Blog Theme - Part 2

I believe you've already thinking thoroughly about what kind of blog you will create. Be it a professional subjects or just a rambling of your every day events, you might want to look at these blogs for inspiration. You are building an empire and it should at least stays long enough to be remembered.

1. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things = http://www.boingboing.net/

• It may sound funny, but this weblog of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies is ranked as most popular blog in the world and won the Lifetime Achievement and Best Group Blog Awards at the 2006 Bloggies ceremony. As of today, it has 63,852 links from 19,549 blogs. This blog illusrates that you need a well-presented good idea to build a blog empire.

2. Post Secret = http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

• In this blog, the readers do all the work, creating a picture that represents a secret the contributors wants to reveal to the world. As of today, it has more than 17,000 links from more than 10,000 blogs.

3. 43 Folders = http://www.43folders.com/

• 43 Folders is a site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. It has 8,632 links from 3,303 blogs.

4. Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide = http://www.gizmodo.com

• This is a site that provide with lots of information and review of gadgets available in market today. It is constantly updated with new post, relevant news and links to articles, giving you an extra perspective of what you can get from gadgets that you own or before you make your purchase on specific item.

5. Daily Kos: State of The Nation = http://www.dailykos.com

• An example of successful political blog with important and timely information (not just opinion) that can be relied upon by serious political junkies. They hae high-level political connections, access to rumors, or expertise to share.

Those are few example of successful blogs available on the net that you might use as role model. There are millions of other blogs with different subjects and layouts and each one of them have their own specialties and attractions. Now, it's time for you to have your own and share it with the world.

Blog Theme

Now that you have the basic idea what a blog is, it's time for you to choose what type of empire you'll build. Unless you are someone recognizable by your reputation alone, it'll will take a lot more than a sweet words and cute interface. You are going to need a theme for your blog. It can be the one specifying on a single topic only, or it can be one topic,elaborated in more general approaches. Whatever your theme is, it have to be able to keep your readers coming in, expecting you to present them with more valuable content.

There are literally millions of blogs available nowadays, but successful blogs will touch the appropriate readers because they do it well. With multi-million prospective readers online, you might find it hard to get them to be alike with you. Everything become subjective when selecting what and how you want your blog to be. These readers might be interested when you're sharing all news and info of latest computer gaming but these same person might not even care about how you decorate your house, unless they are a close and personal friends of yours.

That means you're going to pick a subject and stick with it. To get yourself started, list down few options of subjects that you might want to post in your blog. From the list, pick out the one that will provide more focus on you. Remember, you'll be the one who'll design it, build it and you'll people it with readers who'll return to it day after day, in a sense of becoming virtual citizens of your empire and eventually your happy customers. By providing your knowledge and expertise, access to latest news and information, it'll be easier if you are being yourself in your blog.

Once you've hand-picked the subject, browse through the net and explore as much as you can on blogs that's related to your topic. You might want to study how they arrange the layout and what type of information they have inside it. Some successful blogs which are run by experts could be a very good model on how your contents should be. The entries chosen are skillfully presented, telling readers what they don't know and want to know.

There are however, successful blogs that are not run by the experts; they are run, in fact, by someone with brilliant idea. No idea is too small, too silly or too pretentious so long as you present your content in a manner that makes your blog a valuable reference. Your readers will relate to it and they might want for more. A successful blog will cover their subject so well, and successful empire will have readers keep coming back to it.