By the blogger behind one of the 1500 most visited private blogs in Sweden! (May 2012)

One of the 1000 most popular "Internet" blogs online! (Blog Top Sites 2009)

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Site update: New link collection created

Created a new link collection, one about the important aspect of looking at "Traffic ranking". Added Alexa.com to that new link list.

Site Update: New Promotion Links Added

Added links to Delicious and Socialmarker in the Promotion link collection.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Site update: New Blog Portal Added

Added links in the "Blog directories" link collection

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Lesson #2: General - How To Use the Links at This Site to Improve Your Blog Part I

Apart from the actual posts at his blog I hope readers and aspiring bloggers will also consider this a good starting point when looking for other useful sites that can help making their blog better.

In a series of posts I will describe the different kinds of link collections I have added here and how I use these links myself.

The link collections that can be found so far include:

- Blog portals

- Blog forums

- Promotion

- Visual appearance

- Other sites about blog improvement

- Successful blogs



Blog portals

A regularly updated list of different international blog portals (for blogs written in English) that I have submitted my own blogs to.

More about the other link collections will follow in part II. Same blog, same writer. See you.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Lesson #1: Writing - Which Language Should I Choose?

The process of writing a blog actually starts BEFORE you have written even one single word. The reason for this is that you have to decide whether or not to write in your native language (possibly spoken and read by a minority of the world's web users) that you can write more fluently in. This of course makes the task of writing easier, but you probably won't be read by as many (unless you are fortunate enough to have one of the biggest languages as your native one).

Since I'm from Sweden (Swedish is a minority language) I early on decided to write in English, a language I'm not quite as proficient in - for natural reasons - but a language that can be read by most of the people online.

I will try to sum up the two choices by doing a "pros" and "cons" for each of them

Writing in your native language

Pros:
- More fluent, bigger vocabulary
- More attractive to others from your country (that may include your friends, parents etc. so you early on have to decide whether you're writing for yourself and the ones closest to you or whether your hoping to reach the entire world)

Cons:
- Only attractive to people from your own country
- You won't develop your second language

Writing in a global language

Pros:
- You can reach A LOT more people
- Great language practice - you develop your second language

Cons:
- If you're not very good at the other language this obviously will restrict the level of your writing.
- Probably easier to "disappear" among the innumerable blogs written in this global language, which means:
- You will probably have to spend more time adding your blog to blog portals, participating in forums etc. at least if you're trying to reach a wider audience

To wrap this first lesson up the most important things to ask yourself BEFORE you start writing is:

What is the purpose of this blog?
Which audience am I hoping to attract by writing it? You are obviously writing for someone more than yourself (otherwise you might as well stick to a classic diary). Who?

Of course this can be decided by simply writing and seeing who reads it. BUT, from my point of view it is important to decide how many people you wish to include/exclude in sharing your posts. If you feel comfortable writing in - or wish to really improve - a global language I would encourage you to write in this. Especially if you are aiming for that HUGE audience.

Hope this post has been useful to you. Feel free to comment or mail me.

Best wishes and good luck with your blog
/M

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Welcome to this Blog about Blog Improvement

Hi and welcome to this blog about blog improvement.

Here I will write about my struggle and insight - the lessons I have learned - while trying to create the blog of my dreams:

(take a look at it by clicking the banner above or HERE)

Every post here will include at least one valuable realization I had along the way, a lesson and an advice that can hopefully help you as well to create the blog of YOUR dreams.

I will try to divide the different aspects of blogging into a few important main subjects, such as: Writing, Layout, Add-ons etc. and in case a post falls under more than one category I will include it under more than one.

To make this a good starting point for high quality blogging, I will add links to some of the blogs that are considered the "best" according to different blog lists around the net.

However I would also like to add links to blogs written by followers of this blog. If you would like me to add a link to your blog, simply become a "Follower" and I'll check your profile to find the address. If you have more than one blog, however, you have to tell me which one you want me to add - otherwise I'll just pick the one I find most interesting.

If you have any opinions or suggestions I hope you comment directly on this site or email me at

blogavsinne@hotmail.com

Best wishes and good luck with your blog.