Glen
01-27-2007, 11:57 PM
Just posted this on my blog, posting it here as i doubt anybody from here reads my blog, but this new look on different genres of blogging opened my eyes a bit, and hopefully yours too
I learned a lot of things whilst being a celebrity blogger. Basically this means I created a website about celebrities, subscribed to the best news sources, joined some forums where they posted the latest images and set my blog to ping technorati, the results were quite amazing as traffic is concerned, but you don’t want to hear about that, heres what I learned through my time as blogging as a celebtrity ‘gossip guy’ or whatever you want to call me ;)
~ Images in posts, OK so its more relevant for celebrity images to be on a celebrity site, but seriously, TechCrunch uses images in posts and I think it looks nicer so from now on, all entries are going to have an image in the post with a width of 200px
~ Quote, rarely in this blog have I ever quoted other sources, even though some information is from other sources. I like to think of things that are a little original, and hopefully this post is something along those lines
~ Link to the latest news on other sites! Never had I ever considered doing it on this website, nor do I see it 1% of the time on other websites I visit, but Celebrity bloggers seem to do it every single day. From now on I’m going to incorporate ‘Speedrounds’ where I link to the latest / most interesting posts on relevant blog entries and articles for this niche
~ Everybody posts the same thing, you really do have to be different. I realised in the Celebrity blogging world that all the ‘good’ but ‘average’ websites posts pretty much the same thing day in day out. Sure, they may have different pictures or quotes, but the point of each post is almost identical. In order for a good blog to become great they have to become unique. The great blogs were blogs that added humour to their posts, and something that might ’shock’ the average reader
~ If your a day behind then its not worth posting. I’m still seeing blog entries about Google Images changing or about Google reducing the ‘Google Bombing’ effect. If you find out something late in the Celebrity World then its not worth posting at all, somebody will have covered it and forgot about it 24 hours previous, and your readers will want you to do the same
I’ve personally learned a heck of a lot from my short spell as a testing celebrity blogger (website sold). I hope this post has helped you realise that its sometimes good to see blogs from another industry just to see how much things differ.
I learned a lot of things whilst being a celebrity blogger. Basically this means I created a website about celebrities, subscribed to the best news sources, joined some forums where they posted the latest images and set my blog to ping technorati, the results were quite amazing as traffic is concerned, but you don’t want to hear about that, heres what I learned through my time as blogging as a celebtrity ‘gossip guy’ or whatever you want to call me ;)
~ Images in posts, OK so its more relevant for celebrity images to be on a celebrity site, but seriously, TechCrunch uses images in posts and I think it looks nicer so from now on, all entries are going to have an image in the post with a width of 200px
~ Quote, rarely in this blog have I ever quoted other sources, even though some information is from other sources. I like to think of things that are a little original, and hopefully this post is something along those lines
~ Link to the latest news on other sites! Never had I ever considered doing it on this website, nor do I see it 1% of the time on other websites I visit, but Celebrity bloggers seem to do it every single day. From now on I’m going to incorporate ‘Speedrounds’ where I link to the latest / most interesting posts on relevant blog entries and articles for this niche
~ Everybody posts the same thing, you really do have to be different. I realised in the Celebrity blogging world that all the ‘good’ but ‘average’ websites posts pretty much the same thing day in day out. Sure, they may have different pictures or quotes, but the point of each post is almost identical. In order for a good blog to become great they have to become unique. The great blogs were blogs that added humour to their posts, and something that might ’shock’ the average reader
~ If your a day behind then its not worth posting. I’m still seeing blog entries about Google Images changing or about Google reducing the ‘Google Bombing’ effect. If you find out something late in the Celebrity World then its not worth posting at all, somebody will have covered it and forgot about it 24 hours previous, and your readers will want you to do the same
I’ve personally learned a heck of a lot from my short spell as a testing celebrity blogger (website sold). I hope this post has helped you realise that its sometimes good to see blogs from another industry just to see how much things differ.