Delirium Propaganda

Many people hunger for the opportunity to turn their blog into a profitable enterprise. Unfortunately before this can happen, there are a few simple rules that have to be carefully investigated before a blog can in fact become profitable. Bellow you will find ten easy steps that will help accomplish this goal.

Write for people not machines
1 -Many people will start a blog with the prefabricated idea that only search engines (SE) can provide good traffic. The end result is that these blogs become cluttered with long posts or articles that do not appeal to the average reader. When writing, be it a short post about the resent events in your life or a complex tutorial about “10 crucial steps to developing a good blog”, you should always think of the readers first.

Enough with the ads already
2 –This is the first phrase I say when visiting most blogs. Over crowded blogs with banner ads popping out from every corner annoy most readers and discourages them from ever returning. Please understand that in most cases these banners will never earn a single cent, so give it up already.

Communicate
3 -Communicate with the audience, don’t turn your blog into a one way information stream that does not promote interactivity. Most blogs on my daily must visit list are excellent at communicating and always engage us, the reader, by promoting feedback and interactivity. This can be easily achieved by asking for opinions and responding all question or suggestions made.

Leave comments on blogs
4 –Bloggers respect and appreciate readers that leave good comments on their blogs. A comment is seen as retribution to the hard work invested in writing a good post and will motivate them to visit your blog and return the favor.

Write about other bloggers
5 – When I say write about other bloggers I am talking about any service, plugin, themes they might have developed or released. Write a post describing the product offered and link to the original blog so that your readers can download whatever might be on offer. I have developed many friendships and benefited from a lot of services provided completely free of charge from bloggers, merely because I wrote a review and linked to their blog.

Stick to what you know
6 –Stick to a topic you dominate, currently there are enough marketing blogs on the blogosphere already. Starting any project on a theme you do not understand is very complicated and in most cases dictates imminent failure. This is also a very good way to be branded a complete idiot seeing as the content offered will obviously lack the needed knowhow.

One is always better than two
7 –Some people wrongly assume that maintaining a few blogs is the best solution since it provides a better chance of succeeding. Just because you make $100 per month on one blog doesn’t automatically mean you will earn $200 with two blogs. Most people have found that it is easier to make money from only one blog than from a few less active blogs. This goes double if you are an extremely occupied individual that finds it hard to maintain an active blog.

Develop a routine
8 –People like to know what to expect and love to be part of a routine. Cleverly build a routine on your blog and watch has the readers pour in. A blogger can easily create a routine by organizing the publication of new content to coincide with a particular day of the week.

Be unique
9 –Every single living soul on this planet is unique and has something exceptional to contribute. Trying to copy, duplicate or mimic other popular blogs is a clear demonstration of laziness and little imagination. Contribute with your own unique experiences and create something that stands out from the crowd.

Have fun
10 –The last crucial step is in my opinion the most important because it will dictate the continuity of your blog. The best bloggers are the ones that have fun and enjoy what they do. Don’t fall into the trap of starting something just for the financial gain, I can guarantee that in most cases failure is the end result. Have fun with your blog will prosper and so will you.

Creating a better, more professional blog is easy but it does require some hard work and perseverance. Apply the 10 steps mentioned above to maximize the potential of your blog and notice has the readers start to flock in.

[tags] blog, blogs, plugin, search engines, tutorial [/tags]

Good news for all you Wordpress fanatics, it seems that Justin Tadlock managed to do it again, only this time he really surpassed is previous achievements by releasing the new Visionary Newspaper Wordpress Theme. If you’ve been keeping up with all my previous posts about Newspaper themes, you would know that although there are some nearly perfect solutions, none provide the true feel required to create a full-scale newspaper or magazine.

The Visionary theme changes all that and is in my humble opinion the only true newspaper or magazine theme available. Well organized, exceptionally thought out and impressively functional, the Visionary theme shows what the Wordpress Blogging CMS can really do.

This theme really promises and I can’t wait to give it a try on one of my blogs. One of the many features I really liked was the latest video module and the intuitive navigation provided for searching the archives, latest post, most popular posts and sections (categories).

The Visionary theme

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[tags] Wordpress, themes, Visionary, newspaper, magazine, CMS, blogging [/tags]

The automated blog has arrives and with it came the disguised steeling of content combined with a new wave of spam that promises to clog the internet with useless rubbish. Just when we thought that normal spam was under control out comes another even worse replacement to satisfy the hunger of lazy, third class webmasters.

These blogs are generally created using the Wordpress blogging CMS and an easily obtainable plugin. Let me just start by saying that if you expect me to link to this plugin I’m sorry but this will not happen since this sort of scheme doesn’t create any value, just steels content (feeds) from other blogs.

These blogs have been popping up like mushrooms and currently represent nearly all my incoming links. I don’t know if other bloggers have been experiencing the same thing but for the past month Trackbacks from such blogs have started to represent a big chunk of all spam caught by Askimet. I understand that many bloggers might even condone such practices because at the end they still get an inbound link and to be honest with you I still don’t know where I stand on this.

My problem with such blogs is that they really don’t create any value and only survive by leeching the hard work of others. We can all appreciate a link now and then but these are useless given that they boast nearly no value. I guess all we can do now is wait and hope this trend eventually dies.

[tags] automated, blog, Wordpress, CMS, plugin, webmasters [/tags]

The WP-Directory Wordpress Plugin is a very useful plugin that will create an extremely functional link directory on your Wordpress blog. Very simple to install and even easier to use this is one of those plugins I’ve always wanted to have but never found one that was so functional.

For a simple example of a site using WP-Directory Wordpress Plugin please visit OTTQ.com.

You can download the WP-Directory Wordpress Plugin from here.

[tags] Wordpress, Link Directory, WP, blog [/tags]

If you’re an old time blogger and have been in the game for a few years, you know that after reaching the hundreds of posts a Wordpress blog will start to feel the heat. The blog will get slower and in many circumstances will become nearly inaccessible because of the time it takes to load. This is even worse if your blog appears on Digg.com, Slashdot, Stumbleupon or any other popular site that can generate a lot of traffic.

The solution is quite simple and it comes in the form of a very easy to use plugin. WordPress Super cache generates html files and serves them without ever invoking a single line of PHP. The plugin will also save a copy of all dynamically generated pages, and place them in directories that match the permalinks structure. You can read all the features on the official site. If your blog is showing these symptoms give this excellent plugin a try.

[tags] Wordpress, Wordpress Super Cache, Digg.com, Slashdot.com, Stumbleupon, PHP, blogger [/tags]

Just like the popular saying indicates “there’s an idiot born every second” and according to StupidFilter, this goes double for stupid comments. The solution they are going to try create resembles in many ways the already widely used spam blocking system.

The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.

As for information on whether StupiFilter will really work and a description of all its functionalities we will have to way until around December, 2007, date indicated for the official release. The good news is that the development team plans on releasing a fully implemented Firefox plugin and a Wordpress plugin which I’m sure will come in handy.

You can see my profile on Gooruze - Emperor.gooruze.com

[tags] wordpress, plugin, Firefox, stupidfilter, comments, software [/tags]

Yesterday I started using the MyblogLog community service on my blog. Well it didn’t take long before I wanted to take things to the nest level. Today I found a nice plugin that enables you to show MyBloglog Avatars next to comments. Basically when someone that has a MyBlogLog account leaves a comment his Avatar will display next to it. For a quick tutorial on how to download and install the plugin please follow the very simple instructions bellow.

Installing

The installation isn’t very complicated but you best follow my instructions because it will save you a lot of headaches.

1- First download the plugin here and then upload the entire archive to your plugin directory.
2- Now you may activate the plugin.
3- Go to Presentation -> Theme editor -> comments to paste the following code.

<?php if(function_exists(”MyAvatars”)) MyAvatars(); ?>

The code above must be inserted in the comment loop normally after

<?php $count_pings = 1; foreach ($comments as $comment)

If your like me, a very generous person that likes freedom and good sense, there is a way to deactivate the nofollow attribute that comes enables by default.

Open the Myavatar.php file using your favourite text editor or Dreamweaver and change where it says nofollow to dofollow.

<a rel=”dofollow” href=”<?php echo $mybloglog_URL; ?>” target=”_blank” title=”<?php echo $mybloglog_TITLE; ?>”>

[tags] Wordpress, blog, Myavatar, MyBlogLog, Plugin, Avatars [/tags]

Today I finally decided to join the myBloglog network to see what it was all about. I’m not really a widget and big buttons king of guy so it was something that took me a very long to decide. Especially since I didn’t know whether it would be something I wanted displayed on my precious blog. I just want to start by saying that I couldn’t be happier with the results.

For starters the myBloglog community is really amazing and friendly too. My account was created just a few hours ago and some members have already dropped in to see my profile. Being used to services like blogger and other social networking sites that require days before the first person even knows you’re alive, this was surely a pleasant surprise.

I also took the opportunity to create a profile page for my blog (aka: deliriumpropaganda.com) which always helps bringing in the readers. You can join my community here. If you haven’t joined MyBlogLog yet I honestly advise you to give it a try, you won’t regret it.

[tags] Blog, MyblogLog, community, widget [/tags]

Bloggers love all sorts of tolls, be it for raking, SEO, stats, you name it bloggers have thought of it. So today I found a tool that can rank your blog and do much more in fact. Let me explain. It’s my experience that the best blogs get more spam and the less active ones, let’s call them that, are left alone to sleep peacefully on the internet. Now if that’s true we could actually use Askimet to rank our blogs. Obviously it all depends on the blog’s age and a few other factors but it’s still a very good indicator in my opinion. Bloggers show your spam count with pride, this is how good my blog is…

[tags] SEO, Blogs, Stats, Bloggers, Spam, Askimet [/tags]

Today I decided to write a little side note about a marvellous Wordpress plugin that is a must especially if you like all that Ajax no browser refresh look. I certainly do and since most Wordpress blogs display the same commenting system it is a way to break loose from the crowd.

The plugin offers much more than just a pretty Ajax commenting system. For more detailed information and to download the plugin please go here.

[tags] Wordpress, plugin, Ajax [/tags]