A blog post is essentially a column of text, right? It’s a collection of words that you put together to convey a message to any readers that happen to drop by your page, for whatever reason.

However, quite a lot of your readers are busy people with important things to do. They’re not going to read your boring old post unless there’s something in it for them. A column of text about the same old text, the same old way is boring, and nobody wants to spend time on something that is boring.

You have to spice it up a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s about this stage in blog development that I should be submitting this site to dozen and dozens of quality blog and website directories to establish backlinks so that one day I’ll have a pagerank.

Should be, but I’m not. Read the rest of this entry »

I do a lot of writing in my free time because I enjoy doing it. That’s one of the reasons that I am currently maintaining 3 blogs and contributing to a multi-author blog. I enjoy writing to express my thoughts, and as a kind of diary so I can look back on what I’ve written and reflect.

I try to keep my other blogs mostly on topic, because I think most Internet users have a short attention span and if they don’t see what they’re looking for straight away, they’ll just bugger off. So to keep my corner of the web organised, anything that’s not about pets or RPGs gets written about here, or at Associated Content.

AC does pay writers for their article submissions, but only if you’re an American, and I’m not, so I only earn a pittance from their pageviews. But I keep writing, and I keep hoping that if I have enough articles or a wide range of topics that I might earn enough money each month to pay for coffee, becauseI can’t see any way I’d be able to earn enough to make a living off it. Read the rest of this entry »