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Sunday, 15 March 2009 |
By pmen48
 You have just finished setting up your first blog, got it looking just right, posted your first article and now you wait. Your content is good, you have viewpoints you want to share with others but how to attract visitors (ie traffic) to your door?
"If you build it, they will come" might be true but how long must you wait before anyone realizes that your site actually exists. A blog like any other business needs traffic in order to survive. There is no harm in using tools, which are already available to you, to increase your exposure and the best thing about them is that they won't cost you a dime.
Probably the most ignored and useful tool that a blogger has at his disposal is the RSS feed. Say what? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is the equivalent of having a 100% free ezine subscription service. The trick is to submit your RSS feed URL to as many RSS directories as possible. Then each time you post new material on your blog, this is syndicated to your RSS feed |
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Saturday, 14 March 2009 |
By Srini Saripalli
 If you've started a blog, you can improve the quality of your entries by studying the writing conventions characteristic of other forms. Blogs are generally fairly free-flowing affairs, some of them are downright stream of consciousness, but the best ones tend to take an existing structure and turn it into their own, as is the case with any good writing.
One of the easiest and most readable forms of writing one can use is called the "inverted pyramid". This style is characteristic of newspapers. The basic idea is that the reader should, from your first sentence, be able to ascertain what the entire article is generally about. If they want to know more, they can read the entire article. The specifics of the article should be of diminishing importance as the article progresses. This article, in fact, is written in that format.
Sports writers are some of the best writers out there. One of their conventions can be very challenging, and rewarding, for the writer: telling the story backwards. Some sports writers will start an article about a particular game at the end |
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