How long should be a post? This is a great question which someone asked me by email. This is somewhat relative, because every blogger has a different way to think and write their thoughts. Some of them like to keep the post relatively short, and other ones likes to write as crazies, writing a post with 1000 words or even more.

Remember that it’s better quality than quantity. Is better to write a short post with quality than to write a long post without quality. With a good post, being this one short or long, you can attract many people who could comment in your post and subscribe to your RSS feed. Aside this, by writing a poor post you won’t get anything from the readers, instead, you will frighten them.

The length of a post depends of how informative will it be, for example If you are going to announce a contest, it can take you 200 words, being good for everybody. Instead, if you are going to write about a very discussed topic, you should write a good amount of content with some interesting points, if you don’t, your readers won’t have any content to discuss!.

Another important thing you need to remember, is to be accurate. If the post is about Marketing, don’t end talking about Fishing. You should stick into the main topic, and its relatives… People could get bored if you write about an information that they were not expecting to read about. This usually happens when the blogger is not clear about the topic he wants to write about. May be he can be clear, but sometimes, while you are writing a post, many ideas can cross your mind. If you don’t know how to differentiate them, you can mixx all those ideas and get a twister of thoughts on your post.

Conclusion

Before to start writing, you should organize your ideas. I recommend you to set priorities, tags or keywords, which you could clear your mind and this way, you will be writing a good post. The post length is not too important, as long as you write good content and keep your thoughts focused in a point. You can mixx all your ideas, which is normal because that’s the point of blogging, but if your ideas are not ordered with certain sense, no matter if your post is long or short, it will suck!

Remember, it’s up to you

As human beings, sometimes we have not ideas, until the point that we could think for an hour, and nothing would cross our minds… When I started blogging, I thought that I could not do something useful beside writing. The experience has taught me that you can do several useful things beside writing, changing my mind and making me the blogger I am now.

So in this kind of days, you have many alternatives beside writing, which you can do as blogger. The following one is a list of things that you can do when you have nothing to write:

• Make New Friendships: This is a very important thing that you should do always, but even more when you have nothing to write. There are people in my profiles who added me and we have not exchanged more than a welcome message. So I can imagine that you have this kind of people too, so you could talk with them by email, instant messenger or by phone, and attempt to make a good friendship. This way, you will get more people coming to your blog.
• Monetize Your Blog: You can optimize your blog to make more money than you usually do. Searching another programs beside you use, you can try and test another alternatives to make money online. After a time, you can choose these ones which are more productive for you. I usually do this by visiting blogs like ZacJohnson dot Com, usually Zac is trying different programs to monetize his blog.
• Check Your Blog’s Statistics: This is a good one, though many bloggers get obsessed with that. Is nice to see all those statistics that SiteMeter or Google Analytics can provide, such inbound links, outbound links or daily traffic…
• Answer Your Emails/Comments: This is something that you need to do everyday, but sometimes you have some pending comments that you never replied, and probably these people are waiting for you. So you can take this kind of days when you have nothing to do, to reply the comments on your blog, to reply your emails, invitations or requests. Is very important to make your readers feel important for you, otherwise they will not come back for more content, or at least, not often than they usually do. Another thing you can do related to the comments, is reread them! You can learn something new by doing this…
• Visit Other Blogs: Again, this is something that you need to do regularly, but specially if you are on stand by. It is very fun for me to visit another blogs, I really enjoy reading and sharing my opinion about the infinite topics that you can find in other blogs. Also, you can visit another blogs to get the inspiration that you need to write something, like writing a post in response to another one…

In addition of this, there are many miscellaneous things that you can do, such dropping entrecards, reading your subscriptions, redistribute your widgets in your blog to get a freshest look…. Whatever, there are several alternatives, you just need to find something that you like to do! I would be glad to read your experiences related to this topic, don’t doubt on commenting!

Happy Rambling

Recently I was reading some posts via RSS, and I visited some of them to leave my comments and share my opinions. This is something very common between bloggers, and it is something very useful that can give you a good amount of traffic, with the possibility to catch new readers.

While I was doing that, I noticed the diversity in the names used by the people, and it made me think about what name is best to leave comments in other blogs. Depending the case, the impact will be different, giving you more or less reactions to your comment. I thought in three possibilities of names to leave comments in other blogs, and my options were the following ones:

1. Leave comments under your own name: This is the first alternative I thought due to it is the most obvious. The problem resides in that if you leave comments under your own name, many people will not easily recognize you. I could start leaving comments under my complete name, and I’m pretty sure that nobody will know who I am. But this can be relative, I’m going to talk about it in the following lines…
2. Leave comments under your blog’s name: Leaving comments under your blog’s name could be an advantage, because at the same time you are pointing your link in a comment, you are “broadcasting” the name of your blog. The people will remember your blog’s name, making it a good technique to get direct traffic. Also, this could be better if the name of your blog can give a hint of what is your blog about, giving you more traffic if you comment on other blogs related to your same blog’s niche.
3. Leave comments under your brand’s name: Every blog have a brand, logically. Many of them are a contraction of the name, others a kind of tagline… The fact is that commenting with your brand’s name will cause a good impact in the other commenters, because they will be catching your brand’s name at the same time they are catching your blog’s name. Why? Because when they visit your blog, they will associate both names, something great for you.

But no matter under what name you comment in other blogs, there are some facts we need reconsider. In my case, my brand’s name is the same that my blog’s name. And also, it is how I’m named, so what’s more perfect than that? I comment under the name of “Mr. Javo” and everybody associate it with my little caricature in the header of my blog.

Also you can perfectly comment under your own name, just if you promote it. As I said, I could not start commenting under my own name because nobody will know who I am. But if you use your own name to promote your blog, commenting with it could work perfectly.

The conclusion of all this post is simple. You can post under the name you want, my tree presented alternatives are perfectly valid, but you need to be consistent. If you comment the first time under your own name, you need to keep commenting with your own name, forever! You can’t go away commenting with different names, and if you do, what is the point? Don’t you want to be recognized?

Blogging, what a wonderful activity made by many people around the world. Many of them write on their blogs for fun, others for money, and others simply to make another activity in their days.

The truth is that for everybody, blogging represent the same thing, a life’s style. If you love/like to blog, once you have started it, is too difficult to get rid of it. When you neglect it, you feel that you need something else to complete your routine, and that’s to write something in your blog .

As you noticed, I was away the last month. I was very busy with many things, but now I have a little more free time for blogging, socializing and all those activities I regularly made . My schedule was full everyday, and I had not time to do anything related to my blog. In fact, I have many ideas to blog about which I could not write in the past, but I will be publishing in them the next days.

I don’t know if you already got the point of this post. If you didn’t yet, don’t feel bad, I was not enough clear. I want to say that Blogging is a road that you never stop crossing it. Why I say that? Well because in the last month, thought I didn’t post anything, I received hundred of invitations, friendship requests and emails!! So I could stay away of my blog, but all those mentioned things called me everyday to keep blogging and doing my job .

If you like blogging, eventually you will take your blog back, of course, if you left it for a time . The great of take a break, is that you will return reloaded, and you will write and participate with more passion than ever!! I speak from experience .

So my fellow readers, tomorrow I will post about the suggestion in my Skribit’s widget, so stay tuned this week to get more reloaded tips from me!

Bye bye, have a nice blogging!

Today I was talking with my sister about my blog. She is very wondered about what I’m doing here, and how I’m doing it. She asked me many things related to the monetization, because she never imagined that you could make money online.

As she, I’m pretty sure that many people is wondered about the topic, so in this post I’m going to tell you how it is possible.

There are many ways which I make money with my blog: by displaying advertising, by reviewing services provided by other websites and by selling private advertising. I’m going to focus in the last one, the private sales.

What can you sell in your blog?

In your website, you are able to sell whatever you want. This includes banners (125×125, 468×60….), text links, reviews, packages, ebooks, a kind of membership or anything else you want to sell. In fact, there is a plugin for wordpress called WP Auctions, which you can sell whatever you want though bids. Of course, that’s if you are using wordpress to manage your blog, but as you see, there are no restrictions to sell on your website.

How to motivate the people to buy in your blog?

This is something very interesting, and a doubt which many people have. This is not an easy task, in fact this is pretty hard, and sometimes it can be impossible. You need to do your best to get people buying stuff in your blog:

• By taking part in social media networks: Being an active member of many social communities, you will get credibility though a wide audience, making your blog a potential marketplace to advertise on.
• By having many subscribers: Let’s face it, nobody will buy a banner on your blog if the only person who visit your blog is your mom. If you have just a couple of subscribers (I’m talking about 20), will be very hard to sell a banner, for example. The most subscribers you have, the most banners you will sell because this is an indicative of your popularity and brand in the web. But to get many subscribers, you need to be good on what you do.
• By having good traffic: The most expensive advertising is these which is in a highly visited website. And this is something obvious, you can’t sell a banner at the same prize of JohnChow (who gets thousand visits a day) if you get only 100 visits a day. To learn how to increase your traffic, check the category Improving Traffic.
• By having good rankings: This relates the preview point. If you have highest rankings, will be best for you because this suggest that you have a defined presence in the web. This mean that many people knows about you, visiting your blog several times a month. To learn how to increase your rankings, check the category Improving Rank.
• By displaying ads on your site: If you are selling ads, you don’t want to show a hole of empty slots. If you do this, you are saying that nobody is interested on your blog, and you are not having success with your sales. This is psychology, if the people see that you are selling banners, the customers around your blog will feel motivated to reserve a slot for them.
• By promoting your stuff: Well this is an obvious point. If you want to sell something, you need to let the people know you are selling something! So a page or section of “Advertising” would be great on your site, this way the people will know that you are selling something.

By following the tips mentioned above, you should start to sell some banners, text links or another stuff in your blog, and start to make some money from your home.

This business is all about socializing and imagination. If you have a great idea never revealed before, make sure to materialize it and if the idea is enough good, you will get a lot of money from it.

Happy Selling

Hey there, recently some many bloggers have being asking me to exchange textlinks. Unfortunately, I have rejected all these requests because I’ll be giving many text links this month, in some sponsored contests. You have to understand that I don’t want to overload the sidebar of textlinks.

However, I want to tell them that I’m happy to receive these requests, and I could give you some backlinks through my posts if you want.

Anyways, in this post I want to tell you the importance of socializing and be friendly with the people who visit your blog. This is very important for a simple reason, 6 degrees.

What is Six Degrees?

This is a law which talk about the connectivity between the people. Following the definition of wikipedia:

Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person he or she knows and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is an average of six “steps” away from each person on Earth. Is a little hard to understand, I recommend you to visit the link to wikipedia and read the law with more details.

Never happened to you that you find a connection between you and another person through a familiar or friend, but you never thought they know themselves? Well, this is because the law of 6 degrees. Basically, you are connected with every person on the world through a patch created for 6 persons. Everything is connected, and as you can imagine, you should never reject a business opportunity, because you don’t know the turns the world can give.

Also, by the same way you should never be disagreeable with anybody, because tomorrow that person can help you, specially if we talk about business. Every single blogger, can be a potential partner in the future, following the six degrees law.

To conclude this post, I recommend avoiding underestimate every opportunity you get. That insignificant idea, could be the one which explode your blog, giving you thousand readers, improving you revenue and all the things every blogger want to have.

This also apply to everything on the life, don’t forget it