Blogs Are Not Journalism, But They're Changing It
- Steve
Rubel
To say a blog is journalism is like saying web pages are journalism.
- Dana Blankenhorn
1. Focus: Do not write blogs on just about anything (the me-too
stuff). Choose your niche that you care about or something that you want
to benefit in terms of money, jobs, contracts etc.
2. Be an expert in your niche: Make sure you
cover all the issues and FAQs thoroughly in your niche.
3. Write to be scanned and read: If you have
long posts, use sub headings, use keywords in subheadings.
4. Enhance your post: Add visuals in the form of
blockquotes, videos, charts, graphs and photos
5. Work at becoming an expert in your trade and
also a specialist in your topic.
6. Write a timeless post: e.g. A compilation of
resources for your niche, a study on the state of your niche (what's wrong
with it, who are the top players, who are the top experts etc.; take some
interviews with top players and experts
7. Promote your writing everywhere - on the net
and in the real world.
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What is
Blogging?
Blogs in Plain English
A Wikipedia Definition:
A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but
occasionally spelled web log or weblog)
is a web-based publication consisting
primarily of periodic articles
(normally in reverse chronological order)
Pew Internet Blogging Report
How to Blog
Step #1 : Decide what you want to blog about
Step #2 : Create your own blog
Step #3 : Promote your blog
Step #4: Drive Traffic to your Website
Step #5 : Monitor your blog
Step #6 : Learn from the best blogs and improve
Step #7 : Keep posting good stuff frequently
Resources for Bloggers on Bighow
Bighow Handbook to Online
Journalism
Ultimate blogging and reporting tool list
Blogging guide
Blogging and Online Journalism Glossary
Great Guides to Effective blogging
Blogging life -
18 lessons I learnt as a blogger [Darren Rowse]
Blog writing -
How to write a blog post [Seth Godin]
Blog post headlines -
10 Surefire Headline Formulas
Blogging style guide -
Telegrapg blogging style guide
Google is god -
How to create a Google-friendly blog
Search engine friendly -
Optimize your blog for search engines
Blog traffic tips -
21 traffic triggers for social media marketing (copyblogger)
Blog traffic tips -
How to drive traffic to your blog [Seth Godin]
RSS subscribers tips -
How to increase rss subscribers
RSS subscribers tips-
How We Took a Blog From 0 to 2000 Subscribers in just 12 Days?
Blog promotion tips-
The 120
Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog [Guy Kawasaki]
Link generation tips- 101
Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006-Seobook
Blog promotion tips-
Promoting your blog through Google Adwords - The Mother of All Google
AdWords Tips
Online Reputation Management - Marketing Pilgrim's Online Reputation
Monitoring Beginner's Guide
How to Treat your Blog like a Business
Multi-author group blogs
35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs
Legal Guides for Bloggers
The EFF legal guide
for Bloggers Main Page
The EFF Overview of
Legal Liability Issues FAQ
A Technical Guide to Anonymous Blogging
Handbook for
Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
How to
Blog Safely About Work and Anything Else
20 Law-Related Questions Every Blogger Should Know
Create a group blog
Group blogs are blogs where multiple authors contribute articles, links
and opinions on a niche topic, and thus eventually becoming a destination.
The easiest way to create a group blog is to allow people to regsiter and
post on your blog.
Examples of great group blogs:
BoingBoing
Huffington Post In 4 years,
it has become the foremost community of liberal bloggers
Dailykos The original group blog for
liberal bloggers
Corante On New Media issues
Worldchanging
Blogcritics Music, book, movie and
cultural criticism
Metafilter The best group blog
there can be - on all topics - to maintain quality levels, Metafilter
charges $5 as entry fees so users feel responsible for their participation
Sources of Quality Blogging and Internet Marketing Advice
Problogger (Darren Rowse)
Seobook (Aaron Wall)
Seomoz (Rand Fishkin)
Copyblogger (Brian Clark)
Chris Garrett
Tony Hung
Performancing Group Blog
Blogherald
Top Forums for bloggers
Webmasterworld
Crea8asite
Digitalpoint forums
Promoting
Your Blog Posts on Social Media Sites
The thing about social news sites is you must particip[ate frequently and
make some friends, building a reputation and network on these sites and thus
making sure more users find your posts rate-worthy.
Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using
AddThis
Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using
ShareThis
Digg - For stuff that geeks linke -
gadgets, girls, movies, videos and all things sensational
Del.icio.us - For useful how-to,
top 10 type posts
Reddit For opinions and analysis
type articles and great inforgraphics
Stumbleupon General purpose
news
Hacker News - For quality
news about tech business
Fark - For funny, interesting news
Top 17 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) -Tropicalseo
20 Do-Follow social bookmarking sites that actually work
The Social Media
Manual: Read Before You Play
Top 10
Events for Bloggers
BarCamp - There are barcmap events
for different cities across the world.
BlogHer
Conference - For women bloggers
BlogTalk - European conference
Blog World & New Media Expo
Gnomedex
International Conference on Weblogs and
Social Media
New Media Expo
Podcamp - For Podcasters
Postiecon - from PayPerpost
SobCon
Blog Awards
Bloggerschoiceawards
Bloggyies
BestofBloggs
