Green Flamingobecause I said so

As I mentioned a few days ago, I will be sharing some of the styles of writing that can be used during blogging. All the ways you compose your posts, introductions, and and pages have an effect on your blog and the reader base that you will have.

The Casual Style

I have noticed most popular and successful bloggers use a writing style that is casual, but still professional and to the point at the same time. At points there may be interaction with the reader, like the blogger is talking to another person, or to an audience. This way seems to work well among most, for it gives everyone a sense of a community, which is nice to know you are supported. For a blog anything like this one, about blogging, then I would reccommend this type of writing.

The reader base that will result will probably be other bloggers, which is what most of you are used to seeing, and it will make the site even more of a community.

Professional Style

A very professional style might be used on sites with good services, or other sites like interior design, architecture, etc. This works well for applying to large audiences, and embraces the general public giving them a feel that the site they are reading off of it in it’s place to do business. This form of writing is not as commonly found within the “blogging” niche sites.

Usually websites that use a professional form of writing do not have a continuous reader base, unless they have subscriptions on an email list. You will often just come across a site like this, and use it for their goods and services, not for content.

Promotion Style

I just call it the “promotion” style to be nice, but it is really like commercials where the writer is trying to entice you with something, and writing in that very persuasive tone, maybe even stretching the truth while trying to promote something. Often that form of writing it considered spammy, and I would avoid using it, unless absolutely nessecary.

Websites that write in this form may not have much of an established reader base, though new people may stop in because of keywords, making the uniques for the websites pretty high.

All the Others

There are a few more forms of writing that are used, but they are not so much forms themselves as they are expansions on the other styles of writing. For example, sometimes writers are a bit sloppy with grammy and structuring of the peice, but that is not an original form, it can apply to almost any of them.

By the way, none of the style names are official, they are just what I decided to title them for categories. I hope you can evaluate the choices and pick what works for you, and target what readers you want and what message you want to send out. Good luck!

I want to share some writing styles and tips, so that your posts will really draw everyone in. Over the next few days I hope to focus on writing style, and how that affects your readers and what type of reader base you will gain. I also want to touch on blogging style, on how you present yourself overall, because that can be very important. I am excited to start, I see you guys soon!

Blogging is not just a way to make money, or to share your ideas, but it is more like an art.

Blogging masters have to learn and study, and experiment in the art of blogging before they become that master. Some have to learn it all, or some are a born natural, but all have to work to blog successfully.

Blogging is not limited to one kind of art either. It is all. You can paint or sculpt your blog, shaping and depicting your blog. One new diea too, blogging is like the art of combat. You are up against the world, and your enemies are no more than your friends. You learn certain moves to react against the blows on you, no matter how hard something may strike. You always have to get up and try again, until you can win with success.

To perfect the art of blogging you have to work hard and learn well, and interceot what comes your way and make it help you. You just have to shape what comes your way, and the paint the picture yourself.

It can be agreed on by many that what everyone and everything need is change. But this is an opinion that can be pulled to either side, and the battle can rage on so long, that winners won’t prevail within the first match.

The world is changing, with the global climate escalating, and with the change of the overall well being of the earth, the world transformation becomes very apparent, and has much attention paid to it.

People are changing, the way they act, the things they do, the things they have, and their minds think new thoughts all the time. The rest of life changes in the same way, it expands, and develops new things.

And of course the world of blogging changes with everything else, what is blogged about, and what goes on in the blogosphere.

I have talked about change before. I am sure many others have as well. We all live by the concept of “change” and nothing can be done about that.

Many things happen through this transformation. The American president was elected for hope of change. New ideas circulate, new ways and behaviours circulate, new structures and physical beings circulate. Their is no determining whether change it good or bad. It just happens. And it has to be accepted that change just happens, nothing can prevent that.

Why Change IS Important To You

With everything around you changing, you have to make a transformation of your own, and keep up with the others. Falling behind in a race means you have to work harder to catch up, and to stay with the flow. But though others change, an effort does not need to be made to change. Sometimes what you call “an effort to change” is just natural, and will work no matter what. You do not need to work hard to change, but do not work hard to stay the same either. Just let things pass you one by one, and when opportunity strikes, reply in your usual combat manner. You do not need to go out of the ordinary borderline.

Bottom Line: Change WILL come. You must accept change, and keep going.

Coming up: combat blogging

-The Green Flamingo

In the blogosphere, when everyone starts to blog and new people create websites everyday,  when you get busier and your blog becomes less important on your list, blogging becomes much more difficult. Quality posts are harder to write, and you have less time to comment on other blogs and maintain your site.

There is more to it than explained above. Sometimes it is the little things that count, and the little things that you don’t have time for. When on a tight schedule, you will not have time to update your twitter, guide along your technorati, digg other blog posts, tweak your rss feed, add new gadgets to your site, explore new blogs, comment on old blogs, optimize your SEO, optimize your pagerank, etc. These little standards bring together some of the things that promote your blog, and some ways that people view the status of your blog. Though all these are really little, too be successful in many eyes of all kinds, some of the tidbits are important over a range so large.

And even when one needs most of those things to feel completely in control, posting regularly and commenting seems most important. Even so, you have to watch how you go about that. I have seen on some sites lately that they have slacked a little, the grammar may not be kept up, or an ordinarily well built post will simply have the outlines to it. I have been no exception, I could draw my posts out into something very well received. It just gets harder and harder to keep up the best work.

How To Make Things Easier

To make things easier for yourself and your blog you need a plan, a schedule, and you need to compact. You also need to take the same principles of ecology: reduce, reuse, recycle. You can reduce the fluff in your posts, and the time you spend dawdling off on unhelpful sites. You can reuse your knowledge, and space, even some content. You can recycle your old content too by making into something new, recycle other blog’s posts and resources that you find.

Incorporation is a big part of the process as well, which follows along timing and schedule. If you incorporate most of what you need to do in short, well put together pieces you can get a great amount done in optimal time. If you quickly make sure your site is all working before you post, then write and publish a quality blog post, that will be a start. Then you can twitter about that blog post, and start commenting on other blogs, which hopefully have comment luv and will track back to your most recent post. You can also submit your site to directories, and social bookmarking sites at this time. All that should fill your blogging time for a day, and can be completed within 1-2 hours, depending on how much time you spend with certain activities.

Besides the normal routine, you can create a waterfall of visitors with a new idea, program contest etc, that is new and that will promote extra traffic to your blog. These types of things really seem to help people have a burst in profit.

The bottom line is, with blogging times getting harder, and time for blogging decreasing, then you need to know how to create the best plan for your blog with whatever is available to you.

Beta Advertising Update: Because of a feedburner delay, the raffled advertiser has still yet to be drawn, so you can still enter. There are also two more spots up for grabs, just comment on the beta post and let me know.

Finally it has arrived! I present the beta advertising program! I have had this idea for a while now, and finally I can share it. I want to give my readers a chance to try out advertising on this site, and see how it works for them for the first month of February.

I will be giving out 4 advertising spots this month, and rotating weekly.

This week, the first three spots will be first come, first served, and the last will be raffled off to my trusty email subscribers. Click here to enter.

So the first three to comment on this post will recieve a spot, and tomorrow I will draw the last spot.

I hope everyone has had a successful week, and I hope to see another one ahead of us. I have spotted some outstanding posts, and I am sure success will continue to improve.

-The Green Flamingo

I have decided to start a beta advertising program, so readers can test out how their ads will work on this site, free for a month!

After I make a few minor changes to the site, the program will launch. If anyone knows how to change my “freshnews” theme logo to “Green Flamingo,” please let me know ( I have gotten “green flamingo” to show up but I cannot get the logo away). I will also make a few other minor changes to the front page.

I am planning to launch my beta program, Sunday  the 8th. Stay tuned for the details!