Down with those disconnected sentences that are so meaningless you need a translator to help you understand them.

Who wants to plough through reams of inferior stuff whose only purpose it is to confuse the search engines?

Many PLR articles too, are mostly poorly written rejects that their authors are too embarrassed to own publicly.

Bloggers often find it difficult to update their blogs with fresh content on a regular basis. Of course it’s difficult and of course, as bloggers, we’re all game for a short cut here and there. But blogging is a craft and it’s a creative one at that.

A page or two of original writing has more value than volumes of meaningless scraped content. That is why blogging should never be an exercise in scraping bits and pieces from the Internet just to get regular content out.

If you don’t feel like blogging for a week or two – then so be it.  Just blog when you feel like it. But let it be your own writing with your own original thoughts.

Take a look at the cute little words they use.  “Tweet,  twittering and tweetback.”

But don’t let that mislead you.  It’s a humungous craze – The twitter craze is really a birdlike chat cult that has spread into a worldwide feeding frenzy.  And it’s spreading across the internet world quicker than you can scatter a bag of birdseed to a ravenous flock of birds.

But don’t think it only caters for tiny little seed eaters.  There are ravens, eagles and ostriches out there! The biggest marketers on the internet are flocking in droves to deliver their marketing messages via Twitter. It’s that effective!

It appears that the whole idea is to get thousands of “birds” to follow you.  You drop your trail of birdseed in the form of interesting snippets of information and then you sit back and watch a flock of hungry birds pecking it all up.

I thought I’d be able to tweet a message to hundreds or even thousands with the click of a button. But it isn’t quite so easy.

What they don’t tell you is that there are birds of many different feathers out there.  And birds can be very particular. They only feed on the morsels that they fancy.

So the little birdseeds that you have just cast out can very well lie there unnoticed while the juicier fat grubs are being gobbled up at an enviable rate.
So how to crack this nut?

Well there’s a tiny little secret. The trick is to decide what type of birds you want to feed. And only then should you put out onto your feeder the appropriate fare.

After that, they tell me, you can sit back and wait for your flock of hungry birds to arrive.

If you want to join the feeding frenzy  and get real visibility for your website or blog here is a free copy of a Twitter report that will help you get free targeted traffic.

If you want to learn more about Twitter here is a full training course with videos.

Happy Tweeting!

The word out on the street is that a blog only takes about 6 minutes or so to set up.  Well, that’s what they say. But the truth is that I found setting up my blog a nightmare.

It took me over 2 months of fanatical determination bordering on the obsessive to get my blog to behave in a semi-coherent fashion. Eventually, after much sighing and gnashing of teeth things began to improve a little. But no sooner had I begun to relax when I came upon a brand new minefield.

Images!

Adding images to blogs is an area all on its own. It requires a PhD in blogging to get your text to wrap properly around a picture.

But what made things even worse for me was the thought of those millions of bloggers out there blogging successfully and with such apparent ease.  It made me feel really stupid.  But then I suppose it’s something like learning to ride a bike or drive a car. You feel as if you’re the only person in the world battling it out alone while everyone else is doing it so easily.

Meanwhile, I did discover the helpful blogs of Yaro Starak and Codrut Turkano and made good use of their tutorials.  But they’re busy folk and like other internet celebrities they’re just about impossible to contact.

The bottom line is that if you have a problem that isn’t completely standard, you’re on your own.  You’ll have to learn how to do everything yourself.  And that really is one of the worst things about blogging.

There is one small advantage, however.  Once you have overcome a particular hurdle – no matter how small – you reach expert status in that area.  Simply because it will have taken you so long to learn all the possible permutations. In which case consider yourself qualified!

It’s now  OK to set up your brass plate and announce that you have learnt how to insert an image into a blog post and that you are therefore available for consulting.

And here’s some good news – I’ve heard it said that just like learning to drive a car, it’s also possible to learn how to blog.  So if you’re just starting out, take heart because you’ll get there eventually, I promise.

And I should know because it’s taken me several moons of determined battling to get there too.

In the beginning it’s often difficult to find things to write about on a regular basis.  But as your subject categories begin to grow something kicks in and your blog seems to go on a roll (no pun intended!)

Maybe it’s the organization or the discipline or some mysterious force that releases your writing muse but you’ll find that your blog seems to take on a life of its own.  At the same time, your thinking broadens, your interests grow and you learn an awful lot.

Many thoughts and Ideas seem to pop up in the most unlikely places so it makes sense to grab them wherever and whenever you can. I find it helpful to keep a notebook with me so that I can capture an idea before it gets lost.  I like to jot down any nugget of inspiration as it arrives.

Clearly, the more often you write the easier it becomes.  Eventually you’ll find ideas tumbling out faster than you can write them up.

And in honour bound, I have to admit with great humility that in my case, I did find it to be a steep learning curve.  Added to this was the off-putting thought that blogging requires some degree of commitment.

At any rate, I eventually took the plunge into the rather icy waters of blogging technology.

And nearly drowned in them.

But once I was able to lift my head above the murky waters of wordpress’s formidable codex of instructions I began to see some benefits. In fact once I started I became more and more determined to succeed.

Why exactly?

Well first of all, blogging has this marvellous reputation of being so very easy.  Proof? There are millions of bloggers out there blogging away very successfully.  So bottom line – was I particularly stupid? I had to find out or at the very least accept the challenge.

Anyway, after much trial and error and numerous online tutorials I managed to break through the technical barriers.

And then, O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I found myself floating in calm waters.

And that is my story of how I began to dabble in the art of blogging.