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Charlie
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:32 pm
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| williams wrote: | | Will the content of the blog be always in an article format? |
It can be any form whatsoever. As long as you don't make it abusive or illegal enough for your host to stop you publishing, you can say anything you like in any way you like.
If you plan to presell something though, bear in mind what impact your words will have on visitors. Just don't bore them.
| Quote: | | edburdo wrote: | | As to the comments from other people, just don't allow them to comment. It's your choice. |
That becomes a private blog, right? |
I think of a private blog as one that is not publicly available. I mentioned password-protected access, earlier. Theis scenario is a public blog (readable by anyone) where only you can post. A bit like most websites...
| Quote: | | Then if a link to my site is given from this blog, traffic will be very limited. Am I right? But, I would like to have lots of traffic to my site. |
Leaving aside the question of repeat visitors (and why they keep coming back), who does the posting won't have much to do with the amount of SE traffic you gain from links. Most of these visitors will be new, so they won't know who posts until they arrive.
Hope this helps,
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| Charlie wrote: | | I think of a private blog as one that is not publicly available. I mentioned password-protected access, earlier. Theis scenario is a public blog (readable by anyone) where only you can post. A bit like most websites... |
In that case, what is the difference between a public blog where people can post comments and a public blog where people can not post comments? Do the traffic in both the cases remain the same?
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1) What is RSS?
2) There are templates available. How does one put his site's URL from all the pages in the given template?
3) How to create the navigation of links in the given template?
4) Blog means just writing and more writing. But, if a person does not have a good command over writing, how can he keep writing? Will his business suffer due to his lack of writing in blogs?
5) Can the owner of a blog post other people's articles in his blog? |
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:19 pm
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| williams wrote: |
5) Can the owner of a blog post other people's articles in his blog? |
Not without the permission of the author of the article; it's just like a regular webpage, you can't copy something without the authors permission.
You can create a link to the article from your blog if you choose.
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| williams wrote: | | Charlie wrote: | | I think of a private blog as one that is not publicly available. I mentioned password-protected access, earlier. This scenario is a public blog (readable by anyone) where only you can post. A bit like most websites... |
In that case, what is the difference between a public blog where people can post comments and a public blog where people can not post comments? |
[If you were slightly more subtle, I'd think this was a wind up.]
The vast majority of blogs are public. The only difference is who can post. 
| Quote: | | Do the traffic in both the cases remain the same? |
Imagine two different websites. This is how to think of blogs. Think of them are just diaries in the form of a website.
Giving people the ability to post comments might increase (third party) traffic slightly, but how you promote the blog will have the greatest effect
Hope this helps,
Charlie.
P.S. Call me Mystic Meg, but...
You promote a blog in just the same way as any other website. You use your imagination.
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:25 pm
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| Charlie wrote: | | You promote a blog in just the same way as any other website. You use your imagination. |
Do blogs also require back links from other blogs like websites? Also, do they need to be submitted in search engines?
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Williams... let me reiterate what has been said numerous times in this thread. A blog is just another type of website, and you treat it the same.
So if you need a niche for a regular site, then you need a niche for a blog. If you need backlinks for a regular site, then you need backlinks for a blog. If you need quality content for a regular site, then you need quality content for a blog.
So, ask yourself "If I was building a regular website, would I need to do that?" If the answer is yes, then do it for the blog as well.
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| williams wrote: | | 1) What is RSS? |
For a simple explanation, scan the right-hand column of this page and click on the link that says: "What is RSS?"
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| Quote: | | Do blogs also require back links from other blogs like websites? Also, do they need to be submitted in search engines? |
Since a blog is just a website that uses a certain type of content management system, yes, you need links back to your blog and they can be from any other web page, blog or non-blog. You can submit your blog to SEs if you want, but the better route is to submit to blog directories. An example of a blog directory is Paul Short's Get Blogs.
| Quote: | | There are templates available. How does one put his site's URL from all the pages in the given template? How to create the navigation of links in the given template? |
You insert your link just as you would in a regular website, using html.
I would suggest you go to Blogger and sign up for a blog. Create a test blog. Play around with it. See what the templates are capable of. Read all the information Blogger gives you about setting up your blog, including the directions on using Blogger with your own URL.
| Quote: | | Blog means just writing and more writing. But, if a person does not have a good command over writing, how can he keep writing? Will his business suffer due to his lack of writing in blogs? |
The whole point of a blog is that it's regularly updated. If you're not going to keep writing, the SEs will stop coming and the blog will be just another set of pages on your site. If you can't do the writing but you want to have a blog, then hire someone to write your posts for you.
Blogs are a lot of work. There are a lot of benefits from a marketing perspective, but you need to add content very regularly if you want to take advantage of those benefits.
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:14 am
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| netadventures wrote: |
The whole point of a blog is that it's regularly updated. If you're not going to keep writing, the SEs will stop coming and the blog will be just another set of pages on your site. If you can't do the writing but you want to have a blog, then hire someone to write your posts for you.
Blogs are a lot of work. There are a lot of benefits from a marketing perspective, but you need to add content very regularly if you want to take advantage of those benefits. |
I've written several articles on this subject in the last few months, including a way to setup having articles posted to your blog on autopilot for you, and how to blog and ping.
One of my articles at www.pheedcentral.com covers these things:-
(select 'blogandping' on the left menu)
1) Don't Wait before Blogging.
2) Using Blogs to get your site found quickly.
3) What have Blogs and PR got to do with Indexing.
4) How to get your large sites pages found quickly.
There are some screenshots of ftp settings required for using Blogger to run your blog but send the files to your own server here: http://www.moneyandmotivation.com/blog/blog_ftp.htm
and that blog itself (http://www.moneyandmotivation.com/blog) has several posts related to getting started with blogs.
Hopefully there's some useful information in there for you, but I'm currently finishing off a series of videos on this subject.
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:52 pm
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| netadventures wrote: | | You can submit your blog to SEs if you want, but the better route is to submit to blog directories. An example of a blog directory is Paul Short's Get Blogs |
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In http://www.getblogs.com there are different categories where a blog needs to be submitted. But, a blog can contain posts of different topics. In that case, under which category should the blog be posted?
| netadventures wrote: | | Since a blog is just a website that uses a certain type of content management system, yes, you need links back to your blog and they can be from any other web page, blog or non-blog |
When blogs are same as websites, then why blogs are given so importance these days? Also, Bloggers who don't host their blogs on a free server, why don't they make websites instead of blogs? Both require money for domain names and web hosting. In what ways blogs are better than websites? For eg: suppose a blog is www.june.com. This means the owner has paid for the domain as well as for hosting. Then why a blog and not a website? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:08 pm
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Hi,
Blogs Are Not The Same As Websites............
They're very similar, but there's the fundamental difference that Blog content can almost always be syndicated by default. This in not the case with most websites.
If you make a website and you want the search engines to find it and send their bots around, you could submit it to Google (or any other SE) using their 'ADD URL' facility. Unless you have links into your site, this is next to useless. So, if you need links then why not just get links and wait for the bots to come around when they follow the links to your site, no reason to submit really. So, once you've been visited after waiting, you're then at the mercy of the bots for when they decide to return. This will depend on the links coming to your site and how often your content changes. If you create an online shop which then just sits there (or a minisite selling an information product) - the bots will come around less and less often (there's no need to keep coming back as nothing is changing).
When it comes to Blogs -
1) The content is more likely to be changing regularly as you make entries.
2) There are Blog and RSS directories specifically for including your regularly changing blog page.
3) Once you've posted your latested entry you can 'Ping' the main blog/rss syndication services to come and grab your content - This is NOT something a normal website can do.
4) If you include links to your 'normal' website pages as you add them, when you next ping your blog (which can be right away), the bots will VERY soon be around and will follow and find those pages you link to - This is why Blogging has become popular amongst Internet Marketers.
The main problem with all this is that a lot of Internet Marketers are lazy and won't bother to keep a blog updated - that's why it's still working so well for those of us that can be bothered 
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| williams wrote: |
When blogs are same as websites, then why blogs are given so importance these days? Also, Bloggers who don't host their blogs on a free server, why don't they make websites instead of blogs? Both require money for domain names and web hosting. In what ways blogs are better than websites? For eg: suppose a blog is www.june.com. This means the owner has paid for the domain as well as for hosting. Then why a blog and not a website? |
Because they are diversifying; think investments. When building any type of internet site; you're tailoring it to a specific audience. Some people prefer to browse traditional websites, while others prefer to read BLOGS. By making both styles of sites, you can capture these different audiences.
Also, BLOGS are generally easier to post content to than a traditional website.
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:21 pm
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| andyhenry wrote: | | They're very similar, but there's the fundamental difference that Blog content can almost always be syndicated by default. |
Well, I've been coming across this word 'syndicated' quite often on the Internet, when blogs are concerned. Please explain your sentence "Blog content can almost always be syndicated by default".
| andyhenry wrote: | | So, if you need links then why not just get links and wait for the bots to come around when they follow the links to your site, no reason to submit really. . |
How does one "get links" for his blog? By requesting the owners of other blogs?
| andyhenry wrote: | | There are Blog and RSS directories specifically for including your regularly changing blog page.. |
If a blog is submitted in http://www.getblogs.com, then under which category would a blog of varied posts and topics be submitted? Also, what about the blogs which are used for affiliate marketing by some affiliates? Under which category should these types of blogs be submitted?
| andyhenry wrote: | | Once you've posted your latested entry you can 'Ping' the main blog/rss syndication services to come and grab your content. |
What is meant by "pinging a blog" and how is it done? |
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:41 pm
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I'm afraid I'm really busy right now and don't have time to individually answer many questions in these posts each time, I've written about blogs, rss, pinging, syndication and the information is available free in the reports and articles at my site over at www.pheedcentral.com.
I suggest you go and read the free report and the blogging and pinging article and then see what questions you have.
The answers to most of your questions are common sense and probably are as you would think (when it comes to which catagory etc.)
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