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Challenge: Write 100 Post Ideas for Your Blog (Today!)

dogechoig — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:05:55 +0000

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I’ve just finished writing a list of 100 articles I’d like to publish on my blog at some time. It took me around three hours to get this done but now I have a lot of fresh ideas on paper about what to write. I think everyone who’s serious about blogging should do this every once in a while, at least to see what direction his blog is taking regarding content.

I’m a huge fan of planning ahead and building such a list is definitely the best way I know to plan for your blog. The biggest benefit of doing this is that you’ll have plenty of time to study and research the topics you’ll write about. Depending on your posts frequency, this list could last for as short as two months to as long as one year worth of writing material.

In reality that is only half of the story. In fact writing this list provides multiple advantages. Let’s look at them together.

Let’s start by the simple act of writing down the list. When you are writing, you are dumping out ideas from your brain. Writing is effective because it allow your brain to relax and express your thoughts on paper, which is a solid reference for your ideas. This works even more because a hundred articles is usually enough to provide a challenge for yourself, in fact you’ll really need to use your creativity to build such a long list. If for some reasons writing down a hundred articles is not compelling for you, you might want to write a longer list. Just make sure your articles are unique and that you are not simply rehashing old blog posts.

Another reason to create this list is that your blog should not be your unique end point for your articles. If you want to grow the number of your subscribers and your blog popularity, you should write a lot of guest posts. Now, it can be hard to find the time to write both the articles for your blog, and the guest posts as well, so most of the time you end up procrastinating on this last action. Of course if you know in advance the topic you’ll write about, you will be more likely to take one day off and write five or six quality guest posts to promote your blog.

You’ll also be more likely to respect your blog frequency if you write your articles in advance. Let’s do some math here. If it would usually take one hour to write a good post and you spend one hour every day on writing, in one month you’ll have written at least thirty articles. Now, if the frequency rate on your blog posts is of three articles/week, during that month you’ll have written way more than two entire months of articles in advance. Imagine what you could do with all the free time you’ll have. And this is only for one hour of time per day, which is what I expect you are already spending each day on writing.

Of course you’ll still have new blog posts ideas after you’ll have written such a list. As usual you should track those ideas on paper for later use, and if the article is time sensitive, you’ll easily be able publish it like you would do it now. However, there will be times when you’ll have a big idea. If you follow the method in this article, you’ll be able to spend a lot of time to work on that idea and to turn it into a killer article. In my opinion, you should try to write one killer article every five or six ones to attract new visitors and be featured in social medias and aggregators, but this is another story. However, that is definitely possible by following this method.

Oscar Del Ben is a personal development blogger, programmer and
entrepreneur. He likes challenges and he is always looking for ways to
improve and tweak his life. Check out FreeStyleMind, his blog, or subscribe to his RSS feed.

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We Have Two Winners

dogechoig — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:13:18 +0000

First of all a big thank you for everyone who helped to spread the word about my ebook launch. It was downloaded by 2,236 people in the first week alone (you can download it by filling out the form at the bottom of this post).

Today I also organized all the entries for the contest (took over one hour…). We had a total of 637 entries. In order to pick the two winners I used the “List Ramdomizer” feature on Random.org. I recorded a screencast while doing it, check it out:

As you can see from the video the two winners are Alejandro Garcia from http://confessionzofawriter.blogspot.com and Sebastian Tibichi from twitter.com/tibichi. I will get in touch with them to deliver their prizes.

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Always Be Learning New Skills

dogechoig — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:02:48 +0000

It might appear as common sense, but I beg to differ. I believe that most of us get lazy sooner or later, and we stop trying to learn new skills.

For most people this happens once they get out of university and start working a stable job. I have been there myself, and the feeling is that you already have had your share of studying and learning, and that now you just need to apply it all.

If you follow that logic for a long time, you will probably find yourself not too happy about your professional situation.

There are many reasons to always be learning new skills. First of all it will make you a more versatile person, as you never know what kind of projects you will be working on the next year or the next decade.

Secondly, the more skills you have mastered, the easier and faster it will be to learn new ones. It is like learning new languages, once you speak three or four it becomes really easy to learn a new one.

Finally, if you work on the Internet this is particularly important, because the web is the fastest changing environment that we have.

As a blogger or online entrepreneur, here are some skills that you could aim to learn over the years:

HTML and CSS
SEO
Writing
Graphic design
Programming
Networking and server management
Copywriting
Business planning and strategy

Don’t wait for tomorrow. Pick a skill that you could use and start learning it today.

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Impact of SEO on Web site update frequency

dogechoig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:33:28 +0000

First of all be noted that the content is continually updated Web site to the survival and development of the basic conditions of the fundamental Web site, regardless of the user or search engine, it is impossible to have a long-term site is not updated to invest an excessive amount of concern, to abandon this type of “dead stop” or “quasi-dead point” is just a matter of time. The frequency of content updates web site represents the activity at the same time, the higher the frequency of content updates, but also means that the site content is often more rich web site for the establishment of the authority in the industry is very important.

For most sites, especially in terms of personal web sites, web site builders always limited energy, the frequency of updates is always a certain limit. Then, from the SEO (search engine optimization) point of view, what kind of update frequency can be optimized to ensure that the effect of site? Or, in other conditions are similar, or is under the premise of a lower frequency of update / add content will not affect the site SEO goals?

Personal feelings, many sites in the absence of the substance used is similar to “Today’s Links”, “summary of today” to keep the site updated, it seems that there are similar considerations, it seems that some websites or even simply “for the update Update “- Of course, those four are reproduced in order to update the site is not just for SEO – in the logic of this approach is workable, but need to do?

Have done before a material point, the new station, is mainly used to download daily updates for at least 10, GOOGLE is updated every day and 2 hours can be a user searches for that day to see a lot of points, so updated on a daily basis, search engines have a habit to know you one day, so once a day, why the major stations to update soon, content rich, search engines are not at every moment in the update, compared to the individual stations , updated daily or several articles can.

Update on SEO is very important, and now the search engine on the collection of articles can be detected, even if the optimization of even the best, not the article update, only the collection, or will not work. Province of a few minutes, the station update their look, not better.

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Google PageRank Updates Becoming More Frequent?

dogechoig — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:25:27 +0000

It looks like we had another PageRank update yesterday. I noticed a couple of small fluctuations within my sites, and some readers also told me that their PageRank moved.

I am not writing about all PageRank updates anymore because there is nothing new with them, right? I made an exception this time because apparently Google is increasing the frequency of the updates.

If I remember well some six weeks ago we also had a PageRank update. I didn’t notice it personally, but I saw a lot of people talking about it over the online forums and blog comments.

Did you notice the update six weeks ago? What about yesterday’s one?

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