3 Ways To Make Your Blog Addictive
This is the biggest challenge I am facing since I have started this blog. Its been a tough task and I am still working on getting an audience and new readers for my blog.
The biggest challenge in Make money online niche or make money blogging niche is how to make yourself stand apart from millions of other bloggers and heavyweights. The truth is I have no clue 
What I have learned over a period of time is that, a blog Is all about “You”, “Your Point of View”, “Your Opinion” and “Your Perspective”
I have outlined few methods on how to make your blog interesting and addictive:
1-Take a Fact and write how do you feel about it. You do not have to be a scientist for that. Lets say the word is out Windows 7 is a good OS. No one is interested in that. Tell your readers how windows 7 has made your life easier and why do you like it.
2- Collect some data, analyze it and present it to your readers. A well interpreted data can be of great value to your readers.
3-Case Studies: I find this method to be most addictive. If you are a serious blogger and planning big, this is the best way to hook up your readers. Whatever you do with your blog, document it and post it. People love to know your success and failure story..lol and if you can take them along in real time there is nothing more interesting for them:) . You know how reality TV works.
Rather than telling people how to make money blogging or the best SEO strategy “YOU” are confident about, why not implement them on your blog or website and make it a case study.
You just can’t go wrong with these methods!
Wordpress Cross Posting Using Ping.fm
Ping.fm
The aim is to automatically post/cross post to around 40 different social networking sites, microblogging and community sites every time you publish a post on your wordpress blog.
You will be needing 2 things:
1- ping.fm account (Free) : This is the service that will distribute your post to different websites
2-Shorten2Ping Plugin : It is the wordpress plugin that you can install from your wordpress back office that will notify the Title, Post Tile and the Link of the new post you just published to Ping.fm
So how do you do crosspost wordpress using ping.fm ?
After you have activated shorten2ping plugin go to its settings section and paste your Ping.fm API key. Select the notification to be sent to ping.fm
Important: Ping.fm do not accept notifications greater then 200 words. The notification is sent to ping.fm in the following format:
[Tittle] [Post Title]- Link
So if you have long domain names and use long post Permalink you need to use a URL shortner service. which is already included in the plugin. Just create an account on any of the listed URL shortner and fill up the API key for it as well.
Great, your blog is ready to send notifications to Ping.fm, now login to ping.fm account and select the social/blogging/microblogging site you have account with and connect it to your ping.fm account (explained in detail in ping.fm help section)
Hey here is the list sites that pin.fm connects with :
Facebook, Fanpage, Twitter, myspace, aim, friendfeed, friendster, jaiku, yammer, flicker, seesmic, gtalk status, Plurk, Tumblr, Identi.ca, BrightKite, Plaxo Pulse, LiveJournal, Bebo, Hi5, Mashable, Kwippy, Xanga, Wordpress.com, Rejaw, Yahoo360, Koornk, YouAre, Multiply, Yammer, Utterli, imeem, Vox, TypePad and StreetMavens, shoutem, ning
Now whenever you publish/update your blog it will be cross posted to any of the above sites or all of them automatically and instantly…NOW THATS WHAT WE CALL SOCIAL NETWORKING
John Chow Publicly Humiliates Dan Waggoner
John Chow very well know blogger known publicly humiliates Dan Waggoner.
John Chow
Recently in his email of the week blog post he copied an email sent to him by Dan Waggoner where Dan asked for a “Big Time Favour” by endorsing his new ebook. Dan even asked John to become his affiliate and to keep the cut..:) You dont do that when u ask for a favour..
Anyway Dan also wrote he is new to affiliate marketing so he really needed this favour bigtime! Wonder what kinda book would that have been written by a newbie
BUT the worst part is that John released that email in the public domain WITHOUT changing the senders REAL NAME and the word spread like fire..lol
People tracked Dan Waggoner down and now we all know who is he..Just an online marketer tryin hard to succeed or to take his success to next level.
Dan Waggoner
So..why the hell did John Chow do it? I mean what good did it do to John anyway apart from living upto his bad guy reputation and creating some controversy and buzz around..
I feel sorry for Dan ..but who said that world is good..Dan learned his lesson the hard way
Guess what…Dan is anyhow getting all the publicity he wanted..hmmm! you think about it
