Book description
Anyone can build a blog. It’s quite easy. The difficult part is keeping it relevant, technically sound, and popular. Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to blog for success. It teaches you how to find a niche, find your unique voice, and how to hold a conversation with an audience. It provides information on all the right tools for the blog, and it offers best ways to promote your blog and content for maximum success and a profitable life.
Though rules in creating compelling content haven’t really changed, ways in which the world blogs has since the last edition. The authors have learned a lot about social media since writing the previous edition’s manuscript. They understand and know how social media can make or break a blog. Microblogging is a new trend brought on by the wide utilization of social media. To that same end, networking with other bloggers and content creators on the web is another form of building one’s blog and one’s reputation as a writer.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Niche
- 2 Getting Started
- 3 Target Practice
- 4 Hello, World
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5 What to Write About
- Old and New
- Need to Know
- How to Decide What Matters to Your Readers
- Finding News
- RSS
- How to Select Sites for RSS
- Building Your RSS Feed
- Aggregators Such as Google News
- Google Trends
- More Sources: Press Releases from PR People
- Conferences/Trade Shows
- Dinners and Events
- Tipsters
- Dealing with PR People
- Review Units
- Is It Worth It to Review?
- How to Snag Review Units
- Review It or Not—Pan It or Skip It?
- Should I Return Review Units?
- Further News Gathering
- Ten Questions to Ask before Posting
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6 How to Write a Blog Post
- When Should You Post?
- Deadly Headline Kills 200,000 Innocent Readers
- To Capitalize or Not to Capitalize
- Use Perfect Grammar or Your Credibility Is Shot
- Top Fifty Grammar, Usage, and Style Goofs
- Blogging Traps
- Types of Posts
- Battles
- Graphics and How to Use Them
- Snark and the Single Blogger
- Post Length
- Being a Better Blogger
- 7 Mob Rule, Inciting a Riot, and Freedom of Speech
- 8 Building Traffic, Making Money, and Measuring Success
- 9 Ethics Problems and How to Solve Them
- 10 Expanding Your Blogging Horizons
- 11 Building an Empire
- Appendix: Tips and Tricks of the Trade
- Index
Product information
- Title: Bloggers Boot Camp, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2014
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317816041
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