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.

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

Hello my fellow bloggers, first at all I want to say sorry because the last week I wrote 2 or 3 articles, vs my usual daily writing. Also, these articles were not too informative, but you need to understand I have being very busy with my studies, robotics and other things I do, parallel to blogging.

I had this topic about 2 weeks ago, but I had not the opportunity to post it before . The big question of this post is what motivate you to blog? That is a good question that many people don’t have a clear idea.

The last month, I saw how my subscribers increased daily, and that was something I liked very much. But as well as my subscribers increased, decreased my daily visits. In addition of this, I stopped to blog for a week and I saw my visit’s chart with a negative slope, and I have to say that I felt bad.

In addition of that, many of my readers sent me an e-mail, asking me why I stopped to blog. I received like 20 emails, and I thank you to everybody who wrote me, because that gave me the force to keep doing what I do here.

About two weeks ago, I was invited to use SocialSpark in its alpha phase (now beta), which made me feel important in the blogging community . However, I joined to the new IZEA’s program, and I have to say I found it very cool. I have took a couple of opportunities, being approved quickly.

But although I could not write daily, I kept checking my statistics, rankings and comments in every community. When I saw my rankings after the week I stopped to blog, Mr. Javo dot Com dropped some positions. That, combined with the other factors I mentioned above, motivated me to write again .

I thought on what I have being doing here, and how I was progressing with the pass of the months. I thought I was dropping all my work through the window, and immediately I start to write again . I talked with fellow bloggers, and they told me that happens, so I took it easy.

Do you have experimented something like that? Feel free to share your story with everybody in this community.

On Internet, there are several blogs about making money online. Many people who manage this kind of blogs, do it for the money they can earn with them. But definitively, the most sad is that they dislike blogging, but their avarice motive them to write, though they dislike to blog.

This people, has a series of particular characteristics which expose them. The following is a list of symptoms that relates these people, this way you can discover if you are (or not) someone who blog for money. The symptoms are the following:

1. You Have not Passion: May be you have passion to the money, but not to write or interact in social networks… Basically, you hate to blog. Primordially, if you want to create a blog, no matter the niches you want to blog about, you should like (or at least not to hate) to write and make all those actions made daily by bloggers.
2. You Have not Ideas: Commonly, the people blog about a loved niche. In these case, no matter how bored or tired you are, you could think at least on one topic to write about on your blog. In the worst case, you could not think a topic, may be you had a bad day and you don’t want to think about blogging. But what if every single day you are without ideas? This indicate that you dislike to blog.
3. You Don’t Care About Your Blog: If you don’t care about your blog, why do you still having it? If you will not maintain your blog, is better to deleted it! If you have a month without writing, it is because you never cared about blogging.
4. You Don’t Post Your Own Content: May be you are not neglected with your blog. You can publish posts everyday, but if these posts are not yours, this mean that you are not interested on managing a blog, and you really care about the business behind it.

There are another symptoms. There are people who have many adsense codes in your blog, but that is not so relevant. The most of these people, blog about 2 months and then, leave it. That is because they are not making money online as they say they do, or simply they bored about the topic.

Do you blog for money? I hope you don’t!

Writing is the essence of bloggers. Besides the knowledge of HTML code, the participation in social networks or building a marketplace at their blog, writing is the basic of every blogger, making us writers.

I have read about some ideas to organize your thoughts before to write a post. From making drawings, I will give you my techniques to organize my ideas before to write a post:

• Making Mind Maps: A mind map is a visual representation of chunks of information and the relationships between those chunks. Starting with a central idea, you would create a basic mind map by writing a phrase that identifies the central idea in a piece of paper. Then, you should write keywords based on the main idea, linking them with lines. By following the lines, you will be able to visualize how you can detach the topic. After that, the ideas will start to drain through your neurons and you will write without problems. The concept of mind maps, is to connect the general idea with the most detailed ones.
• Writing Keywords: This can be or not, part of the Mind Maps. Writing many keywords will help you to have an idea about the things you can mention in your post. Once you wrote a keyword, is good to write a little text or whatever you have in mind, relating the keyword and the main topic. Sometimes, I use Google Sets, which automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
• FreeWriting: Sometimes, when you want to write something, you get stuck thinking in front the screen, trying to get something good. After a moment, you still thinking and having nothing of your post, something that can be frustrating. In these cases, you should write everything you think, being good or bad. You have not the need to write it with sense, the order doesn’t matter here, just write all the ideas that crosses your mind. Then, read and underline the good things you can use on your post, and your mind will link all the ideas automatically. Generally, I do this in a paper, and not in the computer.
• Setting Categories: Before to write about a topic, you should think big. More general than the idea itself, the category is an important factor which can help you to canalize your idea. In fact, the category is the major keyword of your post.

I know that sometimes, many bloggers get stuck writing a post, it happens to all us eventually. By following the four things listed above, you could easily organize and environment your post. If you have another way to organize your ideas before to write, comment it here, will be fine to hear other voices.