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A Small Difference is A Difference None The Less

So, you have a blog. Now what? Make a difference and stand out! You might say that the contents alone makes all the difference between one blog to another and I agree with you on that. However, making a difference visually helps to create that first impression on your readers, especially the first time visitors. The BBC previously reported a study conducted by Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada that “Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye“. One of the conclusions from the study was “If people believe a website looks good, then this positive quality will spread to other areas, such as the website’s content“.

 

Even without the above study, my own experience tells me that I am more likely to browse further on a web site if the site has a visually appealing look to me. Do you not agree? You may then say that for the web site owner (or blogger for that matter) it’s only a matter of choosing between one theme to another. Every theme is different. Or is it?

 

Not to me. Every theme is only different in so far as the original template is concerned. Once it is downloaded by more than one (1) person and used in their site, the said theme is the same between the 2 or more sites which uses it. With some popular themes, you get hundreds if not thousands of people using them. I won’t be surprised that this theme that I am using is also being used by hundreds, if not thousands of blogs out there. And that makes all of us who uses the same theme look alike unless we create a difference.

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. 24 Aug 07 | Life, Tips, Blogging | Read on | Comments (2)

Deliver Your Site’s Feeds To Mobile Phone Subscribers

Blogsreview.Net is now officially live on mobile phones courtesy of the FeedM8 Publisher Network. Signing up is free and my subscribers can now choose to Get Mobile Version of my posts. I have always emphasized making full use of feeds to publicise my sites and this is an innovative way to do so.

Signing up is very simple indeed. You just need to provide your email as well as your site’s url. After that, just copy and paste a code onto your site. When your prospective subscribers click on the link, a form will pop up which will provide the special feed url for the subscriber to use in his / her mobile phone to access your site. As shown in the image above, this service (which is also free to subscribers) is currently only available to mobile phone users in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Israel.

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. 23 Aug 07 | Tips, Blogging | Read on | Comments (2)

How Should New Bloggers Build Community?

Before I had a blog of my own, I was exposed mainly to Kennysia and Paul Tan’s blogs and was fascinated by the number of people who regularly comment in their posts. I was one of the readers who made comments where suitable and appropriate. After some time, I decided to sign up with Blogger and got myself my personal blog. Then what? I need to find readers. I need to find my own community of bloggers and readers. These were the 2 main things I did:-

 

1. I joined a blogging forum. Bloggerhub.com was the first forum I signed up with. Usually in these forums, there is a thread called “Introduction” or the like which allows new members to introduce themselves. Some forums even have a thread which asks fellow members to review their blogs. From this forum, I made my first 2 blogging pals - Nafcom and Rainyuki. They visited my blog regularly and that provided me an encouragement to blog further.

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. 23 Aug 07 | Life, Tips, Blogging | Read on | Comments (12)

Who Are You?

For me, blogging is a relationship. Whilst the majority of the “talking” is done by the blogger, the reader also contributes in the communication vide comments. However, only a small percentage of readers actually leave a comment after reading a post. When readers leave a comment, a communication between the blogger and the reader is formed (however small it may be). The blogger knows that there is someone out there who actually took time to fill in the name and email column and proceeding to type out something to bring across to the blogger. It’s a great feeling to me when my readers do that.

I am happy to know that I have feed subscribers to this blog. 33 to be exact, at this point of writing. Yet, I don’t know who they are. Were they also readers who have commented before on this blog? Perhaps. I may not have a couple of hundred or thousands of subscribers but these 33 subscribers are valuable to me. Your act of subscription shows that you take an interest in this blog. Why else would you actually bother to subscribe?

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. 22 Aug 07 | Life, Blogging | Read on | Comments (9)
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