One thing should be understood; every profession has its own charms and stresses. And there are some professions, in which only the people with keen interests survive. Blogging is one of them, and requires the passion of writing a lot.  People with interest of making money only, can’t survive for long.

In this article, I will highlight the few handy tips, which will guide you what to consider for successful blogging.

Write only, what interests you

The most common reason of getting fail in blogging is lack of interest of the writer about the topic. Don’t compare yourself to a political writer if you are technology geek. Write only what interests you, no matter its rare. But think of it as your field, where you can express yourself more possibly.

Exclusivity

Always remember, there are thousands of blogs out there breaking and publishing the news and articles on similar topics. And majority of people likes to read news only from bigger sources, unless you are a part of it. But if you are running your own new born news media blog, you need to give something unique to the readers to develop their interest towards your article. Once the reader has realized about your credibility, he will surely come back to read your further articles.

However, it doesn’t mean; you should only write on a unique topic. Certainly not, because in case you are publishing the news on some famous topic, which has been already covered out there by some other sites, if your article is having something more interesting for the readers then readers will love to read it. But again, first you need fan chasing, which is only possible by making a magnificent entry in blogging world by publishing some really great posts on your blog.

You and Your Audience

Once you are having traffic on your site along the comments from the readers. Start re-considering your writing style. Listen to your readers and their suggestions, because it’s for your own good. You can choose the topic to write which interests you, but the final product should also interest the readers.

Don’t bore the reader with text only articles

This can be most harsh part for you during finalizing the post, if you are not having a dedicated graphic designer for your blog. However you can search for pre-made pictures, and display it with photo credits. Graphical representation plays an important role in making your article successful. Reader might be not interested to read your article, but the glittering images can force the reader to go through whole text for once. So always use big impressive images to present your ideas or the title of the post.

Broad your Research

It’s good if you come up with a new good topic, and you start writing it and publish it, but it will be more if you do little research as well on the topic on which you are willing to write. It will give you facts and figures about the topic, which makes your article spicy for the readers.

Keep it short, and easy to read

Keep your article short and clean, because people prefer to consume less time on reading any article. Avoid cluttering and mentioning unrelated content. Especially the introductory price of the post must be according to topic, don’t lose the reader by making your reader bore or confuse about the topic.

:: As Published on CIETRO by Saad Irfan (Cietro’s blog has been closed and few of posts are getting re-published on TechCline)

In article, writer mentioned about Mark’s conference outside CA office where he makes an announcement about the permanent shutdown of Facebook as his company is causing disturbance in his life.

Most of people didn’t even bother to verify it from any reliable source and kept sharing the post on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. As soon the social media fans came across this news, anxiety was created among them and they tried to verify it from different sites, but were unable to have any comments on that news. In point of fact, the site which published this article is a humor or a parody site which is famous in publishing false news. At the moment I am writing this article, the site weeklyworldnews is unavailable because of server load, which shows how this false news or publicity stunt resulted into heavy traffic to the site.

First when I saw this news getting discus among my social media friends, I was surprised why this news is not on TV or sites like BBC or CNN. So you people don’t have to get worry, the Facebook is not about to get close as there is no confirmation of this news from Facebook’s officials. So chill out, and enjoy being obsessed to Facebook.

Hot Potato is a Real Time Event Sharing service, which connects people around live events, by providing real time social association among groups who share an interest in any event, as it is happening.

Hot Potato:

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that some of the features and thinking behind Hot Potato are going to be exposed to a much larger audience: We’ve been acquired by Facebook. Read more…

Hot Potato further told; Company will not move any data to Facebook and they will be winding up all operations by the end of month and all users’ data will be deleted. As you can see on the website, the new user registration has been disabled, and company will provide the existing users a way to download their data.

Source: TechCrunch

Once you are in the Privacy Settings Section,

Click on the “Customize Settings”

Look for the area with title “Things other share”

Edit the menu of “Friends can check me into Places” and set it to disable

via: @MariSmith

Just download the app, and press the “Start Stumbling!” and you are good to go. The good thing about this app is, with just one click or tap; it let you share your favorite pages via social networking sites also, like Facebook and Twitter, and even via email. Once you signed it for the first time, it will automatically load your preference settings on your phone.

It is available for free of cost and iPhone users can grab it from the AppStore, while Android users can get it from the Android Market.

via: StumbleUpon Blog

This updated version brings bug fixes only, and enables Facebook Places for users in the US. However, Places is only available for US users at the moment but it is expected, it will be rolled out gradually.

Click here to Download Facebook for iPhone 3.2.1

This feature is quite similar to Facebook feature “Mutual Friends”, which tells you the people common in yours and his/her friendlist. But twitter “You Both Follow: feature tells you, which profile is commonly being followed by, both of you. But some of people are still complaining that they are unable to see it on their accounts. Are you having this feature enabled yet?

Socialize more

Remember one think, when someone joins any social network especially Facebook, he/she mean to be more socializing with people. That’s why people follows and pay attention to more socialized peoples. As a blogger, you might have tense schedule which don’t let you to have time to reply to comments on your Fan page or personal profile. But also consider that, people hate attitude and will comment back only if you appreciate or reply back to their comments. As long you reply to all messages, you will keep receiving more messages.

Your Personal Profile and Fan Page

No denial, personal profile is entirely diverse thing and can’t take place of Fan Page. But personal profiles also help you to gain traffic. If you are having good number of friends, and most of them are active, people will love to click on your shared links. Be bold in front of your friends and ask them to join or contribute towards your social fan page by sharing your post’s link on their profiles. These are the things which you can do on Personal profile, but might be not able to do on Fan Page as you have to present yourself as a bit Professional also.

Categorize your Contacts

The best thing which only Facebook provides is to manage privacy settings. People can manage their Status Updates and other contents with extreme privacy settings. By categorizing your family, friends and Business Followers, you can keep your profile more cleanly and you wouldn’t need to have a separate account for family and friends.

Sharing your Posts or Notes

One of the biggest mistakes some people do is they state complete post on the Facebook Notes or share the simple title with no link back to article. This mistake decrease the site traffic in actual, as user will read the whole post on Facebook Notes and will not come to your site.

Managing your Fan Page

Don’t be so mean; share other useful resources’ links as well on your fan page if those are from same interests or topics. Of course, if the post is good, no matter it’s on some other site, people will comment on it on your fan page on or will thank you.

The best and simple way of updating your Fan Page is to attach the link of the post, and leave a message to fans in status update dialogue box. And ask your friends to leave comments also when they are done with reading your article. Also share you’re that Facebook post on your personal profile’s wall via your fan page.

In Early Days:

Like every other blog, Mashable also took lot of time to attain its place online and in social web. Now site is in top 5 Blog on Twitter and Technorati. Pete Cashmore was dedicated to its site from initial days, like today. It took one year for Mashable to get a good deal, and deal was to place ad on the blog for $3,000 a month, which is pretty huge.

Spirit of blogging

Blogs are believed to be best and one of most easy way to learn. Most of people prefer to read the articles which are written in straightforward terms not in so much techie style. Think about it, you as a writer might be aware of its all techie terms but reader might not be.

A blog post should be short, easy to read, understandable and with lots of references in it, so the users don’t get confuse and move to related links if having problem in understanding. That is what Mashable do. What observed, most of its post includes main points of topic with simple short paragraphs. So the reader doesn’t feels to be wasting time while reading the post. If the reader have no curiosity in post’s topic, your title and shortness of post can still develop it.

Keeping the fine steady flow of posts is also one of essential part of promoting your blog. That is why some of big blogs and web magazine keep looking for writers and pay them as well, to write. The reason is, as long your blog is providing posts with fresh content, it’s alive and people come to it. Mashable publish more than 15 posts a day, sometimes. Some of these posts might be not related to Social Media, which is Mashable main topic, but to keep the blog on top you have to make people to come on blog again and again, it is possible only if your blog is having something fresh to serve visitors.

Title matters a lot

On the announcement of Apple iPad, your blog was not only to break that news. There were thousands of blogs, covered that news. So why people come to your site only, to read that news, the title of your post can be the reason of pulling people towards it. No matter they have already went through this news somewhere else, but your title still have the influence, as people will click on link for the sake of some more interesting factors regarding to that post.

Mashable know the tricks

More than 70 percent of traffic to a normal blog comes from social web like twitter, digg and stumbleupon. And your link will display on top only if you have tweeted, digged and stumbled lot of times. Mashable always used great policy to make more people to click on social bookmarking links, by keeps the buttons on the place where users will click more. And it’s true, people prefer to socialize Mashable posts more than any else, on their social profiles. The power full network of your followers also helps you a lot in game of achieving good count number of social sharing. It has been also observed; people click on the social links more, if they are already submitted. Because to them this might be interesting story and best thing they can do is to share with their friends online, no matter they have not even read it.

Brand with glamorous identity

Prefer to use your own Avatar on your blog’s social profiles along logo of your brand. Fan chasing policy should be consider, not brand chasing. People prefer to get socialize with socialized people. Mashable always stay active and socialize on social profile. Mashable is not only biggest blog on internet, but also a trend maker, as policies similar to it can lead your blog to high level as well.