The Expert - Blogger Types (1 of 5)
February 13, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
Yesterday we talked about the importance of finding your blogging niche and identifying your blogger type to best serve your potential audience. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to vote in the poll. Which blogger type are you?
Today we’ll explore the first of the 5 blogger types - the expert. Experts are industry leaders in a given niche and are closely listened to when they speak.
Qualities of an expert
- Has a lot of experience in a given field
- Is generally looked to for advice
- Is a thought leader with new ideas and theories
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What Type of a Blogger Are You? Discover your Niche and Find Your Blogging Self
February 12, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
The success or failure of a blog is usually determined before the blog even launches. How can I say such a thing? Well personal experience tells me that there are certain niches that I just could not possibly enter into with a blog no matter how hard I tried. A blog requires passion and knowledge about a certain topic and without those 2 crucial elements, failure is inevitable.
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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Numbered Lists in Your Posts
February 8, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
Numbered lists are great for attracting attention and conveying your thoughts in a clear and easy-to-read format. They perform extremely well on social media sites like Digg and Sphinn and are commonly used in magazine tabloids because they produce headlines that stand out and are more likely to be read by a large audience. In fact, this very post uses a numbered list and the fact that you are here reading this goes to show how well they work. Are you using numbered lists effectively? In this article, I’ll explain why and when you shouldn’t use numbered lists in your posts. I bet you weren’t expecting that one.
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4 Enhancements to Improve Your Blog’s Comments Section
January 28, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
Comments are probably one of the most important methods to attain reader feedback and to improve the community aspect of your blog. By encouraging comments and utilizing them to their fullest potential, your blog can see tremendous growth and activity. So how do you optimize your blog’s comments section? Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve tweaked my comments file to allow for 4 enhanced features: 1: separation between comments and trackbacks, 2: threaded comments while keeping the same theme, 3: distinguished author comments using a different style, and 4: subscription to comments by email. In this article, I’ll describe the benefits of each change as well as how you can implement the improvements on your own blog.
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The Power of Cross-Selling Your Site’s Content
January 24, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
On average, how many pages does each visitor on your site view before going elsewhere? If your answer is a number less than 2, then you either have a horrible site not worth visiting or you’re not fully utilizing the power of the cross-sell. Cross-selling your content on an article-based site or blog will help you generate more pageviews, attain more subscribers, and ultimately develop a more loyal readership.
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Why You Should Change Your Blog to Show Excerpts on the Home Page
January 23, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
If you take a look at the Winning the Web homepage, you’ll notice that it has changed from displaying full posts to now short excerpts - 100 word summaries of each post followed by a “Continue Reading…” link. Why have I done this? I think this change will benefit the blog by increasing pageviews and making it easier for readers to find what they’re looking for. In fact, a poll conducted by Daily Blog Tips shows that 48% of participants believe that post excerpts on the homepage will become the blogging standard in the near future. Below is the breakdown of results.
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How to Promote Your Site Using Blog Reviews
January 17, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
Do you want to bring your site to the next level? If you’re serious about promoting your website and have even just a little bit of cash to spend, you should definitely consider using paid blog reviews as an advertising tool. Many bloggers have a loyal following and a wide reach that you can use to your advantage to promote your site. If done properly, just a few blog reviews can bring your site huge amounts of traffic, higher rankings in search engines, and lasting benefits for your brand.
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11 Ways to Maximize Your Blog’s Subscriber Count
January 11, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
The number of RSS subscribers is the best performance metric to use when determining the effectiveness of a blog. More and more people are learning how to use feed readers and how to receive updates through email. Readers are instantly notified of new content on your site and are more likely to remain engaged. If you’re not actively promoting your RSS feed, you are at risk of being left behind. Don’t let that happen to you.
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Let’s Go Blog Hopping! (Must be 21 or Over)
January 6, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
Warning: You must be 21 or over to participate (But hey, this is the Internet. How are we supposed to know?)
This week’s blog hop: The Blog of Oussama Messaoud
If you’re familiar with bar hopping, otherwise known as pub crawling, you know much fun it can be. You get a big group of people together, visit a bar and have a few drinks, visit another and have some more drinks, and continue to visit more and more bars and have more and more drinks until you’re either passed out on the curb or out somewhere making a fool of yourself. But hey, it’s all in good fun.
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Optimal SEO Wordpress Permalink Structure for Your Blog
December 27, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
If you’re creating a new blog using the Wordpress platform, it’s important to establish a permalink structure that is optimal for search engines and for users. So what is the optimal structure? There are many different views on this topic, but from my experience and SEO knowledge, using /%postname%.html is best. Below are some of the key reasons why you should be using this structure.
- Avoid using dates in your URLs
Many Wordpress blogs default to a structure which includes dates in subfolders. This ties your post to a specific point in time and limits your ability to update old posts. Also, the added subfolders may result in search engines placing less weight on your post and thus reducing the crawl rate.
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