Seeing one persons, or one organizations perspective on a subject all the time isn’t really a healthy way to get information. This is when bias ideas form, and is unhealthy for a community. This is something that we over look on blogs. Most of the time, a blog is written by one person, and they are expressing their views and ideas. Sometimes, it is a good thing to mix up the routine of your blog. You can do this in multiple ways.
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While recently watching the show Diggnation, one of the hosts, Kevin Rose, stated that he has been thinking about redirecting his personal blog to his Twitter page. At this point the other host on the show, Alex, told Kevin he didn’t think the idea was a good one. Alex further explained that Kevin would loose money from the ads which his personal site contains. The debate brought up a good debate, should you give up blogging for Tweeting?
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One of the draw backs of using social media as a means of advertising, is updating the page(s) of the social media sites. A lot of the time, you may be to busy with another work related task, or you may just forget. You could depend on your audience to submit your blog posts to sites such as Digg, or Reddit, but that doesn’t mean that it will happen. Another option, you could pay someone to maintain your social media sites for you. This is however looked down upon by many of the social media members. So, how can you for sure your social media page stays up to date? You could allow plugins to do these tasks for you. Most of the more popular blogging software, like Wordpress, are designed to allow third party plugins, and most communities have a lot of very useful plugins that are free. Here are some plugins for Wordpress that allow you to connect to your blog and your social media pages.
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Coming up with blog content can be hard at times. There maybe some content you think that you can’t use because there isn’t enough “meat” to the content. Here are four tips on how to get more out of little content.
When I first started writing this article, it started off as ways to improve your site’s success. Then when I was witting the conclusion of the article, I noticed that it was more about controlling the image of your site. Here are seven tips which can control the way your blog’s image is protruded to it’s visitors.
WebProNews recently had a very short but informative video about ads. In the video, there was talk about how many ads should you place on your page, and how well you should blend the ads into your sites design.  As expected, the video stated that you should balance the ad to content ratio, and don’t have 20 ads for a two paragraph article. As people try to make money off of sites, this may seem like a strange practice, where newspapers and magazines have a lot of ads per content. There are some things that are bad about having to many ads on your site. continue reading this entry »
