Archive for September, 2009

Setting Up A News Blog

Posted by Kent in Blogs, Internet on September 29th, 2009

One of the more interesting ideas for a blog is a news blog. It is a blog that reports news and comments on it. Visitors that have similar views as the blogger would probably enjoy visiting such a blog quite a lot. Here are some guidelines on creating a news blog:

  • Incorporate a “top news” column where you list the most important news. You should only list the most important news there. You should do that so that people who only have a minute or two can benefit from your site by checking out quickly what is currently happening. News should be presented in a very concise way here.
  • Use videos. You can embed videos using Google video or YouTube. Some news are best presented by showing a video, instead of just describing with words. Keep an eye on the most popular videos posted in YouTube, as very often you will find something interesting.
  • Have another section with detailed news. Remember, some people just have a minute to check out news, while others are looking forward to reading articles.
  • Finally you may want to have a section with gossip and rumors. This would be a good place to ask your visitors for their opinion, as by definition rumors mean that you do not only need to rely on facts.

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    Websites for Profit

    Posted by Kent in Business, Internet, Technology on September 21st, 2009

    There are millions of websites on the Internet and many of them generate some kind of income. Here are some more ideas about websites that you can set up that will help you earn money online:

  • Affiliate Review Sites are a popular way to earn money. All you have to do is review affiliate products. It might be a good idea that this website would be a blog as this way you will be able to update it easily with new content whenever you wish. Make sure to market only those products that you believe that are useful. There are many people who earn quite a lot of money this way.
  • Membership sites that offer some valuable knowledge are not uncommon on the Internet. The way it works is that members pay a monthly fee to access the site. Just remember that you need some fresh and valuable information to be able to attract people to pay you every month as most of Internet users usually obtain information for free.
  • Website and logo design are services that are needed more and more on the Web. If you have knowledge and skills to offer such services then it might be a good idea to set a website offering web design. To attract customers you can be posting on many webmaster forums. The only problem is that most Internet users would not be interested in paying for website design.

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    Top 10 Bookmarking Sites

    Posted by Kent in Blogs, Internet, Technology on September 17th, 2009

    Have you ever wondered where is the best place to submit your newly written, quality articles? There are many bookmarking sites to choose from, and we should not just submit our articles to random websites. As most bookmarking sites have no-follow policy, your blog will not get a free backlink to your site. However, submitting your published posts to them will still benefit your website a lot, because it will attract more traffic. Here is the list of 10 largest bookmarking sites according to the number of readers:

    1. Digg
    2. Technorati
    3. Del.icio.us
    4. Propeller
    5. StumbleUpon
    6. Reddit
    7. Fark
    8. MyBlogLog
    9. Slashdot
    10. Kaboodle

    Before submitting an article it is important to know in what kind of topics a bookmarking site specializes in. It was interesting for me to learn that Propeller focuses more on news and politics, whereas Slashdot is geared more towards Web developers. You should not try not to submit, for example, a cooking article to a technology site, as it will not be considered the right thing to do according to general etiquette. As far as I know, there is no limit how many pages you can submit; however, remember to only submit articles that you think will be of interest to other Internet users.

    Many bloggers wonder whether it is worth submitting their articles to bookmarking sites, but the truth is that there are various advantages. It is a sure way to gain exposure and this way have a chance to obtain new readers. Your blog will certainly be more popular after submitting your posts to bookmarking sites.

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    Pronouncing www

    Posted by Kent in Internet, Technology on September 8th, 2009

    The abbreviation of the World Wide Web is www. People who were responsible for creating the term World Wide Web were probably not aware that the abbreviation www would be pronounced millions of times per day. When you think about it, www takes a long time to pronounce and some argued that it is the longest possible three-letter string to pronounce. Some even said that it takes a longer time to pronounce compared to what it stands for. When you think about it, “double-u-double-u-double-u” might actually take longer to pronounce compared to “World Wide Web”. Will there ever come a shortened version? It is hard to say, but in other languages pronouncing www is not that bad, so I guess that only the English speaking world has this problem.

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