Trying to find an article that takes my interest can at times be time consuming  especially at the end of busy day. Smartbloggerz Why Should You Blog Regularly? by Typhoon definitely put me back on the right track when it comes to blogging.  I love social media, I love searching blogs, and twitter links and picking something that interests me.  It is like reading a book before going to bed. To all of you bloggers, keep blogging…..regularly!

If you’re going to be a successful blogger, one important point to keep in mind is that you should update your blog regularly. By regular, I simply mean that you should define a schedule and STICK to that schedule. Do NOT wander off that schedule, ever.

But, that’s difficult, right? Why?

The major reason why people tend to lose interest midway through their blogging is because they start out wrongly. They decided to blog about something that was not really their point of interest. So, primary rule to success is – Blog about what you love!

Here I share 4 reasons why you should blog regularly:

A Regular Schedule Turns Readers Into ‘Loyal Readers‘

The idea is pretty simple. When you plan and stick to a schedule, your readers get used to that schedule. Eventually, they don’t have to rely on the blog feeds either. As long as they are well aware of your posting schedule, they’ll generally visit your blog themselves on days when they expect you to update the blog. Finding fresh content gives them a reason to keep coming back!

You Lose Traffic When You Deviate

Consider the point above. When loyal readers re-visit your blog, they do so with the expectation of reading something new. If you regularly SKIP your scheduled posting times and neglect the entire blogging area, then these visitors will gradually get disappointed. They won’t be able to keep track of your blog updates and quite a few might simply stop visiting you. This generally leads to a decline in traffic (and a sharp decline, mind that) which is the last thing you want if you’re aiming to be a successful blogger.

Regular Updates = Higher Search Engine Positions

Obviously, Search engines want content. They love content. Everytime they visit your blog, they’ll scrape it for new content. If they find it, they index it. And when they index it, you have more pages indexed in a particular search engine. That, in turn, means you have more chances of people visiting your blog when they’re searching for something, as with the addition of each new blog post, you basically widen the scope of topics you cover. And the more pages and quality posts you have indexed, you get more authority in the search engines. Anyone who has a basic idea of success, would not disagree with this post!

Regular Updates Get You More Backlinks

Don’t forget that quite a few of your readers are also bloggers(in most of the niches). And when you regularly update your blog, every once in a while they’ll like something you posted and link back to you from their own blogs. What does this offer you? Free backlinks! Who would not want free backlinks? All it takes is some time to stay true to your schedule and you get so many benefits without having to actually work hard for them.

Conclusion

There’s countless advantages of regularly updating your blog. More traffic (which leads to more revenue), more exposure, you establish yourself as a professional in your blogging niche, etc. Of course, it all requires you to stick to your schedule. And if you’re short on time, then plan a schedule that does not require too much time, but can still effectively keep your blog fresh!

Are you able to stick to your schedule? If not, what makes that thing does not happen? Let me know by commenting below or comment on Smartbloggerz site.

thanks to Smartbloggerz Why Should You Blog Regularly? by Typhoon…. Great motivation!

Love this list of definitions of words of the Year 2009  published in telegraph.co.uk: ‘Tweetups’ and ‘unfriend’ among Oxford English Dictionary’s ‘words of the year’ by Richard Savill.

Words of the Year 2009

Bossnapping – noun: (in France) the prevention of senior managers from leaving company premises for a period of time by their employees, in order to protest about large-scale redundancies and cutbacks

Zombie bank – noun: a financial institution whose liabilities are greater than its assets, but which continues to operate because of government support

Geoengineering/ecohacking – noun: the deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth’s climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming.

Jeggings – plural noun: close-fitting leggings made of fabric that resembles denim in appearance [from jeans + leggings]

Minute mentoring – noun: a system of advising aspiring professionals based on the format of speed-dating.

Phantonym – noun: a word that looks as it if means one thing but in fact means something quite different. [from ‘phantom + antonym]

(for example fulsome, used by President Obama to mean ‘full’, when in fact it is now chiefly used in reference to excessive flattery).

Tweetup – noun: a meeting or other gathering organised by means of posts on the social networking service Twitter. [from tweet + up on the pattern of MEETUP]

Staycation – noun: a holiday spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions

Simples – exclamation: used to say that something is very easy to achieve [from the 'compare the meerkat' TV advert]

Great Recession – noun: term for the current recession, modelled on the Great Depression.

Hashtag – noun: a # [hash] sign added to a word or phrase that enables Twitter users to search for tweets (postings on the Twitter site) that contain similarly tagged items and view thematic sets.

Freemium – noun: a business model in which some basic services are provided for free, with the aim of enticing users to pay for additional, premium features or content

Paywall – noun: a way of blocking access to a part of a website which is only available to paying subscribers

Unfriend/defriend – verb: to remove from one’s ‘friends’ list (e.g. on a social networking website)

Tag cloud – noun: a visual depiction of the word content of a website, or of user-generated tags attached to online content, typically using colour and font size to represent the prominence or frequency of the words or tags depicted.

Slashdot effect – noun: the slowing down or crashing of a small website due to a huge increase in traffic when the website is linked to another, much more popular one.

Newly topical

Snollygoster – noun: a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician

Redact – verb: censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.

Epigenome – noun: the pattern of chemical switches in all 2000 types of human cell that indexes genetic information

“Unfriend” and “Tweetups” are among the words that encapsulated the preoccupations and lifestyles of the past year, according to a study published on Wednesday 30th December, 2009

The inclusion of technological words was seen as a reflection of the influence that social networking sites have had on English vocabulary.

The list was chosen by Susie Dent, the dictionary expert on Channel 4’s game show Countdown, who scanned the Oxford English Corpus, a two billion word database.

“Unfriend”, meaning to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a site such as Facebook, was voted the New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year in America, and is included along with its alternative defriend.

“Tweetups”, which are meetings or other gatherings organised by means of posts on the social networking service Twitter, are said to have grown in popularity.

Other words in the list, which was commissioned by Oxford University Press, come from the economy, fashion, and politics.

They include the “great recession”, and “Zombie Bank”, a financial institution whose liabilities are greater than its assets, but which continues to operate because of government support.

“Bossnapping”, a phenomenon in France where employees prevent senior managers from leaving company premises to protest against large-scale redundancies is also on the list.

In the corporate world, there has been the emergence of “minute mentoring” among aspiring professionals, and “freemiums” and “paywalls” in businesses.

As the recession deepened this year, so the trend for “staycations”, holidaying at home rather than abroad, or staying at home and going out for day trips, grew.

The past craze for leggings has been replaced by this year’s trend for “jeggings”, close-fitting leggings made of fabric that resembles denim in appearance.

Also back in fashion are some old words which have been given a new lease of life due to recent events. Redact, which means to censor or obscure part of a text for legal or security purposes, has gained prominence due to the parliamentary expenses scandal.

The word “snollygoster”, meaning a shrewd, unprincipled person, has been applied to politicians.

thanks telegraph.co.uk

The Los Angeles Times published an article recently about the demise of  bridal magazines and the increase in Online Bridal Sites such aa Condé Nast’s Brides.com and TheKnot.com

The Publishers Information Bureau’s tracking of ad pages in the U.S. found that wedding planning magazines had steep declines for the first three-quarters of this year, with ad pages for some titles, such as Elegant Bride, falling more than 30 per cent over 2008 numbers. Elegant Bride and Modern Bride were among four money-losing titles that Conde Nast Publications announced in October it was closing, and Time Inc. announced Nov. 24 the closing of Instyle Weddings after the next issue, which hits stands Dec. 25.

Emily Veslind writes:

As a magazine junkie, I remember the thrill of hitting up the newsstand after I got engaged — with the intention of buying and poring through every wedding magazine on the rack.

But since the downsizing of the mainstream media, which kicked into high gear in 2008, future brides have far fewer wedding titles to gobble up.

It was just announced that InStyle Weddings, owned by Time Inc., will stop publishing after its next issue — which hits stands Dec. 25. This, after Condé Nast Publications shuttered Elegant Bride and Modern Bride earlier this year.

As print bridal publications decline, online bridal sites like Condé Nast’s Brides.com andTheKnot.com seem to be going strong.

But giddy gals with shiny new diamonds have long used the lush photos of weddings, dresses and cakes in bridal magazines as a jumping-off point for their big day. Does printing out a picture of a cake on a website inspire the same measure of excitement as ripping out an image from a beautiful glossy mag like Martha Stewart Weddings?

Let us know your thoughts, brides-to-be. Where are you getting your ideas for your big day?

Thanks to the Los Angeles Times ‘Another wedding magazine bites the dust’.– by  Emili Vesilind

The Canadian Press Thck brdal magazines feel squeeze of recession, media competition.

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