Reminder Of The Basic Of Blogging

While we are always enthusiastic about blogging a new product, some excellent marketing tools and strategies, the newest making-money-online program and touting the latest e-books or products, we may appear over shouting in our blogs and lost the basic of good blogging.  Now and then I would receive email that bring me back to the proper path. One email came in recently reminds me of the basic of blogging. I would love to use his gentle reminders by employing four key words. Essentially these four key words would determine whether you are reader-centric or ego-centric.

Money - Is your blog filled with loud audio, distracting animations and effect, with that loud-crying advertisement pointing at your readers’ face? If your readers feel that about your blog, then it is high time to look into your monetizing strategy. Your blog is suppose to provide some form of solutions to readers when they click in. Maybe it is high time to gently show how your readers can benefit themselves by your solutions, suggestions.

Ego - As a writer we have the tendency to be egoistic, or ego-centric. We have the control over what we want to write and therefore we may forget what the readers need, want or enjoy to hear. It is high time to give them what they want, write with them in your mind.

Promotion - There is no doubt that we need to promote our blog. However, I have come across some gurus advocating “spicy headlines” that invoke readers to click their posts or blogs. Some others employ sexy avatar pictures, women in scantly clad clothings as header images to entice subscribers and spike in traffic. I believe in the traditional way of promoting through ezine articles submission, pinging, exchanging of links, proper and sincere commenting on others’ blogs. These type of promotions maybe slow, but the effect will last if our take care of our contents, writing for the needs of our readers.

Widget - widgets are helpful but should never be too distracting. A clean blog is always a better blog than one crowded with too many widgets, too many animations and/or ads.

I write to remind myself. I write to allow my readers to critique my blog. I write to give my readers a happy reading and learning experience. Cheers to all my readers.

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