It’s not always as simple as it sounds. Writing for a blog, I mean. You come up with a great idea, you write the heck out of it in a blog post featuring all of the latest attention-getting tricks… Bold headers, font sizing, lists, images, etc… You spend a solid two hours writing the best post you’ve ever conceived. You come up with what you think is a great headline… “Bringing in More Adsense Profits”. You hit publish, and anxiously wait to see the masses click to your blog.
Three days later, your two-hour article has received exactly fifty hits.
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Pearsonified has an interesting article about siezing the blog moment. Yes, I know it’s from back in last December, but forgive me, I’ve only just found that blog. heh. In the article, Chris discusses ways to sieze the blog moment – in other words, ways to increase the chances of your grabbing a bloggable moment (whether to blog about it, immediately, or late).
A lot of times, we go through our days experiencing thing after thing that we could blog about. Unfortunately, we’re never in front of our computer when that happens. So… What can we do to increase the chances that we’ll still have that bloggable moment with us when we sit down and put fingers to keyboard? Chris has a four item list, and I’m adding a couple more items. Here we go:
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Looking to cater to a more international audience in your advertising? You might want to do post-by-post targetting of key search terms from other countries. The Google International Zeitgeist presents popular queries by major country (right now, they’re running a bit behind, and are showing August’s data). My suggestion? If you’re intending to cater to an international audience that does not speak English, natively, then prepare to provide a translation in your article. Place an anchor at the translation, and then place the line “This article, translated into language“, at the top of the article, linking to the translation anchor. Then, place the English translation first.
Go check out the Google International Zeitgeist for information on who is searching for what, from where. You’ll be surprised.
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Howdy folks. Yes, I know it’s been a good long while since I’ve updated MindBlog. There’s a reason or three for that… but that isn’t what this post is about (I’ll give an updated post, soon, about what’s happened over the past couple-three months). What it’s about? Well, resources, really. One of the ultimate collections of blog tools, found over at Weblogs Compendium. Now, a lot of the tools on this list are out of date, and/or simply don’t exist any more… but the majority of them are still valid, still useful, and still worth looking at. I’ve found a few new things to play with from that list. Give it a look-see at: Weblogs Compendium – Blog Tools
Speaking of blogging tools, has anyone ever used Elicit? It’s supposed to be the end-all, be-all of integration, including del.icio.us, flickr, amazon, and so on. If anyone has used it, or is using it, I’d love to read a review from you.
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