Another Pointless Blog

Yes, it is true that pictures and videos speak more than text does. A few pictures or still better, a short video can conveniently explain something that otherwise needs writing many pages of text to be conveyed effectively. We can see a large number of bloggers who embed videos in their blog posts. This is also the prime reason that the number of vlogs are increasing steeply ever since this concept of blogging through videos was introduced.

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog, is a blog whose medium is video.

This is purely my personal observation, and based on it, my personal opinion that not many bloggers are using videos on their blogs in the right way they should.

From a few recent blog reviews that I did at Inspirit, (like the blog reviews for Game Posts dot Net and for Poker Blog) I have seen that many bloggers tend to add videos to their blog posts without adding a textual description about them. I have stressed this point (particularly in the above 2 blog-reviews that I linked to) that its a healthy practice to add a small textual description about the contents of the video, in the blog post. This is just so useful for people who might be interested in your stuff but reside in areas that have broadband connections that are just too far from anything that can be called fast!

So, what I suggest you should do when adding a video to your blog post is:

• Introduce the subject of your video in a sentence or two.
• Embed the video.
• Add some details about what tools did you use in the video.
• Brief, what are you trying to convey in the video and why should the visitors watch it.

Also, adding a textual description gives you a chance to target specific keywords related to your blog post that might get you better ranking in Search Engines and thus increase your traffic and maybe subscribers also, if your content is worth it.

What is your view-point on this issue? Take a minute to drop a comment and share your opinions and ideas.

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I was introduced to the concept of Guest Blogging by Abhinav Sood over at Inspirit Blog with his post 7 Ultimate Reasons Why You Should be Guest-Blogging that outlines why guest blogging is beneficial to the blog owner, to the guest blogger and to the readership of both. Here is an Outline of the advantages but please head over to his blog for the extensive review.

1.  Vent your thoughts outside your niche
2. Get opinions and feedback
3. Get noticed
4. Drive traffic and readers to your own blog
5. Social networking
6. Improve yourself
7. It is fun

At this time I would only require around 1 post a week which isn’t much to enjoy those 7 benefits. I would set you up an account, from there you can type up your article and leave it there for me to proofread. You will get full credit for your work! So, if you’re interested please email me and we can work something out. Its also great if you just want to do 1 post out of the blue, I’m open to that too! Thanks for this and good luck to all applicants

Cheers,
Matt.

P.S The blog is not going into co-ownership. I’m still going to be the main blogger.

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I know, a lot of my posts recently have been about blogging, but you people seem to like it and it’s still tech isn’t it? So todays blog post is about inspiration. It’s hard to keep the ideas flowing for items to blog about, and sometimes we just need that little ‘push’ to help us think of a great idea. So I have once again, done all the hard work for you and found 5 great sources for blogging inspiration!

101 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle - This is a great general post of 101 great ways or styles of posting to get you going. Every time I’m stuck for Ideas this is my first destination which helps me branch out onto other ideas.

23 Great Ideas for Blog Posts - This is another list of ‘kick start’ ideas to help you get started. Once the ball gets rolling it is easy to post away, sometimes we just need that little push. This is another one of the first destinations to get the right idea.

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