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Checking out ScribeFire

May 23, 2008 3 Comments »

Update again: Well, it is not THAT good. As each time I’m editing a post and republishing it, it is publishing a new post. In Windows Live Writer whenever I want to modify an existing blog post it downloads the post from the server, lets me modify it, and then republishes the existing post, altered. I guess I’ll have to go back to WLW.
Update: and now I’m checking whether it updates the existing blog posts or not.
For a long time I’ve been using Windows Live Writer; I don’t know why it is very slow on my laptop, and it really bothers me to wait for 10-15 seconds just to post a few lines. So I’m checking out ScribeFire after installing the plugin. It doesn’t have as many features, but at least it is faster.

Checking out ScribeFire

May 23, 2008 No Comments »

Update: and now I’m checking whether it updates the existing blog posts or not.
For a long time I’ve been using Windows Live Writer; I don’t know why it is very slow on my laptop, and it really bothers me to wait for 10-15 seconds just to post a few lines. So I’m checking out ScribeFire after installing the plugin. It doesn’t have as many features, but at least it is faster.

Checking out ScribeFire

May 23, 2008 No Comments »

For a long time I’ve been using Windows Live Writer; I don’t know why it is very slow on my laptop, and it really bothers me to wait for 10-15 seconds just to post a few lines. So I’m checking out ScribeFire after installing the plugin. It doesn’t have as many features, but at least it is faster.

How to have unique content?

May 13, 2008 No Comments »

Unique content on the Internet has become sort of a cliché. It’s very difficult to get 100% unique content on your blog or website because the moment you’ve picked a topic to write about, the access to publishing being so (fortunately) easy on the Internet, somebody has already said something about the topic, and sometimes scores of people have presented their takes on the topic.

But there can be one thing that is unique: your voice and style, and above all, your opinion. That is something that helps you stand apart. Opinion is something that differentiates an expert writer from a casual writer.

How to form that opinion? By gaining information; fortunately, that too is quite easy on the Internet, since so many people are writing on the same topic, most of the time. While choosing a topic, think about how much it resonates with your interest and intention. By writing on that topic, what do you intend to achieve? Are you writing on it merely because you see everybody writing on it, or you’ve really got something to add to the ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas, or you want to expand your horizon of knowledge by researching and writing the topic? Or you simply want to share your wisdom with your visitors and help them improve their lives?

Once you have figured out why you want to write on the topic then you can decide what approach to follow. Whatever is the reason, you have to form an opinion. Go to other blogs and forums and read what others are saying. Are they absolutely right, partially right, a bit wrong, or way out of the line? If so, why? When you can think of a why, you’ve got an opinion, and once you’ve got an opinion, you’ll automatically voice it using the right words, and this will make your content unique.

What is easier? Creating linkbait content or requesting people to link to you?

May 12, 2008 3 Comments »

I was thinking about increasing traffic on my websites, especially this blog and my copywriting and content writing website. I fare well on the search engines for some good keywords and expressions, but they are a selected few, and I’m working on optimizing my website for other keywords too (there are more than 40 keywords my website must rank high on, and doesn’t, yet).

But it’s not just generating content, you also need links from other blogs and websites to achieve more traffic, both from search results and direct links. I never feel comfortable (actually, never done that) approaching people to put my link on their blogs or websites. Comments etc. too I don’t leave any (I plan to focus on that) and I don’t participate much on online forums (I plan to focus on that too). But the thing that I like the most is producing content, and I think that’s the best of generating incoming links. In the near future I plan to write a lot for my website, and also for other blogs and websites.

Exchanging links or requesting people for links actually demands greater effort. Write an excellent blog post or a well-researched article and many people will voluntarily link to you. What do you think?