BloggerVenue

Well, before i kick someone i have to say that is not what i have expected… I had some problems with my essay that… well… are making me a bit “uncomfortable”, but that is me being light with the situation… to say the truth, “very stressed” is the right term.

Me and my friends are putting a lot of effort on this work but we are encountering obstacles that seem to never end, and when i come home and think that we have spent around 10 hours this day working on the essay to do so little progress….its very, very frustrating. This research we have been doing is turning out to be a real “bitch”… sorry about the language.

2 days ago, i was thinking that MMO (make money online) blogs failed to show readers the practical side of Making money online. It was all “talk talk talk”, all theory, and no practical stuff, there is nothing concrete like ” i applied this strategy using these steps and i made xxx amount of bucks!”.

Now, yesterday, Custodio, a fellow portuguese blogger that makes a living online, created a post that supports what i was thinking.

Theory

He says that MMO blogs don’t show effectively  how to make money. T

I finally arrived from holidays and im ready for action. There is lot of work to do. I have almost 500 emails to read and respond, catch up with blog comments and read many articles. This will take me around a day to acomplish, and after that i need to get back to my final graduation essay that’s killing me!!!

Anyway, keep stopping by.

This is the forth part of the creating a forum series. Today we will be focusing in one of hardest parts of building a forum: getting members!!!

Most forums will fail if they can’t manage to attract new and active members. So one of the first things a webmaster needs to start thinking is how they will bring new members?

First Step: Create Content!

You have just configured your forum, things look real nice, but it is all very empty…

This is where you need to start your posting Frenzy! That’s right. You will need to create relevant and decent topics so that new visitors can see that your forum actually has something to show…. Don’t be lazy… I promise you it is fun. Just remember this little tip:

Don’t leave any board empty. Create content on each board your forum has. Users don’t like to see empty boards.

After that, you will have a few dozens of new topics, but there is no one responding to them. There are no discussions going on, there is no user interactivity!

What can you do to fix this? You have 4 choices:

First let me say that It seems that feedburner is forgetting to count rss readers from google reader… Again!!!

Anyway my friends, it is time for me to take some time to rest and relax, so i will be off for a few days. I need to get some decent tan…

Don’t worry :p I will try to write one or two articles for you to read next week.

So, we are in the middle of the month (damn days pass fast ), and i think this is the right opportunity to announce that there will be some changes in the advertising prices.

After configuring our forum, the next step is choosing the right theme. One of the things that i like in SMF is the number of free and quality themes around and it is so easy to install them.

Now that you are looking for a theme, you must remind yourself that the majority of mods are configured to run on the Default SMF theme. IF you choose a different one to use, then you will need to do some edits in your theme files to make the mods work. Hopefully, SMF 2.0 final will take care of this for you (probably it won’t but im still hoping lol).

You can stick with the Default theme for a while. You will be alright. But we want to make things a bit more appealing.

Where can i find themes for my smf forum?

In case you don’t know, almost 2 weeks ago i decided to create a top 100 blog that have up to 1000 Rss subscribers.

After this time, i decided to do a little update.

Blogs have been added regularly, some submitted by me others sent to my email. We have 63 blogs so far, so it is no quite a top 100, but we will reach it soon.

Some blogs have been rejected because they don’t show exactly how many subscribers they have. So if you are interested in getting added in this top list then you should give a way that i can verify the amount of subscribers your blog has.

After 2 weeks the Top 10 blogs are:

All bloggers in their everyday blogging activity, which involves reading, commenting in other blogs, researching for new material, will eventually write a new post.

Now, a common mistake that i see a lot of times, in my opinion, is that some bloggers tend to write big articles. When i say big, i mean 1000+ words articles. I don’t know about you, but im not very fond of big articles. I mean, i get tired reading all that stuff, specially if the blogger does not know how to captivate the readers.

Hope you are all having a great weekend and enjoying some nice days on the beach.

This was a nice weekend for me, i went out with my friends and we had great night hehe, but now im back for work, i have more than 100 mails to read and respond but im feeling lazy and bored, so i will be playing a bit for now :p . Before that, i want to give some links for interesting articles that are worth reading:

RockFuse -Simple ways to find out what your readers want you to write about

Well, it has been a while since a talked about one of my favourite topics here at bloggervenue.com. im talking about Free Wordpress Magazine | News Templates.

Wordpress Magazine templates are one of the most searched kind of templates. Sometimes i wonder why all this buzz about magazine templates, but the answer is simple. These templates rock! They fit on almost every kind of blogger, they are customizable and can give you your blog the push it needed.