The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

The 5 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog articleArticle content decides it all. Your articles decide the audience, their responses & their credits. When you create an article there are ten ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. What needs to be done before taking pen on the paper is really important to know because it answers how you can write an article more effectively.
Almost every writer likes to put the best content for the readers & a little pondering before putting their fingers on the keyboard can produce best results. Brainstorms, outlines, and research are all part of the planning and preparation steps that many writers work through before they sit down to actually string words together. But there are ten important questions that every writer must ask before creating that first draft & publishing it.



1. Knowing & attracting your Audience  


The 5 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Rather than focusing your topic you can focus your audience. This is a tradeoff between these two. You identify a motivated audience, cater your blog articles specifically to them, and then can select anything that interests you that will interest that audience too.



2. Decide on an identified, focused subject 

The 5 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Identifying the right key for the lock is the art of subject identification. Audiences love when you are ultra-specific in your blog goal and articulate it well. It works especially well when you identify a pressing need.


3. The Power of Titles 

Any article is first identified by the title. The title should be appropriate & put the major idea of the content. The title has the ability make or break a blog post. It impacts how (and if) it’s found in search engines and social bookmarking sites, it influences whether people visit your blog in News Readers, it affects whether people leave a comment and is vital in whether people actually read what you have to say.


4. Good Images conveys it All 

Image gives life to simple words on the paper & every image you use must say something related to the topic. This technique can be used for providing an additional point of interest in your posts. I do use images in every post on this blog but find that when I do that those clicking through on the post in my feed reader increases. Images have the power to communicate in ways that words cannot - use them.


5. Be Original & Creative

The 5 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Try to speak your own words. Come up with your own content. It helps giving readers an assurance that they reading a fresh & new content. They have got something new. You can think something unique to say and say it in a creative and fresh way. Say what everyone else is saying in the same way that everyone else is saying it and you’re almost guaranteed of being largely ignored. Stick away from any type of copyright infringement.



6. The Presentation stands for 50% of all your work 

The 5 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Many times online readers tend to scan content & images on the website. As a result if you place visual cues in your posts that draw their eye to important points you’ll find people stick with you longer into your posts. Think like what you will like if you visit a website that is, think like the reader’s point of view & it will help you how to present the things more simply & beautifully.


7. Work on content organization & structure 

A single well written list post can launch a blog to great heights in the blogosphere. While the prolific nature of lists in the blogosphere can also mean your lists get ignored, but listing the thing helps keep your article more organized. I find that when writing the same content as a list that you write as an essay like article the list will almost always get more attention. They easily caught the attention of eye & let readers to stick to the content until they catch the idea behind them.


8. Style of your writing 

The 5 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

There can be some difference in the tone of your writing that could not match with what readers want. A fiction piece will have an altogether different tone than a well-researched article. The language you choose, and the styles in which you write are largely directed by your target readership. Always pick a up a tone & style that is simple, clear & understandable.


9. Publishing & Socializing on a Right Platform

Few pieces of writing are publishable across different formats. You should at least have a general idea of the final format; especially be aware of whether your piece is headed for print versus electronic publication. For choosing the right socializing platform for your article after publishing it, you need to think on the need & effect of the article content on the set of readers & audience. Once you understand that, socialize it across suitable platforms.


10. Impact of the Article

Almost every writer wants to make readers feel something. It is important to think the impact of your article on the readers. What do you want your readers to feel? Hope? Anger? Joy? Controversies? Is your article is imparting knowledge? Is it going to affect a specific set of people thinking? Writing informs, entertains, and sells. It intrigues, educates, and inspires. It’s imperative to know what impact your work will have on readers. Otherwise, it may end up having no impact at all. It is always to look up the results of what you are planning to do.


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"Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Element type "meta" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>""

This an example of Error Message you often had encountered while playing with your blog templates. This mostly occurs because of the < and > elements in the code which is actually different for XML parsers (SAX or DOM).
So, HERE is the 1 Click solution for Parsing(Convert) the HTML, XML & Adsense Code (into parsers friendly code).
 

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Find your website/blog Page Ranks(free)

According to Wikipedia.com
 
PageRank is a family of algorithms for assigning numerical weightings to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a search engine. Its properties are much discussed by search engine optimization (SEO) experts. The popular search engine Google to help determine a page's relevance or importance uses the PageRank system. Googles founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed it while at Stanford University in 1998.

Here you can find the Page Rank of your blogs & websites.


Google describes PageRank:
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".


Find your blog/website Page Rank



Your domain/blog/website:




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Increase Blog Traffic: Submit your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

Search engine results makes all the differenceThe Primary Step in Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is submitting(or more specifically registering) your websites and blogs to the search engines which are the real source of traffic on any websit and blog. To increase search engine friendliness & traffic to your websites, you need to add your website/blog URL to different search engines & website directories so that your blog URLs get indexed in search engine's databases.
Here you can can submit your website to about 100+ search engines & directories.

Search engine results makes all the difference.

                                  
1. Manually Submitting your website to Google.com
Google is still the leader in the search engine market in Internet.
Google has 59.3% of total search share in U.S. for the month of May 2008. There is 3% increase in the search engine market share for Google when compared to the same period in 2007. But the share is decreased by 2.7% when compared to April 2008, where it has 62% of the market share, which is the highest ever gained by a search engine. The number of search queries increased by 15.4% over the year. Click here to submit your site to Google.com
2. Manually Submitting your website to Yahoo.com
Next to Google is Yahoo. Click here to submit your site to Yahoo.com
3. Manually Submitting your website Windows Live
Microsoft’s Windows live search is at third position with 13.3% share of total US search market for the month of May, 2008, which is the highest share for MSN in the last five months. The market share grew by 4.9% from May, 2007 and 3.6% over the month of April 2008. Windows also registered 72.4% growth in the number of searches compared to previous year. Click here to submit your site to Yahoo.com
Why submit your site manually to each search engine, when you can submit your URL from one place to all of them just by filling out one simple form that only asks for your web site URL and email address.
4. Submitting your website to Submit Express
Click here to submit your site to 40+ search engines and directories for free
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5. Submitting your website to searchengineoptimising.com(SEO)
To add your URL below to submit to 100 search engines like altavista, excite, go, google, hotbot, infoseek and lycos & more click here.
6. Submitting your website to scrubtheweb.com
To add your URL below to submit to 10 more search engines, click here.
Repeatedly submitting(twice in a month) your website URL to different major search engines can help in greater page ranks, more visibility in search engine results & thus help in a traffic boost at website & blog.


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Get into the Search Results on web: Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is what web-developers & bloggers need

Web is growingThe web is growing & expanding at an unbelievable pace which can be easily figured out with these facts:
● With about 186,727,854 total number of web sites(including blogs) in the month December 2008 survey by netcraft(which is grown by 1.56 million sites since November 2008),
● About 100 million + bloggers on the web &
About 3,105 total number of search engines operating in 6 worldwide regions in 211 different countries(as on January 2003), the essense of Search Engine optimization really comes into play.

The Major search engines on the Web.
The Major search engines on the Web.
Thus, it becomes even more challenging to be catched in the search engine results to get more traffic on the websites & blogs.
SEO Search Engine Optimization

What is Search Engine optimization(SEO)? I think that SEO are those techniques which helps websites & blogs to be more friendly to search engines. It helps building potential improvement in the site performance on internet & involves increasing the ability of wesites & blogs to maintain high exposure and visibility under major search engines & search tools.
SEO  are themselves  "brain-spinning" techniques & cover a vast arena of concepts & implementations. Here are the differnent tools under SEO to improve your website's & blog's page rankings:

● Website Content & Structure
● Quality & Quantitiy of contents of websites & blogs
● Link building
● Keywords
● Socialization of websites & blogs(using Widgets)
● Website friendliness for search engines
● Comments & Link exchanges.

I will focus on all these aspests individually in my next posts.

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Why Widgets? Widgets are the Back-bone for Websites & Blogging Platforms

Today widgets are indispensable tools for websites, more specifically the entire blogs derive their power from the widgets & these "magic-codes" acts as a vehicle to link the blogging world. 
What are widgets? Widgets are highly optimized, small but powerful pieces of code (programs), with the property to be embedded into blog’s template & webpages to give some added functionality on the respective webpage. Widget codes are easily adaptable to changes made by the user.
Why widgets? Which widgets to use? The most important question for bloggers is answered here.


Widgets are the web-tools providing:
  • Linkage to your websites & blogs to the different social networking sites, workgroups, communities & forums of the people belonging to different parts of the World.
  • Blog & website analysis & tracking in terms of performance & traffic (visitors).
  • Improvement of blog & website accessibility, intetractivity & traffic (of course).
  • Socializing & bookmarking (Saving your Favorite posts, articles & webpages).
  • Customization & beautification of your websites & blogs.
  • Direction on becoming more reader specific & targeted (Getting the actual taste/choice of Readers).

    Today about 1000s of widgets are available & are specific in action & use. I categorize widgets into 2 major classes:
    1. Widgets for websites & blogs.
    2. Widgets for Socializing websites & blogs.(Widgets for Traffic)
    I will present the list of the most popular & successful widgets for blogs in my next posts.
    ©Techprism: Riddhi Mohan
     

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Adding Expandability to each Blogger Posts using "Read More..."

We often find web pages with a very small scroll bars at the right ,that is, those having all the full expanded posts putting entire individual post's contents on the homepage. It not only takes time to transfer/load the page but also increases the page space complexity. In this case, Adding an expandability to each blogger posts using the link "Read More..." will allow readers to see all the posts in a more organized & compacted way & help them to switch to full posts option.


It will also help in loading the pages more quickly. Here is the full working & tested way to add "Read More" to each blogger posts.Now Proceed as follows:


1. Login to your blogger account.
2. Enabling Post Pages: Go to Settings > Archiving, then select Yes > Save the Settings. 
3. Pre-formatting Post Editor: Go to Setting > Formatting, then scroll down to bottom, paste the following code in the Post Template & Save Settings.

<span class="fullpost">
</span>


4. Now go to Layout > Edit HTML, click on Expand Widget Template & search for the following code:

<data:post.body/>

5. Copy the code below & paste it ABOVE/BEFORE the previous line in blogger template.


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<b:else/>
<style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>


6. Copy the code below & paste it BELOW/AFTER the <data:post.body/> line in the blogger template.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'><br />
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more...</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>

7. Save the Template & Its all done. Now, Go to Posting > Create. You will see

<span class="fullpost">
</span> 
in the post area in the Edit HTML tab.
Anything you put above the tag <span class="fullpost"> will be the introductory text.PUT main body of your post between the <span class="fullpost"> and </span> tags so that the “Read more…” link expands the main body of the post.
Enjoy Expandability.

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Uploading A New Template In Blogger.com

After Selecting the attractive template which suits your blog theme & that enhance the functionality of your blog, it should be uploaded to  your blog. Blogger's cool feature (Backup / Restore Template) makes it very simple to easily  backup, upload & restore templates.

Proceed as follows:
1. Login to your blogger account
2. In the dashboard page, click on the Layout link to jump on the layout tab
3. In the layout tab, click on Edit HTML
4. Click on Download Full Template to make backup of the recent template ( Must do )
5. Select your new template from a file (with file format .xml ) on your hard drive by clicking on Browse button & then upload the template by clicking on the upload button.

It may happen that you get two types of messages while uploading: 
1. Confirmation to delete the items (widgets). Click on Yes & your new  template is  uploaded.
2. Error Message: that the XML elements could not be parsed. It shows that there is some problem in the template XML code. Click on the Clear Edits button to rectify all the modifications. Now continue with a different download.

The two simple checks to verify proper template uploading:
1. Click on the  Save button again.
2. Navigate to the Page Elements & Save the template.

Now, your template is uploaded successfully & click on View Blog to see the uploaded template.

I will cover the most popular widgets & blog customization in my next posts.
Happy  Blogging.

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Starting A New Blog: What blogging platform to choose?

Going to start a new blog, great! But if you want a really cool & attractive blog you should first consider a few things that are indispensable for newbie stepping into blogging. This article will introduce you to essential aspects of blogging before you actually start & help you to have one with a professionally-crafted design & content. 
Consider the following:

1. Deciding the central category/idea/theme for blogging: It should be clear what is the basic theme of your blog that all your blog content would reflect. Write some of the articles early before you have the blog. It will help you easily post them quickly on your blog.
2. Deciding the platform for blogging & signing up: Choosing the platform for blogging is easy depending upon the services provided & eminancy of the platform. Sign up & start blogging.
 Most popular blogging platforms are: (Blogger is my choice)
3. Deciding the fully working & attractive template which suits your blog theme: A 3 column template will be the best choice & can be downloaded free.

Once you have done the above you have to upload the template( facility provided by Blogger.com) & proceed further refining your blog.

I will cover the uploading of the templates in blogger.com in my next post.

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