ScrapU

10 Principles of highly effective blogging

1) Have patience and be systematic in your approach to blogging. Bloggers don’t generally rocket to the top based on one post. Many bloggers who are extremely successful have been posting for 3, 5, or even 10 years! You better believe their current status is hard earned and you won’t get a free ticket to the top. Be patient, but never back down.

2) Blog often and blog well. You won’t become a blogging superstar by making “one incredible post” that wows the world with the true magnificence of your blogging prowess. More likely, you’ll sneak up on people like a car-jacker, only with a much happier conclusion People don’t generally become aware of a person or thing all at once, but rather they have a gradual awakening.

3) Proofread your posts. Always double check what you’ve written before going live. I struggle with this a lot myself, because I know I’m generally “pretty accurate”. That means I only goof on grammar or spelling 10% of the time or so. This still can make for scary reading, and might hurt you with an intended audience. I try to remind myself to always double check my posts.

4) Be generous in your attributions and never be afraid to link out. People who are selfish about linking generally don’t rank as well as websites who link out a lot. If you found an idea interesting, make sure you’re fair to the source of info. Any pictures you may download, etc, should be clearly sourced to wherever you commandeered them from. If you smile at the world, the whole world smiles back.

5) Be true to yourself and honest to your readers. You might feel like embellishing a little, or maybe even flat out lying at times if you run out of things to say, but it will only hurt you in the long run. The integrity of the information presented is paramount to the success of any website.

6) There are no rules about blogging, only guidelines. Don’t follow the gurus, and make sure you always experiment and make your blogging something unique, like your smile, or your fingerprints. You can always get great ideas from reading the words of others, but don’t take them all as gospel. All bloggers put there pants on one leg at a time (I’m sure there’s an exception), so don’t deify every idea you hear.

7 Think for yourself. Don’t get bogged down in group-think, or you may find yourself very lonely in the midst of a crowd who’s been stampeded off the internet. By the time you pick on a new trend, it may already be played out. Always think critically of your actions and ask yourself, will what I’m doing advance my cause as a blogger?

Stay on topic. Sure, it’s easy to wander off your chosen path, but don’t do it for too long. Your blog most likely specializes in something, and your readers have come to expect a certain level of quality from you. Too many off-topic rants might make it look like you’re losing your focus.

9) Utilize RSS to its’ full potential. Use RSS as a tool to maintain contact with your visitors and to keep your customers or prospects up to date on all your doing. The best part about RSS is the voluntary nature of it. People will likely never feel mad about RSS the way they might about email marketing. RSS offers a blogger a great way to expand his reach.

10) Make sure to build a business model into your website from the beginning. Sure, you won’t have much traffic at first, but you need to have a plan for how to monetize the traffic that you will inevitably get by following highly effective blogging principles. There’s no point in volunteering to blog if you can get paid. It’s easier than ever to get paid for blogging, but give it some serious thought before your build too many pages.

Joke!!!

A lady approaches a priest and tells him, "Father, I have a problem. I have these two talking female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing. They keep saying "Hi, we're hot. Do you want a date?"


"That's terrible!" the priest exclaimed. "But I do have a solution to your problem. Bring your two parrots over to my house and I will put them with my two male talking parrots to whom I have taught to pray and read the bible.

My parrots will then teach your parrots to stop saying that terrible phrase, and your female parrots will learn to pray and worship."


So the next day, the lady brings her female parrots to the priest's house. The priest's two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage. The lady puts her female talking parrots in with the male talking Parrots, and the female parrots say, "Hi, we're hot. Do you want a date?"


One male parrot looks over at the other male parrot and screams, "Put your Rosary away Idiot, our prayers have been answered!!!!!!!"

Flirting

What would dating be without flirting. Flirting is fabulous, flirting is fun, flirting is giving out signals that we may be interested in someone, or we may be pretending. But within reason, flirting is part and parcel of our daily lives. Flirting can be harmful when it threatens fidelity but it can also be sexy and bring people closer together. Some people are good at flirting and some people hopeless.

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked. "Oh yeah," said the son. "So, tell me, what you learned from the trip?" asked the father. The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night... Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us; they have friends to protect them." The boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are." Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have. Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!

__._,_.___

Three Things...... .... Three things in life that, once gone, never come back
Time
Words
Opportunity


Three things in life that may never be lost

Peace
Hope
Honesty


Three things in life that are most valuable

Love
Self - Confidence
Friends

Three things in life that are never certain

Dreams
Success
Fortune


Three things that make a man/woman

Hardwork
Sincerity
Commitment

Three things in life that can destroy a man/woman

Alcohol
Pride
Anger


Three things in life that, once lost, hard to build-up

Respect
Trust
Friends

Three things in life that never fail

True Love
Determination
Belief

DREAMS

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.