The Brain of the Blogger

The Brain of the BLOGGER Nowadays, everyone wants to blog and share ideas with the world, but being a rocking blogger is not as easy as it may seem. Without the right foundation, a new blog can be doomed from the get-go-Infolinks took a virtual scapel to dissect which dilemmas plague beginning bloggers. Blog Theme Share my Content Blog Content Bring More Traffic Blog Template Graphics About Page SEO Money The Perfect URL Dilemmas What should i blog about? Blog Theme Take picture of people at my local grocery store and share How I'm better chef Sh*t my husband than Anthony Bourdain says either marry, divorce, marry and divorce in the same week, or land in jail LATEST CELEBRITY to The Perfect URL What will be my URL? Do a search of clever names Do a search of less clever names not-at-all-clever Settle for All taken All taken Be careful of Mashed-up names: Penisland or Penis Land The really ridiculously long URL: lovetocookofgoodfood.com Strange country code endings: ilove.me SEO FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD What is SEO? FOOD FOOD Money don't grow on trees FOOD FOOD How often do i repeat the same word? same word? Oops, my clever title has nothing to do with my subject Code-here this part! Stupid meta-tags! LINK SHARING- try to get more than ¡ blog just your grandma's cat Blog Content How to make my Content King? Cool Cool Article Article Hire a marketing oracle Copy and paste from other websites Write unique content, and hope someone will read it Come up with that GREAT IDEA that the other bazillion bloggers haven't done yet Graphics 11 12 10 2. Take nice images off web; beware COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT 9 OL canStock 4 8 6 Pay for stock photography and have an expensive blogging habit Spend so much time taking my own photos that there's no time to write Support blogging habit; become Full-time Photographer Blog Template My Blog My Blog Elegant with lots of columns and a newspaper Personal diary style: a few coffee stains on an old notebook ought to do style headline Something pink with lots of cupcakes to make it look EXTRA SWEET Share My Content How to be more social? My Blog Customize social Embeded Facebook plugin of a big box of my friends profile pics Knock knock who's here - My RSS is everywhere WARNING: I subscriber- Grandma sharing buttons - shaped like dinosaurs/condums/ ladies/rockets Add "Tweet This" to every sentence- PLEASE FOLLOW ME, ASHTON! Money Make Money - Get Money How do i make money by Blogging? IN-TEXT ADVERTISING |Integrate double- underlined links to turn your content into cash Banners Old school, but good haa BUY ones work r kyword proh Don't Linked Iitle - Ad text here www.ad-url.com - Call: Phone number Affiliates GOOGLE ADSENSE Easy to use and generates decent revenue Affiliation is a great way to make income; just don't end up selling yourself for joining a Ponzi scheme! How do i Bring More Traffic generate traffic? Me Visit my blog 1 minute agoTlie this Me Visit my blog 45 minutes ago- IDke this Me Visit my blog 20 minutes ago. uke this Keep plugging my blog on Facebook until people start unfriending me Find other like-minded blogs and comment there Pass out business cards now i have no time to spend on my own blog at Grandma's Cat fanciers club Tell all my co- workers until their eyes glaze over What should I write on my "about page?" About Page Me Me Me ? Write Lots about myself hope there are no stalkers out there Put up professional photo - yawr Forget the fame; write nothing about myself Hire profe onal animator to create comic strip for me