Blog without html

I have been receiving requests to teach html for blogs. Actually all my earlier posts are just words. I did learn later. You can quickly post an article in minutes by doing it in a few simple steps.

1. Write your draft on a notepad or windows document. Do not attempt to format your text yet. Just write what you want to post.
2. Make sure your keywords appear on the title and at least first 3 paragraphs of your document. Do not keep repeating them, search engines don’t like it.
3. At the end of your document, do these 3 things:
- type the tag lines
- ask yourself where you want to place advertisement, logos and banners: make a note at the bottom of your finished document
- type the keyword that you want to link to other sites or advertisement page you are promoting.
Done phase one.

Now you can go to your post area in your website, and begin. The reason for creating your post on a document are:
- when you are on the site admin working on your post, you are also opening your front door for the world to see. Just in case the connection breaks, you still have your draft saved.
- If you not understand html, at least you have your paragraphs in order. That is enough.
- you do your spell check on the document as your post area do not have a spell check function.

When you do not know how to insert adsense, picture or anything else, put them on the widget area or sidebars. Don’t worry so much about the design and layout. Basically, if you do not have an article, no readers are going park at your site. So forget about the pictures and design, just go ahead and write. Blogging is about writing. When you have reached you tenth post, you will start to see a pattern in the mechanics between posts.

Blogging: Art or Craft?

Blogging used to be about keeping a diary of our activities to share good knowledge or a journal. From my own readings, blogging has lost its artform. Bloggers used to feed the news with content because they are always on the scene. Now bloggers get a feed off the news.

It is about getting more affiliates to sign up and sell programmes, how to keep your ranking high on search engines, how to monetize your feeds or how to disguise yourself in forums to get your threads sticky. Quantity versus quality.

Nowadays, when you have nothing to say, you are taught to customize other people's articles and make it your own. Blogging is made into a craft not an art.

Choice of words are very important if not crucial to our blog's health. We are taught to watch out for keywords for the search engine to like your posts. So we turn our art of blogging into a craft to make the search engine work for us.

One can easily spot the difference between an artist and a craftsman. The artist learns to bridge the gap of love and friendship between himself and his readers over a period of time, whereas the craftsman can capture the attention of his reader albeit spontaneous. The artistic blogger spends a lot of time and little money; the crafty blogger spends more money and less time to get off the yellow brick road.

Landing pages no longer show any posts, but opt-ins, adsense and graphics. The content.....less then 500 words. Marketeers says internet users are becoming impatient and have no time to read, don't write too much. So a picture and caption can be considered a post to be 'read'. Ha! what;s that? Not every picture tells a story, you have to at least write a sentence or two! Wow! Britney Spears shaved her head! That;s a blog too!

From the wikipedia

A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art, artlog ,sketchblog, videos, vlog, music. MP3 blog.audio, podcasting are part of a wider network of social media.

Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1] With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.

Is Blogging an Art or Craft. Help me understand.


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My myBloglog Say

myBloglog is the first social website I joined. I have been enjoying my stay thorougly; these are my reasons.

First of all, the interface on myBloglog is easy, quick and userfriendly. You can join even if you do not have a website or are not planning to have one. It is all encompassing, idiot proof.

2nd, membership is free and you can easily browse other social contacts in one pageview.

3rd, you can access to member’s profile and website without any hassle.

4th, you can receive and send private messages which gives your perimeters to build around as you develop your social network.

5th, members can send mass messages to their communities at one click of the button.

6th, there is freedom of membership with other contacts; join or leave, add or remove. Very nice and no parties are hurt as you still have many left to work with if anyone leaves you.

7th, nobody likes to leave or remove you from their list because everybody wants the exposure. Bottom line, nobody loses, everybody wins.

8th, the numbers on your homepage encourages you: successful bloggers always talk about numbers – traffic, messages, subscriptions, incoming links, backlinks, - more the merrier. And myBloglog does an excellent job at telling you there is progress on your social networking. Even if you have 1 message today, it is coded red.

9th, it does not forget that you want to succeed. If a member follows you, it is noted, like this in your email (you need to activate email alert),


It is a wonderful feeling. If you want exposure, myBloglog delivers.

10th, myBloglog wants you to quit socialising after 15 messages. It sends you a friendly note, "go and enjoy the outdoors!". Before you have a pouch on your tummy, leave your seat and stretch out.

This is my personal recommendation:
In order to increase your presence in the social network, you need to focus on socializing not selling or marketing. Just because it is free and/or offers money, it is good. The social site may not be suitable for your purpose and personality as website builder. You need to keep working on the social site by adding, visiting and joining other communities. And as often as possible, be truthful and honest with your messages. Visit their websites and don't lie that you have. Remember your activities can be easily tracked; if you have visited, the website owner will know just by checking on his myBloglog stats or from tracking widgets on his websites. Take your time to send a genuine message, it is worth your while and you are making your contact happy.

Sucessful bloggers nowadays create blogsites on just one topic on blogger or other free blogs to increase their hit rate with search engines for their winning keywords. Look out for unpopular sites and you will be pleasantly surprised. The author can be the owner of the most creative and hot website in the internet. (Read RSS Alternatives below for research tips.)

If you do not enjoy your stay, consider subscribing to another social site because your absence does not make the hearts grow fonder on social sites. Help the members to decide to include you in their community. Promote yourself and tell them how you can become their good buddy.