Saturday, February 17, 2007

Blog Component

Building a blog empire should comprise of three major component; The Emperor, Citizens and the The Land. As an emperor, you can have total control of whatever things happen inside your blog. It is because of you the blog exist. By being yourself and contributing any knowledge you posses, the blog can thrive. It is your words, your opinion, your research and your art which can bring thousands or even millions of readers (the citizen) into it. You can limit your empire to those agrees to your requirements or make it a free country to anyone from around the world. You can have your own councils to assist in fulfilling your agenda. Bring in economy for your blog expansion and do all other things you can think of.

However, if you are thinking your blog as your business empire, your blog in many cases is slightly different than the average business concepts. Being the leader of your empire, you are responsible to do all the management and strategic thinking towards its establishment. As a supplier, you are to bring not only "traffic" of readers into your blog, but as well as advertisers. Readers will come into your blog to read what you post, and advertisers will come into your blog to get access to your readers. And these traffics will be the lifeline of your site, you have to find them and bring them in. These customers will play a significant parts in the success of your empire, depending on how good you presents your product(s) to them.

Product, being the final componet in your blog, is mainly focusing on you. You are to sell yourself for your opinion, expertise and reputation. It is how you present yourself and your site, that can make more and more readers to come in. And afterwards when traffic of readers come pouring into your blog, you will get the chance to sell spaces in your site for advertisers, who will pay yo to put informations i front of millions of readers. Whether text link or flashing banner ads, your advertisers will pay for your reader's attention. Soon, when all the planning and strategy come into places, you will earn enough to buy yourself an establihment.

Friday, February 16, 2007

Why Blog?

Most people will not start their action without having these questions answered. "Why should i do it and What will i get from it?" Especially if they have none or little knowledge about it. My question to them is, "Why Not?"

Blog are all rage today. Having your own blog offers unprecedented exposure to the world around you. It is a network of shared information and tested ideas. It is where you can write your masterpiece(s). Blog are fast, easy and very popular. Now, in an instant, you can have your thoughts and feeling published for the world to see. Bloggers sees themselves as presenting a piece of his own world and his own expertise from his own perspective.

The number of individual blogs have topped 20 million and readership is exploding. Hundred of millions of people worldwide get their news and entertainment from these independent source. And that's where you come in. You can draw millions of readers, because what you have to say is important. You can accumulate advertisers, because they will pay to reach your readers. You can build your own blog empire, and it's easier than you think.

In addition, there are blogger.com and similar services that can let you have your own blog - including web hosting - for free. Host it on your site - or blogger's - it doesn't matter. There are certain advantages to host on your own, but i'll leave that for my future posting.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Blog Introduction

Blog have been the rage for a while now and for good reason! You can post articles at the snap of your fingers. No html knowledge is required; just write and click a button. This is also a great place to post your articles. And what's even better, search engine have a tendency to visit blogs often due to how frequently blogs can be and often are updated. But that's not where it ends! You can submit your blog to blog directories, and also can generate even more traffic when people link back to your blog.

For many years, blogs were defined as text-based websites that kept records of days, similar to a captain's log on a sailing ship. However,this started to change as the group of people who kept blogs became more diverse. The more bloggers began to explore the limits of the medium and of the technology that made it possible, the more the boundaries of what could be called a "blog" expanded.

A good working definition of a blog is simply a journal or newsletter that is frequently updated and intended for the timely reading. It come in all shapes and subjects, a journals locked with password shared by few trusted friends, or they can be page after page of news and commentary shared with the world. As blogs become more popular, more columnists are becoming bloggers and more bloggers are becoming professional in what they write.

Today, there are an abundance of photo blogs, and there are even video blogs as well. Mobile blogging devices may well change the definition of blogging entirely by making it possible for bloggers to create new kinds of posts. Another element of the blogosphere that is starting to redefine blogging is the corporate blog. As more companies hire writers to keep blogs with the sole purpose of creating positive buzz about their brand,bloggers across the globe are arguing about whether these manufactured blogs are really worthy of the name.Between all of these different forces that are constantly expanding and reshaping the blogosphere, it is difficult to imagine that the definition of what is and is not a blog will ever remain fixed for very long.