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Automatic Social Bookmarking For WordPress Blogs

blogging and social bookmarking are the hottest things online these days and anyone who bookmarks their own blog posts probably knows how time consuming it is to bookmark every site one at a time. What if you could bookmark multiple social bookmarking services at one time? Or even better how about having your WordPress blog do it for you with each new post?

OnlyWire is a service that will bookmark many of the most popular social bookmarking services from one location. Just sign up for an account at OnlyWire.com, login and then join all the sites, or as many as you want and place your username and password in the list and save. This one time setup will take some time but pay off in the end.

Then you can drag one of the bookmark tools to your browser and when on a page you want to bookmark just click the OnlyWire bookmark tool to save it to all the sites you saved on your OnlyWire account. This will can you a good bit of time depending on how many sites you usually bookmark.

But what if your WordPress blog did that for you as well? Now it can with Onlywire Autosubmit - A WordPress Plugin.

Download the Onlywire Autosubmit Plugin, unzip it and install it like any normal plugin, by uploading it to your wp-content/plugins folder. Or if you have the One Click Install plugin just upload the whole zip file from the dashboard. Go to Plugin and activate the Only Wire Autosubmitter plugin. Then go to Options, OnlyWire Options and save your OnlyWire username and password.

This was the first post I have written after installing it. After publishing the post I checked a few of my bookmarking sites and sure enough this post was in there. You can also check the status in the WordPress dashboard by going to Options, OnlyWire Options.

If I setup your blog recently you probably have the One Click plugin installed. Learn how to use it here: Upload WordPress Themes and Plugins From The Dashboard

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What Is Blogging Understanding What A Blog Is

What exactly is blogging?

There are some who are not sure what blogs are or those who don’t really understand the usefulness of blogging to promote an online business.

Blogs are like bulletin boards on the Internet that are updated on a regular basis, often in a daily basis. The content a of blog is usually about a specific topic, or in some types of blogs, people sometimes use them as a journal or diaries where they put in the details of their personal lives, their opinions about certain topics and even social commentaries. To put this in simple terms, blogs are used by the person who created the blog anyway he or she wants them to be. The creator of the blog is the author and its his or hers to do with whatever they want and to provide the content.

It is really easy to create and start a blog, all you need is a computer and an internet connection. You can sign up for a free blog at several different websites, like WordPress.com or Blogger.com. If you are going to get serious about blogging then you may want to spend a little money and host your blog on your own domain.

Pick a topic and stay on it.

To create a successful blog, you first have to pick a topic that you are interested or knowledgeable in then start writing about it. Although your opinion about a certain topic is acceptable, it is wise that you should stick to facts as much as possible. You can also mix in some humor if you want it to be more fun to read and also include your personal experiences about the topic. This would make the readers think that you actually experienced what is being discussed.

For example; if your topic is about tennis, people who’ll be reading your blog would be interested in tennis, therefore you shouldn’t write about what you watched on TV last night, include some tips that may interest readers, like how to improve your forehand or backhand and even how to prolong their tennis ball’s life. Stick to the topic, although you can also include some humor you experienced in the tennis court. Everyone did something stupid or embarrassing in a tennis court, its good to share them with people; it creates a more personal view of your blog and may seem friendly to read.

If you’re going to include humor or opinion in your blog, it is important that you balance it with factual information. Talking about your personal experience, whether good or bad, can affect your reputation in the web. Include some updated news about whatever product or service you’re discussing. It is good that you base your opinions on facts and include some advantages and disadvantages and remember to balance it.

Remember that no one will read old news; always keep your blog updated. Present it with factual news that is accurate and informative. If you write about something that happened a few months ago, it will not grab the reader’s interest. Writing about someone who won the Wimbledon Tournament that happened a few months ago will make people think that you are not updating your blog regularly and may not come back.

Keep your blog updated regularly.

Plan a schedule on when to post on your blog and try to stick to it. Two or three posts a week would be good enough to keep your readers loyal. Also, tell your readers when you will next update your blog and if possible what the next post will be about. Remember that communication is the key to success to attract readers to your blog. No communication, no readers.

Keep you blog simple to understand. Try not to put in too many technical terms that some readers may not understand or care to read. Put it in simple terms as much as possible depending on the blogs topic. Remember that many people are interested about a certain topic but do not actually know the technical terms. If you need to use technical terms, like I do at times here, try to explain them or give a link to an explanation.

Your title should be short and to the point, worded similar to what a reader may be searching for on a search engine. Something that can easily catch a reader’s attention. The title of each post is very important. Use a title with the keyword of the topic in it.

If you have written an article before, you probably know that it is important to spell check and proof-read what you wrote. Remember that what you write reflects your reputation.

These are some of the things to consider if you’re planning to blog. By following these few simple guides, you can be sure you’ll get a lot of readers and also keep them reading.

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Methods Of Successful Blogging

blogging has become the trend of the day. Many webmasters have turned to content management systems like blogs to power their websites. Blog have also become a great tool that most businesses use to get the attention of more customers. With all the the different blogging software and options available nowadays, setting up a blog is much easier than it used to be.

For the independent professional, blogs are an easy communication tool to enhance credibility and trust among customers. Besides that, blogs make it easy for other people to locate you on the Internet.

But then, 9 out of 10 blogs that are created have the tendency to be abandoned because they can take up a lot of time. And time is one thing that professionals do not have much of. The result may not seem apparent in the beginning but it will be later on.

There are some keys to making your blog work best for you, instead of you working for it. Once you learn and practice these steps, it will only take you less than 20 minutes to post one entry.

A little more time should be spent reviewing, reading and commenting on your blog and other blogs sites on the internet. Interacting with your blogs visitors and interacting on other blogs will help increase your traffic and keep your subscribers and readers coming back to your blog.

Here are a few keys to a successful blog?

1. Write important and unique content. You can also narrate and share stories to highlight your knowledge and expertise. Never forget how telling your readers how you deal with clients or problems. Let them know the value of what you are offering. And make it easy for them to contact you if they have questions to ask or if they want to avail your services.

2. Post at least tree times a week or as much as once a day. These need not be very long articles. Short articles are fine as long as long as the essence and value is there.

3. Link to other useful resources available on the web. This is very important in order to build traffic and expanding your target market. You can research online for topics you can post that is related to your sites offering. Try to visit and comment on other blogs. Let them know that you are spending time reading about them so they know that you are always available.

4. Submit your blog to blog directories and do trackbacks. Blogskinny.com has a long list of directories, a link should be on the sidebar here. Trackbacks are links to another sites blog post within your blog post. Making reference to another blog post you liked may show as comment on that post and get a link back to yours.

5. Keep track of your visitors. Have a counter set up in your blog so you will see who has been reading your posts. This will also help you in figuring out the number of people that are coming in and coming back to your blog. There are plugins for WordPress blogs that do this.

6. Make a list of all your products and services. Check if the landing pages are linked correctly. Nothing can turn off visitors quickly than having been linked to some site not in any way related to your blog. If you have a shopping cart, you can use your affiliate links and ad tracking features for easy access.

7. Remember to link to your own website or other blogs you author and vice versa.

8. Blogs should not be pure sales talk. Readers are a lot smarter nowadays. They can sense marketing from afar. If this happens, they will not be interested in continuing on because they do not want to be marketed on. They encounter those things everyday so spare them the suffering.

9. Be patient. Although there are some blogs that work right away, some takes time. Update, update and update but do not expect instant result to come pouring in. Just sit back and think of other techniques you can use to your blogs to make it more successful.

10. Try not to use PLR articles like I have with this post! If you have read this article and know my blog and writing this is a lazy method for me to make an occasional post. Yes I admit it! I didn’t write this whole post but I did rewrite it a bit and it may have been faster to write my own post.

Blogging should not be set aside as something unimportant. It can be very useful for you once you know what you are doing.

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Dude Where’s My Blog

Most people who blog know of the controversy surrounding the question about what blogging platform is better, and if a self-hosted blog is better than using Blogger by Google. I stumbled on a blogging forum post today that should get some of you thinking about where your blog is hosted and why it is so important to take control of your blog.

Taken directly from a thread on the Digital Point forum here is the desperate plea from a Blogger blogger:

Hello friends,
When I checked my blogspot blog today, its showing the message “Error - Page is Not Found”.
When I checked in the Dashboard, there is nothing in it.I have lost a total of 5 blogs and one of them is a popular one too.
I have around 1000 Page impressions per day from it and I have updated it by the last post 2 or 3 weeks back.And I have PR3 too.

I didn’t get any messages from the Blogger team related with this issue.
Why its happened?
What I have to do now?

Will I get back my blog?

The whole thread can be found here: My blog disappeared suddenly - Please help

As of the time of this post the blogs are still gone and the poor blogger has no idea how to get them back up or even salvage any of the lost content. I wish I could help and others have tried and all that he can really do is try to contact Google. Maybe Google didn’t like his content, maybe it’s a Google server issue, but regardless he has to try to get service from a company he pays nothing to. So what kind of service can be expected for something you don’t pay for? You can probably tell that I am a big fan of self-hosted WordPress blogs, but no matter what platform you chose you are best to have control over it and hosted on your own domain.

In this post I make the argument for WordPress over Blogger: WordPress Or Blogger Is WordPress Better but again no matter what platform you prefer you better take over control of your blog!

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What To Blog About How To Come Up With Blogging Content

If there is such a thing as a writer’s block, then there is also what everyone calls a blogger’s block. I too suffer from coming up with ideas to create blog posts around. But if you use a bit of creativity you will never be without blogging ideas.

Some of you may already know that kind of feeling. These are times when you just feel that you cannot seem to start blogging about anything. It seems as if you have run out of ideas or worse just don’t feel like it.

How could this happen when you were so good at blogging before? Why is it that you cannot get one word written? And the more you think about blogging, the more you are not able to blog.

Here are some ideas that you might find helpful when your blogging well has run dry:

1. Do some blog visitation.

Visit and read some blogs that are related to yours. Get some ideas to use a post on another blog to elaborate on one of the points made in it. Make sure to do a trackback if is relevant. By doing this, you will be able to get ideas on what to write about. Maybe one or to things that you come across will tick something on your brain and remove the big block there. You might be able to find a topic that you want to blog about but has forgotten already.

2. Have a look at your blog inbox.

This is one of the best ways to find a topic to write about. Since this is your site, you might notice aspects you have set aside before. You can try and answer an email or a comment made there.

This is also the best time to check out links that are put into other posts. Have a look at what they are offering. It might just be related to yours and you will be thankful that you checked.

3. Comment on other blogs.

You can make use of your own blog to comment on another’s. Maybe you can expand the idea that has already been written about. You can again use trackback comments if the site allows it.

4. Check out the latest news.

Even if your blogging is not in any way related to news, current events or politics, there is nothing wrong with checking out what is happening to the world lately. Sometimes, these things tend to have a small relation to what you are blogging about.

5. Blog randomly.

Look for a word or topic. Then begin writing about it. You can also do this with pictures. Check out photos and think of something to write about it.

If those things do not seem to work for you, you can search for creative or journal writing software to help you with your writing problem. Oftentimes, these things have suggestions of topic or idea that can help you get started.

6. Think about an extraordinary topic.

For example, you can research about inventions and inventors. What was the first car ever invented? Anything that you fancy.

You can look for them at online resources like encyclopedias and almanacs. When you finally have the answer, start blogging about it. You never know, maybe some people are thinking of the same things and you have somehow provided them with answers. Besides, it also fine to drift off from your usual topic one in awhile. Your readers might like the refreshing change too.

7. Do something you have not done before.

If you cannot think of something new, any blogging related things will do just as long as you have not done them to your blogs before. Put pictures into your blogs. Add videos or any other unique features. It is all up to you.

8. Find blogging ideas on related forums.

Online forums are a great source of blogging ideas, at least for me. There are often threads that start with a question or plea for help. With others posting the solutions or suggestions, you can easily use the forum thread as a quick blog post.

9. Pay a writer to create blog posts for you.

There are many talented writers available online that will create blog posts and articles for you. If you don’t have the time or just can’t come up with content supplying them with a list of keywords to write about you can have them create your posts for you. Team Schuman is one such blog and article writer I get no commission for referring you to them, I know Jeff Schuman and he provides great content at very reasonable prices. In fact you can use the purchased blog posts for Article Marketing too. Find out more here: Blog and Article Writer

10. Forget about blogging for a while.

This might be one of those times when your mind and body is in need of a break from writing. Get outside. Go to the beach or go shopping. Anything that will take your mind off your blogs.

You just might feel refreshed and ready to start blogging once you get back up in front of your computer.

There are a lot more ways of getting off that blogging block off you. Think about it. If ever you did come up with other things, you can blog about it to help others experiencing blogger’s block.

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Basics About Blogging

Are you aware of the new way to keep your friends updated of the things happening in your life? This is a revolutionary way in the internet that can let you keep a personal diary that can be viewed by many people. This is called the weblog or more popularly known as the blog or blogging.

A blog is like a journal where you can write or post your daily activities on a regular basis. The term blog is the short term for web log. Blogging is the act of adding, writing and maintaining a blog.

There are several types of blogs. These are the following:

• Personal blog – this is the most famous type of blog used in some of the friendly hub in the net. This is defined as the online diary or journal, where you can post your poem and other literature piece.

• Cultural blog – it discusses all about music, arts, theater and other popular culture.

• Topic blog – it focuses on the function like some of the search engines present now. Some writers who want to write about something unknown can use it.

• Business blog – this talk about the stock market and other business related topics. It is also use to promote businesses, to talk about economics in forum type and manage information.

• Science blog – it is the mode used to disseminate information and data. However, scientists only use this mode for simple scientific data and information because they believe that it could damage the credibility of their science as many people can read it.

• Moblog – it contains all the information from a mobile phone.

• Collaborative blog – this kind of blog is written by two or more writers. Particular site is open for all the writers to write together with others.

• Eclectic blog – it focuses on niches individually or collaboratively made.

• Educational blog – this is used by students to record the things they learned from their teacher including the activities done in a day.

• Directory blog – this blog gives a regular update of all the visited links. It focuses on particular news and happenings.

• Forum blog – it functions as an internet forum. It allows two or more bloggers to post discussion on the net.

• Spam blog – this is a form of persuasive advertising. Commonly known for the name splogs. It is characterized by the use of bold letters and self-claim advertisements.

There are many web-based blog journals available online. You can post your own blog, too. Anyone can start writing a blog. In many cases, it is free. How do you start making a blog?

Here is how, follow the following steps in writing a blog.

1. There are many blog sites available online that offers free blog posting. They also offer free accounts with many features.

2. You can blog in private and in public. Many blog site offer a blog that contains a password, only a few can read your blog. You can also post a blog that can be read by anyone.

3. You will be given an option to choose the scheme of your blog site. You can edit your own color, layouts and schemes according to your taste and personality.

4. You can write your own blog and post it afterwards.

5. Many offer more schemes for you to personalize your own blog site. You can even post a picture and testimonials from friends like most of the friendly hub do today.

6. By sending the URL to your friends, you can now publish your own blog.

You should keep your writings interesting as it can be. Do not focus on topics that readers do not find interesting. Remember to post only writings that are not offensive so readers will become more interested in your writings. You should also check your spellings and other relevant mistakes that can ruin your credibility as a writer.

Use words that can be easily understood by readers. Proofread your writings before posting. Never copy others blog, you can be issued a case called plagiarism.

With this, you are able to let the people know about what you want to speak. Information will be easier to deliver this time. Visit some blog sites and start writing your emotions.

You can also hire an article writer to write your blog posts and articles for you. I highly recommend Team-Schuman for high quality content and fast turn-around times at great prices.

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