While searching through the list of speakers for the Blog World Expo, came across, this corporate blogger, Debbie Weil. She is currently doing a Blogging tour in China.

Follow the China Blogging Tour! l am speaking about CEO & corporate blogging at events in Beijing and Shanghai. Edelman PR is sponsoring my tour to mark the publication of The Corporate Blogging Book in Mandarin Chinese. - [Source]

Debbie Weil

She is a corporate blogger that works with companies to emphasize the use of blogs. By integrated blogs for companies it can be two sided. One on hand CEO’s that blog are giving an open window for employees to criticize what is wrong. One the other hand this is the fastest way to improve work flow and unity within a company.

1 Billion people

China’s population trumps all other nations. With the potential boom that China will see in the future, it’s inevitable that blogging will be a part of Chinese revolution to become a powerhouse nation. Can you imagine with their shear numbers how much content will be pumped out on a daily basis??

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Virtual real estate, or the world wide web of domains, is infinite.  However a domain name such as asdfasdfasdf.com might not be desired.  Yes virtual real estate is infinite with it’s many possible domain names just like how you can find uninhabital terrains all over the world.  Some domains have been part of the English language.

It all comes down to Location, Location, Location.  In terms of the net, for first impressions you have one common denominator to differentiate yourself and that’s the little spaces between www dot and dot com. 

Prime Domains

There is a scarcity of short domain names, for the pure fact that people just gobble them all up to put their Google Ads.  It seems as though they are farming these domains and harvesting small profits off each one every year.  They spend a few bucks for the name and hosting while trying to milk it through content related subject off of one post. 

Owning your own domain

This will be the standard in the coming years.  If you haven’t done so please go get one that is unique and simple.  You might just want to buy your name domain name as well if it is available.

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Just like how a dog lives 7 years in a normal human year, a blogger experiences life at a faster rate. From my personal experiences, bloggers will come out blazing trying to make money online like sprinting in a marathon race. They often get burnt out after 3 months. So in blog years, an average newbie blogger will usually phase out after 3 months.

Here are some reasons why bloggers stop blogging

1. I don’t have enough time
2. I can’t make money
3. I can’t write like I use to
4. I have a better idea
5. I want to live normal again

1. Not enough time
Blogging can take an extensive amount of time. Not only to actually write about a certain topic but you need to be constantly reading other bloggers’ sites to keep a well informed mind.

2. I can’t make money
Not all bloggers will make money online. Most bloggers will try to make money and phase out after they realized that it takes a long time to be successful. Most can be successful with making enough to have a nice getaway each month.

3. I can’t write like I use to
Content is key to all blogs and sometimes the lack of ideas can be determental. When you are drawing a blank you might want to absorb other news, such as TV, Magazines, other blogs to spark an idea for a post. Sometimes you might feel that you started your blog with a wrong niche and decide to change. You’re afraid you’re going to loose all the time spent, however think of the time you will save.

4. I have a better idea
Ideas run rampant in my head. Sometimes you just need to write things down and stick to a plan. Do not deviate from the plan.

5. I want to live normal again
It’s so hard to leave the blogosphere, because something in the back of your mind tells you that this is the next big phenomenon and I need to be a part of it. Well you’re right! It’s a hard trek up ahead but most bloggers that are 4 months in the game are seen as veterans. So stick it out for 4-5 months before you decide this, you’ll have newbie bloggers asking you for advice.

BLOG for 5 months and you will start to see some success

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One of the most influential books I’ve read would have to be the 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. He truly is an inspiration. I want to follow my dream and showcase to the world that Blogging is force that needs to be recognized as the new standard.

Blogging in the News

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NewburyPortNews.com writes about the changes of the this phenomenon.

“I think blogging is radically changing how people get news,” Eaton said in a phone interview. “So I’ll be interested in how it all evolves. I think it is having a national impact, certainly. It will be interesting to see what kind of impact it has locally.”

Web 2.0

In this world of Web 2.0, the evolution of ideas moves at an increasing rate. The process of communication and ideas do not get shuffled from one News article to another within a matter of days. Blogs are updated on a daily basis and sometimes they are updated more than once a day. This ease of updating a blog post makes the exchange of one idea to another increase dramatically. You are no longer dealing with the a set amount of corporate media giants to feed the news. You are now dealing with an army of bloggers who are at the front lines of communication for the new media. This process of intermixing ideas and opinions will only increase. There will be a time when print media may cease to exist. For now, let’s ride this wave together.

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Yes, Google does have guidelines. You can click here for the full page from Google.

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don’t send automated queries to Google.
• Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don’t create pages that install viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

Problogger notes to forget about Page Rank and just build a better blog. Seems like everyone’s been bugging him for the inside scoop that he doesn’t have; everyone would like to post their new page rank score to be able to sell more ads. PR usually gets updated every 3 months and they are way behind, but it’s ok everyone, just keep on blogging.

You can use iwebtool to get a PR prediction. Right now Blogging The Movie has a PR 5 with at 70% accuracy. I would not take this prediction seriously however you can have a little fun by testing it out yourself.

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Branding is such a strong subject on web logs. I had a really good conversation with Nate Whitehill. After a discussion about branding a blog, we threw out some ideas about colors and our focus of branding. I felt that the the red and yellow theme was great because it would stand out in a crowd, yet the color are reminiscent of Mc Donald’s. Which I wanted because I wanted this site to be brandable to the larger audience of potential bloggers. However I might have miscalculated with potential bloggers and long time readers. So I had to rethink the scheme of the colors. The conclusion is to go with a nicer tone.

Blue is the way GO! Blue evokes trust and I want to be able to create a large fan base. After I googled blog design colors, I came across this cool site Design Meltdown, that talks about the Top 20 most popular blog colors. This site highlights blogs like Engadget, TechCrunch and Gizmodo. It appears the blue theme is pretty popular.

Maybe this is why Hotmail, Gmail, Wordpress is blue. Get ready, this site is about to undergo some changes. I know its soon, but I’m a person of action and lets make it happen

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Introduction

I remember while going to school at UCSB I came across DIY websites. Blogging was introducing to me in 1999 with www.homestead.com. They had a great tool for beginners to customize a site with web logs and photos. You could have a site called homestead.mysite.com. All the options on the page were customizable just like an adobe photoshop file. However, the downfall was that you had to create and edit each page.

Coding

Then I found some serious bloggers like Crooked-Halo.org which is no longer running. However I realized that these hardcore bloggers were doing straight up coding. I was quite shocked at the point that they learned all this html coding just to do a web log. These sites were all personal blogs. After a year of trying to code, I gave up. I grew up with a business mind, and I didn’t have the time to learn all the code.

Xanga

Then along came the simplicity of Xanga. I soon hopped on to this new format of templates. It was great way to actually have a blog site that others could easily make connections with each other. There is also blogspot, however I never actually used blogspot. Xanga was great because the idea of the personal blogger came to life.

Friendster and Myspace

The friendster and Myspace era killed all content. Now it was not about writing beneficial information. It was about making connections and marketing for the sake of marketing. Which was a genius idea to stay connected.

Wordpress

After reading clothing blogs like hypebeast and highsnobiety, I knew that blogging had created a quantum leap. If you could grab hold of a niche market you were in with the masses. I came across Wordpress in 2007, as a later bloomer in the game, I am here to push blogging to the next level with the this movie. I hope the this movie will grab the attention of potential bloggers who have no yet seen the simplicity of a medium that can give voice to anyone who has the time and drive.

Live the Dream!

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I cannot release this information just yet. But I will let you know that the dream team is coming along quite nicely. Oh yes. There are big bloggers on this squad. We will make noise in the blogosphere.

But sshhhh.. Keep you mouth shut for the time being. haha. Oh man. Blogging has never become more fun to me that it is today. Why, well with Blogging The Movie, its hard to have enemies. Everyone can benefit from it.

To my sponsors you ain’t seen nothing yet. Keyword of the week “Networking”. How can you network? There’s this plain and simple rule about networking, you have you give before you can receive. For instance if you’re a newbie and you have no money or insights then try to give time. How about you write a free review. I came into the blogging world giving 10 free site reviews a week. Let’s just say I made friends quickly. Trust me if you want to become big you have to give more than you receive.

I hear lots of what do I get out of this? Well most of the time the people that are asking are 1-6months old in blogging and they are not visionaries, they can only see the present. You’re an infant, pay your dues and the respect will follow. I’m not the smartest blogger out there, but I am one of the sneakiest.

Try it out

Give 2 reviews this week to a top blogger. I mean a full on review with 4 / 5 backlinks with relevancy. You’ll be shocked at your response if you continue this for a week. Cheers.

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Why are Convenience Stores successful?

Stores like 7 Eleven, ampm, and small gas station mini marts are successful because they have one thing in common they save the consumer time. Time is money. That’s why they can charge $5-6 for a bottle of tylenol when you it is regularly $2-3 in a drug store.

How does this apply to your blog?

You’ll rarely find an empty shelf spot at one of those stores. They are jam packed with products to sell to optimize their profits, yet they never feel overwhelming. The store always has this sense of open space. Make sure your all your ads are in the right place. You need to save your readers time. So they can come back to a nice well organized store. How does a convenience store apply to your blog? Here are some analogies:

• The customer is the mouse pointer.
• The entrance of your blog would be at the top of the page or the right side of the page. Readers either landed to your page from typing in your site name or by clicking a link. Before the page even loads the pointer naturally goes to the right side of the page to scroll up and down or close out of your site.
• The isles of the store are represented by the top navigation bar. Just like how you stop for few seconds after you step in the store to see where everything is at, you have to apply that same theory to your navigation bar.
• The check out stand is the link to your subscription or social widgets. This is why the feed button is usually at the top right corner or at the bottom of each post, because that is usually where the mouse pointer is hovering.You want to maximize your sale transaction or in this case subscription count.
• The last minute items like gum and snacks near the check out stand are your ad placements because you want to point your readers to a related subject. They are about to leave your page anyway so you might as well get paid to do so. So if the check out stand is at the top right you better have your ads near that area. That’s why Shoemoney’s ad placement are all at the top and right side of his page. You wouldn’t put gum and snacks at the back of store so don’t use a left sidebar and place your main money maker at a bad location. Here is Shoemoney’s ad placements.

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• Does your blog act as a Convenience Store? I hope it’s not a Big Box retailer like Costco, where all the items are hard to find. Yes it is has lots of content, but how often do you shop there. You want high repeat traffic. So optimize your site for easy navigation.
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Nate Whitehill is the creator of the Unique Blog Designs that retail for only $79 dollars. He has changed the way we look at blogs. He is making the way we look at free wordpress themes as the way we used to look at blogspot blogs (no offense).

Highlights

I feel that Free WordPress themes will become obsolete in popularity next to his $79 dollar investment for a clean layout. He optimizes 3 top interest sections - a popular article, email subcription, and recent articles. He also intergrates the idea of a picture theme that was made extremely popular by the mistylook theme.

$79 might sound like a lot. But I believe that if you are a dedicated blogger you will soon purchase his design as it becomes the new standard of a clean layout. Blogging the Movie will soon purchase their own Design. However, I might chose to do a custom theme for this site.

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