Effective Blogging And You.
Posted on 25. May, 2008 by Benjamin Patton in Blogging Tips
So often I find myself reading someone else’s blog and I feel like they just are not getting the point across in a manner suitable for the content. Many bloggers have utilized many different methods in the past years to put their stamp on the blogosphere. Today I am going to elaborate on a few mistakes many bloggers are still making in hopes of helping you drive that coveted content bus to the bank.
The Thesaurus and Dictionary. Yea who would of thought I know, but you can find them respectively through google on the world wide web. Use them. Please learn the use of a synonym. And if you don’t have firefox and just can not spell, hit the dictionary up. These two wonderful resources will help to spice up your content while making it easier to read. To many posts in the blogosphere are just chock full of random spelling variations of the same word, or worse yet using the same adjective to describe nearly everything they have ever written. These two alone will add immense depth.
Its already been hashed to death, but for the sake of acadameia I will say it one more time. Research your topic and have a clue before posting. You can see so many posts that appear to be written from a sketchy point of knowledge. All it takes is the reader to realize that your wasting their time just for stats points or money. This would be considered a cardinal sin in blogging and once you set this ship to sail your pretty much doomed to a decline in popularity with your readers. Passion is great but make sure you are armed with the sword of knowledge. Passion alone will not keep people coming back.
Whatever you do please avoid making a blog just to share your journey to riches with the world. It has been done, and more than likely it will be just as disenfranchising as all the others before you. Instead you could be blogging about what is hot in the blogosphere and capitalizing on it with a personal twist. Anything is going to be a bigger hit than another hobbit on his journey.
I find that if I do not already have a draft post ready from a previous brainstorm session that google news usually can provide me with some sort of idea as to something people will appreciate reading about. The biggest tip for any blogger new or old that I coudld give is to just not publish everything you write. I try to save atleast 25% of what I think would be my greatest posts. Thats right keep some in the bank. You may need to skip a day or just not have a suitable topic come to mind at a later date.
Another option is to use a trackback to another blog to offer up more insight on the same topic. Something I have not really seen done lately is this same method but then basicly tearing apart the post from another point of view. Read that as your controversy post. They are very good to gather new readers and keep old ones riveted. Keep in mind that if you bite off more than you can chew that you may lose the bet and your readers. Make sure to procede cautiously.
I am going to cut this post a little shorter than I usually do to leave open a part two. I am interested in hearing your opinions on some of these ideas; as well as, hearing new ideas from you.
*This post was originally written by me as a guest post for TheUniversitykid.com I have added it here for those that did not get a chance to read it; as well as, to add it to the archives.
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Research is important…I have the most fun “researching” for best of stupid, lol. A lot of the content on my other blogs are from my experience or I lump together a lot of the things I’ve learned before.
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I do notice those blogs a lot. I am glad to know I am not one of them. Research is very important. For what I consider my good posts I research. Now in the MMO niche, sometimes there is not much research tp be done before you write the post. As in this. You did research though, your research was experience. I want to add something else, but it would take too long.
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As a new blogger, I cannot complete a good content without doing a research first. It takes me half day to complete a post, that includes all the research and writings. The online dictionary and thesaurus are very helpful to me.
By the way Ben, is it Thesauras or Thesaurus?
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Eric, you might want to try shortening your posts a little, or maybe talk about something easy at first. It may be hard to do research, and that may take a long time. For me it just came easily, but I understand that is is a little hard at first.