A friend of mine read some of my blog in my another blog address, written in Bahasa (Indonesia's Language)http://curcolyox.blogspot.com/. And he asked me whether I’ll be interested to become a blogger that paid by his company. All I have to do write 2-3 short blog a day, so his website can be googled a.k.a searchable (SEO theory).
Doing something i like... and be paid, who wouldn't be interested?
So yeah, I agreed to try it. I open a new account in blogger.com, and start to write.
So the blog was created to discuss about his products and about how to use it, where to buy it, why buying those, why buy there. etc etc etc
At first …. I can write like 3 blogs with approx 400 words each. But afterwards.. I don't know what to write anymore. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be. Well, I guess I failed to get the money, since I haven’t generated any SEO for the website.
But.. the story here is not about me flunking the test, but more about getting the idea of becoming a writer a.k.a a blogger which can generate money. I failed the first time doesn't mean I’ll fail again and again, rite? :D.
So let’s find out what I would do to to learn new knowledge bout blogging.
Be Sincere and informative.
Why can I write like more than 1000 words in my own blog, but got “brain freeze” when it come to writing for someone else. You know what I find? Sincerity. When I wrote my own blog, I use my own wording, my own terms and about myself, about what happened in my society, in my surrounding. I write it not to get anything but to fulfill my inner self, just to share to my friends about something that I know, something that I found out. So sincere and informative.. Huh… that was easy.
Be professional
As much as I want to write “ur” for “your” or “2” for “to” or “too”, I realize that this is something that I’m going to write for someone else’s business which to be read by a lot of people all over the world (if the reader can google it though :p). It’s not just a personal diary blog which will be read only by my friends. So.. keep it simple and easy to read yet still need to check on grammar. Well, as some one whom is not an expert in English language, I have flaws… sorry. But I try my best not to make stupid grammatical mistake. (If you found it in my blog, please do let me know, so I can ‘fix’ it, thank you in advanced ).
Learn more about SEO
What is SEO anyway? I keep mentioning the word from the first paragraph of my blog, So what is it?
Quoting the word from Wikipedia.org;
SEO (Search engine optimization) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. This gives a website web presence.
There is a lot to dig about SEO itself; we can tweak our own website to become more visible for the search engine. But in general, in order to be visible in search engine pages, we need to know how someone search for something they need. So simple things that we need to do is,
Always put labels or tags in your blog to describe what the topic is. For instance, for this blog my labels are: “blog”, “writer”, “paid”, “money”. Not much really, but it helps one way or another.
When you insert picture in your blog, put a name that describe the picture. Coz sometimes, reader who have slow internet connection or other issues, cant see the picture, so atleast we can have the title, so they would know what the picture is about. i.e. instead make a generic title like “picture 1.jpg” we can change it to “Blogger Website list.jpg”.
Practice Practice Practice
Last but not least. Practice is the key of every success isn't it. So I try to write something short everyday everywhere. I write through my note in my cellular devices, through my Ipad, through my notebook, and even books. Little by little you can get use to writing.
Anyway, those above are my own guidelines to learn something new.
Blogging is one of my hobbies and I’ll keep it that way. I’ll still have fun whether I can or can’t earn money from it. Just don’t stop learning rite? :D
