Working at Home on the Internet

Blogging Tip #1-Like What You Write

Darren at ProBlogger has asked us to submit a “Quick Blogging Tip” that could possibly help other Bloggers in some way.  I thought I may just take it one step further by starting a Mini-Series of Blogging Tips that you may find helpful in your quest to entrepreneurship.

I think one of the most important tips would be LIKE WHAT YOU WRITE.

This is a three tiered proposition:

~~ You should Like the Subject matter. Your writing will be more enjoyable to you and your readers if You like the subject you write about.

~~ Like they way you present your content. If you are the serious type, be business like. If you use a lot of humor, be playful. Ask yourself if it is something you would read.

~~ Be Yourself. People get to know you through your writing. Use your personality in your posts. Let yourself stand out. Readers will respond to you.

I am going to continue adding new Blogging Tips every Saturday Morning. If you would like to contribute something to the series you can either leave a comment or use my contact form.

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November 11th, 2006 at 02:49pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Basics, Blogging, Tips | 9 reader remarks | Print This Post

How Google Treats Blogs

I have been monitoring the term “working at home” on Google Alerts since forever, or at least as long as I have been Blogging.  For the First Time, I actually saw the Working at Home on the Internet Blog listed on October 26.  It even showed that day’s post… How to Build a Blogging Community.

My posts have showed up in the Google Alerts every day since then for that term.

 

What I did notice though, is that the Alerts had changed.  Instead of showing just the results from Google, they also showed the results for Google Blog Alerts (that’s where I showed up).  I never changed anything in my search request, but I think they expanded the search results they deemed relevant.  This is a good thing (I think).

First, the day they changed the alerts, my Blog started showing up in the results. (Good)

Second, Nothing showed up in the Google Alerts for the Standard Search. (Bad)

 

Does this mean that Blogs are Less Relevant to Google?  I don’t know, so I started to look around for answers in the Google Search.

I, of course, looked up “working at home” in the Standard Google Search.  I almost gave up after quite a few pages, finding nothing that wasn’t either corporate or an organization until page 14.  There I found my FeedBurner link on the top of that page and on page 16 the Blog Carnival Account link.  Neither showed my actual Blog or Address. (I just double checked, and Neither of them show 15 minutes later).

I did the same in Google Blog Search and it showed my Blog multiple times in the results.

 

That’s when I decided to check some of the Blogs I read that are better known.  Each one of them have www. in their URL or at the least are affiliated with a Blog Network.

I looked them each up by name, not the URL, and found most of them on the First page of the Standard Google Search.  Why this is, I don’t know.  The have, for the most part, been around for longer than my Blog.  But not all.

 

Is it the fact that they used the old standard www or that they are linked to hundreds of other Blogs through a network?  Does Google identify them as a Webpage (because of the www) and consider them more important?  Some of them post a few times a day, others only once or twice a week.

 

I guess the real questions are:

Am I doing something wrong?

Does the old www make a difference?

Does belonging to a network really make that much of a difference?

 

Help me out here guys, I want to be rich and famous too.  Or at least get into the Standard Google Search results.

Addendum:  I found that through Blogger Search (owned by Google) that my post on the (semi) Finished Basement was picked up.  Not sure what that means…

November 11th, 2006 at 07:30am | Posted by Joe | Basics, Blogging, Google | 5 reader remarks | Print This Post