Friday, December 5, 2008

Considering Your Options Before You Write Blog Posts

Writing blog posts can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be, depending on your goals for your blog. If you write a blog for fun with no long-term goals for driving traffic or making money from your blog, writing blog posts requires little more than translating the thoughts in your head to your keyboard and then online. However, if you want to grow your blog and monetize it, you need to consider several issues before you write and publish content on your blog. Determine your short- and long-term goals for your blog to identify how to apply the following considerations to your writing.

Using different formats for your blog posts
A blog post can be just a few sentences or many paragraphs. Some blog posts include an image and no text, whereas others might contain a complete tutorial or an online lesson teaching readers how to accomplish a task. Think about your audience (or at least the audience you want to have read your blog content) as you write your blog posts and create content that would appeal to them. The variety of blog posts in the following list gives you a starting place to help write your own blog posts.
  • Current events: Write about something you heard about in the news.
  • How-to or tutorials: Share your expertise in your blog topic by writing a tutorial or instructions to help your readers accomplish a task or an activity.
  • Interviews: Contact a prominent person who works in a field related to your blog topic and interview her for a blog post.
  • Link love: Find interesting blog posts across the blogosphere that are related to your blog topic and publish a post that provides links to those posts to help your readers find new blogs and to help you connect with other bloggers.
  • Lists: Write your top five tips or suggestions or your top ten must-have products to help your blog readers. Alternatively, write a list of don’ts or a similar list of warnings.
  • Opinion: Write a post that simply provides your opinion on an issue or event.
  • Photos: Post a photo related to your blog topic.
  • Polls: Ask your readers for their opinions by publishing a blog post that includes a poll or survey.
  • Reviews: Write a review of a product, an event, a book, or anything else related to your blog topic.
Coming up with titles
The first thing visitors to your blog will notice about your blog posts are the titles of those posts. With that in mind, you should consider a few issues as you compose the title for each of your posts. Write titles that
  • Arouse your readers’ curiosity: Just like an advertising headline, your post title should lure readers in and entice them to want to read further.
  • Are relevant to your readers: Web surfers are busy and have little time to read deeply on any page to find content that matters to them. Write headlines that are easy to understand, and make sure the post delivers the content that the title suggests.
  • Include searchable keywords: Search engines value blog post titles strongly in terms of prioritizing your content for keyword searches. Be certain to include important keywords in your post titles.
Considering search engine optimization
If you want to grow your blog by attracting new visitors, you should write blog posts with search engine optimization in mind. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo! love blogs simply because the content is updated frequently. With each new blog post comes a new entry point and a new way for a search engine to find your content. Take some time to research keywords that are relevant to your blog topic, and then use those keywords in your blog posts and titles. Each blog post you write should be optimized for a specific keyword phrase, and all your keywords should be relevant to your overall blog topic. If you’re serious about growing your blog, invest time and effort into finding out how to write for the Web with an eye toward search engine optimization.
(Summary in part of Google Blogger for Dummies E-book)

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Introduction to Blog.
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Monday, November 10, 2008

HP 3330MFP LaserJet Complete CD Driver

Have you ever lost your cd driver for HP Printer especially for HP 3330MFP LaserJet ? If the answer is yes. Then if you browse the HP website to find and download the printer driver, you will only find the "basic" printer driver that not as complete as in the CD when we buy the printer.
And if you want the complete cd, you have to purchase (buy it) from their site. (Can it called as good "support/customer service"?).
Well.. it's their company policy. We will not discuss that. But if it's happen to HP 3330MFP LaserJet Printer, it would be a big big problem for us. We will only can use the printer function not the scanner, fax neither copy function, as it's happen to me (sad mode: on). I try googling it a few month, from forum to forum, and i found nothing. Until that day, when i lost in internet (but i thanks God and the owner of the ftp site for her kindness), i found the Complete CD Driver for my printer.
If you own the printer as mine and don't have or lost the CD Driver you will find it in: ftp://ftp.proline.lv/drivers/PRINTERs/HP/3330mfp/original_CD/.
Thanks again to the owner of the site for sharing it.
:-((

Note:
I used FTP Client to browse and download it.

Download link:
Ziddu.com

HP LaserJet 3330MFP Printer Driver Part 1.
HP LaserJet 3330MFP Printer Driver Part 2.
HP LaserJet 3330MFP Printer Driver Part 3.
:-))


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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Introduction to Blog

What are Blogs?
As you might have experienced, surfing the web was a fairly passive activity in the past. Like reading or watching TV or a bit of a combination of the two. The website as such, was all designed to be a rather one-way informative medium. Then came the advent of the ‘blog…
So what on earth, er, the World Wide Web, is blogging? Abbreviated from “web log” a blog is simply a stream-of-consciousness kind of writing. Whether you are a major celebrity or a high school kid, you can blog. It requires no technical skill at all and costs almost nothing. They have become amazingly popular and are continually in the news. Recently, some people have been fired by major corporations for blogging about the goings-on at work! So you know there are plenty of readers out there.
What’s the buzz and what’s in a blog anyway?

What can be included in a Blog?

What could you include in a blog? Practically anything that comes to your mind.
In many instances, the discussion depends upon the theme of the website or a web page itself that is associated with a blog. Blogs are an excellent way of expressing personal opinion. These range from discussions about news, current events, sports, hobbies, careers, and various other topics. If you can think it, and you can type, you can blog it, more or less.
Blogs are being used effectively now by businesses as well. As stated earlier, Blogs are fast gaining popularity as an efficient marketing & advertising tool that helps businesses promote their products and services. Much more on this in a moment…

Why Blog?

As described earlier, blogging does not need any sophisticated programming skills, and even does away with complex coding. With almost no barrier to entry, it is estimated that there are more than 10 million blogs on the Internet today and growing.
Since bloggers enjoy the freedom and power of posting their thoughts and views instantly, blogging empowers visitors with a sense of instant gratification.
We all might want to blog – just ramble on and often complain! – for personal reasons or for fun. We perhaps want to stay connected to the big wide world out there, get something off our chests, or try to entertain far-away friends.
Blogging, much like a website, gives you a worldwide reach. Besides creating and maintaining a blog is far easier, quicker and cheaper compared to managing a website.
(Summary in part of Google Blogger for Dummies E-book)

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