Herself's Webtools

Writer’s block got your fingers? It gets easier as you blog longer. I’m writing 3 posts weekly for 5 blogs and misc posts for two other blogs. That 15 or more posts each and every week. I started out with a bang, hit a wall about 3 months into blogging, now it’s gotten easy.

All week long I look for interesting topics; online, tv, books, movies, radio, magazines, and in conversations and forums. Anytime I see an interesting topic I make a note. Most of my time is spent digging into books, the net, code and whatnot looking for new things to bring my readers. Come Monday morning I usually have twice as many topics as posts. But some topics turn out to be duds. Either every single blog in your niche has covered them or with some there just isn’t enough information to fill out a post. The more topics you can find offline that haven’t been beaten to death online already the better.  For me that is the hardest part of blogging, finding new topics.

Monday mornings I write. I create a post for each topic and post date it. Then I round up resources of interest, add in links and read up on the subject. Then I write. Bad. I just talk with no attention to grammar, spelling or continuity. I just write.

Tuesdays I get away from the desk and out of the house. Or I write scripts and programs. Sometimes I just study some AI or other subject that catches my eye. If you spend all your time blogging you’ll have nothing to talk about but blogging. That’s a pretty full, heavily competitive niche.

Wednesdays it is back to writing. Now the typos and spelling get fixed. I re-write the paragraphs so the subject flows nicely and I polish it up. This is when I check, write and re-write the headlines.

Thursdays I put in back links where ever I can. If you get scraped ( and you will get scraped, if you aren’t you should be worried ) you’ll have some links home and two if some one is interested in a topic you can send them to more information on your site rather than elsewhere.

Fridays is back up day, back up the blogs, update site maps etc.

Saturdays and Sundays I leave blogging alone. If you don’t have a life you’ll have nothing to write about.

LOL obviously these researches don’t run their own websites.

University Park, Pa. – Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study of more than 7,500 Web sites revealed Google’s advantage.

That finding was surprising, said C. Lee Giles, the David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology who led the research team which developed a new search engine—BotSeer—for the study. . . . [read more Study shows Google favored over other search engines]

Why is Google preferred? Google provides the easy to use AdSense program to help webmasters earn some money, Google has Webmaster tools and Analytics for webmasters, and Google, right now at least, is the best of the search engines. However much better we would like Google to be, it hands down trumps the others. Probably because Google is so webmaster friendly.  But most important of all; it is Google who sends us the most traffic from search engines.

See also:
BotSeer, a search engine providing information on robot.txt files across the internet