Entries for the ‘3. Blogging Tips’ Category

At the outset, let me request you not to get into a negative mindset after reading the title of the post. It is not like all bloggers indulge themselves into unethical blogging practices or methods to get fame, visibility or money. However, I have seen a few of them getting into wrong ways of doing things primarily with the intention of making it big in a very short time. I will not cite any examples here in this post to avoid controversies.

Things those are unethical in my view

#1 Public bashing and defaming: Publicly abusing others – especially the rich and famous people, including bloggers - is a way of getting into shortlived fame via sensational means. In press terms, this is called yellow journalism - not sure if we can term it ‘yellow blogging’ when it happens in the blogosphere.
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Not all popular blogs are originating from English speaking countries - nor are the readers themselves. So if you have a great English blog (other languages as well!) and you want to increase the reach of the same, what would you do? Simple! Provide translation tools and helper tools to read out the content. I am talking about two such services in this short post.

ConveyThis - Language translation widget

This is an amazing little widget that provides a button (and a language dropdown box) to translate the content of the current page to your language of choice. This internally uses translators like Google Language Tools and Yahoo! Babel Fish to carry out the translation on the fly and display your blog or website in the target language.
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Google Webmaster Tools is one of the very first services that every blogger and webmaster should sign up for, as soon as the blog is launched! However, most people do not give enough importance to this tool once the sitemap is submitted and robot.txt verified.

Let me explain here a couple of important pages in the Google Webmaster Tools that provide insights into the popularity and visibility of your content (blog posts, pages, other services etc). Then we will quickly cover a few tips to improve the situation. Please note that I will not be talking too much about Search Engine Optimization or where to find hot keywords etc.
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Have you ever faced a situation where you don’t have enough topics to write on your blog? Or even worse - you have a topic in mind, but don’t have enough stock information to get started and expand it into a decent post. And finally the worst scenario - there’s no motivation or drive (internal or external) to continue posting!

If the above description explains your situation, you are suffering from what is known as the ‘writer’s block’. I had written a short post sometime back on using the skribit widget to get rid of writer’s block. In this post I would like to share some methods that I personally use to keep writing continuously - well, almost.
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