His Name Is Cedric, And He Does Blogging

 *Updated: Both the old blog and the new blog by Kev are deleted, not sure why*

You will somehow feels that it’s pointless for you to continue blogging, after all the efforts of maintaining the site and the amount of readers you have earned for yourself. I’m talking about one of my favorite blog - kevipodmusic.blogspot.com which was canceled by Google after several warnings.

The owner of that blog covers news on the music industry as well as posting up links for people to download latest songs. This could be the reason why Google took action against him, it’s all due to licensing and stuffs.

Another rumor surfaces stating that it’s all because Kev got his hand on Mariah Carey’s new track and posted the snippet in his blog hence her label took action against him. I guess only Google knows why for now. (Source)

He then made a statement in his new blog - http:kevipodSmusic.blogspot.com (notice the “S” there) about his thoughts on the account cancellation. Kev said,

As i’ve said i have lost my blogging spirit. If i get the old URL back, or begin fresh with this new one someday again the blog will get deleted. Because since this is a music blog and post music is my duty the same thing will happen again. Maybe a only MUSIC NEWS blog could be an option but not now. Maybe someday i’ll be back.

Wow! What a MEGA crush on him! But I certainly hope that he will come back! Seriously it could do a huge damage on a blogger who has been really passionate towards the entire blogging process! Maybe I could get him to guest blog in the event I’m having my own music blog too? I mean I’ve been a loyal reader of that website!

Now what would you do if your blog gets canceled by Google?

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I have seen someone bashing bloggers who blog with “bad” English, and to these people, BAD can be defined as an entry full of grammatical errors, typo errors or incomplete sentence. To them, it’s a rubbish because this kind of blog would not really attract readers. Now I would like to take this opportunity to motivate bloggers who think that their blogs suck because they don’t really have a powerful command of English.

DO NOT BE AFFECTED BY THOSE COMMENTS.

What makes your blog stand out is when you have the initiative to attempt. As much as people comment about your “bad” English, take your precious time to improvise, blogging is definitely a great way for you to polish your skill. Apart from that, I would suggest you to read more articles and look up on words you don’t really understand then apply them.

For me, what makes a blog interesting is the points that are presented by the blogger. We don’t have to pin point the grammatical errors UNLESS his blog serves as a blog that teaches English, that would be another case.

If someone comments too much on your grammatical errors, be polite and thank the person. But as for people who love to pick bones on bloggers with “bad” English, I hope you know, it’s not a BAD blog and if he knows how to deliver his points, people will still come back anyway.

Like I suggested, if you want to improve your English, you can:

• Read more articles.

• Learn to look up for words you really don’t understand, if possible, get a thesaurus dictionary so that you can be exposed to words that have similar meaning to the word you don’t understand, that way, you can apply more.

• Write! Write! And write!

Good luck bloggers!

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Sometimes it takes our courage to learn how to improve ourselves. Being a blogger means you need to learn how to attract more readers and maintain their loyalties.

How many of us actually dare to post an entry asking your readers to comment on your blogging style? Most of the time we hate criticisms, because we think we are right and if they hate your style, they might as well just buzz off.

I just posted an entry in my personal blog, and apparently some readers think that I should just be who I am, nevermind those who think that my way of using foul languages can drive those readers away.

You may ask me, “This is your blog, why do you have to care about how people feel?”

Truth is, I demand improvement for my blogging skills. For those who have a chatbox in their blogs, I’m pretty sure it’s very common to see messages like, “nice blog!“. To me, this type of comment doesn’t serve much benefit to me, and people who posted this type of message can’t define what “nice” really means!

Give it a shot, bloggers, you may never know your weaknesses unless someone tells you about it.

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Many bloggers are writing paid posts offered by PayPerPost.com, of course, there are many mixed reviews with bloggers who earn money via this method. Let’s see it from both perspectives.

Disadvantages of Writing Paid Posts

• You have to understand that some readers would rather stop reading your blogs if they found out that your blogs have too many paid posts.

• Losing readers would mean losing subscriber as well because they certainly don’t wanna read about things which have nothing to do with your blog

• The concept of having a niche blog would be defeated, sometimes you have to blog about something irrelevant.

• In order to rush writing paid posts, you will end up forcing yourself to include normal entries which don’t seem to have the quality.

Advantages of Writing Paid Posts

• It’s your source of income, if you have a self hosted blog, please don’t forget that you have to pay to maintain your blogs.

• Writing paid posts will trigger you to think fast! If you want to have more opportunities you cannot just waste time like that.

• Some opportunities require your website to be at least in Page Rank 1 and above, here you will learn how to earn more links from other sites and at the same time work on your socializing skills.

• If you decided to commercialize your blog, some advertisers will approach you and that’s how your cash keeps flowing in.

At the end of the day you cannot run away from having debates on writing paid posts, of course, everything has its good and bad sides. If it’s your blog, you do the talking! Some bloggers still have tons of readers despite they have paid posts in between their blogs. Paid posts are not necessarily bad isn’t it?

What is your view on bloggers who write paid posts?

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StumbleUpon is magic! Trust me, I relied on it to gain traffic and it’s not hard to use it.

All you need to do is to sign up for an account at StumbleUpon.com

Download the toolbar on your browser so that you’ll see these buttons.

After posting up an entry, just click on “I like it!” button on the toolbar and wait for people to stumble upon your blog.

Now bear in mind:

• At the end of the day, you need to understand that when you submit your blog entry to StumbleUpon, you have already made it clear to yourself that your post is not only about yourself, so try to avoid submitting entries about what type of color you like, instead, blog about how colors will affect someone’s personality, you know what I mean.

• StumbleUpon may drive traffics to your blog, no doubt about that but you’re the one who should determine whether people will come back the next day! Unless you will update everyday and submit it everyday, otherwise you will see a huge difference in statistics.

• Your traffic will increase if at all more than 1 member like your page! And the more people who like your page, the more frequent your post shall appear in StumbleUpon.

• Not everyone will stop and read everything you post, so you should work on the magic to make sure people stay for a while and read it. How? Be creative a little!

Good luck in having more traffics to your blog!

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You want people to remember your blog, you gotta come up with your own style in blogging. Imagine this is like a music industry, you got thousands of singers but not every singer can be remembered, but those who are extremely famous usually have their own style.

It’s almost the same when it comes to blogging. If you have your own style, more often than not people will remember you. What will drive your readers away is when you start to copy people’s work, now that’s really playing nasty and it’s like a suicide!

When it comes to style, creativity plays important role too. People who are more creative will benefit because they will create something which people have never seen before! But that doesn’t mean ONLY creative people can succeed in blogging

If you think that you’re not creative enough, you can actually make a reference to websites, blogs, news and re-write your opinion in your way. Note: You do not copy people’s content, for instance you read this post and you can actually go back to your blog and start telling people how nonsensical my blog post is.

There are certain styles which people are adopting, for example:

• Humor: Some bloggers like to humor their readers by only focusing on jokes.

• Controversial: Loads of swearing and cussing and guess what, the traffic keeps increasing.

• Comic: Some bloggers only upload their own comics to their blogs.

“My story”: Some bloggers only talk about their stories, what they eat, what they wear, what they like, what they hate bla bla bla.

When you finally have your own style, it’s important NOT to change it in a sudden. I believe an interaction with your readers would be effective before you make your decision. It’s like a humor blog suddenly turns out to be a blog about how depressed the blogger is, some people will take it as a brand new approach, some will abandon it.

Your style of blogging has to be unique in order to catch people’s attention, the key word is to stay focus and tell yourself what do you want to blog about and take it from there. Good luck!

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So you wanna introduce to your readers by asking them to click on a link and go to other sites. Try to imagine a little, isn’t this sad if your readers open the link on a new site and forever stuck there and won’t go back to your site? And it’s even sadder if they left your page without finishing your post.

Here’s what you should do, Wordpress readers who write their posts in visual format will be able to choose whether they want the link to be opened in current page or a new page, which I think is quite convenient. I’m not so sure with other blogging platforms but here’s what you can do to allow your readers to click on the link and open it in a new page.

Supposedly I wanna put a link (GoodBoyGoneBad.com) under “My Personal Blog” and have it opened in a new page, this is what I should do.

After placing a url on those words, simply add “(space)target=”_blank” ” after the url like this

And there you have it! People will be able to click on My Personal Blog and open the URL in a new window without quitting this page! Now that’s what I call convenient! Try to walk in your readers shoes because you don’t want people to be attracted to another site and don’t know how to come back!

Happy blogging everyone!

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