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Archive for March, 2007

Professional Blogging Tips

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

If you’re looking to take your blogging to the next level, it’s time to check out some professional blogging tips. By following these tips carefully and consistently, I can’t guarantee you’ll be an overnight success, but you will improve your blog and your writing greatly. Once you’ve done that, it’ll be all the more easier to build a loyal reader base and increase traffic to your site. So here are a few tips to get you started, and if you’re looking for answers to specific questions, you can learn more from this blogging forum.

  • 1. Use attention-grabbing titles and headlines. Try to keep your headlines to a few words that really describe or give the reader an idea of what the post is about. 15 word headlines are a big no-no.
  • 2. Use original content. People will appreciate your writing more if you have something original to say in your own words. Anyone can blockquote, so stand out from the crowd and let us hear your voice.
  • 3. Keep your paragraphs short. 6 or more sentence paragraphs can make your post look overwhelming to readers. That’s not to say your writing itself has to be short; you just need to break up the words a bit to make it more easily digestible. Keep your paragraphs to about 3 sentences or so and your readers will stick around more.
  • 4. Build relationships. Interact with your readers through their comments, and make friends with other bloggers.
  • 5. Never, ever under any circumstances should you post in all CAPS. It’s like screaming at your readers.
  • 6. Before you submit, review your post. Check for errors in punctuation, spelling, and grammar. The more polished and professional your posts are, the better they will be received.
  • 7. Spruce up your blog by including relevant pictures in your posts. Pictures can break up the monotony and make your blog look more inviting. A screen full of text is boring.
  • 8. Get a custom theme for your blog. Don’t use a run-of-the-mill theme that 5,000 other people are also using. Be different, and be unique. If you can afford it, you can usually get someone to make a quality theme for around $200 or more. If you can’t afford it and have skills yourself, you can alter an existing theme to personalize it, or build your own from scratch.
  • 9. If you want to be taken seriously, host your own blog on your own domain. Spend the $5 or $10 per month to get your own hosting. It’ll be well worth it, especially when traffic to your site begins to grow.
  • 10. Instead of recycling the same news that 1.5 million other bloggers and websites are doing, put a fresh spin on it with a unique viewpoint or opinion. If you have an opinion on a topic though, be prepared to defend it with facts.
  • 11. Generously link to other blogs, and others will do the same for you. If you found something cool on another blog that you’d like to write about, give them credit for it. Stealing content and ideas is not cool.
  • 12. Don’t ramble on about 50 different things in one post. Stick to the topic. If you have something else you’d like to talk about, finish up your first post and then start a second.

The Joys of Learning a Language

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Plasma screens have to be one of the greatest inventions on this planet today. I mean what other device can you watch sports, High Definition movies or porn and feel like you’re actually in a movie cinema? I’ve owned my 42 inch Pioneer plasma for a little over a year now and I absolutely love it. To make things even better, I just last week started language learning via videoconferencing with some girl from France. It is so amazing. Every morning at 9am I have a 2 hour French lesson with a 24 year old girl from Paris, named Helene. She is the cutest thing you could ever imagine. Watching her on the plasma feels likes she’s actually in the room with me.

Learning French is great fun and she even has the technology to write notes on the screen so I can jot them down. To be honest I don’t really have any use for French but thought it might be a nice hobby to have. I guess all I have to do now is convince her to do a strip tease for me so that the lessons become even more interesting. I think she should remove an item of clothing every time I pronounce a word correctly. I’m sure I would develop my French skill a lot quicker that way. I may even teach English to other people around the World on my plasma to earn some more cash.

The Stock Market

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

I am so tired of not having any money that I have decided to buy stocks in order to increase my cash flow. This has all come about because I desperately want to buy a 50 inch plasma TV. Almost all of my friends now own plasma screens, but I am too busy spending or should I say wasting my money on booze. I have a buddy who has recently started working for stock broking company and he has made thousands of dollars in only a few weeks on the stock market. He told me he’d be happy to offer me some free advice on what stocks I should buy. I think it sounds like a pretty good idea. Not only will I be able to purchase a new Sony plasma but I may actually save some money for my future.

It’s funny how as you get older, the more you start to think about your financial future and spending less on partying and more on tangible items. This year I will turn 30 and while all of my friends are successful and working for big multinational companies, I am still seeing a negative balance in my bank account. You might say that buying plasma screens shouldn’t be on the list of high priority purchases, but I think if I owned one, I would be less likely to go out every weekend and spend money at a club. Probably, I wouldn’t leave my sofa. I would just be watching loads of sports and the new season on 24 on it.

Free SEO Training

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Looking to brush up your SEO skills? Then check out this great, free SEO tutorial by Peter Da Vanzo featured at the V7 SEO Blog. In this free SEO course, Peter gives some great information on search engine marketing for 2007. This free SEO training is designed mainly as a course for those new to SEO, but can also serve as a refresher for intermediate and advanced SEOers.

Peter Da Vanzo is a well-respected industry professional, and the brainchild behind Searchengineblog.com. He’s also got a writing gig at the V7 SEO blog, and runs a private search marketing consultancy, GoFish Media Ltd. He often shares his tried-and-true methods of search marketing, so when he does, listen up and you’ll likely learn something very helpful to your own search engine marketing efforts.

A loan to buy a plasma???

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

It was only in the past week that I came across this blog site about plasma screens. It’s a really informative site about the different models and sizes of plasmas on the market. One of my friends bought a plasma screen recently, and I have virtually been living at his house watching it everyday. The only problem is I don’t have enough money to buy one myself. The only option that I do have is to approach a bank or company offering secured loans and then purchase one. But, I am not sure if I want to get into debt and pay ridiculous interest rates just to own one.

I imagine that over the next few years as plasma screens become the standard in home televisions that the prices will drop. At the moment though, Sony, Pioneer and Panasonic are charging crazy amounts of money. I guess I could buy a second hand one but then I run the risk of buying one that has some broken pixels or will die a week after buying it. I guess I’ll just have to do what most people do and that is work harder, spend less and save more and then maybe I will be able to buy one.

Sports on the Widescreen

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

So, I was at home last night chillin like a villain with my buddies watching a replay of a Mike Tyson fight on my 50 inch plasma screen when on comes a motorcycle advertisement. Now, all of my homies including myself are avid motorcycle freaks. We’ve been doing motor cross for years now. Anyways, this commercial was saying that Yamaha motorcycle prices are being slashed this weekend by 50%! We were like are you serious! All of us are in need of some new parts so we will definitely be checking it out. I plan to buy a new carbon fiber exhaust for my bike and maybe a new helmet.

We continued to watch the fight. It was a replay of the Evander Holyfield fight were Mike bit half his ear off. It looked so awesome of the 50 inch. Anyone wanting to buy a plasma TV, I highly recommend it. From live sporting events to playing Playstation games, I have never been happy with a purchase. The picture quality and clarity shit on any other TV on the market. Watching High Definition movies is also bloody awesome. My dream is to have plasma TVs in every room of the house. This way I will never miss a beat with the latest X Games.