The Top 5 Reasons to Use a Self-Hosted Blog

In the blogosphere, there is alot of advice floating around. Some is good, and some is bad. Almost all of the advice has those that will argue for it, and those who will argue against it.

Very few pieces of advice have unanimous support. Read more

E-Learning Through Blogs

E-learning means learning through the internet. It is also known as online or electronic learning. The courses which provide such type of learning are known as e-learning courses, like ‘e-MBA’. To take advantage of these courses, you must be familiar with the net and its technologies like web browsing, e-mails, blogs, voice chat, text chat, web 2.0, wikis, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and video conferencing.

I will show you how blogs can help you in getting all the assistance you need to successfully complete your online course. Read more

4 Pointers To Blog Writing

Start a blog

Seems obvious, but just start blogging about anything that you know something about. Once you have the blog up and running you can get used to the discipline required and develop your own writing style. As an example, you could start a blog about where you live. Just sign on with one of the free blogging services or purchase a domain name, install Wordpress or other blogging software and start blogging. Doing it this way means that all you have to come up with are observations about daily life in your town and write about them. It may not be riveting, but the point is that it gives you a source of material that you have to shape into something readable. This sort of blog may never get a large audience, but the fact that it is live adds a certain compulsion to write for it. If you were just writing for yourself without publishing it, there would be a greater chance of stopping through lack of motivation. Read more

Weblog University

Riky, from Indonesia, has completed his first semester at Northern Kentucky University and looks forward to a well-deserved holiday break. Neema, from New Jersey, cheers on the “Ruts” football team in between studying for mid-term examinations at Rutgers University. Heather, from Columbus, Ohio, reflects on what Thanksgiving means to her while lamenting the cold, damp weather at Capital University. Read more

The Blog Novel - How to Make them Work for You

The idea of writing a novel directly into a blog is not new. In fact there was quite the little fad that took the blogging community by storm in 2004 when numerous writers kept trying to find new ways to use the blogging format to their advantage. Many of the new blog formats died out, including the blog novel. However, the reasons for the blog novel’s demise have more to do with the fact that it is a hard project to complete than that it does not work or is not fun. Read more

How To Use Wordpress Stats To Improve Your Blog

I only recently installed the Wordpress Stats plugin to my blogs. I thought I was getting enough information from the stats from my web host 1and1.co.uk. I knew how many visitors came to the blogs every day and the number of views each of the blog posts were getting. I’m wary of having too many stats as they can either confuse you and/or you can spend far too much time looking at and analysing them. Read more

How a Blog Can Help Your Business

If you have a business, a blog (short for web log) is a marketing tool that can further position you as the expert in your industry. Your prospects and clients want information about your products and services. They are hungry for it! And a blog gives you the opportunity to share your expertise with people across the globe. Read more

Length of Posts - Short or Long

Do you think too much about the length of your blog posts? Do you choose long or short posts for your blog? The length of blog posts can have a psychological impact on the readers.

Many bloggers have blog posts less than 200 words, while others prefer 500-900 word posts. Blog posts with 350-450 words are more common.

The number of words really doesn’t matter, if you have something to say, and you can say it clearly and completely. The length of the blog posts can affect the perception of readers to the blogger. Read more

To Blog Or To Website That Is the Question

Congratulations, you have decided to join the online community. Maybe, just to air your view points or to venture into an online marketing business.

But, how to get started? There two main ways to venture forth. Either by blog or by website, the choice is up to you.

But, first we need to define the difference between a blog and website.  A website is a internet application that contains web pages, images, videos and other digital assets. It is hosted on the World Wide Web.  Whereas, a blog is part of website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order. It is sometimes known as an online journal.

I will discuss the pros and cons of both. The choice is yours.

First, I will cover blogging.

If you have little or no computer knowledge and even less money. Blogging is the way to go. You can get a free blog from blogger.com or wordpress.com. These are the two more popular choices. They will host and maintain your blog for you. You can customize your blog from their selection of templates. Just write and post and you have your blog. You can post your own content, advertise your own goods and services. Also, you can advertise goods and services of others as an affiliate.

A blog will allow communications between visitor and writer where they can exchanges opinions on certain issues. Whereas, in a website, a visitor can only read and not offer comments or suggestions to the writer or other visitors.

The cons to blogging is that you have write many articles to get your business going. However, you can hire a ghost writer to write articles for you. Later, when the blog becomes very successful, you may want to upgrade which will cost money.

Second, I will cover using a website.

A website allows you to have complete control over your content and is the fastest way to advertise.
However, there are cost involved with setting up a website. You will need hosting, a domain name and maybe a custom built website. Or you may decide to build your own site. A user friendly program for creating your own website is Microsoft Frontpages. Last, you will need a Autoresponder.

A disadvantage of building your own website is that you are responsible for taking care of any problems that may arise.

Also, you may need to consider whether you need a website in the first place. Maybe a blog is all you need for the present time. Can you explain to someone else the advantages that you will have with a website and what it will do for you?

Whether you decide to use a blog or website, you cannot just sit back and relax. You have to market it and build traffic. You have to promote it. If your goal is internet marketing, you will never make any money if you just submit it to a few search engines and do nothing else. Traffic or having visitors go to your site is a major component that makes your blog or website valuable.

To learn more about this topic, check out my websites at http://blogging-fundamentals.blogspot.com and http://valnan.thebestbizreview.com

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Blidgets, The Next Generation Of Web Widgets By Widgetbox

Blidgets, a tool similar to web widgets enables each blog users into embedding them into their web site as long as it is customizable with additional html codes.  Now the big difference is although web widget delivers one type of functionality to the blog user, a blidget delivers mutiple functionalities.

Blidget comes in a form of a box, usually a lot bigger then the traditional web widget.  With a scroll bar delivered for users to scroll up and down the blidget itself without moving the page, the box also provides additional functionalities as well Read more

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