Writing a blog can be a single company. How many blogs have begun to languish without readers day after day, week after week? Others, seemingly inexplicable, attracting thousands of readers, hundreds of links.
What is the difference between them? After all, if we look at these people, is nothing you cannot write yourself, you could write (if only you had some readers). Is it just a matter of being part of the "group"?
The short answer is, in part, yes. People link to people who read and those who read. To build a popular following over time, establish a level of confidence (or at least the reputation of being interesting). Creating a popular blog is, for better or worse, like being at a festival. It is quite easy to be on the outside, a wallflower, wanting, but never in a position to be part of the conversation.
This guide will help you change that. It will not become Instapudit News or scripts. These are special cases, which reached its position by virtue of a tie is not available for most of us. But you started. You some readers, and make that part of the conversation.
Plan
It is possible to launch a blog without a plan. However, the probability of success is much lower.
It may not seem so because of my informal style, but in planning OLDaily months before it actually launched. My first attempt actually failed abortion, even though it taught me some lessons. In the end I learned from another project he was working in MuniMall newsletter.
Purpose
Why do you want to write a blog? No, seriously! If you do not know why you’re doing something, you do not know what you’re doing.
The Bulletin MuniMall had a very clear sense of purpose. Sets-to-earth and pragmatic. It is a means to an end, the purpose was not purely altruistic, but rather was in response to some specific business goals.
This is true for you too (and can also be honest about it, at least with yourself). The purpose of your blog can make their name, to attract people to your site, and to show what it can do.
Most blogs show a degree of self-interest. Some blogs promote a social or political agenda. Other blogs are designed to promote a product or service. What you will notice is that in all the blogs of success, there is something in it for the author.
At the same time, there must be some altruistic purpose, some element of your blog does not exist to serve the interests of the author, but to serve readers’ interests. For example, after all, if you do not receive anything from the blog, why would I read?
Write to your blog. This is the crux of his blog. About page. This should be the first page you write, and is easily accessible from every page of your blog.
Content
What will you write?
If it is not clear what to write, then your blog will always be a blank page staring at you, a challenge to be creative, but resist the form or definition.
Many people begin to think that simply writing a blog about what is important to them, and then after weeks of non-activity, finding that nothing is so important that it deserves to be written.
OLDaily, for example, is very clearly not only in the subject area of interest – online learning – but also the type of content that is covered, "which reflects an upward trend, it describes a new approach to learning line, which we thought recenters. We only hope that the topics include in OLDaily.
What will you write? The best answer to this question lies in the question: what to read? Check your favorites (if you do not have favorites, start bookmarking things that you have read and enjoyed). What’s in your library? Make a list (no, really, make a list). What we hear, what you see on television, what kind of movies that you can see, what to talk about when you’re with friends?
Collect and organize all this information – to find not only the subject material, but also the type of material. When I look at my library, I think not only the philosophy and programming of the texts, but also a lot of science fictions, wrote a few political, historical nonfiction and essays on the mind. My favorite, for its part, the technology and show more sites (not surprisingly) a good number of educational technologies and e-learning sites. No surprise that my attention is focused not only on learning but on the future of technology for learning?
The point here is that it is better not to focus on some specific issues, how a university course, but rather to aspire to some kind of intersection that is to cover all of their interests. Anyone can write on e-learning, but only you can write about issues found in the e-learning, romance fiction and skydiving. That what they think? I have not a clue – that’s why you need to prepare your blog.
Do not just pick something and say "I’ll write about that." You study and write about the things you are thinking.
Support
You are probably thinking, how to start your blog, you can get your ideas, as Neil Gaiman, from his head. However, Neil Gaiman is a liar (I mean that in most fondest and respectful). Their ideas do not spring fully formed from his brain like Pallas from the head of Zeus. Much goes into the creation of an idea (even a short half-baked, such as those in OLDaily).
When you look at a blogger for the website you will find a lot of what I call support: one can have a blogroll on another page that can have a list of useful links and resources, after each post will have a space for comments, and more. These grants are not so much for the reader to blogger: the sources of their ideas. Watch Desktop and found more support Blogger: subscriptions to newsletters, mailing lists, and more.
The point here is that all writing – even fiction writings – is largely reactive. It has its origins in the information and encouragement to report to a person daily life. Readers who want to be writers recognize this, and organize and cultivate the media. Dave Pollard writes that we must learn to observe the world. This means opening our eyes.
And then what? Gaiman says, "You have ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important question is just, What if …? … Another important question is, if only … And then there are other : I wonder … ( "I wonder how and when alone …’) If this continues … ( "If this goes on the phones are going to start talking to each other and cut the middleman. ..") And Would not it be interesting if … ( "Would not it be interesting if the world was ruled by the cats ?’)…"
I? I have a vision of what the wourld is (or should be – it is difficult for me to distinguish). Furthermore, I see things as they are, and I ask, "How to lead this world in the future?" or "From the point of view that in the future world, what’s wrong with this?" My future world is not fully formed, well – but little by little over a thousand thoughts, is slowly building in my mind and is reflected in my writing.
Process
When will you write? A common complaint is that the potential of the bloggers does not have time. Strictly speaking, of course, this is false: do not take less time than any of us, but chose to spend doing something other than Blogger.
Sure, you could write a blog post when the feeling that the strike – which am how I write my articles, like this. However, without some discipline, a slide day a week, a slide in two weeks, and then you have no readers because you’re not writing anything.
There is no good writing without a process (it is arguable that publishers do not create great writing by the promise of a paycheque (which most writers contempt) but by the imposition of time limits, which forces the writer to write something, any thing, to avoid his wrath).
The Mu niMall newsletter published once a week, whether or not there is any news. OLDaily publishes five days a week, taking weekends off. See Dave Pollard’s site and see something every day – sometimes the content is a bit of a stretch, like the conversation yesterday with a fungus. But the point here is not to create something great every day – the point here is to create every day, and through that same process, over time, something will emerge.
If you do not want a timetable, you will not succeed. It’s as simple as that. Therefore, plan ahead – what will be your schedule? How much time (and when) will spend each day (or almost every day, or at least each week) to write and publish?
Now you have a plan.
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