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What Is Blogging?A blog, a term derived from “Web Log”, is a collection of thoughts or analysis on a topic or topics of the person running the blog.There are now tens of blogs started every minute of the day. This obviously means it is now a crowded market, which makes it even more important that a blog is good enough to stand out from the crowd.Blogging Revolution.In the yesteryear, well, actually not that long ago, but when blogs first started appearing on the internet in the 1990′s, they were often a simple a collection of thoughts from individuals, often on the daily happenings in their lives. No matter how dreary, they were often compulsive reading, something I guess, typifying our big brother culture.However, more recently, blogs have become much more commercial with topics that have greater commercial value. People have started to realize blogs, especially popular ones, can make substantial money for the proprietor from advertising revenue.Potential of a Blog.In theory, the more popular a blog is the greater its value to advertisers as they have a greater concentration of mass in terms of users and, therefore, greater opportunity to expose their products and services to the visitors on those blogs. In terms of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, higher traffic is likely to mean greater number of clicks.
There are certain characteristics that are shared by popular blogs no matter which topic(s) they cover.Why do you Need a Blog?People love something for nothing. If you provide regular advice and helpful tips on your blog about something, then it is likely to draw regular visitors. Free helpful information – even if it’s a collection of links to other sites/blogs can still attract lots of visitors. The key here is to find such information on a regular basis to attract many repeat visitors.This will also result in increase in popularity of your blog through natural linking – the equivalent of marketing through word of mouth. Links, especially on other high traffic sites or blogs about your blog will lead to a steady stream of traffic from these links, but they will also boost your search engine rankings because major search engines put a lot of weight onto natural linking patterns.How to Build a Successful Blog?1. Write your Heart.One certain way to attract large traffic is to either provide tutorials that people find extremely useful which they will link to, or providing free downloads of useful tools. These tools can be anything such as web tools for people to develop their sites and blogs or help to improve the quality of offerings on their sites or blogs, free financial tools to help people better analyze their income and expenditure, etc.2. Add Personal Value.In addition, it greatly improves your reputation on the Internet as so many people start recommending your blog. Of course, with so many people linking to your site, which acts as a “vote” for your blog from everyone linking to you, the search engines will take that as an affirmation that your blog is of great value and move your rankings higher.3. Spread the Words.Commenting daily on interesting stories on different subject matters is a good way to draw traffic. Making interesting observations on them together with a link to their original source is a great way to capture regular readers. Let’s face it, most of us like to catch up on daily news, but today, we do it in different ways to gone days before when we all sat around our television set.4. Be an Authority Writer.Another way to draw many repeat visitors is to provide great analysis on latest news and big stories that are in development on the topics covered on your blog. The analysis has to really stand out. You have to convey yourself to your readers almost as an expert i.e. an authority on the subject matter, which of course acts like a magnet for visitors. So, providing a unique perspective will always have people coming for more.5. Catch Their Attention. People love entertaining themselves when they are browsing the internet. This is why entertainment sites tend to draw a lot of traffic. A blog with lots of funny clips and jokes tend to become big hits because they tend to get linked on lots of other sites.One way to attract attention through your posts is to be shocking by posting something controversial that gets noticed.Making Your Blog Famous.Enough of the type of ways to devise the content now lets focus on the steps to make a blog off and running.1. Blog link exchange. A blog should exchange link s with other similar blogs, especially if they are highly complementary and have similar levels of traffic. It is unlikely that a blog owner with a lot of traffic would be too keen in exchanging links with someone who has far less traffic, as it would not be deemed mutually beneficial to both parties.2. Buying high traffic links.You can also advertise by buying text links on monthly campaigns on other blogs or sites with high levels of traffic. However, this tends to be an option used mostly by site owners rather bloggers.3. Promoting a blog in forums.A good way to promote a blog is to go on forums. The idea is to make informative or/and helpful posts in forums dealing with similar topics to those covered in your blog. By making useful posts, you can leave live a link back to your blog in the signature or somewhere in the post, if allowed, of course. This is a widely used technique to draw traffic to a blog.4. Posting a link on other blogs.You can also reply to comments on other blogs that have a similar theme to your blog. You can leave a link to your blog so long as the comments you make are both productive and not written merely with the intention of getting traffic to your own blog.

There are many garden lovers in the United States. For you gardeners that are looking for something out of the norm when it comes to gardening a Hawaiian inspired garden may be just the thing to spice up your dreary looking conventional garden. These gardens are reasonably easy to maintain, and they do not cost a lot of money for you to start. When you look at pictures of Hawaiian Gardens it may remind you of Japanese Gardens. This is because both types of gardens share the same style, but with a few exceptions.Similarities and Differences Between Japanese and Hawaiian GardensTypically a Hawaiian garden has a section of grass that is surrounded by different flower beds filled with orchids, flowers, and other plants. There may, or may not, be structures set up in your garden that resemble scaled down native dwellings of either the Hawaiian, or the Japanese, style. This is very typical, and there is no reason why it can not be implemented into your Tropical Garden.Japanese gardens typically has a fewer amount of grass in it then a Hawaiian ones. You may notice that they typically use a lot of stone, or crushed gravel, in place of the grass. This material is generally raked out in geometric patterns in order for you to be able to accentuate the garden to your liking. Many of these gardens also feature boulders that you set up in order to give the garden more focal points than just one. Some of the best pictures of Japanese Gardens are the ones that you can find online in order to get an idea on how you want to make your garden. There are still an abundance of flowering plants that you can put into a Tropical Garden and still keep it in the style of a Hawaiian, or Japanese, one.Be Imaginative and Your Hawaiian Garden Could Be BeautifulYou may think that it is hard to tell the difference between these two types of gardens, but it really isn’t. One of the dead giveaways is the fact that a Hawaiian garden incorporates more grass in it, as well as lava rock, than a Japanese one does. The flowers that can be planted in your garden is really up to you. There isn’t a standard on what should, or should not, be planted in these gardens. You are only limited by your imagination, and funds. You may decide that you want to try some traditional plants and trees for your garden. It is important to note that it is a good idea to not overfill your garden with an abundance of plants as that will take away from the idea of having a few focal points, but not too many. The plants and trees that people typically plant in these gardens are cedar, Canadian hemlock, Himalayan white pine, Japanese black pine, and coastal redwood. You can also have a koi pond in your garden, whether it is a Hawaiian, or Japanese inspired garden since they fit well with both styles, and are sure to add to the overall look of your garden.