"Ann: Used to be a frequent reader. But, it has become a waste of time trying to understand what you are attempting to cryptically express in your blog posts these days."

"I wish to stay informed, not play clever head games. If you have something to say, just say it. I'm too busy to play your silly exercises. Otherwise, find a more productive use of your and my time. As judge and jury and former reader, I find you in Contempt. Case dismissed. Goodbye!"

Someone wrote that and emailed it to me. It's not a name I recognize, just an email address that's a stray collection of numbers and letters.  

I laughed out loud at "I wish to stay informed, not play clever head games." People read this blog to "stay informed"? That seems ill-informed. And as for that "judge and jury" and "Contempt/Case dismissed" business — that can't be a lawyer. Must just be someone cranked up about my being a (former) law professor and thinking I'm vulnerable to criticisms containing legalistic lingo. 

But you need a specific charge if you want to find me guilty, and what is it? Failure to keep you informed?  Not having something to say and just saying it? The crime of playing clever head games? The infliction of silly exercises? Cryptic expression?

Oh, there I go, asking questions when I don't allow comments. Oddly enough, the complaint you see above never mentions the abolition of comments. Is it possible the person thinks the blog "has become a waste of time" because there are no comments anymore — that the comments used to help him understand what I was cryptically expressing? Ha ha — I can't understand what the emailer is cryptically expressing. And now here I am imposing it on you!

FROM THE EMAIL: Mary writes: 

Um, that sounds like Trump! lol, too funny. With the exception of all caps, that could be a Trump twitter rant. And he’s a man that’s been more than knee deep in court cases his whole life so it kinda fits him. “waste of time”, that’s straight up Trump! What do you think?

Yeah, complete with the stray capitalization.

btw, your blog is 1000% better now, so much more interesting with curated comments.

Thanks!

And AZ Bob writes: 

I've always liked your blogging style. It reminds me of being in law school many years ago. You frame the topic in a way that provokes a wide-open discussion. The comments provide much entertainment, if not insight. This may not be what the commenter was trying to say but I do miss reading the comments. The comments had a way of making the post complete.

A while back, you asked us to be more judicious in our posts. I wish that had happened. It noticed prior to your change in format that one particular open thread became a slug fest. As moderator, you have your hands full so I see why you reigned in the comments. I hope you find a way to return to having comments.

Asking for something would not work, because there were some bad faith commenters — commenters who were out to destroy the blog. They might even be inspired to do more of the very thing I said not to do. 

AND: Bob writes:

Neither you nor any of your audience will miss this Low-Information Reader.

Tommy writes: 

I actually prefer no comments, mostly because I'm more interested in your opinion than I am anything going on there. I think having comments resulted in your being more interested in starting a conversation and less likely to give an opinion, and it's that opinion I prefer to read.

I think you actually like and prefer the conversation bit when it's civil, and history shows I'll read your blog no matter what you do, but I wanted to let you know there is at least one person that would prefer the no conversation just tell us what you think version.

Comments (and the current version of sort of comments) have been around for awhile now, and I still miss the other style, anyone that wants to comment can start their own blog.

Long time reader from back when George W. Bush was in the White House

Thanks, Tommy!

Stephen writes: 

My wife and I both miss the comments. We enjoyed reading them to each other. Quite a few of the commenters had clever and pertinent things to say. Yes, sometimes I learn things about current events from your blog; there have been multiple incidences of you writing about a death of some prominent person before I see their obituary anywhere else. Your legal commentary is also quite good. Of course, your posts can’t all be gold nuggets and diamonds; there have been many posts where your stream of consciousness writing made me think that you were talking to yourself and we were all eavesdropping. Those posts always seem to leave me cold and cause me to move on to something else.

Thanks. That's a clear indication to me that I'm not the writer for you. I'm not here to feed news updates. If you dislike the posts that are in my personal voice, then you're not the reader for me.

We still read your blog...

Oh... all right....

... but losing the comments have made it less enjoyable for my wife and I. Oh, well. I’m indifferent regarding posting any part of this on your blog. Further, I’m not going to sit down and compose an email to you whenever I feel I have something worthy to say. There was an immediacy to commenting which made it fun, and it was easy to say something. Emails not so much....

This is good.  People are more selective in what they will email compared to what they'll just drop in the comments. People — some people — would throw in comments without thinking about whether they "have something worthy to say." Nobody emails to say "Why are you still reading the New York Times?" or to ask, off topic, "Who shot Ashli Babbitt?"

ALSO: Amadeus 48 writes: 

Mixed feelings, here. I miss the comments, but if I am honest, I confess that things had fallen into a slough. In my own case, for the most part my comments gave me a chance to snark. There are other blogs for that, aren’t there?

So now I have a chance (not really given a choice) to write something at least somewhat thoughtful THAT ALTHOUSE WILL READ! Be still, my heart.

Isn’t asking an intelligent question the best way to make a point? Haven’t generations of philosophers and law professors thought so? It seemed to me that questions like for whom did Althouse vote and why were pointless. The point was to make the reader ask himself or herself for whom were they voting and why.

So, on to a brighter and more thoughtful tomorrow.

Thanks for years of fun and provocation.

"FollowByEmail widget (Feedburner) is going away."

So I am told by Blogger, "because your blog uses the FollowByEmail widget (Feedburner)."

The notice continues: "Recently, the Feedburner team released a system update announcement , that the email subscription service will be discontinued in July 2021. After July 2021, your feed will still continue to work, but the automated emails to your subscribers will no longer be supported. If you’d like to continue sending emails, you can download your subscriber contacts. Learn how."

Ugh! I don't know if I can "learn how" to do anything like that, but I clicked through to "Feedburner help" and it says:

How to export your email subscribers to a CSV 

Once you have activated FeedBurner's Email Subscriptions service for your feed, you can easily export a list of your email subscribers.

1. Click Analyze, and select Subscribers.

2. Click FeedBurner Email Subscriptions, then click Manage Your Email Subscriber List. This opens a new page.

3. Under View Subscriber Details, click CSV (next to "Export").

Easily?!! First of all, that is all gibberish to me. Where do I click "Analyze"? Second of all, I'm just guessing that I could get a list of the email of all my subscribers but then it would be up to me to send them email every time I post. I don't see myself doing that. 

Perhaps there's an easy solution here, and you're someone who can explain it to me, but please understand that I have very low tolerance of any discussion of anything technical about computers. I'm already exhausted just writing this post. And looking up "CSV." 

You can email me here.

ADDED: Here's an article at TechCrunch: "Google’s FeedBurner moves to a new infrastructure but loses its email subscription service." 

If you’re an internet user of a certain age, chances are you used Google’s FeedBurner to manage the RSS feeds of your personal blogs and early podcasts at some point. During the Web 2.0 era, it was the de facto standard for feed management and analytics, after all.

Founded in 2004, with Dick Costolo as one of its co-founders (before he became Twitter’s CEO in 2010), it was acquired by Google in 2007. Ever since, FeedBurner lingered in an odd kind of limbo. While Google had no qualms shutting down popular services like Google Reader in favor of its ill-fated social experiments like Google+, FeedBurner just kept burning feeds day in and day out, even as Google slowly deprecated some parts of the service, most notably its advertising integrations.

I don’t know that anybody spent a lot of time thinking about the service and RSS has slowly (and sadly) fallen into obscurity, yet the service was probably easy enough to maintain that Google kept it going. And despite everything, shutting it down would probably break enough tools for publishers to create quite an uproar....

Feed owners will be able to download their email subscriber lists (and will be able to do so after July, too). With that, Blogger’s FollowByEmail widget will also be deprecated....

"If you’re an internet user of a certain age...." No, I'm beyond that age. I never understood it in the first place. I just feel bad if my readers are losing something.... 

"I understand and partially support your decision to remove comments from your website but if you persist in this effort you need to quit asking questions that beg a comment. State your opinion and let the chips fall where they may."

A reader named Carl emails.

I don't think he's trying to be funny, but that made me laugh. Questions are a literary device — often found in books, where there's never a comments section — unless you scrawl marginalia. I would never undertake to squelch the questions in my writing. They come up naturally as I'm thinking in real time. 

To form a question is to get somewhere into thinking about a topic. It's progress. It's a thought, not merely a failure to complete a thought. Not every question demands an answer. It might be a rhetorical question. But even when it's a question that would be good to answer, it doesn't need efforts to answer it right underneath. 

It can go into the reader's head and work the magic of giving rise to thoughts. It doesn't need other people immediately chattering. The reader might do better thinking independently. And surely you don't need me answering all my own questions. To say "State your opinion" is to assume I always have an opinion, but why would I? And I think a framed question is a kind of opinion. It's the opinion that this is a question. It's a statement of the issue.

And what is "let the chips fall where they may" supposed to mean? That I'm somehow withholding the answers to my questions out of fear of consequences?! 

I think questions are exciting, so I don't feel that I'm withholding answers. I like to open things up and create potential. That can go well with a comments section, but it's certainly not the case that it can't go without it.

FROM THE EMAIL: A reader named Ron writes:

It’s a guy thing. When a woman asks a question we think we have to come up with an answer. In fairness, we have learned this from a lot of “are you listening?” when we don’t “answer.”

"I had to email you, because the photo you posted of Meade catching you 'wandering off' bears an uncanny resemblance to the park in Antonioni's great film Blow-Up."

"In the film, the protagonist surreptitiously photographs a rendezvous in the park. And then as he keeps 'blowing up' the prints, i.e. zooming in, he starts to think he's witnessed a murder. I thought you'd appreciate the similarity of the images! By the way, I've been reading your blog every single day for years and years. Huge fan. I love that you never skip a day, even holidays. Also by the way, I completely agree with the decision to stop comments. The commenters were often rude and obnoxious, and to the extent they drew you into conflicts and took your attention away from other things, that was a waste of your time. And your time matters to your audience -- us! I agree with the person who emailed you saying the comments had become male-dominated (I would say misogynistic). Which seems to be a theme in online comments sections. Those commenters were a tiny sliver of your audience, and frequently an unsavory sliver. Thanks for everything you do! Please don't stop! The Althouse blog is a daily delight."

That's email from someone with the first name Paul. Thanks, Paul!

Here's the shot from "Blowup":

And here's Meade's shot of me: 

"Greetings, Ms. Althouse. I've just shown up to your blog to discover you've stopped comments. And while my opinion is, like most, certainly meaningless..."

"... I thought I'd drop you a note just in case. I haven't even scrolled down further to see how long ago you made this change or why. To be honest, I was coming here less and less. And I do believe that is because of the comments. I am one of your left-leaning readers. And to be honest, I would try to slog through the comments because I think it is good for us to hear the opinions of the other side. This seemed a somewhat 'safer' way to do that rather than engaging my right-leaning parents or friends. I do not of course want to end up in an argument with them. This was like eavesdropping on someone else's family political argument. But sadly-- the number of higher quality, sober and informed comments/ opinions had seemed to plummet. And it had become a complete drag. I certainly could just choose to NOT read the comments. But I must say-- I was disturbed by the people you seemed to attract. Which I suppose is just to say that I'm disturbed by the level of our society all around. So-- all this to say, I will likely visit MORE often without the comments. You lean more to the right than I, and so I believe I will still get that 'other side' benefit. And while it would be nice if more of your followers were as interesting as you, we're just not! And while we all, including you, benefit from the interactions some times... I'm certain all this was a FAR bigger drag for you. So I agree with your lawlizard commenter-- please yo self! And thank you!"

Email from Andrea.

“I don't think that you need to rehash ending comments any further, but I just thought of this. There is a Grateful Dead documentary on Prime..."

"... and the last episode, when the Dead were carrying on the show for the fans, the fans who were becoming increasingly rowdy, BTW. The show was killing Jerry, and did kill him. The Deadheads wouldn't even buy tickets for the show, but just would show up 'for the party.' The band was getting kind of sick of it an had no way to control it. Anyway, there was a lot about that final episode that reminded me of your blog. Like I said, you have stated your reasons clearly enough, so I am not asking you to use this in any way, but just credit it to 'Tim' if you should choose to do so."

That's (obviously) from the email. Here's the Amazon Prime series, "A Long Strange Trip." I've watched some of it, but not the last episode. Now, I will watch it. I have thought about my problem with the comments with an analogy to having a party at my own house.

"Long-time reader, first time commenter. I love the café style blog you created and have spent way too many hours reading you and your commenters over the past eleven years."

Writes a reader who calls herself lawlizard. The email continues: 

I was sad to see that you ended comments, but having had some time to think about it, I would offer the following. I think the comment section had become less of a café to offer freewheeling conversation and thoughtful opinions and was more like a bar.

For the regulars, everybody knows their name, but they also had gotten boring. I could read your post and often it would spark interesting ideas and then read the comments and too often they were just rehashing the same opinion, but tied to the latest topic.

Oh look, there’s the guy who thinks all women are ninnies; there’s the guy who thinks everyone should move to Nevada from California; there’s the guy who hates Trump; there’s the guy who loves Trump; there’s the guy who think America is collapsing; there’s the communist who think they are all uni-party.

And there’s the incessant need to convince you that you, the hostess, the blogress, the free speech advocate needs to think just like them or you are not worthy, needs to find the same things interesting, needs to be on their team. And then every once in a while, some drunk shows up and has to be shown to the door and it’s your job, not theirs. They sit there and rile someone up for fun, because you have to clean up the mess.

Why couldn’t they just appreciate you for who you are instead of trying to turn you into another mindless drone? Why couldn’t they take twenty minutes to engage with the ideas and say something interesting instead of reflexively spitting out the same opinion they had yesterday?

Sometimes I had something interesting to say 2 or 3 days later and it was too late to say it. I did get a lot out of the comments, so I don't want to knock them too hard. It is very hard to be consistently interesting and surprising and deep.

Then the AI Big Tech people start hassling you to parse every single word and moderate them. Any appreciation for that, no, no no. They decided this is your job, not that you are the artist entertaining them daily for free with amazing content. And their excuses are weak-she should have hired an administrator, she should have changed her tech platform, she should allow co-bloggers — elevate the commenters to your status.

Did they ever ask you what you want, what you wanted to see? I will miss DBQ, Freeman Hunt, Mockturtle, I will miss the tangents. I missed Laslo and Betamax when they moved on. I missed Chip Ahoy. I was trying to think of a constructive solution and thought what if you tried a kind of “open-line Friday.”

Take a break from the drama. Open comments, one day a week. More importantly, I would say, do what you want. Maybe after your break you’ll miss it. If the comments did not spark your interest and your creativity and improve your thinking, then let them go.

I greatly appreciate you and your art. I respect your refusal to prostitute yourself to either the woke or the deplorable and to remain a true liberal in the original sense of the world. I’m humbled to even be writing to you and to think you will read and value my opinion. Thank you and I will keep reading. Feel free to share my comments. You can call me lawlizard.

ADDED: Another emailer: 

Ma'am: 

I miss the comments in general, though perhaps not all of them. 

I particularly do not miss the sometimes all too numerous comments in which people feel the need to explain at length why other commenters were idiots - even when I sometimes agree, as I do not see much point to picking fights in a venue like this. 

Still the comments were at times informative and even sometimes witty, so I miss that. 

Of course, it being your sandbox, you are entitled to handle it in whatever way you see fit. 

Thank you for your work on this. While I do not necessarily always agree with what I understand to be your take on things, you have the great virtue of not being boring, and your choice of topics and items to point out is frequently quite enjoyable. 

In any case, please know that I am, 

Respectfully Yours, 

William....

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How to Increase & Boost Reader Comments on your Blog?

How To Increase & Boost Reader Comments On Your Blog?

 Boost Reader Comments

There are best ways to use your comments to drive traffic to your blog or website post.

Every website owner wishes to get more comments. Site users that give feedback/comments are more likely to come back and also research for more and that gives you more website traffic. 

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Below you can find some techniques that proved helpful for Blog Tips as well.

Get more Comments on your post by following the step-by-step tricks:

1: Disable the Captcha in the comment system:

Make it easy for visitors to comment/feedback on your website. The Captcha makes me do not comment on the post, even If the post is very good and helpful, is a blog or website with the complex commenting process. So it’s good to avoid a captcha system in your blog comment section.

2: Display The New Comment First:

Many visitors do not leave comments when they feel that their comments will get down after all other's comments. Offer your visitor good visibility of their comment by showing firstly. For setting goes to WordPress Than ‘Discussion’. And after that ‘Other comment settings’ select Newer’ on the bargain that starts with “Comments should be shown with…” (This the option may not activate on FBT).

3: Always Give Response To Your Reader:

Whenever I go to another blog comment section, I usually stop comments that reacted (respond) by the blog owner. Guests are more likely to leave a comment when they see that the blog owner is consistently responding to the person’s comments.

4: Commenting On Other Websites:

I am not saying to leave comments/feedback on Professional blogs or even Copy blogger. Do into others if you would have them do onto you. Give comments on the website which have the same website traffic as your website has and say the other website owners to do comment on your blog. It is an awesome technique to generate initial comments on a new blog + you would obtain an immediate reply/response. We are getting a lot more website traffic as well as comments on FBT via this process.

5: Ask For Comment:

Maybe the easiest and obvious technique. You can just ask for your guest post at the end of the post. Try out finish content with a question.

6: Use The Commentluv Plugin:

Out of all great plugins I most love CommentLuv plugin. It is a good method to give a surprise (do-follow URL/link to their website) to your visitors who leave comments on your blog. You may utilize the CommentLuv WordPress plugin or even an Intense Debate plugin which is built for BLOGSPOT. CommentLuv shows a link/URL to the last publish articles from the commenter's blog. There is not a good inspiration for site visitors to comment on then getting a URL/link to their website article.

7: Always Ask The Questions At The End:

Even if the post explains everything very easily, all the time try to add your opinion at the end. E.g. As you recommended some plugins state, ask the site visitors which of them you are using in your blog and also tell your site visitors which they are used.

8: Make The Best Articles:

I am all the time to try my best to share something special with my site visitors. At last, I noticed that every time I write about a special topic/niche or even like the perspective on popular niche/topic I get a lot more feedback. Build the efforts to generate exclusive and helpful articles and also your site visitors will make up you with comments.

9: Ask For Addition & Offer A Link:

One more easy technique is to list a topic and tell your site visitors, viewers, readers to share their methods. These are my techniques via which I have enhanced my website traffic a lot more.

10. Keep Comment A Policy Page

Your comment policy should, first of all, keep your readers' expectations well.

Why do you need a comment policy page?

every website and blog needs to have a comment privacy page because of the rules for who should tell the visitor because they need to know how to comment and which one outside their policy because clearly, visitors will understand. 

See my comment policy page.

Well what is your greatest technique to increase the variety of feedback on your website?

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8 Easy Way's Should You Start A Blog In 2021?

8 Easy Way's Should You Start A Blog In 2021? 

Are you an online business or blog?

Are you an individual who wants to start a blog?. OR maybe you just want to make money online from your blog and website.

It is easy to understand you how to start a blog and how to create a blog website is very easy and step by step through this post.

If that is the case then you have been landed just in the right place because I am going to show you how you can do all the above-mentioned things using the power of BLOGS. Blogs are great for creating influential relationships.

There was a time when you talk about blogging and people would say “What the heck is a blog?” and now because the completely online world has changed they say “What do you mean that you don’t have a blog”.

As you can see that, the question has been completely changed and today blogging is something that everyone is doing and at least starting to be doing and if you are one of those who want to start their blog and make money with it then these tips are going to be most important to you. Already I detailed a post before going to Create a profitable blog 2021

Hi This I A Easy To Short Guide Free Beginners “How To Start A Blog 2021”   

1. Choose your Niche

Now the technical stuff is taken care of(domain, hosting and WordPress).

It is time to move on to the real stuff like what topic you are going to choose and what niche you are going to write about. choose a niche that you are already interested in because then creating content for your blog will be easy for you as you are already interested in that niche and you know pretty much about that already.

2. Choice a Domain

Before you start your blog, you need to take care of some important stuff like your domain name and hosting. A domain is where a website will be accessible for people to visit on the internet. You can buy .com, .net, .org, .info or .biz but i prefer the .com Buy your domain from bluehost.com or siteground.com because these two are the best providers. One important thing to look for when buying your domain is to buy a keyword-rich name or a name that represents your brand.

3. Choice a Hosting provider

Just like a domain name, Hosting is something that you need to start your blog or a website. Hosting is necessary because without hosting your website will not be online for anyone to visit. you can buy hosting from HostGator or Bluehost. These 2 are simply the best when it comes to hosting and speed.

4. WordPress

Finally, you need WordPress as your blogging software. After setting up your hosting and pointing your domain to your hosting account the only one-step that is left is to install WordPress and some important plugins and a theme for your blog.

5. Find Inspiration

After choosing your niche, now it is time for you to find inspiration about your niche so for example if you choose, health and fitness as your niche then go out there and read blogs that are related to health and fitness and get ideas about your content.

Read these blogs daily and read books about your niche. Subscribe to their newsletters if they offer one. This way soon, you will be able to create content for your blog that will be unique to your voice.

6. Create a Writing Schedule

From now on you should be able to start writing and creating content for your blog but what most important is that you should create a writing schedule and then stick with your schedule. Here are some options for you.

Are you going to write 1 blog post a day?

OR you can write one post in 3 days or one in 4 days.

you can write one post a week.

Choose whatever works best for you but once you have chosen your schedule then stick with it and don’t break it cause it will hurt your writing. For scheduling your posts, you will need a plugin called editorial calendar plugin for WordPress.

7. Promote your content

Creating good and compelling content is only one part of the puzzle and if you put all your efforts just into creating content then it will do no good for you.

The other side of the puzzle is to promote your content on the internet at related places. Here’s social media comes in to play and all other Search engine optimization techniques are to be considered. These are some links for you to know more about content promotion and getting traffic to your blogs.

8. Monetize your blog

Now it is time to make some money with your blog. First of all, you can make money with your blog only if you are getting traffic to your blog and most importantly targeted traffic to your blog which involves the content promotion strategy that I outlined above. If you are getting traffic then there are options for you to monetize your blog through following methods.

Google AdSense. (How to make money through AdSense)

Direct ad space sales. (You can charge advertisers to pay you for showing their ads on your site.)

Conclusion

In reading, all this may make no sense to you but this is exactly what I did to start my blogs and you can do the same. After all it comes down to this “Action always beats inaction” so go out there and create your first blog if you want to.

So what do you think about blogging and how it can affect our lives? let me know in the comments below. Share the knowledge with your friends on social media.DO you want me to write about something? Let me know.

21 Blogging Tips For Beginners In 2021 To Start Blogging

Are you thinking to be a blogger?

Trying to gain your blog online? using Blogging is a platform, which has given you a chance to unroll your passion into your career.

You have the freedom to be a publisher, be it you want to entertain others, or give useful tips from your inner skills.

However, like any other platform, becoming a successful writer, needs patience, hard work, and strong determination.

Apart from being a skilled writer, you also need to know the tact of reaching your audience.

My readers about uncertainties in blogging career have often questioned me. “Can I become rich by blogging”, “Does blogging work?”, “Can I make a living by blogging?” are the most common queries which people specifically newbies ask me.

Well, I always tell my readers to ask your inner self, before choosing blogging as your career.

Honestly, if you ask me whether blogging works or not; my answer is, blogging only works if you want it to work.

I have seen many bloggers who make a decent living by being a blogger, whereas in contrast, many who are not even able to make a penny out of blogging.


Sometimes new bloggers get confused by their fellow bloggers, when a person wants to start a blog, most of the time inspiration comes from the earnings of Pro Bloggers.

Its true bloggers can inspire anyone within a few minutes to start a blog, but starting a blog doesn’t mean that you will earn.

There is a thin line of difference between successful and unsuccessful blogging and that is your intention.

I utterly believe that the main reason behind a failed blog is how you have perceived it.

If you started blogging by mirroring yourself in the shoes of others, with an intention that, you will be rich overnight, and then it is your fault.

On the flip side, if you have started blogging out of your passion and money is your second priority, then you are on the right track.

I am writing some of the important tips if you are a newbie and thinking to be a blogger.

You should consider these steps to avoid some common mistakes, which most of the newbies tend to make.

21 Useful Blogging Tips For Newbies

1. Choosing A Right Niche

Some of the biggest mistakes, which we often make is thinking that only some niches work and others not.

I would say that nothing is out there, which doesn’t work. So, Choose only a niche in which your passion lies. A blogger only gets popular when he writes good depth quality content.

Therefore, choose the topic, which captivates your heart. The words will flow automatically through your head, coated with abundant knowledge about the subject (your passion).


Also read: 56 Experts Share Their Secrets, How to Pick a Profitable Niche?

2. Niche-Building

Go out there and explore the current needs of the market. Look for loopholes in current situations like weight loss and anti-aging, or certain gaps in popular product lines.

Only do not just focus on social networks like Facebook,Twitter or Pinterest. Go beyond a singular “high risk” platform to obtain more chances of succeeding.
3. Engagement with Your Audience
If you are writing anything, just for the heck of it, then you are at fault. Blogging is more of a live interacting medium between you and your readers.

You should be expressed in your blogs.

A famous writer creates an illusionary real and entertaining world, which hypnotizes the reader’s soul and heart.

Always remember, ‘There is no bad, instead there is bad literature’. If you are creating a space in the hearts of your audience through you your words, then success is just a step away.
4. Read A Lot
Read a lot. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in a world, a door opens to allow more light”, said; the popular name in the world of literature is convincingly true.

Make sure to only read the quality stuff.

Always remember the formula, ‘You read excel-you write excellent’. Furthermore, reading the topics under your niche will reinforce your skills to become a terrific blogger.

Well, depth and the intuitive article comes from your deep research and learning about a specific topic.

5. Never Plagiarize

Always be honest with yourself not to take any shortcuts by breaching the ethics of writing.

Thinking of taking shortcuts just cuts the link between you and your dreams. Many newbie unskilled writers start blogging with the self-centered motive of making money online.

Hardly knowing a tweak about the script, they just copy someone else’s work and put them under their name.

This bustle never lets them reach anywhere but to bring shame to them in the long run. Being honest is the key to triumph.

6. Strong Determination and Patience

You should be patient and determined to write.

Never ever let yourself the victim of negative distractions.

Initially, you may be criticized for some of your blogs.

Never be the prey of your detractors. Stay put and motivated. Soon you will be driving on the road to victory.

Push your limits to the extreme and that’s how you become limitless.

7. Foster Authorship

Be the expert that everyone wanted.

You can do so by building a professional website showcasing your “expertise.”

Build on trust and confidence.

In the online world of business, trustworthiness and reliability go beyond any formal certification or degree.

8. Automate

Make use of new technologies. People look for convenience when shopping for products or goods online as well as in gathering solutions to their issues.

There is a vast supply of online tools that you can use to aid in this need.

Website forums, automated order, and delivery protocols secured yet user-friendly payment system, and other customized solution will help generate revenue for your business 24/7 year-round.

9. Outsource

Outsourcing is one key element in a cost-efficient online business.

Tap virtual assistants online. Sites like iWriter or odeskwork or upwork.com are great sources of staff with specialized skills in accounting, database management, Webhosting, article writing, and so on.

Try to delegate ministerial functions while you concentrate on the core competencies of your business.
10. Connect and Link
Reach out and foster a connection with your online audience.

Hear out their sentiments in building much credible content for your website.

Product reviews, blog comments, discussion boards, testimonials and case studies are great sources of information for you to bank on.
11. Scalability
Adapt successfully to increasing demands.

Finding a lucrative niche, build your authorship around it and infuse this with a proactive system via automation.

Make use of customer feedback to create successful promotion tactics and achieve sure success.

12. Finding Sustainable Means

Look for a sustainable way to earn money.

Do not rely on a single productivity scheme. Look for ways that will generate recurring revenues for your business.

Make use of renewable subscriptions and other sustainable point-of-sales. Develop a stable and enduring customer base via sustainable efforts like newsletters, advice or support.
13. Getting To Know Your Community

So I guess you are ready for some strategies?


Well. here we go.

I think one of the basic strategies for blogging is to follow other bloggers and get a feel for what it is like to blog.

I follow several blogs and each has its very own unique style and information. SEOMoz is my favorite for search engine optimization information and learning some of the latest skills.

My other is Problogger with Darren Rowse. This guy knows his stuff!

Follow and connect with blogs that have to do with your specific niche.

If you are a photographer and are trying to figure out where to start, look at other photo blogs.

If you are into sports, the outdoors or even the theater, search out those in your specific niche and see what they are doing effectively.

14. Content Creation

Becoming a content creating a monster is your objective.

For any beginner to online marketing and especially blogging, there is no real way to get around the effort and time it takes to be successful here.

Many do look for quick fixes to content creation, but if you look around…you will not find them and if you do, it will not be for long.

You have to learn how to create content and not only words and links slapped on a post, but content that matters.

Content that matters is search engine friendly and people-friendly. Without solid quality content, why would I subscribe to YOU?

One important part about the learning curve is that it is not all that time consuming or difficult.

Also, once you begin to learn, APPLY! This is the one tip that leads to success almost every time.

Most will quit before they even begin, but you will stay your course and follow-through, this is success online for the beginner.

15. The Social Connection

Today more than ever, and it will continually grow, social metrics are playing a role in your visibility online.

Most everyone today, even beginners to blogging, has been micro blogging for some time now.

Think about it, Twitter, Facebook and the ever-growing Google items you have already been blogging.

Your blogging efforts need to be shared and you need to be a part of that community actively.

Now I do not mean herding cats on Facebook, in fact I am not a fan of Facebook. What I mean to say here, is that we need to be actively posting our content to our social sites and proactively sharing them in a NICE WAY.

Blogs are the largest and most effective social media platforms online, still. We should however, make sure we include other social media platforms beyond the likes of Facebook and into social bookmarking.

Simple bookmarking strategies, although overrated as far as link juice is concerned, are still vital to spreading the news about your blog and brand for that matter.

16. Write for Readers

Google is the number one search engine so everyone always tries to impress Google, but they never think that their readers read their blog, not by Google, Google is the only way to get some readers, if you write for your readers, you will find better results from Google search.

Google loves those blogs who love their readers, so write for your readers, not for anyone else, and just make sure you are writing what your users want from you, you can solve their queries regarding their problems and suggestions.

17. Show Your Passion

Never choose your blog niche without any research;

if you will land in the wrong niche then you will face many problems in the future, the most important rule to start a blog, “Select Niche by your Passion”.

If you select a niche because your friend is earning from that, so you are wrong that is your friend’s passion and he is doing well in that, find your passion and start a blog on that.

18. Do Research before Writing

Most of the bloggers just start writing without any research or concepts, newbies think that number of post matters in blogging, but the truth is quality matters numbers does not matter, you can get huge traffic from one post if you write well.


Always choose your post wisely to get the benefits of uniqueness, if you write the same post which has been already published somewhere then you will not get anything.
19. Invite Guest Authors
Your blog is your community, so invite people to be a part of your blog and write posts for other blogs.

Always try to make your blog more engaging; you can create a write for us page to get attention or to invite your readers.

If you are managing email list then you can shoot an email to all your readers so they can be a part of your blog as a contributor.

20. Take part in Discussions

When you read or write a good post you will see lots of comments and suggestions, that is the magic of blogging when you interact with other bloggers in the comment section of your blog or in others blog then you build a relationship with other bloggers, which gives you positive results for you and your blog.

21. Mention other and Get Exposure

Mentioning others is a good way to speed up your blog when you mention someone in your post then that person will share your post or you can take interviews or simply mention posts of bloggers this will improve your social exposure that is very important for your new blog.

These are the most common and important things which you need to learn or apply to your blog, blogging is an ongoing process so you need to implement these tips every time no matter you are new or pro blogger.

Following and finding favorite blogs is a great way to not only see what others are doing technically, but also see how they are truly connecting with their traffic and or, subscribers.

Let us know what do you think about this Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide.

What Are The Most Common Problems With Guest Blogging?

What Are The Most Common Problems With Guest Blogging?

The Most Common Problems With Guest Blogging - Guest blogging can be a problem if the right tools are not used to create the best articles and materials for the blogger. There are a number of rules you should follow so as keep safe from any of these common mistakes that people make when guest blogging. For someone to accept your post or article on their blog, there are some common mistakes that people make and some not so common that you will need to deal with before submission.

Go through the Guidelines

Before writing, you will need to look at the blog you want to write for. Most of the people will just glance at the blog’s topic and interest and start writing without considering what the blogger wants. You will be surprised to learn that the rules and the guidelines for the type of post the blog wants are on the same site. Find out what kind of material they want for their blog to avoid some of these guest blogging problems. This will also feature the format and preferences of the blog when it comes to the length of the articles. Do not be surprised if your work is rejected even when you believe it is the best in quality. Some bloggers and blogs are very strict about these and will go to the extent of creating a page for this specific purpose. Only those that suit the specifications are accepted.

Quality over Quantity

Take time to create some really good work. In as much as you need a lot of posts to garner presence. You would rather write a few that are of good quality. Quality posts will also garner for you reputation as opposed to many shallow ones. The fact that you are posting your work on a high quality blog should give you the warning signs that you need to be more careful about your work. Take time to improve your writing and make your work very interesting. You will learn over time that one well written article could cause more ripples than a number badly written. The fact that blogging comes with quantity should not mislead you to making this common mistake. Take time to research your work and write, proof read before submission for the best work for the post. People will visit blogs for the purpose of the content in the sites and blogs. The blogger will never jeopardize this with Google breathing down high ranking blogs administrator’s necks and sites to drop them from high rankings due to lack of good content.

Write more

This may seem contradictory to the previous point, but it is not. After you write good material, improve in your numbers for them. The two have to go hand in hand. The reason it is an issue is that many people forget about the quality when writing guest posts. This is a common mistake creating one of the biggest problem in guest blogging. Write a number of good quality guest posts and save them. This will garner you even more support and will have the bloggers more interested in you. It is not rare to see bloggers waiting to see what you have in store for their blogs. This only happens when a good quality product combines with good quantity. A good quality guest post that you rarely send to the guest blogger, will be frustrating and so it needs to be done often. The more you write the more the blogs you can get access to.

Link cleverly

The fact that blog posts are supposed to increase your linking power for more traffic does not mean over using the same. Take time and check how many times you refer to your link in an article. Go easy on lacing of links in your articles so as not to cause alarm for their blog site. Do sensible linking where it is necessary in the link. Do information and not marketing. Marketing on another blog will have your article not be posted. Make sure your blog post is completely on an informative basis and mention your link as an information blog. Use you blog link once or twice in a guest post. A good blog post should not threaten the blog that it is supposed to go on. It should rather strengthen the blog while marketing yours cleverly.

Make your pitch count

The guest blog has to see the value in your post. They have to see the reason they need the post on their blog. Your sales pitch has to be on point when it comes to blogging. Make sure that the information you have increases the value of what they have. How you sell their blog or anything that they stand for will see your post up in no time. A guest post that adds no value will be seen as a waste of space and time on their part. Further posts will also be shunned for the lack of ‘support’. It all starts and ends with the pitch you sell to them. Take time and design something they will want.

Here are a few tips to help you avoid most of these guest blogging problems

1. Do not submit low quality work.

Take time and research on your blog post for the best information. Do not submit low quality work. The information should be factual and one that cannot be refused by the guest blog in question.

2. Check for spelling and grammar mistakes

Take time and read your post to make sure that it is of the best quality. Check for spelling and grammar mistakes. Good quality work will encompass your writing skills too. The information should be easy to read and understand.

3. Your writing styles will have to impress the blog

Make sure your post is interesting and attractive. Your writing styles will have to impress the blog. Witty, interesting, funny and professional work will most of the time cut the mark.

4. link well with informational articles.

Make sure you link well with informational articles. Do not be a threat but a support for the blog in question.

5. Research post quality

Take time to research on blogs that will do the most for your work. Research on quality blogs that you can send your posts to.

If you’re ready to give guest blogging a try, you should get in touch.