In all this months I have being blogging, I have read several blogs about making money online, seo, internet marketing and other variated stuff. Something I noticed all them have in common with each other relates the writting style. Each blogger has a different writing style, it’s something that characterize them.

There are something very common in this atmosphere, each blogger (includding me) have repeated something that it wrote in the past, an idea for example. But all these bloggers are really repeating their past content or they are just developing something new based in a past idea?

That’s something I have asked myself for, because I recognize that I have written very similar articles, but they can be saw from different perspectives. And now is where we got the different points of view, between the blogger and its readers.

Normally the blogger won’t feel it’s repeating its articles, unless it is too obvious. Nevertheless, the people at the other side of the the web, the same people who read its blog constantly can have different thoughts about this topic. More than the blogger, its readers are the persons who recognize the blogger’s misspelling, and also the duplicated content. If you are duplicating in any way your ideas, your readers will notice it, and eventually they will notify you.

Could be the blogger’s writing style the responsible of this?

What if I told you that the one responsible of this is the blogger’s writing style? Yes, after analyzing this topic I thought that may be some articles of the same blogger are very similar simply because all they were wrote by the same person! The writing style is something unique, and probably each blogger’s mind tends to unconsciously “repeat” the same idea, just because it’s focused and based in a big main idea, which in theory should be the blog’s niche; make money online, social networks, technology, food etc etc etc…

So when you think that a blogger is repeating the content, instead closing it’s blog why don’t you tell to it your feedback? I think it could be a WIN-WIN situation for everybody.

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

Yesterday I was thinking that would be fine if I tell you how I process the blogs. Like you, I also read constantly many blogs, and others eventually when I visited them through entrecard. Many people have congratulated me for my dedication and sincerity. I really appreciate all those comments, but I consider I’m just being honest.

How I process that information?

There are many great blogs with excellent content over there. So I analyze the information to learn how I can improve my blogging skills, applying all the acquired knowledge to write my future posts or to improve my SEO, for example.

But eventually, when I read a post’s title, it sounds as a great one, but sometimes the blogger is not clear expressing the ideas, ending in a waste of time. And I said waste of time because the complexity of the posts, and when you finished to read it you don’t know what to say, you stay like shocked and you didn’t learn anything.

In these cases, after read a post with a potential title and unclear content, I organize the main idea of the post, and think about how can be improve it. Then, I write a little essay with that idea, to be developed and posted in the future, to give you the same idea but with a big difference in the content, the clarity of the information.

Usually, I do this kind of things with program’s reviews and some blogging tips. Some bloggers don’t know their reader’s wants, and that is something that should be fixed. Writing detailed and clear information, your readers will catch your posts, returning over and over time to read your content.