attract the reader’s attention to the blog post. The title should mimic newspaper headlines and generate interest in the blog post. The title can be controversial, but not to the extent of being misleading. Use action words in the title. Bloggers will often come up with a handful of potential titles for blog posts, and then settle on the title that is best suited to a particular blog post.
2. Deliver
Having a catchy title, but following it with content that fails to deliver, will not endear you to your readers. The blog content must deliver what is promised in the blog title, or readers will unsubscribe and stop reading. When deciding on a blog title, do not stray too far from the content, as the two are intricately related — the title will attract the reader’s attention, but the content must then live up to expectations… or the blogger’s reputation will suffer.
3. Accurate
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[ 12.02.2008 | sumberide.com ]
Ready to start blogging, but don’t know where to start? Try WordPress.
WordPress is an open source blogging software tool which affords pretty much anybody with basic computer skills to blog their way to stardom! Well, maybe not to stardom, but it an easy to use, easy to learn content management system…and it’s FREE!
I’ll get into some of the features and benefits in a second, but here’s some steps and considerations you want to take first.
1. Do you want to tag your blog onto your existing site or setup a new domain name?
There are two schools of thought on this one and both are valid. Tagging it on to your existing site most certainly has it’s benefits such as just having one set of logins to remember. It can get a bit tricky with 404 errors if you don’t know what your doing in the configuration stage, and you may lose some of the external linking benefits if you’re looking to increase your rankings on the search engines.
2. Do you want your blog to match your existing website’s look and feel?
Designing a customized blog with a new look and feel is basically easy to learn and there is a ton of support out there for even the novice PHP and CSS code writer. If you don’t have the time, or have no hair left to pull out after designing and managing your existing site, you may consider outsourcing your blog design. Costs on that can range from $50 to several thousand dollars depending upon the sophistication of your blog’s functionality. Check out http://web30technology.com for some ideas and links to themes and plug-ins.
3. What is the purpose of your blog?
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[ 5.02.2008 | sumberide.com ]
eBay is a one-stop solution to anyone who wants to make money online. Whether you just selling a few unwanted items from around your house or your want to develop a work from home business, eBay remove many of the obstacles for you. Not many other websites can help you drive targeted traffic towards your sales, process the order on your behalf and accept payment though PayPal. All you need to do then is dispatch the item to your winning bidder.
And let’s not forget the biggest advantage over selling on eBay. The majority of users have money in their hand just waiting to find the right item.
So if eBay’s so great why would you want to drive traffic AWAY from your auctions?
Well there are a few reasons why you’d be better off selling from your own website, rather than though eBay. Firstly & most importantly, think of all the listing fees & final value fees you could save if everything you sold on eBay you could sell on your own website. Personally it would save me thousands of dollars per year alone in listing fees.
Secondly, you’ll be protecting yourself from eBay policy change. Imagine you were selling thousands of eBooks weekly and then suddenly eBay policy changed to prevent any eBook listings.
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