Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Your Blog - Step 2: Filling it up

Now let's continue our lessons. At this point, you have created you Gmail account and your blog at Blogger or Blogspot (both are the same). It's time to filling it up. We won't put much details on this, only the important things we will try to discover. The details is for to you explore.

If you read this without exploring the blog features, it may be hard for you to understand and follow. If you haven't explore the blog features, do it first. And then read this post. Take you time in exploring blog's features, and put big attention on it.

What is blog all about? Blog is simply a personal web site, we can say like that. But, the "personal touch" of this kind of web site is so high. So, what kind of "personal touch"? Information. Yes, that's it. The only thing we want to express is about our self, is by describing who you are, what are you doing, what are the great things of your life you want to share, your personal view and values of life, and so on.

Therefore, blog mostly contains about posting (textual) information. Letters, words, sentences, and information. Of course you can put pictures and other stuffs in it, but it's not main purpose and feature of a blog. So that is blog all about: posting (personal) information. That's why it's so easy for you to create post. Click and write, click and write, and so on.

That's about posting. You must post something in your blog. You want your blog to be read, right? And you want your blog (and your self) to be famous, isn't that true? So, put some posts in you blog, and make sure that it's interesting, either for you and your blog's readers. The interesting your blog is, the better your chance to get money from your blog. :)

If you are curios about how to make your blog interesting, read some posts in this blog, the titles are Blog means ... MONEY! and How can I increase my traffic?. Inside those posts, some thin-but-great books four you to read. I recommend you to read the books. It's worth it. Trust me. :)

Talking about "interesting" word, it means you also have to beautify your blog. When you are adding and arranging the elements of you blog, there is one important kind of element: HTML/JavaScript element. This is the key point to make your blog to be interesting, unique, eye catching, and ... money generating. It's true. So, you must know how to use that element.

Besides HTML/JavaScript element, you must be a little bit artistic. You should place the elements you created in proper, right, and interesting order. The better the order is, once again, that better your chance to get dollars from your blog.

So, that's all about filling up you blog. I've gave you the basic tips and tricks. It's time to practice and practice. It's not hard, but you have to understand and do it your self. After this, the next lesson is ... MONEY! :)

Keep reading, guys ... :)

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